Skillups goin slow what stats are needed for pottery?

[Krystalsinger]

Ready to pull your hair out?

To get from 239 to 241 with an int just over 120, took me 1004 combines. Right now, I'm at 249 and have done 200 combines without the last gain. But I'm not worrying about it anymore. It was making me too mad.

[Wyloc Wormwood]

ok this is getting to be a joke now :shock:
with my tradeskill gear on and kei im at 265 wis so i should be getting skill up right? wrong. im at 220 pottery (the same as i was before the fix) and now 100 idols of EMarr, 60 white ceramic bands, 120 star ruby stiens, 20 crucibles of escape, 20 spirit stones/faithstones and lol lost count of the golden idols; and haven't had a skill up yet.
im waiting for them to gm message me... "Wyloc stop using /feedback pottery is working as intended!"

there isnt much you can get ya teeth into as a rogue when cant find a group, cant solo for toffee, and now the tradeskill i worked on from a wee lad to help his poison making gets the Fix. how much more plat do i bother to throw into my bottomless well of a potters wheel? or should i just not try anymore till they listen to my /feedbacks and do something about it?

[Gailedon]

Pottery skilups

I'm at 171 now, and while I seem to be having better luck than some of the rest of you it's still silly. 223 wisdom with KEI and it took 120 combines for 5 skillups. But then the last 40 combines happened without a single one :roll: . I'll update after I go whack on more kitties in stonebrunt for MQ pelts. (Got bored making the ceramic linings, I wish they were stackable) And the sellback on sealed poison vials is a LOT better than casserole dishes.

[Wyloc Wormwood]

ok knuckled under again spent 5k on white ceramic bands (263 wis with kei) and got 2 skill ups, woot it moves its not buged or broken. so ill stick with these till it trivs (im at 222 now) and keep tabs on howmany i do. grrr wish i was a chanter so i could make my own Cloudy mana :roll:

[K.Rool]

Something is going wrong there! I have skilled up to 191 before that Skill up "tweak" came. After then (believe me, 233 INT, i am sure on those numbers):

-between 260 and 280 (cannot remember that one stack) combines on casserole
-exactly 80 opal encrusted steins
-20 blue ceramic bands
-15 white ceramic bands

and i STILL have !NOT! got the 192th skill point!!! That's insane, seeing it is one skill point. And i need to get to 200+... WHERE should i get the time for that?

[Dvinn]

Has anybody skilled from 190-230+ after the "fix"? I ask because it seems impossible based on my own expreiences and those who posted here.

[Unmei]

Yah

I went from about 180 to 222 after the patch. (Unless there's been another patch since the "slight adjustment" patch) and it was slow and painful going, but I did get there. Int ranged from around 225 to 260 depending on what point in the work it was. Bear in mind that I was plodding away at this before the patch (got to 180 or so), and continued at it afterwards. I've never been really hardcore about it - I generally skilled up in runs of 20-60 combines, which generally netted 0-4 skillups. I had a really rough stuck point at 189, and another at 216, and now I seem to be gummed up again at 222, but that last is probably a result of me not doing as many combines... though I have done a few runs of Idols of Erolissi Marr without any success, in addition to various Star Ruby Steins, Faithstones, Spiritstones, and one Ceramic Rod of Storms.

So... it's a pain in the behind. But I've not done any other tradeskills past 26 ever, so I can't say how it compares.

[Forthofer]

Use Casserole Dishes to 199

Last week, I went from 188 to 199 making Casserole Dishes, at about 1.5pp per attempt. I averaged about 30 attempts per skillup. My Wisdom was 355.

[Deneldar]

Terminal lurker finally posts simply because pottery shocked me so much. Pottery is the last tradeskill I've done and is BY FAR the slowest yet.

I've only got 187, I have 280 WIS and 185-187 took something like 77 ceramic bands and 53 lined vials. Thats 130 combines for 2 skill ups at what I consider a fairly low level. Not sure I'm going to continue.

[squirrelbait]

Re:

My current int is 247 and from 188 to 201 it has taken me an avg of 33 combines per skill up. I have a druid with 255 Wisdom who does baking and his average per skill up is pretty similar. In both skills I've noticed that there can be long draughts with no skill ups and then multiple points close together. Currently have baking up to 235 and I would say they seem pretty similar to me as far as skill gains go.

Last night I went from 192 to 201 in pottery and certain points definitely take longer than others. Did a total of 300 combines for those skill gains and 120ish of those were to go from 194 to 195. I honestly didn't think I'd come close to 200 in the end let alone actually hitting 201.

The key though is to take a look at how long it takes you over several skill gains and not just from one to the next or even over just a couple.

The other thing is once you can start making something useful to sell(i.e. Tunare idols) I would just view skill ups as a bonus and not really focus on them unless you've got alot of cash to blow on power skilling. At 200 you should have pretty decent success on the idols to help fund the endeavor and if you just focus on skill gains then there's a good chance you'll get burnt out.

Sit back and enjoy the tradeskill itself and eventually you'll hit GM status.

Luyen
61 Virtuoso

[Pyne]

RE:

Ok, I thought it was just me, but after reading all these comments it appears that the "fix" that was applied to pottery was indeed extreme.

Why is it that when they modify something they go from one extreme, too easy, to the other, insanely hard?

[Unmei]

Feh.

Verant has a long history of kneejerk overnerfs, going all the way back to the days when Whirl Til You Hurl was an abusively overpowered spell. Now it's one of the worst spells in the game. Yeeeee haaaaah!

[Vashanti]

All I want is to successfully make my Golden Idol of Bertoxxulous at 190 skill with my Geerlock. :roll:

[FizbitOnLuclin]

gnomes please

wish bertoxx worshiping gnome clerics could use that one as well /cry, well we can use the one to ak'kanon anyway.

[Brodybeard]

A little more data:

Yesterday, my druid started making poison vials with the 200 assorted pelts/skins/etc. she had collected.

166 to 168 --> 21 lined poison vial combinations
168 to 181 --> 179 sealed poison vial combinations

15 skill-ups from 200 combinations with a Wisdom of 200.

She's collecting another 200 assorted pelts/skins/etc. for her next run. :roll: