How many stick with just one tradeskill?

[DeegerStormcrow]

Fun thread Cigar. Chenier, I believe the word you want is "tertiary"

I'm part of the same general crowd. I started fletching because I'm a ranger and wanted to do the Trueshot quest (yes, I've been around a while ). After I got my TS I lagged a while until the Thurg gate potions came out and I got pottery up to 122 very quickly. Hmmm, that wasn't so bad, maybe I'll GM fletching.

After GMing fletching I started making BFTs. It turned out to be a pain to find a woodie smith to make the alloy rods so I got smithing up until they were trivial. I was on a roll so I decided to get baking and brewing up to 200 (210 for baking).

Then the nightmare bows came out and you need a tailor for those. I am now on the slow painful path to GMing tailoring.

[Sylphan]

I pretty much stopped at 3 (all to 200)

I started out with pottery long ago to make money (pie tins). Then tailoring to make my own tailored backpacks (it was too hard to find a tailor when I needed one). Brewing was easily raised to support the tailoring (heady kiolas). Baking was for profit with fish rolls. I gradually came to max each of them, back when most trades capped out at numbers far below 200.

When cultural trades came out I got serious about tradeskills and became a mithrilsmith; I skilled that one from 0 to 250 in one long effort. I really resisted jewelcraft, but eventually needed it for the shawl quest. During the long months I worked on smithing the other crafts got recipes to bring them up to 200, so I skilled all the others up to 200 just because... they seemed so **** easy compared to smithing.

So I was a 1 the first year when it was just for profit, but in several trades. Then a 2 the second year just because I'd done the hard parts already. Then a 3 (all to 200) after I became a serious smith and quester.

I've put a few AA points into trades now but have no need for 1750. 250 jewelcraft is necessary for some smithing recipes, so I had to do that to remain a serious smith... plus it helps making solstice robes. And then I GM'd pottery because of the PoP focus items (I carry lots of the focus items myself). I don't expect to GM any others until there are some uber (or cultural) recipes in the other trades.

[Sanna]

primary, secondary, tertiary, quatrenary, that's all i know. ^_^

Warning: long post, very self-absorbed, read at own risk of boredom.



Iroke = wood elf = lots of running around the maze they dare call a city, Kelethin. Gosh, I wish I remembered what level I was... pretty sure I had sow, and I know I was going to Unrest... At any rate, I had reached a point when: there was no one to level with; no one to chat with; pkers in GFay AGAIN; and I was BORED. And there was this vendor in front of the warrior guild who sold Points, Shafts, Vanes, Nocks, Groves, a Fletching Kit, and a book on Fletching. Having been mildly interested in RL archery as a kid, I wanted to make an arrow.

So I bought the book, read it. Bought the kit, bought the lowest components. No one had told me about 'hold CTRL and click to take one from a stack', so I was clicking, typing in the number manually, hitting enter, and moving it to the fletching box. I hit combine, and........ ARROWS! Class 1 Wood Point Arrows.

But... but... I'm a druid... I can't shoot...
I didn't care. Figured I'd sell them to fellow players. That plan didn't entirely work, but oh well. I made arrows till I got a 'you can no longer increase your skill with this item' message. I thought 'aha, it's level capped!' I went out, gained a level, came back.... still no increase. Put a guild training point into fletching, to 'jump start' it again. Nope. And thus, my fletching has been stuck at 17 ever since.

(It was a great day in Unrest when Daktyl (who has since rerolled neut, grrrr) told me about 'hold CTRL, click, take one from stack'. I felt like I knew this great and hidden secret of the universe!)

Someone gave me an address of the very well done fletching page... Adriana's? Eh, the one with leaves all over the place. At any rate, either she had a link, or I did a google search, and ended up at EQTC.... and haven't left.

Forget what I did next... a smidgin of tailoring, I know I bought a large sewing kit next... a smidging of blacksmithing (I had accidentally made some Warrior ND gauntlets, a noob gear quest I had gotten from Joselyn Greenblade, Kele War guild chick), some brewing to make those pods of water into flasks.... bought a stack of malachite and a stack of silver, found a random enchanter friend to enchant the up free, 20 combines = 6 rings, wore two for a long while, JC at 4 and it won't move for a while.

And baking... batwing crunchies... I printed off many lists from here, baking among them, and proceeded to color them with crayon to make the black-on-white more legible. Since I forage, baking was not as difficult for me, and thanks to a sponsor (granted from the evil team, but he's nice), I managed to survive and have hope until I started making Halas 10, which has supported me nicely.

My roommate has this idea that she wants as few non-Masters as possible. She gets everything to 101 and leaves it. Frankly, I know where my first AA points are going... NTCM. Hey, 6 extra tradeskills = 18 points, the next point I spend will get me off of Baroness.



Cigarskunk, ty for this thread. Feels very theraputic when I get randomly sick of EQ (mostly sick of neverending lag) to reminisce.
You know, the music, cultish tho it is, is very very powerful... No matter where I am, the vendor music will always bring up memories of my monk's early days in Freeport. EQ seemed so much more.... innocent... then. Funny how your view changes as you age.

-- Sanna, who's sure this site is sick of seeing her insane sig.

[Kaysha Soulsinger]

I started out Tailoring. My brother and a real-life friend were also playing EQ, and we divided the roles. My brother (Wizard) would do JCing, our RL friend (Warrior) would do Smithing, I (Cleric) would do Tailoring. Soon, I felt held back by my RL friend in Tailoring, since I needed Bonings and Studs, and he was not high enough skill yet or not producing them fast enough, don't remember.

So, I took on Smithing. And reached 100 in no time, while my friend was still low-50-ish. This was actually a funny tradeskill so I continued, also being lured by the Imbued Field Plate armor at the 250-ish end (back then, speaking 2 years ago here, hehe).

Bummer! Sea Tempers and Heady Kiola's et al require brewing! Ok, brewing it is then ... so Brewing was added to the list. At this point, I decided to just try every skill I could and bring them to the 100-ish.

Once Smithing surpassed Tailoring (must have been around 150 skill), I was in doubt ... which skill did I want to take over 200? Smithing, or Tailoring? With tailoring dragging on and on (note, this was pre-Luclin, so no nifty Acrylia Leathers), my smithing rocketed up to 180-ish. Then, seeing the huge gap in Tailoring and that I was actually crafting Imbued Field Plate, I swung to smithing.

I was fully into 3) by now: all skills to 200 and one above (smithing - this was reinforced by the introduction of the Heraldic armors, last year). I'm close to fulfilling that step. Tailoring at 178, Baking at 195, the rest at 200, except Smithing which is 226 as I write this. It's silly to see that the Tradeskill that was supposed to be my main is the one I have lowest skill in, now ... tsk tsk.

I'm already planning to get Brewing above 200 next, if only for the Ethereal Tempers. But, looming over the horizon is the 1750 club ... I may take a while, but I'll work on getting there. Or at least, try and get as far as I can.

[Chenier]

Thirdary! Use it instead today!

<-- new mission to spread the use of the word THIRDARY to the masses =)

[Taraddar]

I've just been play alot for so long that it's just kinda happened.

Started WAAAAYYYY back in the day. Back before you could ctrl click to pick up an item off a stack. Back before you could type in a number. Heck even back before you could buy multiple of stackable things off vendors.

Been so long I'm not sure I remember exactly how it went but way back in the day when Hand made backpacks where the best thing you could make I got my tailoring upto 108, the best you could do then. I also fiddled with smithing some but stopped in the low hundreds since there didn't seem to be any point in it at that time. I had brewed for a bit when Otul fiery brew was profitable to help finance other skills. Baking I got up to 135 or what ever just because I could and it was cheap as dirt.

The my real tradeskilling came along. Looked at the garzicor quest for the earring and decided I wanted to do that. So I trived out banded (still back when it got you upto 175) and started doing some fine steel combines to get my skill up further. Since it took me several tries to get past the smithing part and I kept getting a few more points every time I failed I ended up at like 187 smithing or there abouts.

Then there was the shawls. Looked at em and it was nice but not nice enough for me to want it for my shaman but my enchanter didn't have very good shoulders and I was playing him a fair bit then. So I decided to get him the 7th shawl. Got his skills up and did the shawl on him. Then they had to go and add the 8th shawl. Better effect, hps and mana and sv all on it now. Good enough that my shaman wanted it. Ok well I need to do JC, brewing and fletching now. No big deal they aren't too bad. So I did my faction work (was on giant faction when the 8th shawl came out) did my trade skills and made my 8th shawl.

Someplace in there the GM bug bit me. The cultural armor came out. My roommate, also a barb but a tribunal warrior, and a fellow barb shaman where all interested in the cultural armor bit didn't know anyone who could make it. Since my smithing was already pretty high we pooled some money and effort (they helped farm stuff, make rings etc) and got my smithing up. Hearing about the trivial change on here we worked hard to beat the patch and got me to 233 smithing before the change. Of corse then solstice mania hit. Making nothing but sickles and cultural armor i made my way to 250 smithing.

Throw in some alchemy here and there as money provided and there where some uses for potions and I ended getting that up fairly well.

Being pretty well rounded I decided to go ahead and get almost all my other skills up to 200. Decided tailoring was just too much of a pain at the time.

Then PoP came out and the aid gimel quest was found. As I watched the quest progress I know I was gonna end up being interested in the quest altho at the time I didn't have the aa's to burn and the flags needed seemed a long ways away but I had a good start on most of the trade skills already.

Fastforward to today and now my guild is in the elemental planes, I've gotten brewing and JC up to 250, I am currently working on pottery and tailoring and working on a few more aa to get the last 2 points of new taanan's for fletching and baking and already gathering components for the 2 of them.

Never really ever said I wanted to do tradeskills or Master or Grand master all tradeskills up untill I was nearly there anyway. I found it to be a relaxing distraction from time to time and a productive way to spend my time when I couldn't find a group for exp and wasn't raiding.

As things are right now sign me up for 4 (altho since I'm a shaman it's gonna be 1950 and ive already broken 1750 with alchemy included ) and 5 once I get there.

[Phabos]

It all started with a cake...

I was bored a few months ago and decided it would be cool to bake a cake... Then I needed Pottery for the cake round. Then I needed smithing for the non-stick frying pan... About that time, I was bitten by the bug. As of this posting, Baking is 213, Brewing is 200, Fletching is 200, Pottery is 165 and rising, Smithing is at 116 and will eventually get up, and Tailoring is 108 and crawling forward (Wu's is coming soon). Jewelcraft will get started whenever I can afford it.

For me, 200 is the magic number. I'll get Baking to 250 eventually, but I want all my skills at at least 200. Of course, this all leads to one all important question...

Why didn't I just buy another stack of rations???

Phabos
Drunken Paladin of Brell
Tarew Marr

[pennyrose]

Hmmm...am I the only one who got lured into multiple tradeskills by the Earring of Nature quest?

Prior to the introduction of that quest, I had done a smidgen of tailoring early on with my druid (I think until patchwork went trivial). I found it frustrating, confusing and not very rewarding, so I did no further tradeskills for a year or more. Then I created a chanter alt that I was having great fun with and decided making jewelry would be a goal for her. About that time, someone pointed me to this site and I read about the Xanthe quest (I think this was just after Luclin came out, so the info was still cover page news.)

I aim to have GMs in all the skills, but spread across a variety of alts, although there certainly are days I doubt I'll have the fortitude to GM any skill.

Fun thread...

Pennyrose - Smithing 189, Tailoring 194, Fishing 200
Wynsum - JC 200
Tazzia - Pottery 232, Fletching 174
Alouette - Brewing 210
Orphelia - Tinkering 188
Wynsum - Baking 230
Purrdu - future alchemist (on the shelf right now)

[Taushar]

Well, I started a long time ago to do tradeskills because I wanted to make banded armor for my warrior whom I don't play anymore. Then I realized that I needed to make leather padding for plate armor, thus I started the tailoring. Then to do Wu's armor, I had to learn brewing. Of course I needed the arrows for the defunct warrior so I stated to do fletching. I needed a long lasting food like fish roll for me thus my baking started. Then I didn't want to pay for fish so I started fishing.

Well, after all that I figure why not do everything. Which direction am I going? Look at my sig and you tell me.

Taushar

[Gargazon]

am I the only one?

I got bored, saw the stuff on this site and said to myself, I want them, I want them all /cackle. It was never about any one tradeskill, I like more numbers. It will take me a while, but I am going to 250 everything, unless they shut down the server first.

The only thing standing in my way atm is a newfound addiction to vendor mining. Mainly to see what people sell away, but also to finance tradeskills lol. So far it's working out too since when I started I had about 2kpp, and now, my current skills (listed in my sig) I have about 3k banked. I farmed all my own stuff though, or bought it off vendors. Bazaar = EVIL ....unless you are buying from me of course, then it's all good

[Yalum]

In the dim and distant mists of history, I dreamed of a screenshot of the old gray skill boxes that said Baking - Master, Brewing - Master, Make Poison - Master. I figured it would make a nifty sig or personal pic. Then when I got close to my goal, they added numbers to the skill boxes. :shock: Master, a measly 101, just wouldn't do, and with Make Poison being level capped, that put a real crimp in my plans. I'd have to level to 60 first, and that was going to take a while. I finally hit 60 just after PoP was released, and that added New Tanaan Craft Mastery... I haven't invested the AAs to get all three to 250 yet, I'm sure the day after I do there will be a big patch that raises the trade skill cap to 400.

Poison making flowed naturally into pottery and, after being in prime position to exploit small wisdom deities when they came out, I decided on that one as my GM skill. I always had plans for tinkering, but couldn't hope to afford back in the days before geerloks.

Then two things happened. The first was the PotC quest. My skill was too low to compete with the GM potters, except on Crucibles of Escape which didn't sell so great, but the Blessed Fishing Rod looked promising. Complicated subcomponents + obscure skill + high demand = Profit! I made a tidy sum off those, but when the Bazaar opened, and selling no longer meant having to endure the EC tunnel, things exploded. Selling rods in my sleep at very nice markups, I skilled up smithing and tailoring to be able to make the spools and fishing line myself, threw some extra cash at fletching and jewelcraft just because they were there, and finally had money to really work on pottery and tinkering...

/em trundles on to 2250

[Kanvil]

When I started my first enchanter, I got into JC right away, even though the stats on jewelry back then seriously sucked. I wanted jewelry to wear, since I hate having empty equipment slots. I couldn't afford to buy from anyone, so I figured I'd make it myself, haha. After they revamped the jewelry, it was actually worth wearing and I was able to make money selling wis rings and earrings and such.

When I moved to Tholuxe Paells, I started out with tailoring right away because I wanted to make silk armor to wear. I didn't seriously start pursuing any tradeskills until I was level 44. Then I worked on JC and eventually got it to 250 around the time I hit 51. I didn't really do much else in the way of tradeskills until I started working on the coldain ring and shawl quests. After that, I became addicted to tradeskills =) When the may 8 recipes came out, I made a killing on crucibles of escape and solstice robes.

Currently, I've got 250 JC, 186 tailoring and 200 in all of the others, including fishing. That character is mostly retired for the time being, and I don't think I'm going to be doing any tradeskills with my current one. A paladin with 109 wis is not the best character to be tradeskilling with. =P

[Tweedledea]

I started tailoring to amuse myself. Heady kiolas? bleh, need brewing. Hmm, boning and studs? Smithing.

Then came the shawl quest.

I started wondering about useful things to do with the stuff I obsessively foraged, so I did a bit more baking. Then some more brewing when I was bored. Then, out of sheer bloody-mindedness I took brewing over 200. (Ok, ok, this was after they put in Tanaan) Managed to top it up to 250 with ethereal curing agent before they nerfed the trivial. Made my trophy - hooray!

Had most of my skills just under 200. Got one level of Tanaan mastery; told myself: 'This will be for tailoring!'

During a frenzy of MTP making I decided 200+ baking would be kinda useful. Took baking to 250.

Got another point in Tanaan. Ruthless determination took tailoring over 200 - hooray! Currently 215 and rising slowly... but guildies are asking me when I'm going to do smithing! (177)

1750 is a cool achievement... but once I've done the 'hard/useful' skills I'll consider my job done. 250 fletching is not for me! And I've got a rogue whose pottery is 220 which I hope to finish off one day.

It'll be nice to make useful stuff without worrying about how hard it is. But I'm no martyr

[Zacatac]

Oddly, I started out as a tailor, and now it is my lowest skill.

I was wearing (and selling) raw silk armors long ago.
Then learned some smithing to make studs and bonings.
Then learned brewing to make heady kiolas.
Finally was able to make the 10-slot backpacks!

Kept on brewing for awhile, took brewing up to 160 or so (and Alcohol Tolerance to 200).

Later on, I started smithing more after dropping tons of cash into Velious Tailoring and getting very little return.

I learned Pottery in order to make the jars for dyes when the Fine steel plate receipes & dyes went into game. Went up to the 168 skill I think.

So now I have tailoring, smithing, pottery and brewing all going in the 100+ range, with smithing on the way to 200+. About that time is when I got started on the shawl quests. So adding baking, JC and fletching to the list in order to do those completed the set.

Still working on 1450 club though,