Why did YOU choose to GM in the tradeskill you did?

[Snacky]

Hi all,

I've worked a few of my tradeskills up into the 190's and now I have to make the big decision! Which skill to GM in? Thank goodness 3 AA pts will let me pick additional skills to GM in, but I'm still very interested in your responses to this question.

What made you choose the tradeskill you did? What was your ultimate goal in selecting it? Inquiring minds want to know!

Thanks,

Snacky

[Delfontes]

I wanted to GM tailoring...

So I've GMed brewing.

Um, what was the question?

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Baking....what that?

Well, I went to college for Baking & Pastry Arts, got my AS in that. I love cooking and baking. So I decided I would GM it, and now with even more stat food, how can I lose?

[cattywumpus]

I'm a Vah Shir Shaman. The newbie quests for Vah Shir Shaman require a lot of brewing, eventually leading up to the Sonic Wolfbane Weapon quest which requires brewing to be around 135.

I just went from there.

Kinda regretting it now though, brewing is so limited compared to other skills.

[Meirril]

Kinda regretting it now though, brewing is so limited compared to other skills.

If brewing wasn't easy to GM in comparision to Smithing and Tailoring there would be a large market of smiths and tailors that would need GM Brewers to assist in the making of their finest products. Now though...make an alt and 2 days later its a GM brewer. Or save up 3 AA points.

I chose tailoring, well, mainly because it looked like a good idea. Yer a halfling druid, new to the world. You have a friend that tells you that you can make some armor out of those ruined pelts you've been pulling off the wolves you've been killing. Armor sounds nice, even if it is patchwork cloth. So you go train up tailoring and you put some skins and some of your hard earned silver into patterns. Eventualy you make some armor that you wouldn't of seen for another 8 levels. Ya continue on as a druid, and naturaly as an outdoors kinda guy, you kill alot of the animals that live in those woods you've sworn to protect. Kinda strange but ya go with it. All of those hides, makes ya wonder. So you do a little digging and find out that halflings have a long tradition of sewing bits of hide together and know how to make some decent things out of brute hide. Well ya says to yerself, might as well follow in their footsepts. Then ya begin to find out how hard it is...a year later and alot of leveling you go back to that silly notion of becomming not just a tailor, but a Grand Master tailor. Finaly you have the resources to do it. And so, you begin something alot harder than becomming a 60 druid, you try to become a GM tailor.

Honestly, I'm not sure its worth the effort, but I'm too stubbron to give up now. 8)

Any trade skill is worth becomming a GM in, if you want to. If your just looking for easy plat, go somewhere else. Easy plat dosen't come from trade skills, hard work comes from trade skills. And heart break, and pain, and boredom, and a certain sense of satisfaction in doing something...special. Worthwhile even. Trade Skills are their own reward, the stuff you make is the cake. If you don't feel that way...well...maybe your better off doing something else.

Oh, one other thing, once you practice 1 trade skill long enough, you tend to at least master the rest. Since you've mastered the rest, wouldn't it be easy to GM them all...just a though. A very devilish though that haunts us...its so hard but it dosen't *sound* all that hard.

[Pootle]

I am a tailor at heart, always have been, always will be.....

So when i got to 204 tailoring, i went ahead and GMed Jewcrafting.

Reason: Tailoring was really busting-my-balls.

I needed a hit of that 250 goodness, so i had my pet chanter do her thing and powered from 191 to 250.

Now its back to the tailoring, and maybe when i get another 3AAs spare, i will power brewing to feel that 250 Love again.

One day i will get GM Tailoring... but not today!

[Tanaysa]

Brewing, cause it sounded the most fun, then stat drinks came out, and I rejoiced!

[scarbrowed]

Baking because halflings (and men who play EQ) love to eat. And I'm lucky because MTP's still make me enough money to support my tailoring habit.

[Calabar]

My first online game was UO. That's where I discovered the joy of baking, even though food did nothing for you in game and there were only a hand full of food items you could make. Then I came to UO and almost fell out of my chair when I saw all the foods I could make. So my druid, my first character, started baking. Then I discovered smithing. And tailoring. And brewing. Well, you get my point.

After much agonizing between baking and tailoring, I decided to become a GM tailor. Well, at 14th level that’s not an easy thing to do. After reaching 20th level and raising most of my trade skills to over 100 I started playing other characters. Several months and several 20th level characters later I settle on a ranger and worked on fletching. After reaching about 40th level I started playing my druid again and working on his trade skills once more. One thing leads to another and I end up playing both my ranger and my druid as my mains, spending my precious resources on equipping them both and on trade skills of course. Becoming frustrated with tailoring, my druid took baking to 202 and beyond. My ranger hit 202 fletching just as the skill was nerfed and he could no longer afford to fletch. My druid finally trivialed Halas Pies and swore he would never touch them again except for requests from friends.

Then the guild I had been in all that time disbanded. I just couldn’t bring myself to play those characters so I played the kitty shaman I’d leveled to 14 when Luclin first came out. Well, naturally he had to become proficient in all the trade skills. So there I went again. I had been playing EQ for about two years and had yet to GM a skill. So that became my goal. I took up brewing, GMed the craft and made my trophy. I was one happy kitty. I’ve since taken pottery and fletching to 200 and I plan to do so with the rest of my trade skills. And one day I’ll spend some AA points and see if I can finally GM tailoring and baking as well. But curse the gods, I’ll have to make those **** pies again. *sigh*

[Suva]

My first skill I raised past 200 was pottery. Mainly cause I enjoyed it most of all of the ones I had done and because everyone i knew was doing other stuff. Baking ended up hitting 250 first though as pottery was quite expensive for me and slow going. I think pottery was next before I gm'd brewing. Baking and brewing were top choices just cause way back in my 30's someone gave me 100pp and taught me how to bake and brew :-)

[sumamael]

Smithing 'coz of roleplaying reasons....you know I have read a lot of Forgotten Realms books and when I started playing EQ the thought of working with such a legendary metal like adamantite and creating armors and weapons I got to know from those books was huge/awesome/amazing.

So without any more thought I invested like half a year into maxing out smithing before the metal sheets stacked, when HQ ore was only sold by 2 merchants that were a long walk (and a few zones) away from the nearest forge and long before the blue diamond cultural was born

[Liwsa]

I picked tailoring to make 10-slot backpacks. It has increased since then. I am closing in on all trade skills at 200 or better(tailoring and brewing over).

With tailoring you tend to pick up some of the other trade skills to.
Need brewing for those heady kolas
Need smithing for studs and boings
Need jewelry for chains for PToC robes
Need pottery for PToC robes

Once you start trade skilling it you tend to find that you will need others skills besides the one you are really doing, and you do them all to a small extent (or large if you want).

[Velikij]

I picked Jewelcrafting. I wanted to do this from the beginning because I wanted to be able to make jewelry for myself and my friends to wear. I even wore self crafted pieces up in to my low 50's for lack of better equipment. Now with the advent of the bazaar and the plethora of items to choose from at relatively low costs, the appeal of hand crafted pieces has gone down. However, I went ahead and made 250 JC and my tradeskill trophy (which I still display proudly) for the sense of accomplishment, and the ability to help out my friends and any other individuals that come along that need a hand.

[Healblade]

Baking: It was first alphabetically

Yes, I'm serious. After that I GMed Brewing, started Fletching, GMed Jewelcraft, got a couple fletching points, GMed Pottery...

Now with 250 in Baking, Brewing, Jewelcraft, and Pottery... I only have 224 Fletching since I'm doing those acrylia arrows

[ChaseFV]

Ah the process...

As a ranger, it was my original intent to GM Fletching, and I had worked it up into the 180's when Wood Elven Cultural Fletching launched. As a Half-Elf, I was devastated. Since I play on FV where alts aren't really an option unless you're made out of money and can afford another account, I grew very bitter against cultural tradeskills. That left me with 3 choices: Brewing, Baking or Pottery. At that time, there were already two bakers on FV pushing to GM (Zianu and Elsbet), and 2 GM potters raking in money hand over fist on the new Luclin recipes (Jarkell and Lorec). That left me to try to become FV's first GM brewer. As far as I know, I was the first to 250, though one of the fellas in an über guild claimed that since he was 242 +5% that meant he was close enough.

I'm still pushing to join the 1450 club, and once I ding 51 and start grabbing AA's, I will likely do Baking and Pottery next. In that order.