Wow! I can’t believe this day has actually come, to when I can say the above words! 
Date 1750 Achieved: March 19, 2003 -- 23:40:58 PST
Days Played: 104 days, 8 hours, 1 minute
Alyxia’s Birthdate: November 4, 1999 -- 19:51:31 PST
Say NO to Farming! (I hate farming, and always opt for the vendor option)
Only really killed a few random mammoths for the delicious meat! YUM!
I did a lot of tradeskilling before/during Kunark, then I got too levelling-focussed, got burnt out and quit. Can anyone guess why? Yes, thaaaat’s right…the lack of tradeskilling drove me insane
Some would say the opposite
Once I had the 1750 goal in sight, I hardly hunted with Alyxia, only hunting the raptors nonstop for 3 weeks to get all AAs needed to max NTCM. No raids. Tradeskilling practically every nite, only taking a break now and again when I run out of cash, to work on my secondary toon, who's level 52. After I GM'd smithing a few nights ago, my guildie almost had a heart attack when he saw me in PoN
In the list below, "Skill before Kunark" implies that I got to that level before I became levelling focussed.
1) Tailoring
Total Cost: Didn’t take notice, but every single silk swatch for solstice robes was bought from bazaar, imbued my own emeralds, my GM JC enchanter made the chains
Date GM’d: October 30, 2002
Skill before Kunark: 100
2) Baking
Total Cost: Negligible compared to Tailoring and Smithing
Date GM’d: Somewhere within the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 135
3) Jewelcraft
Total Cost: 12kpp
Date GM’d: During the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 0
4) Brewing
Total Cost: 1.5kpp for the final 2 points doing Demi Sec Champagne, the rest is inconsequential
Date GM’d: Sometime during the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 138
So you see a pattern? After I GM’d tailoring, I wanted to knock off the “easier” skills, before tackling the final 3.
5) Pottery
Total Cost: 80kpp
Date GM’d: March 15, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 168
6) Blacksmithing
Total Cost: 500kpp
Date GM’d: March 16, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 170
7) Fletching
Total Cost: 35kpp
Date GM’d: March 19, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 130
How did I fund all this? The gods dropped 1 mill plat on me...no, just kidding
There's absolutely no way I could have done it if I had waited for my skill-up successes to fund my sessions, especially Smithing. I didn't have unlimited plat, nor guild funding to back me, but I did work hard to use my tradeskills to sell things that other people wanted. I can say that I was 100% Tradeskill funded.
/wipes sweat off her forehead, and tries to find someone to reattach her right arm
Thanks to Denmom, Ngreth, and all the wonderful moderators who make this the best tradeskills site. All your hard work and dedication is what makes our Norrathian lives enriched and exciting!

Date 1750 Achieved: March 19, 2003 -- 23:40:58 PST
Days Played: 104 days, 8 hours, 1 minute
Alyxia’s Birthdate: November 4, 1999 -- 19:51:31 PST
Say NO to Farming! (I hate farming, and always opt for the vendor option)
Only really killed a few random mammoths for the delicious meat! YUM!I did a lot of tradeskilling before/during Kunark, then I got too levelling-focussed, got burnt out and quit. Can anyone guess why? Yes, thaaaat’s right…the lack of tradeskilling drove me insane
Some would say the opposite
Once I had the 1750 goal in sight, I hardly hunted with Alyxia, only hunting the raptors nonstop for 3 weeks to get all AAs needed to max NTCM. No raids. Tradeskilling practically every nite, only taking a break now and again when I run out of cash, to work on my secondary toon, who's level 52. After I GM'd smithing a few nights ago, my guildie almost had a heart attack when he saw me in PoN

In the list below, "Skill before Kunark" implies that I got to that level before I became levelling focussed.
1) Tailoring
Total Cost: Didn’t take notice, but every single silk swatch for solstice robes was bought from bazaar, imbued my own emeralds, my GM JC enchanter made the chains
Date GM’d: October 30, 2002
Skill before Kunark: 100
2) Baking
Total Cost: Negligible compared to Tailoring and Smithing
Date GM’d: Somewhere within the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 135
3) Jewelcraft
Total Cost: 12kpp
Date GM’d: During the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 0
4) Brewing
Total Cost: 1.5kpp for the final 2 points doing Demi Sec Champagne, the rest is inconsequential
Date GM’d: Sometime during the first 3 weeks after Tailoring GM’d
Skill before Kunark: 138
So you see a pattern? After I GM’d tailoring, I wanted to knock off the “easier” skills, before tackling the final 3.
5) Pottery
Total Cost: 80kpp
Date GM’d: March 15, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 168
6) Blacksmithing
Total Cost: 500kpp
Date GM’d: March 16, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 170
7) Fletching
Total Cost: 35kpp
Date GM’d: March 19, 2003
Skill before Kunark: 130
How did I fund all this? The gods dropped 1 mill plat on me...no, just kidding
There's absolutely no way I could have done it if I had waited for my skill-up successes to fund my sessions, especially Smithing. I didn't have unlimited plat, nor guild funding to back me, but I did work hard to use my tradeskills to sell things that other people wanted. I can say that I was 100% Tradeskill funded./wipes sweat off her forehead, and tries to find someone to reattach her right arm
Thanks to Denmom, Ngreth, and all the wonderful moderators who make this the best tradeskills site. All your hard work and dedication is what makes our Norrathian lives enriched and exciting!

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