Bristlebane Party Platter?

[Deric]

According to the write-up for Aid Grimel quest, it says 220 baking is needed for BPP, but can anyone confirm if it is a restricted combine or something like that? I attempted twice with 206 skills but failed both times and Im wondering if I will get automatic failure prior to 220 cos of restricted or something like that.

Someone please help me

-D

[Arghargh]

The raw skill of 220 is needed for Aid Grimmel to give you the quest, not neccesarily to make any of the quest items.

[Kahmon]

BPP's are trivial >250. I am 5 for 8 at 250 Skill.

[Renjah]

Do to the average success rate being simular to other 355 combines Id say the trivial on the platters is in the 355 range maybe a tad less. You can make them at 0 (zero) skill if you really want to. However due to the somewhat rarity of the items needed most ppl want at least 220 skill. Some guilds won't let you use the items til you hit 250. However a lot of the ingrediants are far more common now and prices have taken a HUGE dive

[Faerwynd]

I just finished Aid Grimmel yesterday - and baking gave me the biggest head ache finishing. 225 skill and it took me a dozen tries to get my 2 successes (can't complain I guess, no other failures except one bow). In retrospect, I should have taken baking higher, and probably will in the future

[Deric]

Thanks for the replies

I gave it another go after knowing that I dont need 220 baking to try it...at 217 (modded) skill with a small batch of 8, I had 2 successes. Overall I'm 2 for 12, hehe.

It did like it had a tougher success rate than 250 trivial though, I fared much better with Tormentor Stir Fry with a trivial of 295...but then of course, it could just be the RNG playing with my mind again.

[druidgal]

I would like to try to bake these to sell but just buying the ingredients would cost almost 2k on my server. Does anyone sell these for profit?

[Kilauea Bacchus]

Aren't the completed platters no drop?

[druidgal]

I didn't even see that when I looked it up. Sorry.

[ragnarz]

I recently skilled baking on my warrior just to do BBPP. At 243 with geerlock, i went 10 for 14 in one sitting. Pretty dam lucky i thought.

[Maevenniia]

Aren't the completed platters no drop?

Yes, although probably not on FV

[Kilauea Bacchus]

That's what I figured, but I thought maybe I'd missed something by not playing for a while

[Faerwynd]

On druzzil ro (some of) the ingredients for this sell for a nifty price. When I say ingredients I mean the ingredients before the final combine (bucket of crab legs, poppers etc)

[Troodon]

Regrua claws are the real pain to get... everything else not particualrly difficult. The claws only drop in a very inconveneint part of Plane of Water. If you're not EP flagged, lots of luck, the claws are rarely for sale and are very expensive if they are. The only time I ever saw them for sale in the Bazaar (on Sol Ro) there were 20 for sale by one merchant for 2500pp EACH (so 50k for the stack... still I'd probably have paid it if I had the money, hehe...).

Second hardest (and that's a HUGE drop off from the claws!) would be the slarghilug parts (slarghilug legs, webbed tail fins, and unbroken eyestalks) form the slargs in PoN. They're not particularly difficult, just annoying to pull (usually have to pull them with lev to the docks) and are SKs. Most don't bother with them as they're more of a pain to fight and less xp than creatures in the zone that are actually of higher level. Good news is that means if you need parts for the poppers or blood for planar blood brew, you'll likely not find them camped, hehe.

Everything else relatively easy to get and not too uncommon to find in the Bazaar.

Er anyway to answer original question... technically the final combine is not skill restricted (though you'd want to have high skill to avoid risking ingredients) but you need at least 220 (inlcuding geerlok) to actually do the turn in of this stage of the Grimel quest.

[Grimlach]

hmm

I have found that I value the bucket of crab legs more than I do the platters. I'm so afraid of wasting my hard earned platters that I usually use stir fry. I dont need any stats, all of mine are always 305, but the hps/mana and resists are things I care about. Still, I've made about 4 stacks of platters and only ever ate one platter. So I run around with tons of stacks of platters buried under stir fry and triloun soup. Oh well. I guess I'll just give up and either find a way to 2box some regruas (not likely) or give up and just eat my platters like a man.

Anyway, I like the resists and the 40hps/mana that the buckets give more than the 75hps/mana that platters give and they are much more time/effort efficient if you can convince a group to exp there.