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I'm playing a just-turned-25th level Ranger on E'ci and I had previously done the batwing crunchy path to a 46 baking skill, not with any particular goal, but because it seemed like it might be useful. I've focused my tradeskilling in fletching (mid 140s) and more recently, tailoring (mid 60s, enough to make the Leather Padding process 95% likely).
However, I am a foraging pack rat and I never like to get rid of anything. I sometimes would be able to sell a stack of rabbit meat or fruit, so I looked into the recipes with those ingredients and wanted to offer, at least for Rangers and any other foraging classes, that the process from 46 to at least 99 is something quite feasible with common foraged goods, plus cheap store-bought items. This might take the place of the various fish products in the canonical earlys kill up process.
This morning I made myself a pot. My smithing is only int he 40s, but I was lucky and succeeded on the first try (actually, it was the second try as I bought the wrong mold for one of the components and got the error message, had to run back to the merchant and swap it, etc. But it was the first *valid* try)
I then took 3 stacks of previously foraged rabbit meat, which was a fraction of what I'd gathered, as I have, at times, had to jettison the meat when out of slots. I bought some water (I chose not to brew my stacks of Pods into flasks, just yet, but I will probably do that when I want to start on brewing) and made rabbit stew. At the end of the 60 rabbits, I had gone up to skill of 63, three shy of the trivial.
I could have then waited to forage up some more, but instead I got a LOT of frosting and combined three frostings with 1 fruit for 47 combines (I had 2+ stacks of fruit). It makes a lot of Apricot Marmalade (6 per combine) and I was able to skill up to 73. I plan to repeat the process when I next get a stack of fruit, until I hit the 99 trivial.
I also expect, at some point, to make some root beer, although I tend to actually eat the roots. Then, perhaps I'll see what I can do with all these berries that I have lying around.
So although there are other easy ways to get pre-100 skill in baking,I thought I'd remind the foragers out there that the "junk" you pick up might be a water flask and a combine away from an inexpensive skill-up.
However, I am a foraging pack rat and I never like to get rid of anything. I sometimes would be able to sell a stack of rabbit meat or fruit, so I looked into the recipes with those ingredients and wanted to offer, at least for Rangers and any other foraging classes, that the process from 46 to at least 99 is something quite feasible with common foraged goods, plus cheap store-bought items. This might take the place of the various fish products in the canonical earlys kill up process.
This morning I made myself a pot. My smithing is only int he 40s, but I was lucky and succeeded on the first try (actually, it was the second try as I bought the wrong mold for one of the components and got the error message, had to run back to the merchant and swap it, etc. But it was the first *valid* try)
I then took 3 stacks of previously foraged rabbit meat, which was a fraction of what I'd gathered, as I have, at times, had to jettison the meat when out of slots. I bought some water (I chose not to brew my stacks of Pods into flasks, just yet, but I will probably do that when I want to start on brewing) and made rabbit stew. At the end of the 60 rabbits, I had gone up to skill of 63, three shy of the trivial.
I could have then waited to forage up some more, but instead I got a LOT of frosting and combined three frostings with 1 fruit for 47 combines (I had 2+ stacks of fruit). It makes a lot of Apricot Marmalade (6 per combine) and I was able to skill up to 73. I plan to repeat the process when I next get a stack of fruit, until I hit the 99 trivial.
I also expect, at some point, to make some root beer, although I tend to actually eat the roots. Then, perhaps I'll see what I can do with all these berries that I have lying around.
So although there are other easy ways to get pre-100 skill in baking,I thought I'd remind the foragers out there that the "junk" you pick up might be a water flask and a combine away from an inexpensive skill-up.
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