"I wish I'd known that sooner!"

[HerpOfHerps]

Here's one that I am currently working on:
1. Get a loose-leaf binder.
2. Get some section dividers, about 15
3. Lebel the sections dividers thusly: Alchemy (only if you run a shaman character), baking, brewing, enchant/Imbue, fishing, fletching, jewellcrafting/maps, poisonmaking (only if you run a rogue character), pottery, smithing, spell research, tailoring, tinkering (only if you run a gnome character), trade supplies.
4. Find some way of downloading, sorting and printing the related pages that works for you. For me, this was generally, going to the quick trivial lists, sorting by trivial, and writing out the recipes. Couple of things wrong with this: a) It's a *lot* of writing; b) the quick trivial lists, remember, list only confirmed tirivials, so you will miss some items this way.

But, hey, I have my notebook, and that means when I want to get at something in-game, and I dont' have access to my tradeskill container, I can look up the bloody recipe in my own book. Or, if the tradeskill container won't give me the recipe, then I can still experiement with it.

Oh, yeah, it's a lot of work, but it saves me a lot of in-game hassle.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Originally posted by splunge
I recommend NEVER under ANY curcumstances EVER to use ANY no-rent bag EVER.

Ever.

Period.

It was a bad idea to put them in game in the first place.

If you cant afford a 25p tailored backpack or a 1.5p Deluxe toolbox, or a FREE Newbie armor quest container, you have bigger problems then not having room for stuff.

No Rent containers have one benefit you haven't addressed:
Availability. Player-spell and clickie-summoned bags are available anywhere. When you're in the middle of hunting/exploring/whatever, No Rent containers provide your only accessable new storage space. Sure, "the middle of no where" is progressively becoming less far away (PoK books, Wayfarer camps, etc), but there are still plenty of times when its impractical to get to an old-world newbie city, hunt pelts&patterns, or find a rare breed of tinkering merchant. Deep in dungeons, or melee in many places, come to mind as easy examples.

I very rarely use no rent containers. But they do serve a purpose, and I'm grateful for my ability to have and use them.

[Trepan]

Originally posted by andyhre
For foragers: Bind your forage hotbutton (or better yet make a social to forage and /autoinventory and then bind that) to a turn key, so that you max out your forage skill and are constantly gathering useful tradeskill items. Nothing like ending a fight and foraging up some rare item for a little post-combat baking.

If you do this, learn to use the 'U' key to open doors/activate port stones.

There's nothing like running for your life and click-click-clicking on the zone out and wondering why nothing's happening... and then seeing that vial of clockwork grease on your pointer just as "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT..." is displayed...

[mewkus]

if you do /autoinventory along with your forage, stuff doesn't stay on your cursor.

[Obina]

-keep the tradeskill vendor location in your "story" Window.

-keep a big supply of cheap items that are a pest to get(e.g. white lead from Kaladim for divine crystaline glaze), but dont go mad with expensive things (20 black sapphires in bank is not good).

-watch your money, but watch your time too. Changing skill and prices means things that were worth doing may not be and vice versa. I now buy premade CE without a thought. I bought all my leather padding. I still farm my own permafrost crystals.

-consider where you want to do a skill up. Some locations are great. Bazaar is very good for some stages of Smithing, but Pok for others. And Sanctus Serus was great for one Brewing thing I was doing.

-the Hollow Shade Moor war is easy to manage, and somehow makes farming wailing substance more fun than it should be. I love it when the owlbears drive out the cats from the main fort. Remember to stop and have fun!

[Draggar]

Check every merchant in PoK, Bazaar, and Shadowhaven for tinkering items, such as

Sensate Reshi Lens (sp?)
Block of porous mineral
Belt of leathery flech

For geerloks, it's much better shelling 4GP to a mechant than 20-50PP to a trader.

I also search the bazaar for items such as gears, sprockekts, etc.., some traders sell them as low as 4PP each (PoI drops).

[euridice]

I skilled my tailoring on ribbons, farming and foraging everywhere in Norrath but more often in Stonebrunt due to proximity with gunthak. I sold them to the merchant in Gunthak without paying attention to the following facts :
1) I could have re-used them to skill later on cultural robes
2)all the hours I spent on forage stuff to make the ribbons that were not usable by my race have been lost (see 1) )

so if u plan to skill on ribbons AND ur race allow you to make robes, don't make ribbons for nothing !

[Mileron]

Originally posted by Draggar
Check every merchant in PoK, Bazaar, and Shadowhaven for tinkering items, such as ...
For geerloks, it's much better shelling 4GP to a mechant than 20-50PP to a trader.

I tend to find Geerloks themselves quite often

Smithing is very rare, but brewing/tailoring/fletching/pottery are rather common, and less than 20pp each.

However, the research and alchemy ones I've found are 500pp plus, if I recall.

[Chenier]

Remember that Rallic Packs and Trophy-summoned NO RENT bags look the same. Be careful when you are clearing out your NO RENT bags before camping not to destroy your Rallic Pack.


*cough* I've never one this *cough* (just glad nothing important was in it!)

[Chenier]

Farming tip if you have a second account: Create a lvl 1 char, load him/her up with handmade backpacks (40pp for a hq hopper hide in the bazaar) or trader satchels (bit more a pain to move them around), bind them in PoK or the Bazaar and take them with you to your farming spot.

When they're full, duel them and kill them for a free port to bind. Because they're under lvl 10, their bags travel with them. If you plan ahead of time, have a few mules parked in your farming area for long, uninterrupted farming.

[splunge]

Originally posted by Chenier
Remember that Rallic Packs and Trophy-summoned NO RENT bags look the same. Be careful when you are clearing out your NO RENT bags before camping not to destroy your Rallic Pack.

Just more reinforcement to my beleif that No-Rent bags and trophies are BAD MOJO!

[Mileron]

Originally posted by Chenier
...Create a lvl 1 char, load him/her up with handmade backpacks (40pp for a hq hopper hide in the bazaar) or trader satchels (bit more a pain to move them around), ...

Or Deluxe Toolboxes, which you can get from two different NPCs in PoK for about 1.3pp each.

[Chenier]

Originally posted by Mileron
Or Deluxe Toolboxes, which you can get from two different NPCs in PoK for about 1.3pp each.

True, but I use handmade backpacks across all my chars inventories and banks, including Chen's. Makes transferring supplies SUPER easy because I can transfer bags, individual stuffs or stacks.

[Mileron]

Originally posted by Chenier
True, but I use handmade backpacks across all my chars inventories and banks, including Chen's. Makes transferring supplies SUPER easy because I can transfer bags, individual stuffs or stacks.

That's why I don't understand why you said 'trader satchels'... since they're no drop

Deluxe toolboxes are giant-sized 10 slots, where HMBP are not giant

[Tuga]

When heavily encumbered without a speed buff or horse/drog you can still move at normal speeds when strafing left/right (ctrl + left/right key). Used to use this all the time when making ore runs and encumbered.