money wise

[Pfadsucher]

how much money for each trade skill would it take to make it to 250.
here are my skills so far.
fletching (176), baking (135), Tailoring (26), Jewellery (132), Pottery (128)
the rest are at 1.

[Delfontes]

That is an extremely difficult... ok impossible... to answer.

It depends on quite a few factors.

What lvl class are you? Are you willing to spend months and months farming?

If you wanted 250 in all skills in a week, I'd say just over 1 million plat.

If you are planning on farming when possible, and dedicate 6 months doing absolutely nothing but tradeskills daily... you could do it for free selling as you go.

My current tradeskills are below, I have spent about 10k on tradeskilling, but have gone slow enough that I am well ahead of where I started. Keep in mind the expensive ones Smithing/Tailoring/Fletching, I have yet to start. (Well haven't gone to expensive parts with them yet).

[Pfadsucher]

well, i have 65k, available to me. i am a half-elf ranger. lvl 47 so if i need to kill anything, i probably can.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Well, with the wealth of info we have on you, your server, your class, your level and your CHA/faction with places I'll make a rough guess.
Fletching (176): About 120kpp
Baking (135): About 15kpp
Tailoring (26): About 700kpp
Jewellery (132): 1,200pp (YAY!)
Pottery (128): 200kpp

the rest are at 1....
Smithing: 700kpp
Brewing 2kpp (Yay again)

I think I might be going cheep here, but that's what I can think if.

P.S. Guy's you type faster then me, when I started there was no answer yet. :P But just an FYI, I'm a 52 Ranger and I still can't take some stuff that easy that is needed for higher end trade skills.

[Pfadsucher]

my CHA is 192 when buying and ally to all good races

[Maevenniia]

my CHA is 192 when buying and ally to all good races

The costs quoted above, pretyy much any costs quoted here at EQTC, presume the seller/buyer is at max CHA necessary for best merchant price, which is approx 130 CHA I think. Anything over that will have no additional effect on prices merchants offer.

[Obina]

You guys are good. You have done a great job of answering an impossibe question!

But it is an impossible question. We had a similar thread on the pottery board. There are still 2 answers: 1) 75 to 150K and 2) Free

The range comes down to what stuff you want to make? More clicks or more money? What access to chanters and imbuers? Etc.

The free of course comes from choosing to sell a good bit the stuff you make. The costs above, for example, assume you sell all the JC stuff (and probably enchant most of the gold and platinum).

All of this can be summed up with a real answer to why you want to skill up to 250? Do you want to be able to make (and sell) cool stuff, do you want a trophy, or you just want to "because it is there"? If it is the latter, what kind of thing will make it seem like a bigger success - pure store bought (JC) or something real tough (Smith and Tailor). How much time and money will you spend - time is money in EQ, perhaps even more than in RL.

[Pfadsucher]

well, excuse me.
i had no idea that was an impossible question, sorry to bother you guys with my lack of knowledge, which is why i asked.
great way to make someone feel welcomed, who's first post this is, to the eqtraders message board.
:|

[Stokvorn Warwalker]

I do not know that it is an impossible question to answer but it is a hard one to answer with accuracy. Use the prices listed above as a start point and go from there. There are several different factors that will affect the why you get your skill ups and the price is just one of them.

However have fun with getting to 250 in which ever skill you wish to do first.

[Thicket Tundrabog]

It took me about 200k to GM Tailoring but I did a lot of farming myself, and it took me a long time. I would estimate the cost range for Tailoring GM to be 0 to 800k depending on how much you farm, how many components you buy, and how much you buy them for.

I think there is good and useful information on this thread.

Pfadsucher. While you seem to have your knickers in a knot, your simple question does NOT have a simple answer. To suggest otherwise would be misleading you.

Thicket

[Obina]

/bows humbly.

We are not trying to slam you even remotly for asking an impossible question. Question is fine! There was not ment to be any critique of your question in my answer certainly. I was trying to credit those who did such a good job of answering, not to complain about the question. Sorry.

/smiles encouragingly

we really can do an even better job of answering if you could share some insight into your attitude to why you want to do tradeskills, and what your attitutte is to farming, clicking etc. Again, for me tradeskill is free (I do not have pp from hunting or my guild adding to tradeskill funds) because I generally hunt what I need, and sell output in the Bazaar. But now I'm sick of excess clicking so I buy Celestial Essences. I find this combination satisfying. I dont know why.

[Pfadsucher]

ok, long story time!
when i started my char. a friend basically pled my to lvl 30. my skills were crap, about the lvl of 18. it took me a long time to max them out. and now i have some pride in my char. anyways, one day i was looking over my skills and noticed that my trades were lacking, so i thought lets get those started. my fletching was high, being a ranger of course. some were already up due to the coldain shawl quest.
i was pumped when i had my mind set on getting those tradeskills up.
i just wasnt looking forward to those answers. it seemed like everyone was saying, "what the hell was he thinking".
so there is your answer of why i want to do it. i want to be self - suffient and not rely on anyone again.

*smile*

[Serenya]

Ok, look at it logically. First, to get every skill over 200, you need to get to 51 and then earn 18! AA points (3 each for 6 Tanaam Mastery). Since you are only 47 choose ONE skill for now, worry about the rest later.

Fletching. You're a half elf, so don't bother. Until SOE actually adds Ranger Fletching rather then Wood Elf fletching, there is zero reason to go over 200. You can't make the BFT, and you would spend more raising your skills w/o culture as a path, and then buying the parts in the bazaar, to make the Nightmarewood Bow then you would just buying it. The parts range from 2500-3000pp (you aren't old enough to farm them) and the end result can be bought for 5kpp on the Trib, so just buy it. 200 is more then sufficient to make any arrows you would want in quantity; ignore the 'specialty' arrows until you are 59+ and have Endless Quiver, they cost too much to use in bulk before then.

Smithing, tailoring. You don't have a cultural option as a half elf, and you've already done the shawls? No point in going over 200, there isn't anything you could make that you would use. Sad, but true.

That leaves pottery, baking and brewing. Frankly, I would choose baking as my first skill to take over 200 simply because you can use all those foraged goodies to skill up cheaply, and you can still sell what you make. Brewing is also cheap to raise, albeit tedious, but to be honest there are only about 3 stat drinks you would use anyway…. Still, those two are a toss up, so choose your favorite for first, do the other with your first Tanaan crafting mastery AA, and pottery with your next.


That's my 2cp, your mileage may vary.


/edit Forgot Jewelry. Cheap to raise. Almost pointless and definitely frustrating if you aren't a chanter, so leave this one for last.

[Alyxia]

Hiya!

Always glad to see another person looking to work on tradeskills

I have to agree with Serenya. You have 65k. That is nowhere near enough plat to GM Smithing, Tailoring, or Fletching for a non-Tunarean. Possible for pottery, but you'd have to rely on selling your successes to be able to do it on 65kpp.

As to the other skills, I'd say go for Baking first as well. It's incredibly fun, and quite cheap, since you can sell the stuff once you get past 200ish. The profit from Baking may seem like peanuts when you still have 65k, but believe me, after you try working on the other expensive skills, every bit of profit from Baking helps.

[Kaidian Blade]

That really is a tough question, Pfadsucher.

With 65K at your disposal, you can make a very tiny dent in getting Tailoring, Smithing or Pottery to 250, but you will fall far short of doing it.

Your best bet (and most affordable) would be to try either Baking, Brewing or JewelCraft.

Now on the other hand.... if your heart is set on getting ALL 7 of the available tradeskills to 250 (and join the 1750 club), then you have an incredibly long and expensive road before you. I think the estimates provided are pretty accurate. However you do need to hit 51 (and have PoP) to get the Tanaan Tradeskills AA that let you get more than one tradeskill over 250. Being a Ranger with the ability to forage will save you money by not having to buy the foraged-only items, but you will more than balance that out with the time involved in foraging them. Likewise, if you manage to farm components rather than buying them in the Bazaar you will also save yourself lots of cash, but again at the expense of the time involved in doing so.

There are, at present count, only 8 folks across ALL servers who have GM'd (Grand Mastered to 250) each of the 7 main tradeskills. It is no small undertaking and requires ENORMOUS amounts of time and funding.

But in answer to your question, I'd go by the estimates provided as a starting point. Hope that helps, and good luck!