Platinum Cost to Get to Skill 250?

[Elmier]

Still reaping rewards of initial cost

Well,

I did expensive method, of steins. Cost me abut 35k total to get to 250. But I have more than made 5 times that in profit from Golden Idols of Tunare. So, some of the tradeskills can pay for themselves without a major amount of flagging done.

[Aalar]

I think pottery is one of the skills an unflagged individual can make a tidy profit from. A lot of the nice items can be farmed from the lower level PoP zones.

One of my favorite spots to farm items is the PoF where the charm birds spawn. They are on a 3 day spawn, more or less. So if you are able to solo there you can kill the magmas which drop solidified magma which is used to make the ceramic incense burner of Ro.

Aalar

[Maevenniia]

I think pottery is one of the skills an unflagged individual can make a tidy profit from. A lot of the nice items can be farmed from the lower level PoP zones.

One of my favorite spots to farm items is the PoF where the charm birds spawn. They are on a 3 day spawn, more or less. So if you are able to solo there you can kill the magmas which drop solidified magma which is used to make the ceramic incense burner of Ro.

Aalar

PoF (Plane of Fire) is NOT a "lower level PoP zone" - LOL

[The Judge, Alchem]

I think Silverfish's way of skilling up is less than admirable. EQ Traders has a guide where you can level up to Mastery by doing bowels in succession for less than 100pp. Then choose your route to go from there. I would have to agree with the majority here, after reading the EQT guides I spent less than a few hundred pp to get to 200. Vials were most exspensive in components to make. I got greedy and just wanted to get to 200 so I bought from Bazaar, but you could farm your own stuff that you need til 200 cap, or 198 rather.

[Akishka]

I don't understand why Silverfish's way is less than admirable? Seems like a viable option to me and I'm doing something similar.

[Tweedledea]

I think 200-250 is the tough part, most of us are too tired and jaded to quibble too much about which vendor-bought combines we use up to 200

[Silverfish]

The Race to 188

The Judge, Alchem wrote:

"Vials were most exspensive in components to make. I got greedy and just wanted to get to 200 so I bought from Bazaar, but you could farm your own stuff that you need til 200 cap, or 198 rather."

This sentence leads me to believe he may not realize that one can use Crow's Special Brew for poison vials. Doing it with pelts or skins can get very costly in time and materials, but in the Abysmal Sea that's not necessary, so it's easy and much cheaper than anything the Bazaar can provide.

Silverfish

[Vulcon Mastercrafter]

200-248 should be the Unfired Idols. Find an Imbuer of cheap gems.

I don't know why you would do anything else.

[Aalar]

I should have seperated my previous post better hehe. I didn't mean to say PoF was a lower level PoP zone - just that it was my favorite place to get components Sorry for the confusion

Aalar

[The Judge, Alchem]

The Judge, Alchem wrote:

"Vials were most exspensive in components to make. I got greedy and just wanted to get to 200 so I bought from Bazaar, but you could farm your own stuff that you need til 200 cap, or 198 rather."

This sentence leads me to believe he may not realize that one can use Crow's Special Brew for poison vials. Doing it with pelts or skins can get very costly in time and materials, but in the Abysmal Sea that's not necessary, so it's easy and much cheaper than anything the Bazaar can provide.

Silverfish

I mastered Pottery in the old days, back when new UI's weren't the only thing making me want to participate. And as far as being less than admirable, it is and I'll tell you why. From to 122 can be done for less than 30pp. Do Medium Unfired Bowls and destroy the unfired bowl portion of the product. Firing them costs money, it does not raise the resale value at anything that should concern a Potter, and just takes up more bag space. AFter 122, go to large bowls, then vials to 198. Casserole dishes to 199, and then I moved up to Planar Steins for the last point since I was hunting in Earth at this time and getting a fair load of Tainted Planar Essence. It cost me close to nothing to get to 200. I don't see it costing me more than av average of around 10-15k to get to 250 with the new Planar pottery.

Now if I'm wrong and you can prove to me that you CAN NOT get to 200 for under 500pp, PLEASE point it out and why. That's all I'm saying, it can be done for far less than that guide, and why someone would rather spend more money than not is another issue, but it definitely wasn't the cheapest way to get to Grandmastery is all.

And SIlver, you are right on that point. The new Crows Brew option leaves this tradeskill as an option for a lot who might have been too scared to try it. Abysmal Sea has taken the hassle out of reserving tradeskill nights now so you can deal with the stress, remember those times? Anyways, it was a good thing to mention that and I wish that was an option for me before.

[karoshi]

i've just gone from 244 to 249 pottery in one sitting, it cost me 14,696pp exactly.

thats making star ruby steins as a rogue with the following stats:

cha for buying at 155 (plus average faction)

int for combines at 153 (thats with a 10 peice suit of tradeskilling armour designed to raise int)

i know it might've been cheaper to make idols and destroy them rather than fire them, but i've never made something just for a chance of a skillup, thats not being a craftsman, thats being a stamping press..

[Wystaria]

I'm not sure how much money I spent getting from 1 to 200, but from 200 to 250 it took me around 9,000 platinum or so w/ 355 int (not sure if this is much of a factor). Picked up Tainted Planar Essence on guild raids and made planar steins til 216 then worked on white ceramic bands and various deity-imbued steins. I averaged 1 or 2 skill ups per 20 combines, and didn't bother firing/selling anything back (too lazy, not enough space). Enchanted and imbued my own stuffs with the help of my boyfriend, though, so that probably cut costs.

-- Wystaria,
who spent a lot more cash on JC than pottery

[Turner_USA]

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How the hell does it cost you people that much to get to 250.

From 199-250 why not make Deity specific steins?

For example the Cazic Thule Stein:
1 Idol Sketch 1s
1 Amber 2p3g3s
1 Large Block of Clay 1g1s
1 Poison Vial 1p5g8s
1 Emerald 13p6g5s

TOTAL: 17p5g5s

so if you do 1000 combines that should cost about 17.5k if you can skill up on an average of 1 in 20. And you can get someone to do the enchants and imbues for free.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Because we're lazy. Vials of X mana can generally be found in the bazaar. Imbued gems generally cannot.

Personally its not worth it to me to hunt up someone to imbue that many gems, then wait for them to do it, then pay them for their services just to save a little money.

Star ruby steins only cost about 70pp to make and sellback to merchant for a good portion of that.

Factor in the cost of paying someone to imbue (I personally don't just ask people out of the blue to imbue hundreds of gems at all... I certainly wouldn't ask them to do it for free) and you're only saving 20 or 30pp per combine going that route. It will also take you a lot longer due to fhe time to find an imbuer and time to do all the imbues.

To me, this is a trivial amount of platinum... my time is more valuable than that.

Obviously, I'm not alone.

[Froni Thunderpaws]

Guessing it cost me about $26-27k total. Opal steins to 222, mix of crucibles and idols to 235, idols beyond. Most my wis was at during it was 280, I lost track but I think I was averaging about a skill up per 28-30 combines. Imbued my own pebbles, bought mana in bazaar, as well as some other imbued stones when I ran out of pebbles - and they were hard to find in the bazaar most of the time. If someone is getting pottery at 1 per 20 they are very lucky. (Baking was at 1 in 24 for me.)