So which tradeskill is the easiest?

[Whipcream]

Lets say I want to raise a tradeskill to level 300, and I don't care which tradeskill it is. Which of them would be the easiest to do that with?

[tomojo]

Plain & Simple - Brewing....

[KyrosKrane]

Um, actually, I'd say baking. Brewing requires a huge investment in either time (for Kaladim Constitutionals) or money (for Brut Champagne). Baking, on the other hand, has some very easy recipes that don't need many drops. There's a lot more flexibility in baking at the high end, though admittedly, the recipes are more complicated.

[tomojo]

Realy????

OK, its simple enough to get baking to 255, but after that, there is always at least 1 ingredient that make any run of combines very expensive or extremely slow to farm.

The only truly 'EASY' recipe in the post 255 range that doesn't take insanely expensive ingredients from drops/forages in high level zones is the Spicy Tuna Sunrise Steak that uses the 4 lb Saltwater Tuna, and the Fishing rate on that is so insanely low that it would take forver to get enough to be able to take it to its 295 skill limit. Tons of tuna, but only 4-5 of the 4 lb. ones in a trip with 1000 bait is ridiculous. And no mater what your skill, you can't trim down a larger one to the 4 pounder which is also silly.

I've priced components for post 255 baking, and for the few recipes where you could even buy components, if the combined cost of a combine was less than 200 pp, i was surprised. The typical cost / combine of brewing to 295 with buying the fish in Bazaar was no more than around 20-30 pp / combine. Anf fishing for the Corathus fished components wasn't bad since there is a good fish rate/bait for acquiring components, and all other components of the combines are vendor bought and cheap.

Of course, if you have enough plat, any tradeskill is pretty much equally easy.

[Bobaten]

Even brut champagne is under 30pp per combine (if you have a way of enchanting your gold at no cost).

[KyrosKrane]

Misty Thicket Picnics, though a pain due to subcombines, are dirt cheap. The only component you need to farm is the Brownie Parts, and each one gives you enough components for 100 attempts.

PoP baking is stupid-easy if you can get the parts, and can take you at least to 295 on easily-farmable bits.

In almost all cases, stuff made with baking will sell for a profit (PoP baking really does sell, and Misty Picnics are a money-making staple for bakers). For brewing, KC's will sell profitably, but Brut Champange is a pure plat sink.

[Xulan]

I'd say baking for the least amount of money, using the MTP method.

I'd say brewing for sheer ease of combines & item availability (using the champaign method). Then again, the constitutional method would be cheap I imagine, but I never did that route. Availability of the shrooms can be a problem if competiting with others.

[Angelsyn]

At least with Baking you have the "Holy Grail" of Bristlebane's Party Platter to look forward too.

You might have to buy most of the components in the Bazaar, but it's a great stat food... and the whole reason I chose Baking for my Paladin.

[Aldier]

Given enough platinum, Jewelrycraft is very easy to max.

Just sit at the merchants and work through the list. At 282, you would have to switch to Gem Studded Chains which would make it much more expensive, but it is really simple to do.

Brewing to 248 is very easy as well, but after that it gets tougher (picking up shrooms) or paying out the wazoo for Brut Champagne.

Baking can take to 252 on GoD stuff simply from fishing a boatload of crab/tuna then after that the MTPs are not as bad as some make them out to. Once you learn the layout of Shadowhaven (and work faction with those merchants) it takes me about 30min to do a set of 100 combines and store the successes away.

[Mystic Lioness]

My votes, for the top 3 easiest:

Brewing
Baking
Jewelcraft

[Ysall]

If I were dumped in PoK, with unlimited funds, and a starting skill of one in all the tradeskills, then without doubt the fastest tradeskill to max would be those given above, Brewing, JC, then baking. Baking is easy enough if you spend a couple of hours pharming brownies for parts needed for the MTP cake.

[Silverfish]

Special Case

Ysall wrote:

"If I were dumped in PoK, with unlimited funds, and a starting skill of one in all the tradeskills, then without doubt the fastest tradeskill to max would be those given above, Brewing, JC, then baking."

Ready to cry? In your example, assuming that you're truly unlimited for funds, the fastest to max out would be smithing. Smithing, you say? Am I mad? Not at all. Smithing can be maxed out faster than anything else, given unlimited funds. You go to the Queen of Thorns, find Joran Mullven, and start working Inferno Scepters. They'll take you from 1 to 300 with a four item combine, all bought off of one vendor. No farming, no subcombines, and you don't even have to leave the zone. Sure, it's more than 1000 plat per combine, but with truly unlimited funds there's simply nothing faster.

Silverfish

[KyrosKrane]

Um. While you could theoretically do that, you'll have an abysmal skillup rate on Inferno Scepters until you hit 200 or so, simply because you'll fail the whole time. I'd do banded armor till it trivials out (no subcombines, all items from one vendor (edit: except the water flasks) by the forge in PoK), then some sort of bridge recipe till low 200's (I can't think of anything off hand that doesn't require farming, but velium is plentiful enough these days that you can probably find enough in the baz to do Enchanted Velium Bits to 222). After that, the Scepter becomes a lot more viable, since you'll succeed more frequently, helping skillups.

Edit: I always forget the water...

Edit 2: Also, you may be able to find enough leather padding in the bazaar to justify doing Fine Plate to 186 (or 188, I forget). It's also entirely store-bought other than LP, and pretty easy to do in the bazaar.

[Rhumba]

Alchemy is super easy to max also. You should be able to recover every pp you invest by the time you get to 300.

I'd certainly put Alchemy above Baking, Brewing and JC to max. And this was before it was made even cheaper and easier to max.

Just takes some pp to get going to you can buy parts in the bazaar.

[Bobaten]

Even with the skill up rate cut in half because of failures, you would still have as many skill ups as jewelcraft because smithing is only a difficulty 2 skill. And of course if you can get to 400 str (not hard for a level 70 with shaman buffs) you don't even get a penalty for failing.
Of course, there is no reason to use a 2600pp combine when a much cheaper one will serve the same purpose (unless you wanted some sort of insane bragging rights).