Ceramic Lining Doest Stack! Grrr

[Phinnin]

Just found this out today. I just trivialed Large Bowls and made the run to Jaqgedpine to get Casserole Sketches. I figure, I am in the clear, right? Wrong. Those darn ceramic linings don't stack. Watta pain.

So how do you folks deal with it? make a few bags of linings, combine casseroles, rinse and repeat? or try to hammer out 6 or so bags of linings?

Please advise, I kinda thought is was gonna be a tad easier after tailoring.

[Unmei]

I did 20 linings, 20 dishes, 20 linings, 20 dishes, 20 linings, 20 dishes, about 600 times. Well, okay, slight exaggeration, but it took me so long I was wondering if something was bugged. x.x

[Krazick]

What I did after the vials and started on the Casserole Dishes... was a Stack of Dishes at a time. Maybe 6-7 lineings... and then the dishes... then more linings until my stack of 20 Dish Sketches was consumed. Slow, tedious but not that bad.

The Skillups came about 2-3 per stack of 20 Dish Combines.

What has become very exhausting is going 202+... One Stack (20) to Two Stacks (40) combines of Planar Steins per Skill up. And finding the Tainted Essences is becoming more and more difficult.

Oh, did I mention the cost? 6 Plat per Tainted Planar Essence, 10 Plat per Tannan Clay. All just spun on the wheel and destroyed ... nobody wants the dang things. And they succeed far too often. The skill ups are slow.

[Phinnin]

Guess I should be thankfull that I just need skill in the mid 160's for shawl quest.

After that, fletching to 170.... THen Jewelcraft to 185 or so.....

I keep a Link to the 7th Shawl in front of me the whole time. It keeps the rage in check.

Thanks for the input folks.

[Spaerhawk]

Currently 165 on pottery, (slowly) working towards 250... Once I get the plat and the boredom to sit down and plug away at it more...

Anyways, what I do is toss all my normal bags into the bank and replace them with 8 Traders Satchels. Cheapest 10slot bag out there. I weigh a ton and a half, but it doesn't really matter. One bag I fill with 3 stacks of water, 3 stacks of C. Lining sketches, 3 stacks of clay, and 1 stack of QFiring sheets.. The other 7 bags I keep empty and toss all the unfired sketches into them. Once I run out of all 3 stacks, I go buy more sheets and fire all the linings. So, generally, I have about 55-60 (depending on a few failures) fired linings. Then I run (trudge?) back to the bank and grab 3 stacks of Cass dish sketches, 3 stacks of water, and 3 stacks of clay. Trudge my way back to the wheel and plunk out all the cass dishes. I used to just toss them when I succeeded, but I just found out that they sell back to vendors unfired, (probably for pocket change, but hey, any cp I can get is worth it), so once I succeed on a Cass dish I'll exchange it straight up for a ceramic lining.

I generally have my windows set up to have the Wheel in the center, the sketches, water, and clay (all in a verticle row) to the right, and the linings to the left of the wheel. That way my hand doesn't have to move very far each time. I also keep all three windows ~10 pixels to the left of my inventory screen, (I keep my inv. screen closed, 'cause of the semi-transparency of the 2 bags and wheel screen), so that once my bag of linings is empty, all I have to do is hit "I," close the empty bag and open a full bag. That way I'm not dragging windows around constantly...

Anything I can do to help avoid more timesinks is beneficial.

(Did any of this make sense? Lol.)

Cheers,

[Grozza]

Poison vials

If you don't like the non-stackability of the linings, make poison vials, all the components stack, and you can probably sell them at a small profit in the bazaar (unlike most other skillup items).

[Delfontes]

If you don't like the non-stackability of the linings, make poison vials, all the components stack, and you can probably sell them at a small profit in the bazaar (unlike most other skillup items).

I did poison vials to trivial them out myself, due to the free zombie skin incursion....

How on earth do you sell them in bazaar for profit though?

I think the vendor offered me 5gp each approx once fired... and poison vials are vendor sold for under 2pp or so right?

Can only imagine where inside that you can sell them... I think I'd strongly advise vendoring them, or using them yourself for poisons/mana vials.

[Grozza]

Poison vials

I didn't say a huge profit, but you can make more than your expenses. Regular vials are needed for mana vials, and rogues need sealed in large quantities if they are skilling up make poison.

[Velurian]

Definitely do poison vials all the way to 188. I originally started casserole dishes at 148 after triv'ing large bowls because I didn't want the hassle of farming pelts or zombie skins. I'm quite sure I would have gone insane if I had continued with that.

11 points of casserole dishes isn't too bad; I think it only took me around 15 stacks of them to get those 11 points. (In answer to the original question, I cleared out as much space in my bags as possible, which turned out to be about 20-25 spots, and did about a stack at a time. Make 20 unfired linings, go to kiln and fire them, go buy a stack of large blocks of clay, do as many casserole dishes as I had successes on linings.)

41 points on dishes is just way too many. They're cheap, true enough, but you've got to put some price on your sanity... (wait, we're tradeskillers, what am I saying? )