191-200 baking

[Sanna]

truffles .......
-- first you need cream, and that takes a Benzoin, 2p and change. produces 8. (also 2 milk and dairy spoon, in MB)
-- for the dark cream thing, you need a Eucalyptus leaf, about 3p per. Produces 6. (with frosting, cream, brown algae, in MB)
-- then the mushroom, dark cream, and a frosting (in spit) = ohabah truffle, produce 4.

Just like any high end skill, you can't be afraid of dropping 50p on a stack of ingredients. Could be worse: high end smithing scares me badly.

Now, I'm not bashing the truffles, I got my 198 point on them last night (mwahahahah, away from the evil 197!). But for sheer sale-ability, i much prefer Halas 10.

-- Bear/Lion meat - available from vendor.
-- Mammoth - farm Halas vendors, or go slay a few mammoths.
-- Wolf meat - farm any vendor in any zone where there are wolves. Gfay. Halas. thos are the only 2 i can think of, i know there are more.
-- dough: get basilisk eggs to save yourself the headache of making dough too much.
-- Get real familiar with the make-cream/make-fennel-sauce routine. benzoin = 2p and change, get 2. fennel = 2p and change, get 16.
-- Sage leaves are also 2p and change per. get 20.

for one 'round' of halas 10, ie, 20 combines, I generally drop on the order of 100p. On my server, they go for 8p. Even if you start this at 188 baking, sales should pay for cost in 2 rounds, and after that, it will be profit.

YES, the subcombines SUCK. I do them when I'm off hunting, so they're not too bad. (also, my luck sucks, such that subcoms like to fail on me when i have kei on. grrrr.)

MTPs... I have heard that your success rate is much less hellish if you wait on MTPs till the 210s. Personally, since my former Halas 10 competetor has moved up to MTPs, I will stick with Halas 10 as long as I can.

If you are only looking for 200 skill and not 250, go with the stuff like cinnesticks and truffles. If not, find yourself a customer base (like people with horses) and offer them massive quantities of halas 10 at a good price. They'll remember your name.

good luck at the oven. ^_^

[karisun]

If you decide to go the truffle route, see if you can make friends with a forager. A friend of mine in my guild wanted to make truffles to get to 202 in baking, but was a DE wizard. So, I just saved the mushrooms I picked up for him and he was set. Took up a little of my bank space, but I didn't mind helping a friend.

I've found that Shadowhaven is a good place to forage mushrooms. Seems like all I get when I forage there is water, roots, mushrooms, and tarnished coins. I just do my tradeskill work there most of the time and forage while I work. I was able to get my friend a few stacks of mushrooms just by hanging out there and doing exp in Echo Caverns.

I think he wants me to give him my plant shoots, but those are for me.

Karisun Treedancer
Wanderer of 51 Seasons
Nomadic Knights - Vazaelle

[Lenore]

Or, look in /bazaar for blood raven parts. My druid baker buys as many as she can and plops down in a quiet corner and makes blood raven stew. The only subcombine is celestial essence and isnt too hard to do.
In a Mortar and pestle, combine a solvent and a research component (Scent of Marr-buyable in bulk in EC across from the bat wing lady)
The only foraged item needed is vegetables, but I have seen some on traders as well. And the stew combines in a collapsable spit so no more hunting down the Tannan ovens in PoK.

[Troodon]

just as a heads up you can't forage mushrooms in every area of Luclin either. Bazaar is a no and DSP also.

Though turffles are a great way to go. I'm finding it slow but steady. maybe 200 combines now and 3 skill ups.

I'm fairly sure I foraged a mushroom or two in Dawnshroud on the way to Grieg's. However that's lots of other things you can forage here, that compete with Mushrooms, so this isn't the most efficient place to get them.

Best place to get them, because they have little or no zone specific forages to compete with All Luclin forages like mushrooms, would be Shadowhaven or Echo Caverns.

As far as I know, the only zones in Luclin that you can't forage mushrooms in are Nexus, Bazaar, and The Grey.

[Troodon]

In reality to the orginal poster, truffles are not going to be as easy as everyone is saying. At Lvl 35 he will need someone to get the Aglae for him. Also the alchamey peice (the name is escaping me at the moment) is pricey.

Only two alchemy pieces are needed for truffles. One is benzoin for the cream. It costs about 5pp, but one recipe of cream yields 8, and one recipe of dark chocolate creme yields 6, so one benzoin is enough for 48 truffles, making average benzoin cost per truffle only about 1gp.

Other alchemy ingedient you need is eucalyptus for the dark chocolate creme. It also costs about 5pp, but one recipe of creme makes 6 as stated above, so average cost per truffle is a little less than 1pp.

So figure the average cost for the alchemy ingredients to be about 1pp per truffle (20pp per stack). When you look at the yields, the alchemy ingredients really aren't especially expensive per final combine.

If you can somehow get a good supply of mushrooms and brown algae, this is actually not a bad way to go about raising your baking.

[wrin]

I Agree that Truffles are a great way to raise your skill. I was simply stating that for a Lvl 35 is may not be the eaisest way. Algae is in very short supply in the Bazaar on Xev. Last time I saw it it was selling for 30p.

So between that and the alchemy supplies (sorry I'm not flushed with money like most TSers) it can get expensive. Luck for me Wrin is a woodelf ranger so the mushrooms are easy. I also have friends that don't want to bank that collect them for me.