Where Do I Find Min. Lvl for Combines?

[Tejaye]

I see lists of when combines for various tradeskills, such as baking and brewing , become Trivial................but how do I find out the minimum level to do these combines?
If a combine is Trivial at skill lvl 100......does this mean at skill lvl 50 I could start doing the combine?
Should you start trying your combine at 10 or 20 skill levels under Trivial?
Is there a general system used?

[Bradorsomething]

Min Lvl

I stumbled onto a 'Can Learn' recipe which trivials at 142 when I was Lvl 30-something, if that helps. You just have a very slim chance of achieving it.

I was trashing unneeded supplies and it happened about... um, maybe 1:75 or so.

[Kytelae]

You can try any recipe no matter what your level, I believe, except for some of the POP recipes that are skill limited. It's just very wasteful of your components to try things way past your skill level, since your chances of making the item are virtully nil.

[Myrron]

Some of the PoP recipes require a raw or modified skill of 220. Otherwise for the most part, if you want to risk losing your ingredients when your skill is 30, that's up to you.

--Myrron

[Immzen]

Your Level of your character doesnt matter in most tradeskills(Alchy it does). So at Level 1 you can be a grandmaster Smith or Tailor if you choice to. I do believe you shouldnt go after skills on a character until you know you want to play that class. As for when you should do a combine. I say if you can find a combine that is withing 20 of your skill level you are doing good. Until you get into some higher level skills your trival should be close.

[iasmin]

Originally posted by Immzen
I do believe you shouldnt go after skills on a character until you know you want to play that class.

Actually, my first and only Grandmastery is in baking on a level 1 high elf cleric. I did this for two major reasons:

(1) I wanted to try and simulate a tradeskilling toon that only did tradeskilling, ala EQ2 and this was the only way I could think of doing it.

(2) I wanted a Baker. Not a High Elf Cleric Baker. Just a Baker.

The only reason I chose the high elf cleric was minor:

(3) The high elf cleric looks cool in minimal cost garb and could serve as my bazaar mule too without taking up the space of a barbarian shaman (my main).

I have a trader's satchel on my main, certainly. And on occasion I park her in the bazaar and get her absolutely soused in hero brew. But the baker is a level 1 toon, plain and simple. And given the stuff she has on her right now I doubt she'd be able to stagger out of the bazaar under her own power.