This is something that has confused me for quite a while...
Lots of people seem to immediately jump on the "it doesn't have a tradeskill flag" bandwagon when someone suggests something.
As far as I can tell, the tradeskill flag is about as useful as the item's icon for information purposes. (read: useless.)
There are items out there that we KNOW FOR A FACT are tradeskill-usable that do NOT have a flag.
There are a lot of items out there that have no known use that DO have a flag. (Granted, it is technically **possible** that ALL of these items do have a place in some set of recipes that are unsolved...but there are too many of these items to believe that this is actually the case.)
The point is that the tradeskill flag is, AT BEST, a guideline of whether it may or may not be usable. It is not the end-all be-all.
Lots of people seem to immediately jump on the "it doesn't have a tradeskill flag" bandwagon when someone suggests something.
As far as I can tell, the tradeskill flag is about as useful as the item's icon for information purposes. (read: useless.)
There are items out there that we KNOW FOR A FACT are tradeskill-usable that do NOT have a flag.
There are a lot of items out there that have no known use that DO have a flag. (Granted, it is technically **possible** that ALL of these items do have a place in some set of recipes that are unsolved...but there are too many of these items to believe that this is actually the case.)
The point is that the tradeskill flag is, AT BEST, a guideline of whether it may or may not be usable. It is not the end-all be-all.
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