Hello, this is my first post here at EQtraders, although I have utulized this site for quite some time.
I am currently a lvl 197 baker on my lvl 27 DE Necro (my main and highest character). I have been baking rather causually lately, only every now and then when I had nothing better to do, but my girlfriend gave me an artisan's seal as a christmas gift and that kind of lit a fire under me to push for the GM. I was 196 at the time, and it only took about 20-30 combines of Halas pies to hit 197 which seems to be about right for me (I have 195 Int btw). Since then, however, I have had no luck. I spent about 80 combines of pie that day without the skillup, and have made 40 more combines today without any luck. My question is thus is there actually such thing as a hell level, and if so is 197 one of them? It seems odd for it to need at least five times as many combines as usual. Is this a hangup that occurs to everyone when they hit this level or is it just bad luck on my part.
Another question: I have a geerlock baking utensil but am not using it right now since I am holding on to a +5 int item instead since I am more interested in skilling than I am in being sucessful (I already have way more pies than I have had luck selling...trying not to kill the market). Is this smart? I also understand that while you can skill up on failures the chances of skilling up are better on a success. So which is better for skilling up, 195 Int with no skill bonus or 190 int with the skill bonus?
I wouldnt mind so much if the pies werent such a pain to make...100s of pie combines means like 1000s of sub-combines. I dont really have too many other options. I rolled a wood-elf ranger to forage cinnamon and hunt pixies, but the rate he was doing that and transfering the items with the help of my girlfriend (I only have one account) makes it faster just to make the pies. I considered truffles as I have seen mushrooms for sale at reasonable prices before, but since im only 27 I cant really get to Velious to get the brown algae very well and have yet to see that for sale in bazaar. I've also considered MTP but would need to get my brewing up to make the beer, plus would have to go through the hassel of transfering items through characters since the halflings dont like me too much and I'd have to buy the stalks with an alt.
Alas. Sorry about my first post just being a whining one, but I needed to vent. I got so excited when i got that seal (Ive never had more than 1K on my character at any one time so I didnt think I'd get one of these in a million years), and have had my spirits shot down with two consecutive days of baking without a skillup. Oh well, third times the charm.
I'm on Vazaelle if anyone wants to buy any pies...I got about a bazillion of them lol.
-Utumil
I am currently a lvl 197 baker on my lvl 27 DE Necro (my main and highest character). I have been baking rather causually lately, only every now and then when I had nothing better to do, but my girlfriend gave me an artisan's seal as a christmas gift and that kind of lit a fire under me to push for the GM. I was 196 at the time, and it only took about 20-30 combines of Halas pies to hit 197 which seems to be about right for me (I have 195 Int btw). Since then, however, I have had no luck. I spent about 80 combines of pie that day without the skillup, and have made 40 more combines today without any luck. My question is thus is there actually such thing as a hell level, and if so is 197 one of them? It seems odd for it to need at least five times as many combines as usual. Is this a hangup that occurs to everyone when they hit this level or is it just bad luck on my part.
Another question: I have a geerlock baking utensil but am not using it right now since I am holding on to a +5 int item instead since I am more interested in skilling than I am in being sucessful (I already have way more pies than I have had luck selling...trying not to kill the market). Is this smart? I also understand that while you can skill up on failures the chances of skilling up are better on a success. So which is better for skilling up, 195 Int with no skill bonus or 190 int with the skill bonus?
I wouldnt mind so much if the pies werent such a pain to make...100s of pie combines means like 1000s of sub-combines. I dont really have too many other options. I rolled a wood-elf ranger to forage cinnamon and hunt pixies, but the rate he was doing that and transfering the items with the help of my girlfriend (I only have one account) makes it faster just to make the pies. I considered truffles as I have seen mushrooms for sale at reasonable prices before, but since im only 27 I cant really get to Velious to get the brown algae very well and have yet to see that for sale in bazaar. I've also considered MTP but would need to get my brewing up to make the beer, plus would have to go through the hassel of transfering items through characters since the halflings dont like me too much and I'd have to buy the stalks with an alt.
Alas. Sorry about my first post just being a whining one, but I needed to vent. I got so excited when i got that seal (Ive never had more than 1K on my character at any one time so I didnt think I'd get one of these in a million years), and have had my spirits shot down with two consecutive days of baking without a skillup. Oh well, third times the charm.
I'm on Vazaelle if anyone wants to buy any pies...I got about a bazillion of them lol.
-Utumil
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