Alchemy after 200

[Varnus7th]

When DoN first came out I tried about 100 combines with no skill up and decided to put it aside for the moment. I have decided to push to 300 now, but I was wondering if the new tanaan crafting mastery AA will be required since my baking is already 250? I really don't want to gather the materials for more combines only to have them wasted if I need to spend some AA first.

[GrishMT]

You don't need any AA to raise Alchemy beyond 200. I just hit 290 in alchemy yesterday and I had two streaks of over 80 combines with no skill ups. I went from 254 to 290 with roughly a 1 skillup per 28 combines ratio. Not very good at all.

[zumbenn]

You don't need any AA to raise Alchemy beyond 200. I just hit 290 in alchemy yesterday and I had two streaks of over 80 combines with no skill ups. I went from 254 to 290 with roughly a 1 skillup per 28 combines ratio. Not very good at all.

BUT the original poster said he had one skill over 200 already. My guess, unconfirmed, with the alignment of all tradeskills going to 300, yes, you need to do the AA to get Alchemy to go over 200.

[GrishMT]

I have all tradeskills over 200. There was no additional AA to buy to get Alchemy over 200. So, the answer is no, you do not need any AA to raise Alchemy post 200 regardless of other tradeskills being above it.

[Macnair]

When DoN first came out I tried about 100 combines with no skill up and decided to put it aside for the moment. I have decided to push to 300 now, but I was wondering if the new tanaan crafting mastery AA will be required since my baking is already 250? I really don't want to gather the materials for more combines only to have them wasted if I need to spend some AA first.

I have eight tradeskills over 200.

The standard 7: Baking 262, Brewing 254, Fletching 245, Jewelcraft 290, Pottery 220, Smithing 221, Tailoring 227

Tailoring was the first to break 200; I bought 6 Tanaan Crafting Mastery aa purchases, one for each of the other 6, on the day I raised it over 200.

6 Tanaan Crafting Mastery purchases: 1 freebie + 6 purchased = 7 tradeskills.

Alchemy currently at 261. I did not buy an additional Tanaan Crafting Mastery purchase in order to raise it over 200.

Still only 6 Tanaan Crafting Mastery purchases: 1 freebie + 6 purchased + alchemy = 8 tradeskills.

Bottom line: Tanaan Crafting Mastery purchase is not needed to raise alchemy over 200.

[Taadieri]

My shaman is only level 55 so his stats are capped at 255. In skilling up from 195 to 150 over the weekend he average 1 skillup per 30 combines, except for the stretch from 234 - 244 which took a ridiculous 650 combines (at 88pp per combine).

During those 55 points, I had 5 stretches of 100+ combines with no skillups. Including 2 such dry spells during the 195-234 stretch where they were offset by luckier sequences of 2 and in one case 3 skillups in a single stack of combines.

Starting off with a run of 100 combines with no skill ups is very unlucky, but not a sign that anything is broken.