I got bored last night (Newbie Data Enclosed)

[Radasar]

dwarf pally jeweler

As a dwarf, with about 157 wis Took me about 2500pp to go from 0-154
saving more to try and get to 200

[Lilosh]

Re: dwarf pally jeweler

As a dwarf, with about 157 wis Took me about 2500pp to go from 0-154
saving more to try and get to 200

EaGods... I guess the 100 more wisdom I have cut my cost to almost 1/4 of yours.

Learn from this, folks. WIS/INT really does help.



Well, I spent 30p more and trivved Gold + Opal.
Updated Total cost 0-146: 730 plat.


-Lilosh

[Cubwynn]

After 140 combines, 190int, 250wis, 90cha,... I was out a net cost of about 5kpp, and ZERO skillups. NONE.. still 205.

My record is 210 combines with no skillups.

I've been at 239 since late 2001. I stopped doing jewelry at all (except on request from friends) for my sanity. Hundreds of non-trivial combines later, still hasn't budged.

[Lilosh]

Luckily, 239 + Geerlok = 251 (Assuming the game rounds 250.95 up)


So you arent missing that much.

Especially if you have the JC AA, you lucky chanter you.



-Lilosh

[Pojodan]

After 140 combines, 190int, 250wis, 90cha,... I was out a net cost of about 5kpp, and ZERO skillups. NONE.. still 205.

I about threw my computer down the stairs.

The only thing that saved it was I have had worse runs during tailoring. sigh.

My record is 210 combines with no skillups.

Here's a tip:
Do a stack of 20, if no skill ups, take a break, get a drink, etc.. no rush. If you get a skill up, continue, repeat.
Doing combines in huge 100s of combines in one quick sitting is usually a good way to have a bad day.

If you go through 3 stacks with still no skill ups, set everything aside and come back the next day or at least another hour or so, then see how everything flys.


Back on the topic, I'm glad to hear the JC isn't too expensive to get to around 200.. I'm aspiring to get the 8th shawl and was worried that it would break my bank to get all my skills up.

So far I am as follows
Baking: 172
Tailoring: 158
Pottery: 148
Smithing: 99
Brewing: 85
JC: 0
Fletching: 0

I'm pretty much confiding to the fact that I'm just gonna have to farm the items for the 6th shawl a dozen times or two as tailoring is either a MASSIVE time sink or a MASSIVE money sink to get past 158.

The only one that really has me worried is Smithing as Ornate seems mighty darn expensive, but I'll leave that to the appropriate forum :P

[tatanka7th]

Kichi,

You shouldn't have too much trouble. I raised my skills also for the 8th shawl. You can get to 200 in both fletching and JC for less than 5kpp total, and just sitting in front of a vendor. And that's without enchanting anything.

As to smithing, I left it at 179, made my last two pieces of Imbued Royal Velium last night, had very few failures (one bracer, one helm, both failed on the smithing step). I got to 179 doing fine plate, never did any ornate. Of course, now that I think about it, I did some wood elf cultural in there, too. I think I did various basic smithed stuff into the 100s, then did smithed sewing kits to 135 (not sure what they triv at now). Then did WE sewing kits to 143 (again, before the nerfs, don't know where they triv now), then recently did WE fletching kits to 163 (this is the post-nerf triv). FP took me to 179.

If the basic smithed stuff is too low now, there is still an easy way to get to 116 (I think it's 116). Smithing condensed substances to arrowheads trivs at 116, and the recipe is 1 chunk and 1 water, so it's a very cheap recipe. If you can't farm the mobs easily yourself, just visit the proper areas, and look for druids or wizzies who quad there. They will loot them by the stack. You can probably make a deal to get the chunks, smith the arrowheads and give them back. I did this for three or four people, and they always gave the arrowheads back, so I'm always happy to help out peeps on 7th hammer doing this. I'm out of chunks now, but I'm sure I'll be getting lots more =)

The condensed chunks of shadow drop off Umbrous Toilers in ME, and the condensed chunks of flame drop off various Tro Jegs up on the plateau in Scarlet Desert. Not sure where the ice chunks drop.

Tat

[Velurian]

I wouldn't worry too much about Ornate Chain being expensive; I just did 111 to 141 on Ornate Chain a couple nights ago, doing the bracers at each metal up to 135 (silver to 122, electrum to 128, gold to 135) then gold ornate coifs from there to 141 where I ran out of HQ rings. Only cost about 500pp. (Maybe you consider that expensive, and a few months ago, I would have, but trying to skill up tailoring lately has raised my threshold... :shock: )

Sellback prices on ornate chain are rotten, so it's very, very important to get your INT/WIS/STR up as high as possible, so as to minimize number of combines per skillup. And I don't intend to do platinum ornate chain -- I was done with throwing away money on platinum purchases when I GMed JC. Gonna do the gold coif to 146, then mail to 155 (maybe leggings for a couple points in there), then start on Fine Plate.

(Fine Plate shouldn't be too bad either, since the sellback rate is close to 100% if you farm and make your own Leather Padding.)