A character just for tradeskills?

[BigCanoe]

Hi,

My main is an enchanter. Would it be best to create another character with high inate wisdom rather than trying to buff up my current characters wisdom? Does level matter at all in tradeskills or can I start at level 1 and go up as long as the money holds out?

Also, whats a good first tradeskill?

I am on Stromm, anyone from there?

Thanks!

[Tinile]

No, don't make a new char. Enchanter is one of the best classes for tradeskilling. Skill ups are based on the higher of INT OR WIS, so beef up your INT and start clicking!!

[BigCanoe]

Oh really? I thought it was all about wisdom! I think I have like 90 wisdom and 191 int (with gear).

[eniamn]

yep higher of int or wis. and blacksmithing can use str instead. jc and fletching can use dex instead as well. 191 int is good but try and get it higher with stat food and drink at least while skilling and use your mind buff spells. enchanter is a dang nice class to be a tradeskiller. lv 1 can get all the core tradeskills to 200 and 1 to 250. takes aa to max them all so lv 51 required there. some of the drops later are no drop and such so will need a high lv character to kill it for you if you can't. also what race are you? you might have options on some of the more anoying tradeskills. brewing first if you want to max one quickly. baking is a good second but takes planar drops to be really quick. (as quick as it ever gets.) blacksmithing will take 500k to buy i would bet. tailoring the same and bazaar. do not do tailoring first. pottery i am not that high in myself. if you enchant your own metal bars jewelry can be very cheap. 5k is cheap for 250. jc is also 2 item combines all the way to 250 if you want and enchanters get an aa to reduce fails in jc.

[BigCanoe]

I am a Dark Elf. I was thinking pottery to start...

[eniamn]

dark elf has racial smithing and i think some tailoring. no probs there. use medium jars then small bowls then medium bowls to get to 122. the firing sheet is more expensive than you get for them so destroy the greenware.

[Phabos]

I tend to recommend Baking to start, since during the path from 0 to 250, (more like 135-250), unless you cop out and buy from others, the skill touches on many others. Once you make your utensils (pottery and smithing) and reach around 200, you can make picnics, which brings Tailoring and Brewing into the mix as well as the others. Whatever you do, good luck.


Phabos Apshion
Drunken Paladin of Brell
Tarew Marr

[Rorgg]

Not to mention, if you're going to need to farm stuff for trading, might as well be on your main, plus getting AAs for New Tanaan Crafting Mastery is definitely a mainish thing.

[Zeralenn]

Plus it doesn't ALL have to be on one character. Personally I spread my skills out on various characters; I currently have a GM smith (me), a GM tailor (halfling druid), a GM jeweller (high elf chanter) and a GM tinkerer (gnome cleric). I plan to make my rogue a GM brewer, which is a skill set I need.

All tradeskills are based on intelligence OR wisdom, whichever is higher. There are a couple exceptions to this; for example, smithing can go on strength if higher than int or wis, and fletching can go on dex, if higher than int or wis. But most tradeskills do not have a tertiary stat in this fashion.

Actually, I originally built my enchanter simply to support tradeskilling and to have a GM jeweller for making gem studded chains for my halfling druid. I got her to 24 and forgot her for months. I brought her back out shortly after LDoN because some guildies needed crowd control, and now she is about 3% from level 36. Some characters have a way of making sure they're played whether you intended it or not.

Chanters are excellent tradeskillers because of their ability to enchant ores and make mana vials, not to mention that INT is their primary skill and something you want to twink for anyway.

...Zera

[Rorgg]

One benefit for concentrating it is that if you're planning on doing 4 or 5 tradeskills to a good amount anyway, you'll probably consider doing the Coldain Shawl quests or Aid Grimel eventually, and the rewards are good enough that being discouraged because of wariness to re-skill up is a significant negative.