Wood Elf for the Win!

[thrashette]

Since this hasn't died yet

So, back to the original question.

How is 18 farmed fletching points harder than 48 farmed tailoring points?

I still don't see it.

[Bamur]

Dwarf here and I've been 300 in everything but tailoring/fletching for close to 6 months I think (not sure on dates). Those are the tricksy ones though, tricksy and false

Around a year for me at 300 in all but fletching/tailoring

[Bobaten]

Remember, the average number of combines/skill up increases the closer you get to 300. All things being equal, it takes roughly the same number of combines to go from 252-282 as it does from 282-300. However, all things are not equal. Tailoring is a difficulty 2 tradeskill, while fletching is a difficulty 4 tradeskill. This means you need twice as much int/wis(or dex) to reach max success on pass one of the skill up formula. That is 215 int/wis gives you 100% on pass one for a successful combine with tailoring, but 400 int/wis/dex is required for the same chance of a skill up with fletching. To further exacerbate the difference, fletchers are using tradeskill trophies to reach 300 skill, and and KyrosKrane recently discovered, they are success capped at about 75%. Since it takes 800 int/wis/dex (unobtainable) to hit max success on the pass one check for a failure, even a fletcher with max stats has to do 15% more combines than a tailor with max stats. For those with less than max stats the additional combines go up dramatically. A tailor with 315 int/wis will need to do roughly 1% more combines than a tailor with 415 int/wis (approximately 6 more combines from 282-300). A fletcher with 300 int/wis/dex will need to do 33% more combines than a fletcher with 400 int/wis/dex. Combined with the lower success rate, they would need to do 50% more combines to get from 282-300 than a tailor with the same stats. The final nail in the fletcher's coffin is that the tailor has the option of doing master's and grandmaster's DoN armor combines for a greater skill up rate (2-3 times the skill up rate for masters, and up to 5 times the skill up rate on GM armor).

[Elfdruidess]

Bobaten always has a way of giving the most comprehensive, concise, logical and structured summaries of EQ mathematics in plain English. I love reading these posts .

[Xulan]

Also Bobaten, thank you for helping me realize that I'm going to make sure I have 400 dex before I touch another fletching combine that can give me a skill-up.

[KyrosKrane]

I'm working on something that should help analyze this. Give me a few days to fiddle with it.

Anyone know a good freeware PHP package for creating graphs? =)

[Prexis]

I'm the half elf on the list and can verify that I'm a Karana follower. I actually capped fletching the day they fixed the karana fletching kits, but somehow forgot to fix the wood elf kits last march.