Wanting advice on which trade skill to pursue

[nuther]

Hi.

I am a long time player and I just rolled up a half elf Karana ranger on the new(ish) server Morden Rasp. I'm just a casual player, a few hours a night most nights. I am up to level 13 and I have almost 500pp in the bank. Instead of just leveling this toon and buying gear upgrades for the next 50 levels, I'd like to take a diferrent approach.

What I would like to know is if there is a trade skill that I could learn for that amount of money that would return any kind of profit on items to sell in the bazaar.

I have worked fletching up to 70 but I dont think there is much of a market in bows or arrows.

How far can I get with 500pp in the various skills and are there any items worth making at that level. Or should I bank more money first. Thanks.

[Boleslav]

Brewing looks like what you are looking for. You could get well over 200 in brewing with 500pp, maybe all the way to 248. (Minotaur Heros Brew has a trivial of 248 and doesn't cost much per combine) Then you could make some of the stat drinks and sell them in the bazaar.

The profit margin isn't large, but it's doable for someone without deep pockets.

Good luck to you!

Boleslav Forgehammer
Paladin of Brell in his 65th Campaign
E'ci - Sacred Destiny

[Eoghnved]

As a ranger with both track and forage, you could try baking also. The hardest part for Misty Thicket Picnics were the foraged vegetables and fruit, plus the brownie parts to make the winter chocolate. Rangers can pick up all of them without paying anything at all. The going rate on my server was 15 plat each in the bazaar, and it wasn't unusual for me to sell out a stock of 600 or more in a single afternoon.

[fesc_necrado]

Another option is tailoring for leather padding. It has a low triv (~15) and is a consumable in tradeskills like smithing.

The components are easy to farm at low levels (I'd go the shadeling silk/rockhopper hide route).

Leather padding paid for a good percentage of my tradeskills, tho I'd add sales have dropped off recently as ppl focus on the new OoW content.

g'luck!

[NerissaGoldenrose]

If you do go brewing, start with Heady Kiolas -- I've found that they tend to sell well to folks who are trying to work on tailoring, but don't want to take the time to make up a bunch of kiolas themselves. Trivial level is pretty low, all vendor-supplied materials, and you can make upwards of 100% profit while still keeping your prices on the low side.

** Disclaimer: I did this before the new UI, when actually making the things was much more repetitive and annoying than it is now. You may not be able to make quite as much money off of them now as you could then, as more people may be willing to make their own now, but it should still be profitable.

[Akishka]

Leather padding and heady kiolas are excellent ideas Actually, on my server, since the new UI came out, its pretty well impossible to find any amount of heady kiolas. The few that are out are listed for 10 pp +. I have sold heady kiolas both before and after the new UI and while it sells slower now, you can usually get a little more per item. Since they are good for skill ups, might as well make those and throw them on the trader instead of just selling fish wine back to the NPC.

Something that you might want to experiment with are the tailoring dyes for skill ups in brewing. Now, I've never tried it myself but in theory, you could also make those for profit + skill ups. Seems like they all trivial out around 127 and with a low level ranger you could be foraging and killing in zones that still give you experience while getting the stuff you need for the dyes. Its not the easiest or the best bang for your buck but I could see having a lot of fun with those during casual play

Leather padding's work is in the farming so the UI doesn't change anything about them.

[Sanna]

Not that it's something that needs skill in a tradeskill, but if you're looking to make a little plat to fund the rest of your skilling, sell Celestial Essences. They're 1.5p to make, but since they're such a pita combine, you can sometimes get 5-10p per.


If you're low on money, buff your wis the best you can and start brewing. Also, make a little dwarf alt and use shared bank to give him/her a couple deluxe toolboxes, camp it out in Greybloom farms in N Kala, and every time you log in to play your main, log into the dwarf first and pick fungus (for Kaladim Constitutionals). I did this lazilly for a while, and when I got to 248 brewing, I just barely had enough fungii to finish to 250. Good timing : p.

Leather padding is generally a good idea as well: go down to the pit in Shar Vahl and kill all the larvae in the area just to the east of the south bridge -- as a meleeing chanter, I could generally kill a worm in one hit, and about 3/4 of the time the worm had at /least/ one silk, sometimes four. Then go to Marus Seru (I rather remembering being in my 20s while xping here, so if you're, what'd you say, 15? You may want to xp a bit more, but then you'll be able to xp on the hoppers) and kill the hoppers; they drop LQ rockhopper hides that you use with the silk to make padding, and greyhopper hides that you can either use to skill up tailoring or sell for plat.

-- Sanna
earned her first 1k on a new server by making CEs... a bit slow sometimes but eventually adds up.

[Aalar]

All very good ideas.

You can study various high level combines in a number of tradeskills and make the sub-combines and sell them for a reasonable profit. In many instances people will pay to get the sub-combines that saves them time making the final combine. I know I do.

Aalar

[NerissaGoldenrose]

All very good ideas.

You can study various high level combines in a number of tradeskills and make the sub-combines and sell them for a reasonable profit. In many instances people will pay to get the sub-combines that saves them time making the final combine. I know I do.

Aalar

Fileted Bear / Lion / Wolf / Mammoth come to mind for baking... and when you skill gets higher, Fileted (Bear / Lion / Wolf / Mammoth) in Cream Sauce too. Halas 10-lb. Meat Pies are a pain for subcombines, even with the new UI.

Bear & Lion meats can be bought from vendors, yield 1 filet per meat. Wolf meat is relatively easy to get with some vendor diving or low-level farming (EC is a good place for it) and yields 10 filets per meat. Mammoth meat is a bit more problematic, as I haven't seen it on a vendor since before I started making meat pies (folks who kill mammoths lately generally are doing it for the meat to start with, either to use or sell) and they would be a bit tough for you to farm effectively right now, although if you do happen on some meat, they also yield 10 filets per meat, although I'm not sure if you could make more money off filets or just selling the meat.

[Zephaus]

Don't do pottery. We've not gotten a decent recipe since PoP.