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**Chenier** · 02-26-2003, 04:47 PM

I would suggest starting on either tailoring or blacksmithing since they are the hardest, require the most farming and most expensive to get up.

You may decide you don't want to 1750 after working on them for a while...

**Unidin** · 02-26-2003, 04:47 PM

totally off topic but....I'd ask around to other wizards if you still want to get manaburn. Most wizzies find it useless these days.

**Yalum** · 02-26-2003, 04:59 PM

This is a dead horse, but using the most direct route to 250 (PotC gifts, mostly):

Pottery - 125k - 5 days
Baking - Baking costs money? - 5 days
Jewelcraft - 10k - 1 day
Fletching - 200k - 2 days
Tailoring - 400k - 2 weeks
Smithing - 400k - 2 weeks

You will need to twink and powerlevel an emerald imbuer if you don't already have one.

**Cendorly** · 02-26-2003, 05:00 PM

Re: Going to 250 in all the trades (?)

Originally posted by Gnastassja

"In what order would you rate the remaining tradeskills for degree of difficulty on skill-ups?"
"In what order would you rate the remaining tradeskills for cost +/- availability of supplies?" (lowest to highest)

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0. Brewing @ 2 days (about 8 hours) + 4k = 250
1. Pottery
2. Baking
3. Jewelcraft
4. Fletching
5. Tailoring
6. Smithing
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Everything is on a scale of 1 to 6 with 6 being highest.

Pottery - can't say too much about this since I GM'd it before they changed skillup rates. However, from what I heard from others working on pottery, I would have to say

Skillups=4
Availability/cost of components= 5.
Pottery components are pretty easy to get, you can make star ruby steins to 250, all vendor bought, not that expensive (as compared to Sickles or Robes for smithing/tailoring).

Baking Baking is among the easier skills to work to 250. You can do Halas Meat Pies, griffon/anaconda melts or MTP's. Skillups seem to come pretty quickly. The only unfortunate thing is to get to 250 in baking, you have to farm/forage for most of the stuff, unless you do MTP's, which have 90% vendor bought components but are a pain to make. Therefore I would rate Baking as:

Skillups = 5
Availability/cost of components=4

Jewelcraft I haven't gotten this one to 250 yet, but from what I remember getting it to 200 and from what I hear, it's one of the easier skills, after brewing. All the components for combines can be vendor bought, and sold back at a "small" loss or break even. So, my rating of JC is:

Skillups = 6
Availability/cost of components=6

Fletching My husband worked on Fletching to 230 so far, and I know he's had a real hard time. While everything can be vendor bought, making the combines easy, the skillups are few and far between, and VERY expensive. Therefore:

Skillups = 3
Availability/cost of components = 2

TailoringTailoring has always been the toughest tradeskill in the game, sans Smithing. Not much to say about it except LOTS of farming and lots of painful combines before skillups. Even if you do robes, it's still costly and a ton of subcombines, though the components are easier to get. So, I rate Tailoring as:

Skillups = 1
Availability/cost of components = 3

Smithing I just finished getting my smithign to 250, and it was NOT easy. I worked Shadowscream 90% of the way from 188-250 with only a few sickles thrown in here and there for fun and games. Getting the components for Shadowscream is a HUGE pain and very time consuming. If you have the ability to do cultural, depending on your race, components for that could be tough too (if you need BD's, essence of sunlight, etc.), as well as Acrylica given the rarity of windstones. My rating for Smithing:

Skillups = 2
Availability/cost of components =1

The best advice I could give in your ultimate goal to reach 250 in all tradeskills, is go at it slow, and steady, and work on a more then one at a time - like one easy one and one tough one. Otherwise, you'll hit burnout and fustrations. Remember, tradeskills are FUN! Not painful.

Although, I"m sure Khoren or our other 1750 club members can give better advice there then I can, since I"m only halfway to the 1750 club.

Cend

**Gnastassja** · 02-26-2003, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by Chenier

You may decide you don't want to 1750 after working on them [smithing/tailoring] for a while...

Yes, I definitely hear that and believe me, I oftentimes wax n' wane over doing tradeskills until I remember why I started them to begin with.. what was that again? Oh yeh.. an increasingly growing boredom and the nearing-demise of EQ enjoyment. So many characters I've played now to the high-end game (an enchanter, cleric, druid, shaman, and now a wizard on the way), tolerated the guild politics, learned to ignore the doods and griefers, reminisced in the friendships made and lost (as they leave the game), the obsessive times and the lack-of-interest times.. thus, being the goal-oriented freak that I am I made a plan (haha):

Plan A to revival.. move to the RP (preferred) server and learn the ways of RP
��(only most of the folks here far from RP I discovered, so that was a bust).
Plan B to revival since A was a bust.. TRADESKILLS! to 1750-- now there's something I've not yet done.
Plan C.. ewwww, let's not go there. Plan B. just might work yet! and besides, I'm runnin' outta ideas. :P

Originally posted by Unidin

totally off topic but....I'd ask around to other wizards if you still want to get manaburn. Most wizzies find it useless these days.

Thanks Unidin! This is good to know since I was dreading that AA already.

Originally posted by Cendorly

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Everything is on a scale of 1 to 6 with 6 being highest.

WOW Cendorly! That is an incredible write-up!!

Thanks everyone for your input and in advance for any more to come.

**Chenier** · 02-26-2003, 06:08 PM

Looking at your current skill levels, I would recommend working on smithing next with pottery as your "fun" skill (at least to 200 and then if you get enough aa's, push pottery over 200). You'll finish pottery before you finish smithing, but if you go the screaming steel way, you should be able to afford both at the same time (and being a wizard for AE'ing shadows is a cinch).

Then I would do tailoring and jewelry. You can use jewelry to make your own chains (jewelry will take you, oh, a night or two of clicking - tailoring, oh, a year or two - just kidding!). But tailoring is a major click fest.

Then if your wrist hasn't divorced itself from your arm, you can finish fletching or whatever else you have left.

**Delfontes** · 02-26-2003, 06:26 PM

Grats on 250!

**Chenier** · 02-26-2003, 06:39 PM

You're assuming mino brews. If he has/had money, he could have done champagne (assuming all enchanting, etc. is done beforehand).

**Delfontes** · 02-26-2003, 07:06 PM

So basically you're saying he had a few thousand gold enchanted, bought a few thousand opals, and had a 200 skill jeweler combine them all for 4k?

By the price he proports to have spent, he spent 1k to get to 248, and 3k to finish up on champagne... just a guess, but then again my whole post was just an educated guess.

Sorry, I'll back off a bit and pretend to think he is just superhuman fast clicking... and has GMed brewing before, so knows a good path to different merchants to quickly buy all the ingredients every time he ran out.

**Hethral** · 02-26-2003, 07:58 PM

8-10 hours seems about right for brewing 0-250 provided that you're at 255 in int or wisdom and you can dump all your inventory in the bank and can have multiple bags of components with multiple bags of casks at the same time.

**Chenier** · 02-26-2003, 08:10 PM

Or....he's just underestimating his time a little...who cares? Get over it.

**Gnastassja** · 02-27-2003, 02:09 AM

<P ALIGN=justify>Ahhh well, not everyone likes parades... no doubt you will always come across people who just gotta do their rain-dance.