So which tradeskill is the easiest?

[Bobaten]

Yes, but in the 11th post 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.

Silverfish then countered that in the next post (even quoting what he was countering) with the inferno scepter example. After that of course, we continued to derail the original post to the point that I have now theoretically hired other players to be my personal army of tradeskill mules.

[tomojo]

OK, lets look at this from a different angle,

PP for combines is not an object.

However, availability of non-vendor items is the stumbling block.

Which tradeskill would be fastest to advance to 300 given a reasonable fixed number of players (say 100 of an even spread of levels from 1 thru 70) farming the needed items for the tradeskiller?

Brewing, baking and jewelcrafting could all reach 300 in a matter of days. I can't say hours because of the time it takes to do the combines.

I don't think you could say that about any other trade.


And you could do the whole thing in brewing solo without hunting a single mob for any drop no matter how easy it is. You can get the whole way there simply picking up ground spawns, foraging and fishing, and you don't even need foraging. It may not be fast, but that is easy.


I already said in the fourth post ot this thread; "Of course, if you have enough plat, any tradeskill is pretty much equally easy.", so lets get past that to what is an in-game reality for most trade skillers. Having infinite plat/supplies is a moot point.

[Liwsa]

Anyone can have infinite PP. All you have to do is work for it. Either kill mobs with nice drops to sell, farm tradeskill component dropping mobs, or just kill mobs that drop nice pp.

PP is easy to get IF you are willing to WORK for it. Contrary to popular belief PP won't just magically appear in your shared bank slot without you doing something to get it there.

[Nolrog]

I haven't seen anybody selling KC at less that 2pp....

On drinal, I sometimes see them as cheap as 5 gold each.

[Silverfish]

OK, Seriously...

I understand that the Inferno Scepter recipe I suggested is out of reach for most folks, but then a serious answer to the original question requires one to define what "easy" is, in tradeskill terms. For example, someone doing brewing on Firiona Vie with an Iksar shadowknight will have a very rough time doing Kaladim Constitutionals, and a level 1 dwarf could do them from 0 to 300 (gathering mushrooms and then selling some for plat for the other parts) but gathering that many mushrooms would take an enormous amount of time. So, does easy mean "cheap" or "little or no farming" or "no foraging" or "no secondary tradeskills or other skills needed" or what? For me personally, "no foraging" is a big one since the only forager I have is an Iksar, so foraging anything is a big pain. Sure, I could level up a druid to do it, but that sure cuts into the concept of "easy" for me, since I have very little play time to devote to PLing and then foraging, considering that I don't really have any desire to play a druid or ranger, so it would just be a toon leveled up to stand around while I pound on a key. Farming is another cost for me, again because I get precious little play time as it is, so I don't want to spend time farming for supplies.

So, in my world, a recipe that costs a lot but requires less time or effort in farming would be "easier" to a greater degree. I don't have infinite plat to spend, but I'll go farm DB mobs for plat and gems any time or mine vendors rather than run around the Karanas chasing green mobs for hours or stand in Kaladim farming mushrooms at a rate of roughly one combine per minute.

Now, all that said, in my world baking was the easiest to max out. The recipes to get to 191 are cheap, easy and take no farming. After that, the farming is interchangeable with buying the items or vendor-mining. By the time you hit 250, then the wondrous Misty Thicket Picnic appears and you can build those with very little farming, even for a low level character (brownies show up often enough in Steamfont that one can readily farm the parts if needed, and jumjum is now vendor sold, so no sweat there either).

Silverfish