250 skill with Store Bought items?

[liliputt]

Is there any trade skill that you can get to 250 skill with just stuff from NPC merchants? If not what is the highest you can get too like this.

Cheers

[Bartox]

JC and Fletching

[Lothay]

The answer is Jewel Craft.

~Lothay.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

248 Brewing is darn close.

[liliputt]

Thought maybe JC but that is **** expensive.

Didnt know about Fletching thx

[Bregalad]

Yes, can get to 248 brewing on store-bought, and it is quite cheap too. But 188-248 you'll be doing 9-component combines. You'll need a new mouse (and a prosthetic limb) by the time you are done.

[Thicket Tundrabog]

It's true that you can get to 248 Brewing with store-bought stuff. Getting to 250 Brewing is almost as easy. The only non-store bought component of Kaladim's Constitutional is the mushroom ground spawns found in Kaladim. Unlike some ground spawns, these are easy to find and respawn quickly.

Thicket

[Calabar]

I’ve never practiced jewelcraft and I’ve only taken fletching to 202, but I’m inclined to believe that the store bought route to 250 fletching is a lot more expensive than the store bought rough to 250 jewelcraft. That’s the reason I stopped at 202 fletching, I was pinching my coppers so hard the screams were drawing a crowd. *grins*

And with the exception of leather padding, I believe smithing can be store bought all the way to 250 by making mistletoe cutting sickles after fine plate. But unless you have a very large bank account I wouldn’t recommend it.

[Verdandi]

And with the exception of leather padding, I believe smithing can be store bought all the way to 250 by making mistletoe cutting sickles after fine plate.

Sickles take imbued emeralds, which require a druid or cleric of Tunare to imbue them. Such druids and clerics are common, but the three emeralds required per combine means these become a major hassle in the long haul.

[Cuiva Lapdancer]

Fletching is in fact much more expensive to go the storebought route after 202. Up to then you are doing arrows, if you stick yourself in front of a vendor to continue you'll be making bows -- and even getting a pocket gnome to tinker cams for you at cost, you'll still lose over 100 plat PER SUCCESS doing bows post-200.

Jewelcraft, of course, has always been easy to vendor purchase skill. There, worst case, you might lose 100 plat on failure, but (if using enchanted metals) you break even or make a little from success. Not much, maybe enough to offset the fails if you are lucky, but at least you aren't losing much on a success.

[Kamotracker]

What they said...

You can only feasibly get fletching to 235 off store-bought items...it'll still be ungodly expensive(at 200ish dex, best prices, store-bought cams, pre-nerf prices and skill ups I spent 30k 202-235) Now considering nerfs I would assume with tinkered cams it would be 40-50k to 235. After that point you would move up to shadewood, which can be done with just Staff and string, it would still be ungodly slow and even more expensive.

[Calabar]

I think what this thread is proving is just because something is possible it doesn’t mean its feasible. The original question was, “Is there any trade skill that you can get to 250 skill with just stuff from NPC merchants?” Perhaps a better question might have been, “Is there any trade skill that you can reasonably get to 250 skill with just stuff from NPC merchants?”

Though there are several trade skills that you could get to 250 from NPC vendors, or at least mostly so, if you have millions of plat in your bank and are willing to blow them all on said trade skill, I think only brewing and jewelcraft are feasible for the average player. And of these two, brewing is by far the cheapest.

[accretion]

Wow, if I could go from 202-235 on 30K in Tailoring I'd be doing cartwheels through every floor of my office building :P

Seriously, cost is all relative. Many upper level folks have 100K-1000K sitting in the bank and it's really not a big deal to drop 1/4 of it to GM a skill. Others haven't ever seen a 5-figure in the bank and need to keep expenses to a minimum. With the advent of the Bazaar, nearly all tradeskills are possible to GM "quickly" if you have enough plat.

Primero Aventurero
63 Druid

[Mendan]

With the advent of the Bazaar, nearly all tradeskills are possible to GM "quickly" if you have enough plat.

I can't agree more, with maybe 300k you could probably go from 158 to 250 on solstice robes, and get most if not all your mob-dropped ingredients from the bazaar. The final cost would probably be based on how much silk costs on your server, and whether you can imbue your emeralds or need to pay someone to do it.

[Forthofer]

238 isn't Grandmaster Fletcher

Kamotracker said, "Grandmaster Fletcher 238".

Umm... 238 isn't Grandmaster Fletcher. Even with Geerlok, that's only 250, which is less than the 252 of a real Grandmaster Fletcher with Geerlok/trophy.

If you're going to claim to be a (sort of) Grandmaster, you should at least have the effective skill of a true Grandmaster.