Is she or isn't she?

[pennyrose]

I have my tradeskills (pottery, jc, brewing, baking, tinkering, smithing, tailoring, fletching) scattered among my various alts with the no doubt foolish goal of eventually GMing them all. Most are in the high 190s-low 200s.

This weekend, my little baker hit a skill of 242 baking with some batches of MTPs. I found this left me rather confused and unsettled. At 242, with geerlok she has maximum baking skill, right? Yet I know my skill can go on up to 250 and it feels sort of strange to stop at this point.

What have you guys done? Did you consider yourselves GMs at 240 and now reserve baking for items you want to make for use, gifts or profit? Do you say yes if someone asks if you are a GM?

Just curious how you handle this ambiguity.

Pennyrose on behalf of Runival, L17 human wizard and baker

[Qutie]

I went to 250.... since that was the end of the line. (shrug) 240 isn't, to me But, I'd say it depends on you, not us

[Hibashira]

I agree. To me it was a matter of finishing what I started. 250 all the way.

[Delfontes]

If baking is your passion, stop skilling at 240.

That is what I did with brewing.

I skilled up to 242 (240 was my aim, but I was 242 when I ran out of ingredients).

Over the next couple months whenever I was doing non-trivial combines for sale like Kalidim Constitutionals, naturally my skill improved.

It was just a nice moment when it hit 250, and wasn't the end of a grind, it was in the middle of a stack of something I was going to sell and was making purely for fun.

Just my opinion, but why grind if you're going to continue to bake anyhow?

[splunge]

Once i soent the 2 aa to get baking above 200, i did nothing but picnics to ge to 240. Onc ei got there i stopped cause i had a geerlok.

Right now, my skill is 244. I got 4 skillups from making food from items/meat etc i had banked.

I imagine eventually itll be 250, but im not actively working it up there. Itll come with more drops and more combines in my own sweet time.

[Cigarskunk]

I stopped actively baking for skill at 242 so I'd have the best shot at my trophy, however, I do want to max it out, so I confess that I kinda found a few excuses to do some mass MTP combines later on - currently parked at 249, but I'll be really surprised if my upcomming batch of MTPs don't put me into 250.

There are folks out there that'll tell you that you aren't a "real" GM at a tradeskill till you've hit that 250 mark, but then again, there are also folks that consider themselves GMs once they hit 201.

I look at it this way - seeing what Sony has done to smithing and fletching as well as pottery to a lesser degree, do you REALLY want to take the chance on them desciding to allow folks to skill past 250 in the same patch that they descide to make the ability to skill up baking obscenely difficult?

Look at Brell's Party Platter - really nice item even if it's no drop, only problem is that the raw materials come from tier 4 mobs and the uber guilds seem to be keeping a tighter control on the raw materials then they did on the secret of making those bane weapons last year - what if Sony suddenly nerfs baking in such a way that you'd love to have had those last few points but have to depend on some rare or impossible drop to get them?

[Sethlic]

For the amoutn of time it will take you to go to 250, just finish what ya started. I feared they would make changes to the easy stuff so I GMed them first. I don;t want to be caught off guard like I was for smithing.

[Serenya]

My baker hit 240 about 2 weeks ago on MTPs. The next night, on 2 stacks of MTPs and 2 stacks of Hero Sandwiches she went to 244. I camped in fear of the RNG :shock: She still had tons of supplies for MTPs and Hero Sandwiches and such in the bank, so over the next week I continued to do a stack of combines here and there to clear up her space and restock my merchant. Within a week she was at 250, and that's without sitting down to grind it out. She is 11, and has a geerlok, so I'll probably not get the spoon with her. :P

Related to the other questions. I claimed GMhood at 201 since I'm traditional. I knew 240 plus geerlok was max, but I had been stocking up parts for some serious skilling and wanted to use some up. I DID end up selling some of the things I had bought for skilling, as I didn't use the end result and noticed that they didn't sell very well (my raven parts, vann toes, some griffon meat and plant shoots, that sort of thing). Now I'm focusing on what 1) I or someone in my guild will use and 2) what I have found sells well. Might as well fund that brewing after all :roll: