near impossible to skill up now?

[darksisco007]

Been looking at the new combines. It seems after 200 skilling up ss almost not gonna be doable. There are only maybe 2 dozen combines between 200 and 450, most of which are grouped around 4 12pt ranges. There are only 16 gems over 200 to do combines with, which are all rarish drops.
So the availabilty of items to skill up with is gonna be Very rare at minimum.

[Curzon]

The old recipes for non-enchanted items are still intact as of the date of this posting. Regular 'ole platinum bar + malachite = 218 trivial, and so forth. I skilled up to 241 off of vendor ingredients on a toon just this week. Looks like I will be good to go into the 270's as soon as I, you know, manage to convince someone to buy these new statless wonders from the new recipes.

[thomenthechanter]

Agreed... the old (non-enchanted) jewelcraft combines still work, so you can still ride Blue Diamond + Velium to 300.