Is Artisan's Seal a path?

[Elfdruidess]

With someone skilling up to 300 smithing with Pure Enchanted Velium Bar (a recipe that cannot be "learned"), does that mean Artisan's Seal offers a skillup path too? Has any 282 fletcher actually tried this? .

Here's the thread to the Pure Enchanted Velium Bar smith:
http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/show...972#post155972

[Qaladar Bragollach]

I assume you mean making a trophy... not the seal itself which is trivial at 16 pottery.

Its not a very good vendor route as you need 4 non-vendor gems and a vial of purified mana per seal.

In fact, at 8 velium bars per plus the vial and gems its probably more expensive than inferno scepters and certainly way more expensive than pure velium bars.

Too expensive for my tastes... I'll wait at 282 fletching till something better comes along hehe.

[Elfdruidess]

Assuming all gems are vendor selling price (i.e. vendor dived and not looted or bazaar bought), cost for each Artisan's Seal is 3440 pp. Artisan's Seal is 100% no fail with raw 216+ JC and raw 216+ pottery.

Jacinth - 157.5 pp
Black Sapphire - 183.5 pp
Diamond - 210 pp
Blue Diamond - 262.5 pp
Velium Bar x 8 - 2100 pp
Vial of Purified Mana - 526.5 pp
(plus cost for block of clay, water flask, high quality firing sheet)

Cost for respective combines for fletching, tailoring, smithing is neglegible. I doubt anyone would need to do this for brewing.

As I have mentioned in the thread quoted above, this may not be a skillup path for long stretches, but to finish off the last few skillpoints (esp for fletching and tailoring), I can see it as a viable choice. By 290+ skill (+ geerlok), Artisan's Seal should be a "near trivial" item instead of the approx 50% success rate item it used to be at 250 skill which is not efficient for skilling up.

But then, of course it all depends if the recipes are skillupable.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Ouch... even if you get 20 combines per skillup thats 68k per point... I spent about that raising fletching from 250 to 282.

Smithing has not 1 but 2 cheaper vendor routes so I don't see that happening. Maybe for tailoring or the real diehard non-wood elf fletchers that have a million+ pp to blow.

[mithridate]

I don't think I would want to label it as a path, since my definition of "path" in the EQ-tradeskills context impiles viability. Post-282 non-elf fletching can be achieved via elemental bows, for example, but I doubt the majority of tradeskillers think of that as a "path."