Tradeskill Questions for FF

[Ariene]

I'd like to know if vendor "under the table" slots are coming back. Was that a mistake or is it working as intended?

I miss my vendor mining! And it would be really fun to do at the Wayfarer Camps.... /mourn

[CaiserSoze]

1) Any chance of boosting the final Grimel ears (hp/mana/effect, since stats are already capped on 90% of the folks able to complete), or making a later step including something from PoTime? Pretty sad that there are multiple dropped ears that are obtainable by anyone able to complete the quest that are better than the reward for that quest.. =)

2) Any chance of adjusting PoP smithing to balance PoP Tailoring? Two issues -
a) requirement of far more rare drops and failure chances for chain/plate/leather(studs) than for silk combines, due to needing a temper for every ring/stud/sheet combine and the final combine, vs silk using a single tannin for the final combine only

b)Are the Elemental planar smithed and tailored armors going to keep their jumbled stats, or are they ever going to be adjusted so that they're consistant across the 4 sets, or is this one of those 'Its been broken for too long, so we're going to leave it' situations? Currently the Fire set is the only one consistant with both itself and game lore of elementals(just ask any mage):
.................PoFire.............PoEarth....... ...PoWater..........PoAir

Silk .... high mana, CR .. high HP, DR/PR.. bal hp/ma, FR .. bal hp/ma, MR
Leather high mana, CR .. high HP, DR/PR ..bal hp/ma, FR .. bal hp/ma, MR
Chain ... high mana, CR .. bal hp/ma, MR ..high HP, DR/PR.. bal hp/ma, FR
Plate .... high mana, CR .. bal hp/ma, MR .. high HP, DR/PR .. bal hp/ma, FR


note: autoformat removing extra spaces makes it really hard to try to build your own loose chart setup.... =)

[Doebi]

Were there ever/ are there currently plans for player made charms? The expansion promos seemed to hint at them, but they never showed up.

[Morgrist]

Will we be seeing some of the EQ RPG tradeskill recipes entering the online game?

Acrylia shields,for example. Or goo boots for tailors?

[Kronepsis]

Thought of a question I would like to add:

I'd ask if they're considering adding another augment slot for the tradeskilled armors, ESPECIALLY the elemental plane tradeskilled armors (like Livestone, Stonehide, etc). It would preferrably be one that is NOT type 1. Type 2 or even Type 3 if they're feeling that generous. Right now they're all inferior to the 1492 stuff in LDoN. Sure it takes time to get the LDoN ones, but that's all it takes for them. The Elemental Planes ones take time AND money--a bit more bang for the buck would be nice.

[Furyrpied]

Drops....

Are the TS guys looking at the rarity of the drops required for some trade skills and realizing that some are just wayyy out of wack? For example Misty Acorns used to pop up on my mouse at least 2 or three times an hour while hanging around in Misty Thicket, but now.. spent 4 hours there today and not a one forraged (maxed forrage skill for a 58 druid)

Ribbons where a great idea for people with too much platinum on their hands, are there/ will there be different ways that avoids the massivly hard to find parts? (perfect rockhopper hides anyone?)

How can you tell i'm a tailor?

*sigh*

[Dhomal the Scavenger]

Hello-

As one not too enmeshed in tradeskills (other than Fletching - which I keep plugging away at slowly) My biggest question would be ablout the hidden merchant items. Is it a mistake, or correct? If correct - would lowering the 'visible' list to 70 items to re-instate the 10 hidden help or no?

I miss my days of vendor mining.....And cashflow has slowed down a bit for me....

Dhomal the Scavenger
Officer - Brellian Defenders - Brell Serilis
Warrior 51 - 1 AA

"The thought of getting back hidden merchant slots gets me all giddy!"

[NightGod]

They keep mentioning in the EQ RPGs that they are implementing a tradeskill quest. Last I checked (two days ago) this quest (from the DMs guide) is still broken. Any ETA on a fix?

[Itzena]

Speaking of broken quests with tradeskill ties (as well as the RPG quests and Brodder's Revenge), what about the Siver/Whisperling Shield quest in Shar Vahl/Shadeweavers?

[Sanna]

Will someone pretty please take a question from a Zekker to the devs, if there is time/opportunity?


When a Necro/BL/Mage pet starts attacking me in my own home city while it's owner sits safely out of the range of the ally-to-me guards, why don't the guards start attacking the MOB-CLASSIFIED pet? Because when I die to a pet, even a redcon pet, it's a mob-death, and I lose xp. Is it because it's a PC's pet? If so, why can't the con-status of the owner be transferred to the pet?



Also:

-- Someone please tell them that shared bank is the greatest thing since LoY's expanded bank.


-- I support different bags for each GM Trophy. It's a lot of money to drop for the first one, much less for the subsequent ones, with "no reward" as they say.


-- When are they going to hire me to help their poor overlabored tradeskill division? heh, sorry, no more non-serious questions.


-- Someone needs to turn a piece of attention to the Karana worshippers that can get smithing to 188 way cheaper than the rest of us can. /sad. (or did they fix that when I wasn't looking?)


-- Why didn't they let me into the LDoN beta? I was very sad for a long time.



All I can think of for now. Hee.

-- Sanna
wonders what she really would as a dev, if she got the chance....

Edit in: I KNOW!
Can they pretty please make Gnomes able to worship Tunare or some other 'goodie' deity on Sullon?? I want to tinker!! They can be Neut, and they can be Evil, but not Good.... /sad /sad /sad.

[Malathos]

Smithing request

We have oodles of different types of Smithed armour now, and even a few weapons (but a bigger variety of weapons would be great) - but virtually no shields !

How about -

Existing smithed armour / cultural that could be "modified" to increase the number of augmentation slots/types via a recipe.

More smithed weapons again with a possible augmentation slot/type upgrade path.

Shields ! - more of them (dwarven cultural yields one main shield type I can make) - with slots for resist and ac augments ??

Thanks

(from a poor dwarf who lives in the UK and will likely never even see an FF)

[Tudani]

The new smithing recipes seem to show that the devs care about progression in tradeskills to make them possible. Despite the fact that shadowscream armor has it's own progession we got a nice new sets of armor to fill in the 188 - 212 gap. Are they planning on doing something similar for tailoring? If they consider loy robes to have been the answer are they aware that for all non caster races tailoring is just as bad as it was before (ie at 188 skill mostly making things that are greater than 250 trivial for skill ups).

[Chenier]

I really like the idea of different bags for GM trophies...

[Nihixul]

All-in-one geerlok: expensive to make, >250 trivial, tinkered. (i.e. don't make it a skill-up item that floods the market.) I always thought it was a shame that the tinkers got these really awesome things to make, that people would pay a *nice* amount for, but that flooded the market and hence became a dime a dozen. I would personally pay a quite nice sum for an all-in-one geerlok. Are there any plans for one?

Wood elf rogues that worship bristlebane need something spiffy to wear at weddings etc. (permission granted to beg)

The tradeskill related Vah Shir cloak quests were apparently changed so that you cannot get the hero cloak. Is this a permanent change? From what I understand, you can still get the thing in which you combine your officer's robe and the hero medallion, but if you do so, you can't turn it in to the mentioned NPC (as he no longer is in game). (Can anyone back me up on this? I haven't reached that part of the quest, but this is what I have gathered. Sorry if this is off-topic. Please start another thread in the relelvant location if you have such information.) At any rate, if this IS the case, they should leave out the combine container, as one would lose their cloak by using it!

Any movement at all in the CT loot tables? I don't think anyone wants silks/ichor/hides to drop like blood does, but... sheesh. :\

What's up with that random arrow recipe from that PoJ prisoner? Just blabber, or true lore?

[Greymantle]

Is acrylia ever going to be available from venders? (hey i can dream can't i ?)