How do you get your INT/WIS so high?

[Sanna]

A level 30 druid, hm? ^_^



1. Keep your forages (veggies, berries, fruits, habanero peppers) and go to zones where things are foraged that people want (the list here is HUGE: Tuft of Dire Wolf Fur, various Loy dye components, Tea Leaves in East Karana, etc etc). For example; I've had 2 stacks of Hab Peppers on my trader for over 2 months. Last night, a stack finally sold. Yay me.



2. Learn to (fear) kite, especially when you get a new dot at 34. Hill Giants; plat, fine steel (smithable to HQ ore that you can use to make a small profit on certain weapons, since the ore was free).



3. It is worth getting/keeping up with a Magelo, especially when you are asking for advice on how to get a stat higher. That way, the people like us can see what you already have in a given slot, and make suggestions for better items.




4. As much as you might hate to hear this... get some xp. The difference between 30 and 34 and 39 and 44 are indescribable. There is so much more you can 'do' in terms of getting plat and items with a few more levels.




My personal, not-so-generic advice... aim for 255 wis around the time you are 49, and not too much sooner. Without being in an 'uber' guild or being best buddies with someone who really knows what drops where and how to get it, you'd have to drop a whole lot of plat to get 255 before then. It is an excellent goal to shoot for, and something to keep in mind at all times, but it is very limitedly feasable before then.

For example, by the time you can go to Nadox, start looking for these drops: Hate Forged Pauldrons (8wis shoulder), a Coral Ring (7wis, lore), and a Darkwater Pearl Earring (5wis, lore, 5pct swimming mod).

Above all, MAKE FRIENDS. Unless you're my roommate, this game is very difficult to be played in a vacuum.

allakhazam.com is a great site.

And doh, I have to go to class. /sigh.

Best of luck, li'l drood ^_^

-- Sanna

[Rhyss-Bristlebane]

Heh, those last several responses made me smile...

Ok, point taken about listing equipment. I think someone made reference to Magelo -- I take it this is a equipment lister?

Also, some others made reference to "quads"? What is that?

Oh, and Sanna, I agree with your advice about experience. I have so many alts that it is hard for me to spend time with my druid. but if I am going to be serious about getting better in smithing, then I need to start putting in the time.

Can someone clear up something for me... Is the Testament of Vaneer quest still a long camp? Last time I looked into that you had to sit in a cave for days and days and days and then even some more time. Whats the news there???

What are Habanero Peppers for? Is there a consolidated list of forageable valuables?

[eniamn]

quad kiting. kiting four mobs at once. wizards get sow and tag monsters (insta click aggro helps here) and run around in circle until mobs are all close together. then hit ae snare and then ae them to death. make sure snare hits all though or you are asking for probs.

druids snare last longer than 2 minutes so normally pull with snare and then circle and ae. not a druid so thats all i know.

edit about the forages. go to teh main site and look for forages. yew leave, tufts of dire wolf fur, tea leaves are all good. in bulk fruit and veggies for us non-foraging bakers make money.

[Sanna]

1. Magelo
http://www.magelo.com

You sign up for a free account, create a character, and list the items you are wearing. You generally have to know the name of the item; like, you would click on "Primary" and in the box below, enter the text 'nature' and it would give you all the items a druid could wield in their primary hand that have the word 'nature' in it. Then you chose the appropriate item.

You do have to save the armor set tho, don't forget.

Sometimes Magelo is a bit confusing to learn, but it's an incredible thing to have.

Then it gives you a link that you can copy (not through the right-click and copy-link-location option though, you have to highlight) and paste to various places.

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=769217



2. Quadding
What level do druids get their better snare, isn't it 29? I think you should have it already. Quadding is the fine art of snaring 3-4 mobs, running them around in a circle till they're all together, and hitting them with Area of Effect DDs. It usually takes about 10 tries to get it down to a 'science'; expect to die a lot in the meantime. >_<.

There are other places that are going to be more suitable to direct questions about quadding, rather than a tradeskill board. Look up EQDruids.com, they're generally friendly people. ^_^



3. Forages
Look in the database for Habanero Peppers; they are foraged in Plane of Knowledge (and somewhere else?) and used for Planar (high skill-level) baking.
As for a list of useful forages... I recommend the board search function at the top of the page. I'm sure there are various lists somewhere, but I'm not sure if EQTC has or wants to put together a so-called 'Master List'.




Being a druid is fun; I love the class and the spells that they get. Have fun, and don't be afraid to stick your neck out (especially in regards to the quadding thing).


And you asked how to get more than 1 tradeskill over 200, and I don't think anyone much answered you, so here's a link.
http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/ar...r=030000000000


Have fun.

-- Sanna

[eniamn]

ok i answered his aa multiple 200+ skills question. also you have a nice magelo sanna but get the polished quartz ring. you are at wis cap and quartz gives ac and mana. never hurts.

This sentence remmoved because i didn't mean to upset anyone.

doing hmp's till my eyes bleed. so many combines. going back to picnics. was easier to get stuff for but priceir. did you do a lot of meat pies? my magelo lol. though most of my equip is guild loaned or from a guildie who got rid of his wizard its good stuff. its really great cause then i dont have to farm cash to buy it all and can blow my pp on tradeskills. in guild curretnly have all but gm smith and tailor and working on them with multiple toons.

magelo is confusing for a bit but once you remember what all your equip is its pretty easy. great source to look for upgrades with too. also look at lucy and allas as well though.

edit it was requested i use paragraphs. after looking that up in the dictionary, it sounded like a good idea.

[andyhre]

I don't think the tesament of vanear is either hand; I think it is secondary only.

On E`ci, if you want to kill Dyllin Starshine (or whatever his name is), he's up most of the time, he's just a little hard to find if you don;t know to swim into his area. The rest of the quest is simple and can be done in one stop, in advance, so once you kill Dyllin, you're set.

I think in the old days, he was more heavily camped, and on other servers, think may be different.

But, if you have a +9 Wis shield, this is only going to net you +1, unless I am wrong about the item being secondary only.

[Sanna]

eniamn.

1. I cannot ever hardly see what you have responded to; everything you is in one paragraph. Makes it a bit difficult to see what's been said when I'm quick-scanning for information. No need to take so much offense.

2. Sooner or later (probably later) I will be buying the AAs that allow for 280+ wis. Also, I'm a druid, I'm not ever supposed to take damage; the AC offered by a single ring is insignificant.

3. So you're higher in tradeskills. There are plenty of people higher than me in tradeskills. Are we supposed to be comparing for status? And yes, since you asked and I did see that you asked, I did Halas 10 from 202 to 219, almost exclusively. (I believe there was one run of 1.75 stacks of Justice Fruit in there, but the rest was Halas.)




And
http://allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=2336
Testament of Vanear is Secondary only.

I recommend a Charred Guardian Shield; generally running 250-400p tops, and I didn't get rid of mine till lvl 51, when I ended up with a gifted Compass of Khati Sha that had to go in Range, thus pushing my Talisman of Benevolence to Secondary.

-- Sanna

[KyrosKrane]

Getting back to the original topic. Rhyss, frankly the easiest way to raise your wis is to shop in the bazaar on your server for stuff you can use. Head to the bazaar and open the search window. Set the required stat to WIS, enter your race and class just below that, and set your maximum budget at the bottom, then search. You'll get results sorted alphabetically. You can click on the header for a column to sort by that; for example, you can click on the Price column to sort items by price. Click the column header again to reverse the order.

OK, so, now you've found that ultra-happy-uber-plus-WIS item in the bazaar; how do you afford the purchase? Well, you mentioned that you're a druid, but you didn't list your diety. Assuming you're Tunare, you have one of the most amazingly profitable (if insanely boring) options available to you: imbued emeralds. You can scribe your Imbue Emerald and Mass Imbue Emerald (which does five at a time for the mana cost of three) spells at level 29. Emeralds are vendor sold for about 13-14pp each. They will sell in your bazaar for close to double that. When I was skilling up on Mistletoe sickles, I would buy 3-4 stacks at a time, and there were never enough in the bazaar -- I'd always pester friends and guildies for more. I would pay 23-24pp per imbued emerald -- that's a profit of 10pp per emerald, or 200pp per stack for the imbuer. All it takes is some starting cash (say, 300pp to buy your first stack of emeralds and the imbue spell) and some time to imbue them.

If you're a Karana druid, you can do basically the same thing using Plains Pebbles. Unfortunately these aren't vendor-sold; you have to forage them in the Karanas. The premise is the same, though. Get your hands on a stack by hook or by crook; imbue; sell in bazaar; and spend the happy profits.

Once you have the cash, the world is your oyster. =)

[Tuber]

If you know a friendly bard (lvl44+) ask him to play Cassindras Ellergy whilst grouped with you. This will give +12 to int and wis, or +20 if they sing Amplification with it.
It will also be a pleasent surprise for them to get any request other then manasongplz.

Tuber lvl 49.90

[kiztent]

My druid bot has some stuff:

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=682476

some of it is cheap, some isn't.

Interesting to get a close look at Sanna's clothes 2700 mana is respectable at 52, but OMG YOUR MR!!!1!!

Levelling up will help a lot since of his items, most of them are hand me downs, or stuff I got exping and didn't feel like selling.

My shaman finally got rid of his dinner plate (aka Tae Ew Shield) and broke 1k AC unbuffed. Huzzah.

[Mdaisy]

I have a druid (58) that is my tradeskiller. She was my first character and like you I spent a lot of time on her. MY advice is ... stop tradeskilling and start leveling, foraging, porting, trading (bazaar) until you are closer to 50. By then as it has been said you will have a lot more avenues to explore for earning plat, your equipment and buff options will be better and you will spend less money on the tradeskills because you will level faster. I made the mastake of tradeskilling to early and in all of the trades. MDaisy is a Master (over 170) in all trades and GM baker. I hate to think of how much time and money I have spent getting to those levels but I would think it is well over 250K pp especially with tailoring and smithing.
As a GM Baker I am making a lot of money. I spend about 3 hours a week making MTP and generate over 7500pp doing it.

[Rewde]

Originally posted by Sanna


2. Sooner or later (probably later) I will be buying the AAs that allow for 280+ wis. Also, I'm a druid, I'm not ever supposed to take damage; the AC offered by a single ring is insignificant.

Um... you're not really being serious here, are you??

[kiztent]

Originally posted by Rewde
Um... you're not really being serious here, are you??

Druids aren't really supposed to take damage. Which isn't to say they don't, but if they are grouped and the tanks are doing their job, they won't.

[eniamn]

Originally posted by Sanna
eniamn.

1. I cannot ever hardly see what you have responded to; everything you is in one paragraph. Makes it a bit difficult to see what's been said when I'm quick-scanning for information. No need to take so much offense.

2. Sooner or later (probably later) I will be buying the AAs that allow for 280+ wis. Also, I'm a druid, I'm not ever supposed to take damage; the AC offered by a single ring is insignificant.

3. So you're higher in tradeskills. There are plenty of people higher than me in tradeskills. Are we supposed to be comparing for status? And yes, since you asked and I did see that you asked, I did Halas 10 from 202 to 219, almost exclusively. (I believe there was one run of 1.75 stacks of Justice Fruit in there, but the rest was Halas.)

1. sorry i try but write quick at work a lot. sorry.

2. was wondering about mana in the mean time, plus i think the jewellry is great for alts and plan to get some more for mine. wizards can't forage though. lol.

3. no we aren't competing. just suprised. i shouldn't have posted that but was so amazed i didn't think about it. sorry. besides you have been ignoring your homework for a long time now. was a wow i am higher than someone like sanna in something. yay. i really am a tradeskiller. you have been at it far longer than i so it made me feel like i had accomplished something.
have been tradeskilling inbstead of leveling so its nice to see that i have accomplished something compared to a fellow tradeskiller. moonlilly is out of my reach at the moment so i like to compare with the rest of us sub-god tradeskillers. much less depressing than going against moonlilly. lol.

4. i figured you hadn't updated your magelo in a while and had skilled up quite a bit. at least to higher than me. then, i would see that and have a sort of goal. its little goals that keep me going. being equal to sanna would have been one to feel proud of.

[Sanna]

kiztent -
ty for mana compliment, yes my MR is teh unbelievable suck. Self-buffed with a plat wolf neck and a couple of ears and the 15 MR Nadox Coral mask... I think I get 150.

Rewde -
and yes, I do believe I am not supposed to take damage. ^_^ And at any rate, the AC that comes from a single ring is, to me, not worth is, in most part because I can't afford the bag slot to store it, heheheh.

eniamn -
bah, i am totally not ignoring my homework, hehehehhe. I finished the 15 page paper this morning at 3:14 am. /me cries, and then dies. But yeah... I am a Baker at heart, my other skills are... erm... getting there. Slowly. Oh, and you're right, don't trust my Magelo... I need to reconfigure my sig to contain my proper skills again.... come to think of it... when was the last time I updated that thing.... o_0


-- Sanna
excellent at hijackings.... /sigh....