Tradeskill Changes in Today's Patch (6/29/05)

[Draggar]

Modify the "Consider new storage" item, but don't delete it. I personally do not think that increasing the stack sizes on only the DoN armor patterns/molds was enough. If more bank space cannot be added, or bags/boxes with more than 10 slots cannot be created, then I think that they should selectively increase the stack sizes for other items, such as:

-Celestial Essence - used in many different tradeskills, in vast quantities, increasing the stack size to 200 would not be amiss.
-Gems (Blue Diamonds, Diamonds, etc)
-other? spider(ling) silks and threads / swatches, perhaps?

and make Spell scrolls stackable (to 20) if possible, this would make guild bankers VERY happy!

I'll second that, and only on selective items that could reasonably stacked to a larger number.

Pelts should stay at 20 (those take up a lot of room), but gems, silks, bars, etc.. could have higher stack numbers.

Muffin tins and pie tins - perhaps 40 or 50 in a stack?

etc..

[Gynko]

Added a minimum chance to gain a skill up on many of the Dragons of Norrath cultural tradeskill recipes

skilling up with shissar scale wont go faster... did 60 combine yesterday and got only 1 skill up... 7h of farming for 1 skill-up ... i wonder why i want maxed tailoring since there is absolutly nothing to do with it... i couldnt sell a single DoN grandmaster leather armor piece yet since DoN came out. Maybe i should try sell leather armor like 10k


Gynko Byl'oba

300 smithy - 300 Baker - 300 JC - 300 Brewer - 300 Potter - 282 Fletcher - 275 Tailor.

[KyrosKrane]

Guys, any sample size under 500 or so is probably meaningless, and 1000 combines would be better. The RNG still exists and it is still evil. Not to mention that your chance to skill up will vary wildly depending on your wis/int/other stat, your current skill, and your chance to succeed/fail. A sample size of 60 doesn't tell us much of anything other than that you were unlucky.

[Ngreth Thergn]

That would imply that in theory Spells could be made stackable now, right?

yup. Theoretically. It just needs a "flag" change

now remember... this is theoretically they still have to decide to do it and spend the time

(I did not know about this stacking when I made my statement before)

[Phantron]

Some numbers post patch if any are interested:

75 Tae Ew shield combines 264-271
27 Master arms combine 281-283

Stats all 365.

[Tanker]

Well, not quite sure about spells. Obviously, even if they were made stackable, they could only stack with the exact same spell.

Spells aren't your standard clickable, however. As you don't right-click on it to scribe the spell. Heh, don't think I've ever looked at the scribing code (memming, yes, spell-sets were my baby).

And, of course, Ngreth is right. Even if a decision to make more things stackable is made, the designers would still have to allocate a block of time to review which items, change the db, test, etc. DoD is the biggest thing on all our plates for now.

[Twistagain]

Hey, Tanker. I have a quick question for you. Was the decision to require a "Large Stewing Pot" (a NO-TRADE result from a painful, vah shir rogue-only quest) in the recipe for Pan Seared Orange Tuna (the 2nd part of Chef Chowderly's new quest) an intentional one?

[Tanker]

As a coder, I have no idea. I'll point out the question to Absor/Maddoc, who may have an answer for ya.

[AbsorEQ]

That would imply that in theory Spells could be made stackable now, right?

We did add the ability to make charged items stack recently. Spell scrolls aren't really charged item. They are a special case and would have to be dealt with seperately. I don't know more than that about it.

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[AbsorEQ]

Hey, Tanker. I have a quick question for you. Was the decision to require a "Large Stewing Pot" (a NO-TRADE result from a painful, vah shir rogue-only quest) in the recipe for Pan Seared Orange Tuna (the 2nd part of Chef Chowderly's new quest) an intentional one?

I'll fix this. You threw me off for a moment. This isn't really a new quest, it's one that's always been there but nobody could access (new to you, old to me). I'll get a fix in for next update.

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[Twistagain]

Cool. In the meantime, I've already gotten a rogue near the point where he'll have the pot, so I'll go ahead and do it the hard way. Just wanted to check with you to see if it was supposed to be that way.

[Daeguard]

Can we get it confirmed that Palm Leaf and Speckled Pine Fruit can be foraged on Live? Nobody I know of has found it yet.

[Neebat]

yup. Theoretically. It just needs a "flag" change

now remember... this is theoretically they still have to decide to do it and spend the time

(I did not know about this stacking when I made my statement before)

I noticed on Lucy that a large number (all?) of the spells have some kind of change to an unknown field. Think this could be related?

[Neebat]

(memming, yes, spell-sets were my baby).

I love you, Tanker.


** EDIT **
Don't tell my wife. She's not a caster. Wouldn't understand.

[Winenose]

Guys, any sample size under 500 or so is probably meaningless, and 1000 combines would be better. The RNG still exists and it is still evil. Not to mention that your chance to skill up will vary wildly depending on your wis/int/other stat, your current skill, and your chance to succeed/fail.

Doesn't minimum chance to skill up completely ignore all stats and skills and stuff?

I mean, by the sound of it, you should be able to do 50 stacks of Shissar Scale combines that trivial at 292 with a skill of 0 in tailoring and -200 Wis/Int and still gain 50 skillups? That's if the minimum chance to skill up is 5% with master level combines.