Skilling on Trueshots?

[Xenephex]

I'm quite new to this, but I've read the FAQ and the guides and a few pages back on posts, and I don't see this mentioned much as a viable way to skill up past 202 and I'm a little surprised, so I thought I'd ask a few questions.

In terms of time, I gathered 8 micro-servos with my then level 9 ranger in Steamfont in around an hour, and I wasn't exclusively farming - I was skilling up on other mobs at the same time and just killing rogue and runaway clockworks when they were around. Perhaps I was very lucky, but is it a whole lot faster to farm Acrylia than micro-servos? I know that's only 4 attempts from an hour of farming, but from what I know about farming components for other tradeskills past 200, this doesn't seem like that outrageous a rate.

BTW, I do have a 52 warrior, so I could conceivably group up to farm Acrylia if need be, though being able to do my farming solo is more attractive.

In terms of plat - this can't be much more than 12 plat per attempt, unless I'm missing something, which seems relatively cheap for post skill 200 attempts. Also - once every newbie ranger in GFay has a trueshot, do the bows have much of a sell back to vendors? I didn't check.

On a related note - the tumpy's tonics were a bit of a hassle. I didn't know that kiola nuts didn't stack. I have a 24 druid and I'm thinking that I could temporarily bind on Sister isle, buy a maximum of 80 kiola nuts at a time, port to Nexus and then either 3 more zones to Tumpy, or skill up a brewer and make them myself in the PoK. Five round trips would give me two Bp's full of tonics, or enough dwarven wire for 100 attempts. Is there a faster way?

I'm guessing that there are reasons why this is harder than I think it is; that's why I'm asking. I'd appreciate any feedback or comments.

[Moonlilly]

The only issue I see with using Trueshot (aside from the ton of running around) is that it trivals not much higher than storebought arrows. Most people just jump straight to acrylia because it is relatively easy to farm and you can have at least a stack of arrows to combine in the time you farm those micro-servers.

[Xenephex]

Okay - thanks. I didn't realize that Acrylia was relatively easy to farm. I guess I had thought it was fairly difficult from reading other posts.

Also, I thought the trueshot trivialed at 235 according to the main site?

[Ixiola]

My recollection is that the trivials on trueshots is in the 230 range. Was definately not trivial in the low 200s at least, but was trivial after I finished training on dual cam darkwoods.

Actually, I'm curious to hear whether anyone has tried the dual cam darkwood route since the nerf on the sellback rate to the vendors. I went from 205 - 235 this way prenerf and it was FAR easier than acrylia. Not only do you not have to farm the acrylia, but with max dex you get skillups every 10 - 15 combines, versus 60 - 80 combines. And if you tinkered your own cams, you used to be able to sell back at a profit. This is probably no longer true, but I'd be curious on how much of a loss it is now....hmm, maybe I should make a bow and check.

As to sellback to vendors for trueshots, I think it's less than 1p. I haven't made one of these in a long time, but they used to sell okay around 100p. However you might have a hard time finding enough low rangers to buy your stock if you plan to skill up on these. My guess is you'll need more combines per skillup than with the darkwood bows, so you'll end up with a ton. And since they are lore, you either have to plan to destroy them as you skill up, or train very slowly.

Good luck!

[lonewylfe]

It is 235. I actually tried skilling up on trueshots at one point, think I had about 42 combines and only got 1 or 2 skillups. The longest part of this is probably getting the servos, esp if you have a druid who can bind on sister isle and just port back and forth (esp with shared bank space now, the druid could even brew it up and then pass it off).
IMO, acry is a pita to farm, unless you can get a group to go to AC and let you keep all the acry that drops. There are those two caves in TM, but one seems to not drop a lot and the other seems to be always camped. If you know of an easy way to get acry, please share!

edit: From an earlier post in March, just found this of mine: "I did about 42 Trueshot combines the other day, only one skillup. And it took me about 4 days of 7 hour farming to get the servos...they don't drop as much anymore since the newbie armor stuff was added to their loot list."

[Greymantle]

Well i considered trying trueshots as an alternate to acryla. However you work it it a lot of farming. BUT with the acrlya is droppable so my family save it for me as well. If they would take the no-drop flag off the microservers it would make it a lot mor feasable. The other advantage of acryla is i can get some exp and coin while farming it. At 58 can't get that farming microservers.

[Catranizi]

Actually, I'm curious to hear whether anyone has tried the dual cam darkwood route since the nerf on the sellback rate to the vendors. I went from 205 - 235 this way prenerf and it was FAR easier than acrylia. Not only do you not have to farm the acrylia, but with max dex you get skillups every 10 - 15 combines, versus 60 - 80 combines. And if you tinkered your own cams, you used to be able to sell back at a profit. This is probably no longer true, but I'd be curious on how much of a loss it is now....hmm, maybe I should make a bow and check.

I did 215-222 recently on dual cams darkwood. Was an average of about 15-20 combines per skill, definitely faster than arrows (aside from the constant shuffling of items in bags due to non stacking issues). The buy price was roughly in the 300pp, the sell back was roughly 225pp. A huge pp sink. Overall, cost me around 20k to get from 202-222 with darkwood and dual cams darkwood.