Why Bother with a GM Trophy?

[Kaz]

It seems to me that, since a GM trophy has the same skill mod as a geerlok, there's no practical reason to get one, especially if (as is always my case) you have your important stat maxed out, so that the stat mods are irrelevent and therefore so is the ability to switch hands.

Is there any other reason, aside from my heartfelt desire to feel I'm a big deal, and the chance to mention it when advertising my trade for hire in Bazaar, to risk 5+k buying an artisan's seal and trying to make one?

If skill mods stacked, THAT would make it worthwhile.

[Scuzz Zilla]

Oh oh well you get a 100% WR bag and unlimited NORENT 100% WR bags
And people who do need the stats like em. My Trophy helps me by filling in 2 spots on my tradeskills suit.

but yea. if you already got trophy for the bag. and dont need the "Geerlok with stats' then yea. I suppose you dont need one

[Bauhb]

pride, bragging rights, etc.

[Maisie]

Something to fill up the trophy room in my wee lil home in Rivervale..

[Flatley]

Not to mention the +50 to Charisma for buying selling, holding agro. charming, stuff like that. Not primary stats, but secondary things are cool too. With this and the festive doll, my level 40 Chanter is very happy.

[Sylphan]

Some people need the trophy to help raise stats.
Some people need the permanent 100% wr bag.
Some people need the temporary bag (but I use a collapsible fletching kit as my temporary, it's not norent).
Some people get them for the unique graphics (as a caster, it's the only way I can hold a mace, or dual-wield weapons).

But ultimately, the reason I finished my trophies was because they fit in other slots. With three trophies I can add 5% to three different skills all at the same time. I often run back and forth between forge, loom, and wheel while working on a complicated recipe.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Geerlok's are primary slot only... a significant disadvantage.

[tnexus]

Back in the day the stats were pretty good, and you got a 100% WR bag. Now I agree, it's rather a subpar item that no one would really use for a longterm basis, but it is/was a bragging right.

[Kaz]

OK, the WR bag isn't a reason, 'cause you can buy one cheaper.

The stats aren't a reason, because you can get something comparable, cheaper.

Primary only isn't a real problem, because you only wear it when tradeskilling, not hunting dragons.

So I guess it really does boil down to status.

I'm gonna get one anyway, just wanted to know if there was any practical reason.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

If you have to give up int/wis to put it in your primary hand, it IS a problem. You can stick a trophy in ammo slot where you cannot get stats anyway but you still get the benefits of the skill mod.

[Neebat]

Is there any other reason, aside from my heartfelt desire to feel I'm a big deal, and the chance to mention it when advertising my trade for hire in Bazaar, to risk 5+k buying an artisan's seal and trying to make one?

There is no required level for making a trophy. With Mastery AA's at level 3, you have a 50/50 chance of making a trophy with 0 skill. Using the trophy to advertise only encourages scammers to misrepresent themselves using a gimped trophy. I recommend using the tradeskill title to advertise your tradeskill stature instead.

[Clamford]

OK, the WR bag isn't a reason, 'cause you can buy one cheaper.
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Primary only isn't a real problem, because you only wear it when tradeskilling, not hunting dragons.

I think these are actually the two biggest reasons why I love my trophies, the logic of which can be overlooked.

It isn't that you can make one WR bag, it's that you can summon (and destroy, as needed) infinite bags. Say you want to be able to fill all 8 inventory slots with WR bags to tradeskill, but want to then free up 4 to go play later? Helps if you can summon and destroy only when you need the bag. Also handy when you volunteer to ML in groups but run out of space.

I find the biggest issue with primary only isn't losing stats so much as it is the convience you get when you can have 4 trophies equipped at once. If you're doing combines that use multiple tradeskills, trophies avoid the (minor) hassle of remembering to equip the correct geerlok and keeping space in your inventory for the geerloks. I tend to tradeskill with all my inventroy slots filled with supplies, so having all my geerloks equipped makes things simpler.

I was worried about having 7 nodrop trophies rather than 7 droppable geerloks cluttering up my bank, but I am much happier having the trophies than I might have guessed. That, and it's fun to have all the trophies

[Verdandi]

The free, unlimited bags is a big bonus for me. My bank space usually overfloweth, but I keep two main inventory slots open most of the time. One holds my sow boots, the other is for temporary or unexpected containers (collapsed/folded tradeskill containers, quest combines, etc). It happens often enough that I need additional space just for that play session, so I just summon a couple off whatever trophy I'm lugging around at the time for the purpose. They were Tunare-sent while skilling up on sickles, and are also handy when farming large quantities of anything. They've allowed me to pounce on stashes of precious GoD drops that I found on vendors when I was already pretty full at the moment. Having to go buy toolboxes is inconvenient and doesn't prevent encumbrance.

That's my only big practical reason. But I'd get them anyway, because they represent my hard work, pleasure, and knowledge acquired over the years. That will always be meaningful to me no matter what other, better items may pop up.

[Kaz]

There is no required level for making a trophy. With Mastery AA's at level 3, you have a 50/50 chance of making a trophy with 0 skill. Using the trophy to advertise only encourages scammers to misrepresent themselves using a gimped trophy. I recommend using the tradeskill title to advertise your tradeskill stature instead.

I'm gonna use both, if I ever succeed in the effing combine.

I'm not going to worry about second-guessing scammers. That's a hopeless fight to pick.

I still say it's too dangerous to use no rent bags...I know a lot of people who used them until the one time they forgot and logged with something valuable in one.

The range mod thing is the first really practical idea I've heard, though I can't leave it there because of my giant black drum.

And I'm only level 57, only play an hour or two per day (and only play every few days, sometimes). I have four regular AAs, not counting the ones I spent on the ninth spell slot, so it'll be a LONG time before I have the recovery AAs, or anything similar, so I'm in a big hurting with the failed combines (two, so far) for the trophy. At least the new cap raises my 252 skill when I put hold the geerlok.

[Clamford]

I still say it's too dangerous to use no rent bags...I know a lot of people who used them until the one time they forgot and logged with something valuable in one.

Just for your information, this concern has been fixed. If you log out with norent containers with items in them, you no longer lose the norent container. Instead, it becomes a Huge Disenchanted Backpack, or smaller sized disenchanted bag depending on the number of slots. This backpack weighs 25.5 each, but you won't lose any items to norent containers poofing.