Misty Picnics and skilling up.

[MaizzyEQ]

The past couple days I've been spending quite some time focusing on my baking skill. Currently I'm at 212 skill, I have a wisdom of 290 and am not using Geerlok.

Both of my baking sessions were 100 combines of the Misty Thicket Picnics.

1st session gave me 5 successful combines and 1 skill up.

2nd session gave me 3 successful combines and 4 skill ups.

I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing low numbers like this particularly the 1 skill up session.. Or does the RNG hate me?

Maizzy Morningmist
65 Storm Warden
Drinal

[Tinile]

normal

[EQDal]

MTP skill-ups

Your skill-up rate isn't unusual. I did MTPs exclusivley from 209 to 250 and averaged 33.25 combines per skill up with 280 WIS. Took anywhere from 1 to 165 combines to get a skill up. Just keep plugging away at it.

Daltara
Barbarian Prophet
Grandmaster Potter and Baker
Winding Road
Xev

[MaizzyEQ]

Thanks guys!

It's nice to know I'm not cursed.

[Arista]

My skillup data from 203-250 is listed below. I first did ohabah truffles from 191-202, then did buttered crawdads from 202-203. Then I skilled up using a combination of halas meat pies, griffon/anaconda melts, hobgoblin surprises, and misty thicket picnics. You'll notice that on one of my MTP runs, 200 combines yielded only 4 skillups. WIS was 255, and I used a geerlok.

  117 HMP -  9 skillups (203-212) 1 per 13.00 combines
  253 HMP - 13 skillups (212-225) 1 per 19.46 combines
   48 GM  -  2 skillups (225-227) 1 per 24.00 combines
  200 MTP -  6 skillups (227-233) 1 per 33.33 combines     (made 312/800 picnics)
  200 MTP -  4 skillups (233-237) 1 per 50.00 combines     (made 356/800 picnics)
   25 GM  -  0 skillups (237-237)
    5 AM  -  0 skillups (237-237)
  200 MTP -  9 skillups (237-246) 1 per 22.22 combines     (made 432/800 picnics)
   13 HS  -  1 skillup  (246-247) 1 per 13.00 combines
< 200 MTP -  3 skillups (247-250) max 250 in middle of run (made 484/800 picnics)

[Kysama]

I also skilled up exclusively on MTPs from 202 - 250. I averaged 3 skill ups per 100 combines. Some sessions, I skilled up as many as 6 times, others only once. But I always skilled up.

My wisdom was maxed out at 255 with gear, but always had a C3 working too. Plus geerlok. Used my lucky oven in Rivervale.

GM'd and trophied now - and making a heck of a lot of pp selling my picnics in the bazaar.

[PaulAndBecky]

C3

I see people mention a C3 from time to tme. What is this? My skill is wisdom 191 and I am getting 1-2 skill ups per hundred on HMP

[Tinile]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=2570

[Toppo]

Sounds about right

With MTP I average 1 skill-up per 50 combines; only 2000 more combines to go! (or thereabouts)...not incl sub-combines

[Samia Starbright]

I have been using MTP as my skill up path from 212 upwards - so far I have made skill 241 with between 2 and 4 skill ups per 100 combines.

To add a little flavour to the baking - as and when I find Jord meat / Hobgoblin meat / Vann toes etc I make relative recipies to use the aquired meat up.

Good luck to all !

Sami

[Phabos]

I skilled up on picnics exclusively post 215ish, and did them in sets of 100 to keep ingredients mostly equal. I don't think I ever managed more than 5 skillups per 100, and there were several sets when I received none. Most of the time, I was able to average about 3 points per set.

Yes, picnics have several subcombines, but overall, they are the most cost-effective way to skill up in quantity.

Bakings isn't easy. It may not be as difficult as some other tradeskills, but it takes a lot of time and energy, and thousands upon thousands of click to obtain GM skill. Just stay with it, and sooner or later you will max out.

Phabos
Drunken Paladin of Brell
Tarew Marr

[eniamn]

lots of ways to get to 250 with PoP now. i going to hunt in jaggedpine and make me some anaconda melts though. i will be able to xp in that zone very shortly. nothing like exping where you can get stuff. beats the hell out of farming.