Gorthag's Guide to Pottery

[Brodybeard]

Is is supposed to be like this? I'm at 171 skill. I did the Lined Vials to get to 168, then because it takes too long to do casserole dishes, I decided to do planar steins til 216. I spent 3k on tainted planar essence, did 250 combines, and got 3 skill raises. Is that normal?

Just bad luck.

Don't hate me, but last week my druid did just 40 combinations of planar steins and went from 206 to 209.

[Krazick]

As others will tell you... the higher you go in getting skills, the harder the skill ups become.

There are various theories, and mind they are just theories (no proofs have surfaced), that it is easier to get a skill up when closer to the trivial level.

A less expensive way would be to work on the Casserole Dish to 199. Yes, there is only one place to buy the sketch... and the ceramic linings are a pain... but more (but not all) of this stuff stacks now. So it is less painful.

[Sethlic]

Your guide has done well. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I do believe I saw a request from Den Mom to post it on the main site. Are you gonna allow her to do this?

[Tanul]

Buying the casserole sketches aren't the problem - I bought like 200 of them. It's the **** ceramic linings that are the problem. Unstackable **** - it adds like hours to the time it would normally take me to do a few 100 combines.

[KyrosKrane]

Fired ceramic linings are now stackable, though for some odd reason the unfired ones still don't stack. So, spend a bit of time making a few stacks of linings ahead of time, and you're all set.

[Tanul]

Sweet - Thanks.

[Rhumba]

Question about EMarr steins

Well I've broken down on Tunare and am leveling up an EMarr Cleric for this... I'm up to 22 so far.

Is there any real reason to not move to EMarr steins right away at 200 rather than doing Opal steins prior. I'm not going to keep two merchants up to sell the steins.

Rhumba Kween
250 Smith on Tunare

Archy
250 Jeweler on Tunare
199 Potter on Tunare