Smithing easier then Tailoring ??

[zandorian]

I see all the time people say smithing is much easier then Tailoring . How So ??

Tailoring you can go into the bazzar, buy what ever you need and sit down and combine.

Smithing is either farm for SS or buy stuff for acrylia but windstone are rare in any form of quantity.

Just curious on other peoples opinions

Zandorian

Baking 250, Tailoring 232, Brewing 227, Fletching 200, Jewlery 200, pottery 200 and smithing 189 GRRRR

[Malodium]

Yes, if you have buttloads of money, tailoring would be easier.
However, it would cost TONS, i.e. maybe close to 200k.

Smithing honestly can be fairly easy if you are the right class and high level. AEing in Hollowshade is a pretty quick way to get stuff for screaming steel, and farming the swirling shadows isnt too tough.

[Kahmon]

I reached 250 in both and mostly farmed my way to them. From my experience, Smithing was sooooooo much easier that there is no comparison. You can easily reach 188 on all storebought stuff except for leather padding which is easy to farm & make. From there if you choose mostly Shadowscream (like I did) then you only have to farm 2 locations and both have decent enough drop rates to keep you moving up.

For tailoring can only do storebought til 77 or so before farming or the bazaar is required. To make things worse you must constantly rely on other skills like smithing and brewing for subcombines as you farm pelts, tanning items, and metals all with poor drop rates.

I think that the only thing that saved my sanity is that I did tailoring 200+ last and had been stockpiling a mule full of supplies for over a year before making my final push. I was already prepared with deluxe toolboxs full of velious pelts, velium studds & bonning, and tanning agents. Once done with what could already be combined I would only need 1 more item instead of 3 to make another run.

If you are a race that was blessed with LoY robes then you have another option since they only require 2 drops. Unfortunately it is tough to predict where the research materials will drop.

There did seem to be patterns though. I got several words of abatement from shadows in TS while working on shadowscream. Words of obligation in SD killing bloodtribe. Words of requisition in Maidens eye. And now Wods of Misery seem a common drop in Everfrost Advs.

Too bad the armor I want is in Nro.

[Nimphe Wildwood]

Tailoring you can go into the bazzar, buy what ever you need and sit down and combine.

Smithing is either farm for SS or buy stuff for acrylia but windstone are rare in any form of quantity.

Purchasable 250 Tailoring = Solstice Robes.
Purchasable 250 Smithing = Mistletoe Cutting Sickles.

IMHO both are equally hard or easy depending on your individual outlook.

[Tudani]

IMO smithing is much easier. You can do ldon smithed armor to 212 for any class, which is fairly easy to get components for. And then if you have bertox flag you can do 220 - 227 on cleaning breastplates which is very very easy from what I've heard. Tailoring is hard post 188 when you finish acrylia studded.

[eniamn]

tailoring is hard post 188?

i have spent at least twice as much time and 4 times as much money on tailoring as on smithing. not counting the return for ornate as cost since i mke money farming the ore myself. have been given many stacks of stuff by my guild for tailoring and about 2 stacks of hq rings for my smithing. tailoring is becoming my least favorite tradeskill. need it highest for the shawl though. grrr.

[PinyonTreedotter]

Purchasable 250 Tailoring = Solstice Robes.
Purchasable 250 Smithing = Mistletoe Cutting Sickles

IMHO both are equally hard or easy depending on your individual outlook.

This is ony true if you are very rich.

Using this skill route, you will always use up the gems with the sickle. For the robes, you will mostly NOT use up the gems until your skill is >210 (or so). Some people use robes as a skillup route. I don't know anyone who used sickles.

Both become expensive when your sill is >220. I've seen robes in the bazaar for 200pp, clearly someone skilling up with them (they were also selling 2 dozen).

[Veldin Darkfire]

Originally posted by Nimphe Wildwood
Purchasable 250 Tailoring = Solstice Robes.
Purchasable 250 Smithing = Mistletoe Cutting Sickles.

IMHO both are equally hard or easy depending on your individual outlook.

lets also not forget that with robes you need a 250 jc with aa to not eat all your money in failed chains which you do not get a skillup chance on unlike failing the final combine on a sickle.

Tailoring is by far worse then smithing ever will be.

Veldin

[Erikanudan]

Velious Tailoring/Acrylia Studded from 152 to 193 before solstice robes ...
PL'd a lvl 1 250 JC alt for 12k in 6-7 hrs to make collars.
Did countless free combines for skillups during Solstice Mayhem, and my own funded combines (which i miss getting 5-15k each for ). JC alt paid for herself 100x over during that time.
197-250 was mostly solstice skillups (did robe combines for 2-3 guilds att, was skillup heaven). Maybe 15 of those skillups were from acrylia reinforced and the occasional velious ...

151 days played and only 59 when I dinged 250 tailoring.

Smithing from 188-250 was 18ish skillups from shadowscream, then switched to sickles, and never had a problem selling them to at least cover cost (or close) of materials ...

In the 42 days played since I dinged 250 tailoring, I've hit 65, made about a 100 AA, and 250d everything else ... smithing took about a month RT.

In tailoring, I never had the option to conveniently buy my way to 242 like FS smiths could before the nerf ...

Smithing was still a helluva lot easier than tailoring, not even a comparison.

Erikanudan Combustulous
Ayonae Ro, 1750

[Whizbang_Dustyboots]

Re: Smithing easier then Tailoring ??

Originally posted by zandorian
I see all the time people say smithing is much easier then Tailoring . How So ??

Tailoring you can go into the bazzar, buy what ever you need and sit down and combine.

This is true for all tradeskills in theory.

I notice that the tradeskills the person's most concerned about are the ones that this never applies to, though. The grass is always greener on the other side of the tradeskill fence.

[Nimphe Wildwood]

lets also not forget that with robes you need a 250 jc with aa

Not necessary that person, but if you had a guildie or friend with 250 JC and AA skill that would help you out, that's always a bonus.

I made my comment about both Solstice Robes and Sickles being purchasable because Zandorian didn't make mention since he said..."Smithing is either farm for SS or buy stuff for acrylia but windstone are rare in any form of quantity." But nonetheless it is still another route to Smithing.

[Sealody]

Both

I'm 250 in both smithing and tailoring.

I didn't bazaar anything. I farmed all the components for both tradeskills.

There is such a huge difference in the time it takes both to geto 250.

From 190s to 250 in both skills.

Tailoring took me about 3 weeks of farming. Mass kills, AEs... whatever. I did almost exclusively velious combines. So yes, I spent alot of time getting velium ores, bricks, small pieces... in CC.
Same with being in WL and CS.

Smithing.... from 188, where BP FS trivals... HAHA... took me 4 days of farming to 250. It was such a joke compaired to tailoring. I spent 1 day AE hollowshade war. I got so much substances, i distroyed hundreds of them after 250.

Oh well... that's my experence on smithing and tailoring skillups.

Sea!

[OberonMiM]

tailoring is easier (take it from someone who maxxed em both)

tailoring is easy. sure farming hides can be annoying but velium is easy (VERY easy infact). And skillups seem to come ALOT faster. from 240 to 250 it went about 1 skillup per 10 combines on arctic wyvern at 355 wis


smithing on the other hand might be less expensive but in no way easier. Dealing with people constantly messing up your hallowshade war and the fact that skillups are slower (about 1 in 25 for 240 to 250)

[Silound]

I'm going split this a bit. Smithign is in fact pretty easy up to 188, or 212 if you have access to LDoN temper stuffs. Not too terribly expensive either. Tailoring is also very simple to 187. Both are about on par, although smithing may be cheaper. Past 187/8 I cast my vote on tailoring. I spend most of my time makign the money to buy the emeralds for SR's and doing runs of 50-500 at a time. Smithing I have to either fish up stuff for old human cult, or farm up hollowshade for smithing stuf, or spen beacoup plat to buy my way to 250.