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    Archerphate said:
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    OK im a lvl 36 gnome necro
    im at 191 in baking and wuld like to gm it
    any help is thanked
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    As others have said, the fastest way to level baking to 250 is Misty Thicket Picnics. You can try the planar stuff, but while you do less combines it will take you a longer time doing them. One person suggested MTP's in SH, I was always partial to PoK myself in order to bounce to Rivervale to pick up the Jumjum stalks.

    Now, the combines themselves. The way i did them was that i used 7 inventory slots of space. 1 slot was a general tool slot. A place where i could put the collapsable mixing bowl, collapsable sewing kit, etc. Whatever i had to open to do the combine at hand. 3 slots held 3 10-slot bags with the supplies that could make 200 MTP's. Yes, it all fits in 3 bags of space. Then 3 more slots were for 10-slot bags of which 8 slots of each bag would have a stack of 20 of each component used in making a Misty Thicket Picnic, 60 picnics per one-third of the run. Start by simply running the combines from the 3 main bags into the sub bags until you had 60 setup. Making sure two of the bags were on either side of the oven, hold down the ctrl key and pull the right side comps from one bag and the left side comps from the other into the oven. Hit combine. After 20 times of doing this, switch the bag slots so that the bags trade positions. Repeat 20 more times. Then work the third bag until all 60 had been combined. Make 60 more. Then 60 again. I found I usually always got 180 combines out of the deal because invariably you'd have a subcombine failure or two. Figure it takes upwards of 2000 MTP successes between 190-250.

    One of the other things I do when setting up to do ANY recipe in mass is make what i call a grid map. Once you identify all the components you need, try to fit it in as few bags as possible. When you shrink them as far as they can go and get a setup you like, take a piece of paper and draw a 2x5 grid for each bag and put the initials or something you'll remember for each item. In this way, you can, and I have run the entire process without ever looking at the recipe. I did 100's of MTP's at the time without ever even pulling it up. Not sure how well this will turn out, but the grid map for MTP's:

    +------------+ +-----------+ +------------+
    | JJC LB | | LET VEG | | FRU FRO |
    | JJC AM | | FEN JJS | | BP FRO |
    | BAR HOP | | EL FRO | | JJS CD |
    | BOT SPI | | BM BM | | CR CMB |
    | WF JJS | | REN DS | | WM SB |
    +------------+ +------------+ +------------+

    Key:
    JJC = Jumjum Cake(non-slice)
    BAR = Barley
    BOT = Bottle
    WF = Water Flask
    LB = Loaf of Bread
    AM = Apricot Marmalade
    HOP = Hops
    SPI = Spices
    JJS = JumjumStalk
    LET = Lettuce
    VEG = Vegetables
    FEN = Fennel
    EL = Eucalyptus Leaf
    FRO = Frosting
    BM = Bottle of Milk
    REN = Rennet
    DS = Dairy Spoon
    BP = Brownie Parts
    CD = Clump of Dough
    CR = Cake Round
    CMB = Collapsed Mixing Bowl
    WM = Woven Mandrake
    SB = Steel Boning

    Prepare simply by putting a stack of each stackable item in its spot. The bags are also setup roughly by subcombine. So I would draw squares around the combines like around BAR, HOP, BOT, SPI, WF, and JJS to indicate it was one combine. Since its pretty apparent with hops its a brewing combine, it should be self explanatory as to which it goes in. Just run 6 of these combines to get 10 Jumjum beer each to get the 60 needed for the 3 other bags where you are setting up the final combines. Doing it 3 times takes 18 sets of comps, just under the 20 you currently have available or allowing you 180 combines. Once again, with perfect success rate on subcombines you could do an extra 20 combines, but that rarely if ever happened.

    In cold storage, this allowed me to dump the parts i absolutely had to save and couldn't buy on vendor, like brownie parts, vegetables/fruit, or the utensils in 2 bags in the bank. I've heard of people who have every single component stored in bulk on alts, and sorry, but 2 bags is enough of my space to take up thanks, especially when doing 6 other tradeskills. Plus, I don't have to switch out to an alt except to dump the excess MTP's that I succeeded on. Basically, if you want to be any type of professional tradeskiller, and do sets of items in bulk, you'll need to have something akin to a plan in order to get a handle on inventory control and material flow procedures. If you don't, it'll take you 5 times as long to do everything and you'll burn out pretty quick. Find out what works for you, and run with it. Thanks.

    -Quillium Lifehammer
    65 Warrior Fennin Ro

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