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  • Halfling Hodgepodge Extreme for November

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    Will the Spell Research skill get a trophy, now that it's a "real" tradeskill?

    One of the things that we've been discussing lately has been the possibility of extending the current line of trophies to be tiered, instead of just one trophy at 250 skill. The benefits of this would allow us to upgrade the trophies if / when we increase the tradeskill caps again, as well as reward those who have attained the higher skills with more stats and bigger modifiers. This extension would also include adding trophies for the skills that do not currently have any.

    Seriously though for tradeskilling many classes are not able to forage which means you either make an alt or pay massive bazaar prices. Why can’t there be more recipies that contain vendor drop items at the higher skill levels?

    Foraging is a beneficial skill that gives us a means of creating specific recipes aimed at a smaller section of the tradeskill community, however... It also should not be the gating factor for gaining skill points in any one specific tradeskill.

    In many cases, the items that can be obtained via foraging are also able to be obtained via other means. This is a trend we plan on continuing as we move forward with as we introduce more recipes into the game. In the situations where a skill-up recipe does use foraged items, we'll make sure there's an equivalent recipe that uses a dropped counterpart.

    Why don't Troll Blacksmithing have the ability to make some old world cultural armor like the crimson darkscale or the fulvous darksplint or the blackened darkscale armor which are wearable by Trolls but can only be made by Ogres.

    This racial-gap in the 'old cultural' was one of the main concerns and causes of introducing the new cultural armor with Dragons of Norrath. We saw a number of gaps with the old cultural, as well as a need for upgrading the armor to something that more accurately reflected the content that players currently encounter in EverQuest. The new cultural fills in these gaps very well, so we currently have no plans to add any 'old cultural' recipes to the races that do not currently have it.

    Is fletching going to be fixed for non karana followers and/or foragers?

    We have several ideas on how to extend fletching beyond its current usefulness and limitations -- This includes adding additional means to obtain 300 skill for everyone, as well as adjusting the recipes which make it far too easy for certain races and / or classes to raise their skill. Without delving too deeply into the details, expect some changes in the near future (January / February timeframe).

    Can we get some details on the plans to address the tradeskill issues with regards to skill up paths? Specifically, tailoring for non-karana worshipers and fletching for non-wood elfs or non-karana worshipers have nearly impossible skill up paths to 300.

    This, much like the question asked above, is also on the board to be addressed by adding additional recipes as well as adjusting any of those recipes which are far too easy for certain races to gain skill with.





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    Nolrog

    Just wanted to take your post opportunity to say what a treasure to are to the eq tradeskill community and to me personally. I see the Large Corathus Fungus is becommiing available in bazaar on The Trlibunal and the changes you have discussed and made are beneficial to the game and therefore the players. Great Job! Keep it up.

    Cheremoya, Wood Elf Ranger, The Tribunal
    Master Artisan

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    • #3
      Does karana worshippers have an easy way to 300 tailoring? Any race that can use Shissar Scales don't have a hard time getting to 300 tailoring from my personal experience.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Cheremoya
        Nolrog

        Just wanted to take your post opportunity to say what a treasure to are to the eq tradeskill community and to me personally. I see the Large Corathus Fungus is becommiing available in bazaar on The Trlibunal and the changes you have discussed and made are beneficial to the game and therefore the players. Great Job! Keep it up.

        Cheremoya, Wood Elf Ranger, The Tribunal
        Master Artisan
        That's very kind of you to say. However, I really only deserve a little credit. Denmom (and Ngreth) really deserves the lion share of the credit (get it?). She works far harder than I do to ensure issues get resolved.




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        • #5
          Some more tid bits I found:

          With respect to stack size, Maddoc wrote

          This is something that's on our list of things to review and is partially the reason we got the stackability changes made to begin with.

          Making this adjustment for ammo was a relatively easy and painless change. Items that are used as source-items in tradeskills are not as straight forward, so we'll need to look at them on an item by item (and likely on a skill by skill) basis. It's not an overly difficult thing to do, it just takes a little time.
          With respect to Niltram Aznok, Maddoc wrote

          This is something that was mentioned at the last Fan Faire and had somehow slipped my mind. Nitram will now be a more mobile, making some supply trips to various junk piles closer to the zone-in area, which will make him a lot more accessible than he is currently. This should be pushed out to all live servers in the next scheduled update.




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          • #6
            I just hope that the vision to "extend fletching beyond its current usefulness " means more than just nerfing the path to 300 for the few classes/races that have a reasonable shot at getting there and adding yet another horribly rare meaningless combine to make up for it. The last worthwhile fletching recipes were back in PoP...that was a long time ago!

            I was excited about the darkhollow burin bundle when it was discovered until I realized that as a non-raider I'll never see a stone for the type 12 augs. Right now the only reason to hit 300 fletching is to get the 2100 bragging rights.

            I'd love to see some fletched augs or whittled charms or something along those lines to be constructive. And Hurray for 100 stack items!!!

            That being said I'd also like to toss my hat in with thanks to the devs that read this rambling and the community as a whole for all the work. Keep it up!
            Fesser Indignation
            Hazmat Indignation
            Yirran Indignation
            Tinkerbot
            Tallon Zek then Morden Rasp now Stromm

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            • #7
              ....if / when we increase the tradeskill caps again....
              /weeps
              Ysall - EMarr - lvl 70 Ench
              2400+54 Club (7 x Core Tradeskills + Research)
              Max Tradeskills AA + Max Salvage - When I combine something, it stays combined, except when it doesn't.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Nolrog
                With respect to Niltram Aznok, Maddoc wrote

                This is something that was mentioned at the last Fan Faire and had somehow slipped my mind. Nitram will now be a more mobile, making some supply trips to various junk piles closer to the zone-in area, which will make him a lot more accessible than he is currently. This should be pushed out to all live servers in the next scheduled update.
                I know Niltram is going to be dissappointed, being forced to leave his lab and all. How is he going to cook up anymore inventions being forced to roam the land. He may ended up becoming solemn from the fact that his robots have taken on a life of trying to kill the people coming to visit him.
                Last edited by Rawckett; 12-02-2005, 04:29 PM.
                Rawckett Launcher
                79 Gnome Wizard of Sol Ro / Bristlebane
                300 Tinkerer; 287 Jeweler; 258 Brewer; 240 Blacksmith; 237 Fletcher; 208 Potter; 204 Baker; 200 Fisherman; 193 Researcher; 183 Tailor

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Ysall
                  /weeps


                  Couldnt have said it better myself, 300 is enough, there should be some recipes that never trivial.

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