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

[Phyrxes]

GM a Skill

I plan on GMing two skills. First and most important Tinkering and as my side project Brewing. I chose brewing as its vendor bought until 248 and "cheap"....I'll gladly accept the clickfest it is for that advantange (it is an advantage right?).

Woohoo Drunken Tinkering...wait, thats sounds hazardous to all people around me. Gnomercy to the RNG, I demand skill ups...uh I mean can I please have some oh great merciful RNG...I'll make sacrifices....

[Cantatus]

I picked Smithing partially because I didn't want to be locked into the stereotype that all Enchanters are GM jewelcrafters. I started working on smithing religiously after the added the dyed fine plate and then when they added cultural it was a no brainer.

[Serenya]

Originally, I chose my tradeskills for roleplaying reasons. My barb warrior tailored to make her first armor (patchwork) before I learned that warriors make lousy tradeskillers. She didn't last long ;p My ranger fletches, and is at 239. Of my two dwarven clerics, originally one was to be a brewer and the other a smith. Right now it looks like both will GM brewing /shrug. I started out with a monk that baked; when I deleted her I still wanted a baker, and created a halfling druid for that purpose. It's the first time I created a character for the tradeskill, rather then choosing a tradeskill for the character, so naturally it was also the first one to hit 250....... What can I say, I found out I really like baking. :roll:

[Cerpicio]

I did some tailoring with my new characters for the armor and WR bags. Then I figured my enchanter was a natural choice for JC. At low levels it was fun to make magical items that were useful for me and my friends, and even to make a little money (pre-Bazaar).

As someone else mentioned, in order to get tailoring up, it helps to get Brewing and Smithing up at least a little.

And since I am a gnome and want to tinker, I wanted to get fletching up to make items for tinkered catapluts.

But eventually I went with JC and got the trophy beacuse the items were nearly all vendor-sold and didn't need a lot of items for one combine. If my main were a druid or other forager I probably wold have gone with baking.


-- C.

[Verdandi]

I was 190 in everything but smithing and tailoring when the cultural armors came out. Smithing was mid 100's and tailoring was low 100s. There hadn't been anything compelling enough to make me decide, until I saw that cultural armor. Yum! I would have probably given up, however, if a friend didn't volunteer his bank account and time to help me get into the 220s before the patch that made skilling up so much harder. So it was a combination of the blue diamond cultural and a HUGE dose of luck in the form of my friend that turned me into a dedicated smith.

[Laliana Silverfangs]

Originally, I had decided to GM tailoring. Then I discovered I needed some smithing skill to be able to be efficient on my own with my tradeskills, so I started doing smithing. All this was done a little at a time. About the low 40's to mid 40's, I decided I wanted to do the prayer shawl. Well, that started baking, brewing and some pottery (for the tools for baking). By this time, smithing and tailoring were only 50 to 75 in skill level. baking, and brewing were at 150 or so, and pottery about 125. I, then, got knocked offliine for 2 months due to RL. I came back only to decide to bring my baking to 250, and then brewing. I figured I would have to spent some money on bringing up my baking and brewing, but I would get that back, and re-invest into tailoring and smithing. Now, I have the goal to GM all tradeskills.

[Carmaris]

Did brewing because I was having problems finding a brewer for my 9th Coldain ring. Went from 0 to 227 in a couple days, gratz me on ring. Also gratz a bunch of guildmates, friends, friends of friends, and total strangers, hehe.

It was, oh, close to 7 months before I went above 227. When I first started brewing, the only thing you could make was alcoholic drinks. Didn't see much sense in going beyond what was necessary to have a reasonable chance at success for the TAA. I did up my other tradeskills in order to do my 8th shawl. Then I discovered stat drinks (QAT's were already one point trivial /sigh), and skilled to 250 or so KC's.

[Danthen]

'Cause I knew it would make me money :twisted:

<---- Human Blacksmith

[Kahmon]

I would suggest 1 of 2 things:

1)Whatever your culture is. By GMing something that only your race can make it allows you to stand out from other GMs of that skill.

2)Baking. Heres why: Nearly everything uber that is made via tradeskills is droppable. Bristlebanes Party Platter is NOT. It is by far and away the best stat food in EQ and you must make it yourself to have one.

Thanks to New Tanaan Crafting Mastery you can always change your mind down the road as well.

[Sylphan]

The cultural recipes got me to GM smithing. The shawl quest is what got me to diversify -- I already had four trades up over 100 but for the quest I needed all seven. Then the PoP recipes convinced me to spend a few AAs to GM other skills: pottery for the focus items and jewelcraft just to support my smithing.

I'd been an enchanter since the game first opened but just plain didn't want to be a jeweler, possibly because I leveled so slowly but also I hated the notion that all enchanters made jewelry. I'd only dabbled in various trades, mostly because certain recipes were profitable selling back to vendors (later nerfed). But I did want to make stuff, considering the enchant spells an important part of my class. When cultural smithing came out there were new recipes that only high elves could make, and only high elves could wear, and I wanted to do it.

The idea of wearing chainmail instead of a robe was a big part of the attraction, but it turned out that chainmail had lower AC than cloth (who woulda guessed?) so it was useless. I was the first person to make many of those original cultural recipes and report the stats to EQ Traders. Some of those original pieces are still unsold years later, possibly the only one ever made, just to find the stats.

[Zopharr]

I was a dorf - and real dorf's smith. <grin> Enough brewing, etc. to make tempers and such, but smithing was always number one.

With Garshok ... well, didn't see any other tradeskill that jumped out at me, and thought strength smithing was worth a shot. He certainly wasn't going to GM anything based on intelligence.

[Cigarskunk]

Went for baking with my troll SK -

1) I think the baked goods are fun in general and from a RP perspective

2) People are very ignorant as too the possibilities of baked goods - if I had a plat for every time a guildy or someone I was grouped with was amazed at the stats on what I considered "junk" baked goods...

3) Once upon a time a dev had promised us trolls baking as our cultural tradeskill - I'm still holding them to that promise.

[Froni Thunderpaws]

I went for pottery because it is a hobby in real life. (I guess so is cooking). Granted most of what I have made in RL is pots, bowls, mugs and vases it was fun when they added all the new recipes and I hope they might add some more.

[Groghe]

I'm hard-headed

I went shopping in the bazaar one day and wanted some Misty Thicket Picnics because I'd heard about the nice stats they had (back when they were just starting to hit the economy). I was appalled at the price the GM bakers were charging for them. I happened to catch someone else complaining in /ooc about the prices and they were flippantly told "Don't like my prices? GM the skill yourself".


So I did :P

[pennyrose]

This was an easy question for me: I didn't choose. I just started doing tradeskills, with the intention of being able to make an Earring of Nature eventually, and I guess I assumed all along that I would eventually GM them all. They are on various alts, so I won't me one of those amazing folks who have GMed over half a dozen skills with one character.

The only one I've GMed so far is baking, I guess because it quickly became a money maker, enough not only to support itself, but to finance some of the other skills, and also because it is relatively easy, especially with my main a forager.

I won't set any speed records getting there, but pottery is 233, brewing and jc are over 200, tailoring, tinkering and smithing are in the 190's and fletching is trailing at about 175. I do have a shaman alt who will do alchemy eventually, but I'm waiting until I'm not spread quite so thin.

Pennyrose with friends Tazzia, Alouette, Wynsum, Runival and Soozeecue (the Bazaar saleswoman)