Made my fishing pole, now I have a solstice earring!

[Fundin]

About two months ago I started collecting the items for the solstice earring quest. I decided I was going to make at least two of the components. After a bit of research I settled on the Lucky Cabbage and the Blessed Fishing Rod. My druidl alt collected the plains pebbles and cabbages, got baking up and made a few.

Started Fishing in earnest on and off, culminating with a long run this week. Skillups sure do come slow off fishing itself once you go over 180. Taken me about 40 stacks of baitto get to 195. Then I realized to do al lthe subcombines I had to get tailoring and blacksmithing over 100. Managed to do that without too much trouble or expense.

Had a mixed number of components due to the suprisingly high cost of sandalwood and the velium temper (high cost or broke cleric). ended up with enough to attempt two full sets of subcombines. Saddly failed on one of the spools (succes on the other though!), and one blessed dust of Karana (out of 5 attempts).

Bought me a tackle box.

Checking my fishing skill - yup 195.

Pondered getting some +fishing bait, and decided to let just my skill do the work.

Put everything in the tackle box, hit combine, and voila! I had the last item I needed!

Was a lot of work, but worth the effort. Need to get a few skills up to maximize chance of success and see if I cannot make a few of them to sell.

[Kytelae]

Congrats! Making a few poles to sell is a good way to make a bit of cash, not tons really unless you can forage your own items. Subcombine losses will definitely eat into your profits, and pottery isn't too hard to get up, so at least work that one. Since the sandalwood is a pricey component, working smithing is a good idea if you can stand it. At 175 skill I almost never fail a spool.

The market for BFRs is very steady on Xev at least, and only once or twice have I seen someone come in with enough of them to really flood the market and drop prices significanly. You probably won't get rich unless you devote a lot of time to making them, but it can be nice side income (I use my profits to help fund my tailoring).