Should I wait?

[Xxyl]

I have a character on FV that I have been doing tradeskills with. She is an Erudite Cleric of Prexus in her 18th season. Now, I want to eventually get her tailoring GMed so that she can make her cultural armor. But being 18, on a low population server, trivial loot code, and very little money due to spells and such I have no extra money to delve too deeply into raising this skill. Her highest trade is baking at 185 and I have been back and forth with myself as to whether I should go ahead and GM baking, holding off on Tailoring until I get to 50 and get my 3 AA for an extra GMed skill, or stop with baking and slowly continue on with my tailoring in hopes I GM it before 50.

I could sure use some other opinions on this matter. One of my main motives for wanting to get a trade GMed asap is the trophy would be a HUGE upgrade. This is why I am torn between going ahead and GMing baking or sucking it up and GMing tailoring when I can.

[Delfontes]

I'd GM baking now.

By the time you can get over 200 in tailoring... the 3AA's will be the least of your problems.

I GMed Brewing, and still want to GM tailoring... but am at 157 tailoring, and 10 levels higher than I was when I started .

Do get to 158 though, I really wish I could have gotten experience during my silk farming

Does the trivial loot code mean that a lvl 50 can not possibly get spiderling silk?

[Obina]

If you like Baking, go for it. There are very few GM Tailors at low levels because you really need to be able to farm RockHoppers etc. Just getting Tailor to 200 will be a huge undertaking if you do not have a guild really helping you.

In terms of the trophy, yes it is great. But it is also very expensive. Depending on your stuff, and prices on your server, you can get a lot more stats for 6k across all your armor, than focusing on this one thing. Again, you do want it later when all your armor is uber and your range slot still has a Small Wisdom Diety. And the bag is nice.

Do work on Tailor as well. I worked on Pottery on and off since I was 20. It made the run from 199 to 242 easier, since I barely remembered getting pottery to 199 (and it was pre nerf)

[sir0die]

go ahead and get started now, alot of the stuff you are gonna need to farm you will be able to get xp from since you're only 18, don't worry about the aa points, it'll take awhile to get to 200 in it anyways.

I'd recommend that you start collecting silks and spiderling silks. also any pelt that is LQ/MQ/HQ bear/cat/wolf


you can hunt in East Karana for awhile and get silks and HQ catpelt. Not sure what level you'll need to be to hunt there safely, but the HQ cat pelts can be used to get your tailoring up to 116. Then you will be starting on the dreaded WU's armor. So might as well head to POK and buy a ton of fishing grubs and water and trivial out the brewing of fetid essence (122 brewing) you'll need the brewing skill up to be more successfull in making the heady kiolas (4 per Wu's combine)


but the main thing is, you can still xp while doing your farming.
you have the good fortune that there are many different spiders and cats of various levels to where you can pretty much just hunt them till you are in your upper 30's.

[Maevenniia]

Im not on the FV server, but Trivial Loot Code should only affect MAGIC tagged items, no? Thus spider and spiderling silks wouldn't be affected? Or am I way off base? :?:

[Xxyl]

Oh no you are correct Mae but the TLC coding really puts a damper on my ability to farm lowbie items that sell for plat (plague rat tails in the Qeynos area anyone? lol). I'm too young for farming any drops worthy of selling in the bazaar but too old to farm the lowbie cash cows. *grumble*

On the note of my tailoring skill. It is currently at 41. I have been working on it slowly as I get the silks. My brewing is in the 60's as well so I make my own heady's (had no idea fishing grubs were sold in PoK, I have been making Shar Vahl Essence since I have been hunting in Paludal, SwT side). I also have an alt enchie, level 9, on my other account there for the sole purpose of making me mana's once I get the spell. It's the cost of the sap, pearls, and vials that is going to be the hard part.

[Ariene]

FV is the easiest server to make money on. My cleric there is 32 and has 3k in the bank which is the lowest she has been for most of her life. She earned the money to buy her solstice earring by the time she was 22.

I started by buying every mushroom I could find. They sell from a vendor for 1s and resell in bazaar for 1-2p (I always sold for 1p). Then I started merchant mining for spiderling silk. You can buy it for about 1p/stack from a vendor and sell it in the bazaar for anywhere from 1-3p (again I always sold for 1p). Spider silk is a bit more expensive from a merchant but sells quite quickly for 2p each. If too many people are selling spiderling or spider silk, combine them and sell the threads and swatches. When I had made quite a bit of money on the low price items I moved up to black sapphires and jacinths which sell rather quickly in the bazaar for double what you pay for them from a merchant (for some reason this doesn't work with blue diamonds so don't buy those from merchants unless you know someone who needs them).

The economy on FV is VERY different from Bristlebane so I made a few mistakes but if you watch bazaar prices for a few days and don't undercut but always match the lowest price (or if it is insanely low buy or ignore it and match the next lowest price) you will make money. I didn't level for a while - I spent about a week merchant mining for a couple hours a day but for my level I have some really nice gear now and I have the funds to work on several tradeskills. http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=456569