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I tend to farm stuff for a minimum of 100 combines at a time, but this can include parts for multiple recipes too. For major skill up runs, I shoot for 300-600 combines. If I am close to the trivial or the tradeskill cap, then I may do it just 20-40 at a time.
I would not so much farm/buy/pre-subcombine as much as I overfarm/buy/subcombine.
Now I don't want to edge into embellishment but I farm in such immense proportions that it makes the communal farms of the ersatz Soviet Union look like Farmer Ted's beet garden.
1100 gem studded chains in afternoon? No worries.
800 beer batters as I watch MASH? A drop in the bucket.
600 nightmare arachnid swatches and 250-300 associated gnomish cultural pieces? No sex please, we're English.
800 durable cutting blades? Call Cutco I think we got some parts.
300 arctic wyvern masks? Hello Clarice...
I like sitting down in one spot with a load of specific materials, a 6 pack of beer, a few stiff shots of whiskey and somehting good on the tube and click-a-palooza and watch the skillups roll in.
On the other hand, its always neat to go out of your way to do a single combine for someone in need, learn a new recipe and still get an isolated skill point.
Now I don't want to edge into embellishment but I farm in such immense proportions that it makes the communal farms of the ersatz Soviet Union look like Farmer Ted's beet garden.
1100 gem studded chains in afternoon? No worries.
800 beer batters as I watch MASH? A drop in the bucket.
600 nightmare arachnid swatches and 250-300 associated gnomish cultural pieces? No sex please, we're English.
800 durable cutting blades? Call Cutco I think we got some parts.
300 arctic wyvern masks? Hello Clarice...
I like sitting down in one spot with a load of specific materials, a 6 pack of beer, a few stiff shots of whiskey and somehting good on the tube and click-a-palooza and watch the skillups roll in.
On the other hand, its always neat to go out of your way to do a single combine for someone in need, learn a new recipe and still get an isolated skill point.
Squeaky Toy
300 Smithing 7/7 - 300 Tailoring 7/7 - 300 Jewelcraft 7/7 - 300 Tinkering 7/7 - 300 Pottery 7/7 - 300 Research 7/7 - 300 Baking 7/7 - 300 Brewing 7/7 - 300 Fletching 7/7
The Meanest Tradeskiller on Cazic Thule
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When doing combines for the purpose of skilling up, I prefer to gather as many materials as possible and do long combining runs while I watch TV. I detest nickle & dime combines because I feel like I have accomplished more if I can get a bunch of skillups in one sitting.
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Depends. For research I waited until my mule, who was already half full of mechanotablets, was overflowing with sulfur and saltpeter (roughly 1600 and 900) then I cranked out a ton of solutions. Though I'm past the point of skilling up on them, I'm passing my leftovers to another upcoming researcher...the tradeoff being he's gonna give me a portion of his solutions 
Tailoring...I try to wait until I have a bag full of shissar scales but sometimes I just cant wait that long.
Tailoring...I try to wait until I have a bag full of shissar scales but sometimes I just cant wait that long.
Durell Spider`Monkey - 70 HUM MNK - Pandemonium - Zek
Tuis Hajidodger - 70 HUM MAG
Bake 300T7M1 : Brew 300T7M1 : Fletch 300T7M1 : JC 300T7 : Pot 300T7M1 : Tailor 300T6M2
Smith 300T7M2 : Fishing 195C : Research 271T5+M3 : Salvage 3
Delgnome Pandeminimum 60 GNM SHD: Tink 300T6 : Smith 261GM3 : Salvage 1
Wikkn Hajidodger 60 HFL DRU: Smith 260T5M3 : Tailor 247T5M3 : Salvage 1
Bazoika Hajidodger 35 DWF BER: Smith 170
Botumbo Rotundo 60 OGR WAR: Smith 210M3 : Tailor 0 : Salvage 1
Abhorrentx Hajidodger 55 HEF BRD: Smith 215
Tuis Hajidodger - 70 HUM MAG
Bake 300T7M1 : Brew 300T7M1 : Fletch 300T7M1 : JC 300T7 : Pot 300T7M1 : Tailor 300T6M2
Smith 300T7M2 : Fishing 195C : Research 271T5+M3 : Salvage 3
Delgnome Pandeminimum 60 GNM SHD: Tink 300T6 : Smith 261GM3 : Salvage 1
Wikkn Hajidodger 60 HFL DRU: Smith 260T5M3 : Tailor 247T5M3 : Salvage 1
Bazoika Hajidodger 35 DWF BER: Smith 170
Botumbo Rotundo 60 OGR WAR: Smith 210M3 : Tailor 0 : Salvage 1
Abhorrentx Hajidodger 55 HEF BRD: Smith 215
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If it's something farmable quickly (like hollowshade moor was for smithing), I prefer batches of enough items for 200-300 attempts.
Anything worse I try to have at least 50-60 combines before its even worth trying, and I might save for 3 months of supplies just to get 3 - 10 skillups.
Anything worse I try to have at least 50-60 combines before its even worth trying, and I might save for 3 months of supplies just to get 3 - 10 skillups.
Crystilla
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The Persistent Serving Wench
~~~Quest'er, Camp'er, Raider and Tradeskill'er at Heart~~~
Member of the 2100 club (5/6/2007)
EQ Round Table Member
The Persistent Serving Wench
~~~Quest'er, Camp'er, Raider and Tradeskill'er at Heart~~~
Member of the 2100 club (5/6/2007)
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It depends on the tradeskill.
For spell research I'm lucky to get 20 parchments in a month, so I may wait until I have only a stack. The cleaning solutions are just too annoying with their numerous subcombines to do alone. For other tradeskills I won't start trying to skillup until I have at least few stacks of the needed drops.
I lack the inventory space, however, to make 1000 combines of anything.
I hate MTP's and new spell research, too many subcombines.
On that note, I kinda wish I hadn't bought Salvage. It's nice to save an expensive item on a failed comebine now and then, but when you're skilling with the cheap crap (the vast majority of tradeskilling imho) you get resulting uneven stacks of pre-combine items and then you have to play with the numebrs when repurchasing endor items to get a balance. I'd honestly rather just pay more than save 2plat/10 combines in vendor items...
For spell research I'm lucky to get 20 parchments in a month, so I may wait until I have only a stack. The cleaning solutions are just too annoying with their numerous subcombines to do alone. For other tradeskills I won't start trying to skillup until I have at least few stacks of the needed drops.
I lack the inventory space, however, to make 1000 combines of anything.
I hate MTP's and new spell research, too many subcombines.
On that note, I kinda wish I hadn't bought Salvage. It's nice to save an expensive item on a failed comebine now and then, but when you're skilling with the cheap crap (the vast majority of tradeskilling imho) you get resulting uneven stacks of pre-combine items and then you have to play with the numebrs when repurchasing endor items to get a balance. I'd honestly rather just pay more than save 2plat/10 combines in vendor items...
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I very much tend to farm in smaller portions, a bag or two...sometimes a bit more if its something that drops easily.
This is largely due to room constraints as other people have mentioned, its seldom indeed that I can arrange to have a lot of free space on my TSing character.
****all of those new bank spaces full already...aaaaaaaaaaaaaah***
Other than that its often easier to do a large group of combines but often space simply isnt avaiable.
Sliggoth, druid/ tradeskiller of 7th Hammer
This is largely due to room constraints as other people have mentioned, its seldom indeed that I can arrange to have a lot of free space on my TSing character.
****all of those new bank spaces full already...aaaaaaaaaaaaaah***
Other than that its often easier to do a large group of combines but often space simply isnt avaiable.
Sliggoth, druid/ tradeskiller of 7th Hammer
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Small run at a time, like as much as I can farm in one hour. With several hundred whailing substances left, I usually get a stack and a half of shrieking in an hour and then some more swirling shadows in an hour. Then I burn off what I can do in smithing until I run out of something. May get a skillup or 2 for a couple hours of farming.
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I farm as I go, for example when I started my halfling and knew she would be doing tailoring I kept/bought any silks/pelts I cam across with the result that even if her tailoring is only 54 now I got approx 16 bags full of items for her.
Same with my tinkerer since she was only lvl 6 I have bought/kept any springs/ joints/ball bearings I ran across on merchants and from my time in PoI
Sometimes i spend hours foraging for item I need for baking but rarely do mass farming for combines/skillups
Same with my tinkerer since she was only lvl 6 I have bought/kept any springs/ joints/ball bearings I ran across on merchants and from my time in PoI
Sometimes i spend hours foraging for item I need for baking but rarely do mass farming for combines/skillups
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My skill up runs are 100 or 200 a time. Apart from Research, which was once a week, however many combines I had (usually 15-40).
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.
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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Depends what I am doing.
Brewing: when ever I log in, I start with my mushroom farmer who picks up a round of shrooms. Sometimes if I don't have long I'll leave him in and get a 2nd or 3rd round. when I have 3 stacks of each I pop them in the shared bank and do 60 combines of Kaladims
Baking: >.< was casual, did some farming in CT so made candied Tae Ew when ever I finished farming. Then spent an entire saturday going from 268 to 300 + lvl 7 trophy making MTP's. Even set up a mule on my 2nd account and stocked him full of deluxe tollboxes ;-) Bought brownie parts from bazaar and was sorted for the day. Doubt I can do that again however.
Normally I do a few stacks at a time, but if I feel like it will just blitz a skill something cronic. Mainly if I know I can reach a certain goal.
Brewing: when ever I log in, I start with my mushroom farmer who picks up a round of shrooms. Sometimes if I don't have long I'll leave him in and get a 2nd or 3rd round. when I have 3 stacks of each I pop them in the shared bank and do 60 combines of Kaladims
Baking: >.< was casual, did some farming in CT so made candied Tae Ew when ever I finished farming. Then spent an entire saturday going from 268 to 300 + lvl 7 trophy making MTP's. Even set up a mule on my 2nd account and stocked him full of deluxe tollboxes ;-) Bought brownie parts from bazaar and was sorted for the day. Doubt I can do that again however.
Normally I do a few stacks at a time, but if I feel like it will just blitz a skill something cronic. Mainly if I know I can reach a certain goal.
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