Skill 168, Minotaur Hero's Brew or Faydwer shaker then Brew

[Bennan]

If you choose to do MHB's, in Halas, you can do it all in one room. To the left of the brew barrel and right (about 2 steps if that) are the merchants that sell ALL the ingredients.

The room is marked number 10 I think on the EQ Atlas map, I think and I am pretty sure its called McDonald's Fine Cider. Anyways once you get there you will work it out easy .

Its a right pain with all the ingredients, but doable...

[sir0die]

Thank you Bennan, that's the info i was looking for. Since i spend a bit of time in the genberal area working on my smithing, this help tremendously.

[Hethral]

Personally I'm doing the minotaur hero brew because I'm bound in the plane of knowledge at the vendor for brewing ingredients then use my faithstone to get me to kaladim where I pick up the rest. Working on other tradeskills gives me something to do while I'm waiting for the enchanter to med up enough to enchant more brellium for me to combine.

I went from 160-180 in the time it took me to imbue enough brellium to make 20 sheets.

[Hildie Hawkhollow]

Shakers

I made Mino Brew to 183. I happened to be dinking around Sanctus Seru when I stumbled over their brewery...lo and behold, two vendors in the same building, standing right next to each other, had all the parts you need to make the shakers. Brew barrel is there too.

I set aside everything else and in 2 stacks of easy combines, got 188 and got ground to a halt again. I almost cried when I realized there was a place I could have been going to do shakers.

My point is, do the shakers. At 5 items, you get to do almost twice as many combines in the same amount of time as the 9 item Mino. If you don't care about fast, and are dirt poor, then sure, do Mino...but I will never recommend it again.

The only bad thing about doing shakers in Seru is if you have ever hunted there for key quests, you may be KoS with various factions. I had only hunted a little, and I was fine. I will regret forever doing Mino brew for 20 points when I could have done shakers.

[Harliquinn]

If you're stopping at 200, you should be able to do it in about 400 combines from 188.

Man I wish it were so. I spent about 130 combines to get to 188, about 340 combines to get to 189, 20 combines or so to 190 and working on 120 combines with no increase to 191 yet [/list]

about 340 combines to get to 189

Wow.. I went to 242 and I don't think it ever took more than 120 combines for a skill-up.

May be wrong as I don't watch the skill ups while I tradeskill, but I think only once or twice did I not have a higher skill after a set of 80 combines.

I think you may need some int/wis, mine was minimum 230.

[Taugur]

Re: Shakers

I happened to be dinking around Sanctus Seru when I stumbled over their brewery...lo and behold, two vendors in the same building, standing right next to each other, had all the parts you need to make the shakers. Brew barrel is there too.

Yes, very convenient... BUT
The vendors despawn and respawn on a 10min? schedule.
So you can't keep working continously in there but will have to wait for them to return quite often.

[Solonaro]

If you have good CoV faction, the easiest place in the universe to make shakers is in Skyshrine, merchants and brew barrel all in one room on the way to the bank.

[Jazheira]

If you have good CoV faction, the easiest place in the universe to make shakers is in Skyshrine, merchants and brew barrel all in one room on the way to the bank.

Not exactly.

The merchants are in one room and the barrel is in the room behind them. But you're right, I'm doing Faydwer Shakers now in Skyshrine.

[Sigwulf]

I found that doing Minotaur Hero Brew is easiest in Firiona Vie for the people who have the faction. Water is sold in a shop not far from the brew barrel, everything else is right there with the brew barrel. The vendor selling casks is so close to the barrel you don't even have to move from the barrel to restock on them.
I was 200 brewing for a long time, but this weekend I finally got around to putting down 3aa. Hero Brews took me to 248 in a few hours, after which I did 30 some champagne combines to 250.

[Knotthead]

I did the Hero's Brew. I parked myself in Thurgadin because everything you need is real close to each other. I actually went from a skill of 0 to 248 in 2 nights making only Hero's Brews. Very boring indeed, but I got it up there to start attempting my GM combines.

Knotthead

[Talisker]

If you have the faction, in FV you can get everything for minotaur brew in one room other than the water which is a short walk away. With PoP FV is now easy to get to.
Looks like we posted simultaneously.

[catterly]

Mino brews = the devil :twisted:

I had to take a break from them, I dont have to tell you the pain in the ye-olde 9 combine mino brew arrrgh.

I am monk and even with c3 and some int gear I can only get to 143 int so its a long haul for me.

Sigwulf/Talisker thanks for the heads up to go to FV, I was doing them in Thurg and had to run around to re stock this should help some, every little bit helps.