Tradeskill cap to 1000???

[Posatrocible]

I am sorry if this is being discussed elsewhere, I did hunt around the boards for it.

In a discussion with developers recently, the following was reported:

Re: Tradeskill cap increase in The Serpent's Spine.

<Merloc> Yeah, 1000, but each point will be 2x as hard as the last one, so essentially it's not possible to reach 1000.

Not possible to reach 1000? Try not possible to reach 321. At an increase of 2x as hard as the last one, moving from 320 to 321 will be 1,048,576 times harder than from 300 to 301. That is quite a few extra clicks LOL. You get a point past 320, you better buy a lottery ticket next.

[Ysall]

Please link the source of this quote, otherwise I'm going to assume this is a mischevious hoax designed to put absolute terror in the heart of every tradeskiller.

[Nolrog]

Please link the source of this quote, otherwise I'm going to assume this is a mischevious hoax designed to put absolute terror in the heart of every tradeskiller.

I can confirm that Merloc did in fact say that. The source is the HoC "chat" that happened about 2 weeks ago. They had scheduled a normal chat, however, there was some issues with the Stratics people, so some of the Devs just showed up in the Everquest chat channel, and in an open forum, answered questions.

That being said, the quote by Merloc, while true, is being taken out of context. The question that was asked (by me) was "I heard tradeskill caps were being raised to 500 with this expansion, is that true??" To which Merloc answered his quote from above. Neither of which is true, both being said in jest.

[Maevenniia]

It was in jest, please have a Tinker take a look at your Humor Detector, it's outta whack

[Rawckett]

I think the old sarcasm dector is in the works for TSS release.

[Posatrocible]

Eeeeexcellent....



I read this on our OWT guild board, but it had been cut and pasted a few times, so only bare info existed.... I somehow knew this couldn't be right. Especially since it hadn't popped up on these tradeskills boards first.

Thanks for the clarification!!!

P.S. So what is the official position on the skill cap getting raised?

[Verdandi]

Didn't take Merloc long to start trouble!

[Nolrog]

Didn't take Merloc long to start trouble!

Would you expect anything less?

[Ngreth Thergn]

Plus Merloc would not be making that decision

Items stats... maybe...

tradeskill caps... nope!

But yes, I will confirm that it was sarcasm

[Kaliaila]

P.S. So what is the official position on the skill cap getting raised?

That it's not going to happen again for another couple years yet.

[Ysall]

Couple of years eh? Time to start gathering skill-up ingrediants now then.

(Sadly, I'm not joking, I already have 500 fletching combines, 400 smithing combines, 100 tailoring combines, and 200 brewing combines ready to go. All waiting for the day the post-300 skillcap world begins).

[Liwsa]

By the time the cap gets raised, all the trivals on the stuff you are saving will have been lowered under 300.

[Nolrog]

By the time the cap gets raised, all the trivals on the stuff you are saving will have been lowered under 300.

D'oH

[Grizabelle]

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Ysall.... I dont know whether to think you are one sick puppy or to be green in envy for having that much mule room.

[tuis]

Hrm, I can see Ngreth doing a quick inventory check of Ysall's items..."yup, knock that one down to 299...that one too...oh definitely that one..."