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**GraemeFaelban** · 07-31-2003, 03:40 PM

Your druid will be able to imbue emeralds, which will be handy for some tradeskill items. Your druid will have better foraging, and, quite likely, better Wis or Int than the bard, which will make skilling up easier for the druid.

One of the better classes for tradeskills is an enchanter, as there are a number of items that only enchanters can make required for most tradeskills.

In the end though, you need to play what you will have the most fun playing.

**Morgrist** · 07-31-2003, 04:10 PM

Believe it or not,either the druid or the monk will make a decent tailor. Wood elves have cultural stuff,and the Iksar have that nice line of robes from Legacy of Ykesha.

As a tailor,high levels help. It makes it easier to gather materials-you can always use the druid as a forage mule for tailoring components, then just transfer them with shared bank slots to the Iksar as needed.

**Ladnia** · 07-31-2003, 05:20 PM

I'm voting for your druid, and here's why:

1.) imbuing emeralds is definitely a plus. It will help with several of the skills over the course of your career.

2.) Foraging: I realize that your Iksar can also forage, but you can get foraging to a level that it will really help you with your druid.

3.) Farming: You'll need to be able to slaughter lower level monsters en masse for their tradeskilling goodness

A Monk of your level would be able to do that as well, but not quite as quickly as a Druid who has the tracking skill.

4.) Soloing: Depending on your circle of friends or your guildmates, you might have times where you need to go get an item on your own.

5.) Wisdom: With a druid you won't need a seperate suit of gear for tradeskilling. You already want to have max wisdom just for your class, so in the long run it will save you money.

and last, but not least...

6.) Ports! PoP has reduced the amount of ports that are needed by the regular player, but ports are invaluable for a tradeskiller. For example, you want to do shadowscream armor and need swirling shadows... It's much easier just to port to twilight sea than run there from Shadowhaven.

Hope this helped

Ladnia
54th JinXed Vicar, Vazaelle
Smithing 188

**Morani** · 07-31-2003, 05:31 PM

The only thing we know for SURE about the usefulness of a high forage skill is that it reduces that chance of getting nothing when you try. Many people are convinced or nearly convinced that with a skill of 200, you'll get SOMETHING every time. Outside of that, there are a lot of theories.

I think the skill is VERY helpful to have at 150+ if you are going to use a lot of foraged items. Even if you are just looking for rare items (say 1 in 20 as a guessed chance), than the more times you get SOMETHING the more chances you have at getting a rare. I seem to remember that at 75 I was failing 3-4 out of every 5 tries. At 190, I was failing something like 1 out of 20 tries.

Just a word of note; 175+ is SLOW moving on the skill-ups so if you are impatient, save up some practice point and buy it up.

**tsbaity** · 08-01-2003, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by Morani
Just a word of note; 175+ is SLOW moving on the skill-ups so if you are impatient, save up some practice point and buy it up.

Can only use practice points for the first 21 points of most tradeskills.

**Idara** · 08-01-2003, 11:40 AM

Oh, and woodelf cultural tailoring is a joke. There's no possible way you can use it as a viable skill up path. The excellent sabertooth hides are FAR too rare a drop to skill up on. On the whole, though, I've found it very convenient to use my woodelf druid as my tradeskill character. Foraging helps in many many instances, being able to imbue my own emeralds is very nice, and being able to port myself around to wherever I want to go farm is also wonderful.

**Marteeny** · 08-01-2003, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by tsbaity
Can only use practice points for the first 21 points of most tradeskills.

Foraging is a skill, not a tradeskill.

**Balkin** · 08-01-2003, 03:08 PM

Buying Skill

Agreed.

Foraging CAN be bought up to 200 skill.

**Xoiijin** · 08-01-2003, 03:12 PM

I stared tradeskills with my Druid last night. She is Lvl 22 so i have a lot of work to do hehe, but in one night of Brewing 122...i will probably 250 that skill first and then work on them all....next time i log i will use the cyclops skull to get to 151

boy i have a lot of clicking to do...

thanks for all the advice...

here i go.

X.

Arimsa Mistwalker of Rodcet Nife

Brewing 122

**Ndaara** · 08-02-2003, 01:16 AM

there are plenty of advantages to the wood elf druid as a tradeskiller, and i know all about em since i am one! on the other hand... at this point in my tradeskilling i buy most everything i need in the bazaar for 2 reasons:

1) everything's available at one point or other

B) i prefer to do stuff other than foraging and imbuing with my EQ time.

That said, it's handy to be ABLE to do so many things myself. Just keep in mind that the bazaar (as well as finding newbies and paying them well to help you out) can be equally effective. Really depends more on how you prefer to spend your time.

And I'll second that notion of Gnome Enchanters being one of the very best tradeskill choices. If only i could stand playing an enchanter for more than 2 hours

**Slippyblade** · 08-04-2003, 02:11 AM

I have to disagree... I'd level the bard. Why? Everyone agrees that higher levels = easier farming and faster cash. Well, druids get the shaft in the high level game. Bards are welcomed with open arms into planar groups where druids are often passed over. Also, bards can solo. They can track to a skill of 100. They can forage to a skill of 50.

This is my opinion.

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