Planning for a massive skill session

[Sariss]

I'm an iksar beastlord with a current Baking skill of 193. I'd like to gather the materials together for a massive series of skilling up in hour intervals, try to get the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome over with in as short a time as possible. With a KEI and holding a Geerlok, my wis is 237. I plan on doing Misty Thickets due to my dislike of Mammoth farming for HMP's .

My question is: About how many combines do you think I'll need to run to get up to 240/Grand Mastery?

Obviously there's no set number, the vaguaries of the RNG are indeed a mystery to us all. But, for example, while I was doing a run of 40 attempts at a HMP, I got 1 skill up per stack. Is it safe to assume that (on the average) such a ratio might continue with MTP's? I've read the horror stories of 100/200+ combines with no skill ups, but I chalk those up to abberations of the RNG rather than the norm.

Thanks for any feedback/ideas

[Katalaeia]

I don't parse but my skilling seems to follow the one skillup per stack pattern. RNG is just too unpredictable to guarantee it but when I work on my GM trades I assume "approximately" a skillup per stack.

[KultharSavus]

On my last run of MTP I did 450 combines for 2 skillups to go from 198 skill to 200 skill with the 2 skillups coming in the last 60 combines. Hope the RNG is kinder to you than it was to me.

[Armaged]

I was in a similar boat.

Load up 3 mules with all of the subcombines and you should hit 250.

And yes load them and their bank slots.

fill them up with boxes already prepped with the 8 individual combines used to make the MTP, and go to town.

[Xenephex]

I was in a very similar boat. Int was in the low to mid 230's, and I started on MTPs at skill 196.

A very short answer, based on my experience, is that it will take you somewhere between 1600 and 2000 combines to get to 240. I was getting about one skillup per 50 to 60 combines until I got close to 220 skill, and then it got significantly better after that. 1400 attempts total has gotten me to 232 from 196.

Good luck on your skill up run.

[Veril]

At 191:

I prepared a run of 1000. I had a mule on my 2nd and 3rd account hold nothing (on themselves and their banks) except 10 slot tinkeres toolkits full of banking combines and subcombines.
Then I did 200. I found that gave me intense pain from the sheer ammount of clicking involved. took a week before my hand mostly recovered.

in the interim I did planar combines with my left hand - nice and easy, but 10-20 times more expensive vendor farming in the bazaar. I got a much better ration of skillups on the pop combines.

I got up to 225 with the planar stuff then went back to MTP's

from my run of 760 (out of 800 remaining) I got 25 points and maxed Baking.

Based on that, I would say
1) You need about 2000 combines
2) Do dailyruns of 200 at a time to reduce serious physical pain and the inventory management issues.
3) You can therefore do it in about 10 days (runs).

[Cigarskunk]

Took my troll SK around 2500 or so with an average INT of 225+ geerlok.

[Rissenn]

With and INT of 230 and skill of 195, I got a skill-up at around one per fifty combines up until 220.

With an Int of 255 (KEI) and skill of 220, I got a skill-up roughly from every forty combines with the only difference being my last run:

9 skill-ups on 200 combines. I am currently at Baking 241. (and I managed to get my GM Spoon on first combine at 232)

[Lixivia]

this is what i did to get from 220-250

i had a mule, with 16 - 10 slot backpacks (can be 8-slot too).

i did all the combines 16 stacks at a time. set them all up on my mules bank (meaning 20 combines of picnics per bag). meaning i did 320 at a time. so every 2 stacks of combines, i would log on the mule and put 2 more stacks of combines in my shared bank.

i had to do this 4 times, with wis at 305. so if youre looking to get from 193-240. i would say it will take you, at least 2240 combines.

if i did my math right. i hope that made sense to you. it worked very well, it only took me 3 days. about 3-4 hours at a time.

to sum it up, i made 320 of every sub combine, put it all in a mules bank, combined 2 stacks at a time using my shared bank. averaged about a skill up per 2 stacks (40 combines). doing them in that much bulk saved me a lot of time running around to make subcombines.

[Sariss]

Oy.

I was afraid it would end up being something like that. With the advent of LDoN I find myself making different use of my 1-2 hour playtime slots, but be sure I read and greatly appreciated this information. Time for some brownie genocide...

[splunge]

When i was at 200 skill, i bought materials for 1000 combines, and that took me to i think 242 with 230-240ish wis.

I eventually crept up to 250 on pop baking combines from stuff i found while vendor mining.