Skillng up from 198 - 242

[Uuvin]

198 - 200 : 200 opal encrusted steins : spent 3800pp
200 - 209 : 300 black ceramic bands : spent 6000pp
209 - 222 : 240 green ceramic bands : spent 6800pp
222 - 225 : 100 white ceramic bands : spent 3200pp
225 - 228 : 79 imbued plains pebble idols : 2000pp spent
228 - 228 : 4 trophy attempts ( made 1 / 4) : 10,800 spent
228 - 231 : 54 white ceramic bands: 2000pp spent
231 - 232 : 40 crucible of escape : 350 pp spent
232 - 232 : 11 star ruby encrusted steins (made 3 / 11) : spent 825pp
232 - 233 : 10 golden idol of tunare (made 10 / 10) : spent 2400pp
233 - 241 : 200 imbued jade idols : spent 3800pp
241 - 242 : 4 ceramic rod of storms (made 2 / 4)

44 skill ups. 1242 combines. 28 combines / skill up.
about 32000pp spent (not including trophies) or about 700 pp per skillup

If I can resell the idols (steins gone 4 idols gone so far) and one of the rods I will be fine on money. No one can fix my wrist.

Notice my first 200 steins gave few skill ups? I gave ups. Went to bands and did a ton better. I sold bands back to vendors and the total spent includes the reselling. White ceramic bands sell for 1 silver, green for 7pp and black for 8pp. Fired versions sell for 1 silver. I threw away all the unfired imbued idols. I have not yet fired the crucibles - I went 40 / 40 making them.

To all attempting this I have just a few small words of consolation : Do it in large batches to see the RNG smooth out the bumps. I had sets of 80 with no skill ups and soon after has 3 skill ups in 20 combines to even it out. The 200 jade imbued idols... skill ups on combines : 25, 48, 72, 93, 100, 111, 161, 170. I will complete this (to skill 250) after I can convince my ogre shaman to imbue another 200 jades.

[Uuvin]

continued

128 combines later on imbued jade idols and I am skill 248. skill ups on 3, 24, 34, 53, 73 and 128. its trivial now - some new info for the site

[Obina]

Nice work. My success experience very similar, but my record keeping worse I have done mostly Steins for skill ups - and yes in batches of 60.

You might want to check the price of Star Ruby Steins on your server. I succeed on about 7 in 20. I sell for about 300-350pp (depends who else is selling - I recognise all the pottery mules now), so make a small profit as I go. More pp doesnt hurt, and you are helping peops get a nice earing! Since LoY, they have sold OK.

Are you happy you tried the trophy when you did? I was thinking of trying at 242 with Geerlock - I'm too impatient to wait till 250=) Or perhaps I'll try tonight....
Obina (234)

[Uuvin]

trophy

not happy at all. should have waited tlill 235 at least or as high as 245. I forgot to have my geerlock in hand on first two attempts and kicked myself all the way back to the jewelry store :/

[Yalum]

On the other side of the coin, I did my trophy at 226 and got it first try. Since I can't quite cap my int out (have you ever tried to get 10int per slot with rogue usable gear?) and I want as many star ruby stein successes as possible while skilling up, I was prepared to fail a time or two and get the trophy early.

[Luvimt]

Well at the time it seemed more but with an int of 255, it took an average of 19 combines per skill-up from 226 to 250 (records of earlier skill-ups were with lower int so havent included them)
Broken down:
226 - 227 = 66 crucible of escape (coe)
227 - 228 = 6 coe
228 - 229 = 13 coe
229 - 230 = 8 coe
230 - 231 = 16 coe
231 - 232 = 100 coe
232 - 233 = 35 coe
233 - 234 = 1 coe
234 - 235 = 32 coe
235 - 236 = 16 coe
236 - 237 = 29 imbued idol of karana (iik)
237 - 238 = 10 iik
238 - 239 = 1 iik
239 - 240 = 10 iik
240 - 241 = 11 iik
241 - 242 = 4 iik
242 - 243 = 12 imbued idol of cazic thule (iic)
243 - 244 = 1 iic
244 - 245 = 4 iic
245 - 246 = 55 iic
246 - 247 = 21 iic
247 - 248 = 6 iic
248 - 249 = 1 imbued idol of tunare (iit)
249 - 250 = 31 iit.
I dread to think how long i spent farming heavy clay but i couldnt afford to go a more expensive way. Made trophy on 1st attempt at 250 with geerlock sculpting tools. Havent a clue on cost, the profit doesnt seem to be good on much pre PoP pottery.
Hope this info may be useful to someone.

[Blumgan]

Luckily I have an Erollisi Marr cleric willing to imbue: star rose quartz for me. I also have an Enchaner willing to imbue clay and make vials of clear mana. So I am making Imbued Idols (Erollisi Marr) to 250 at 17pp per combine.

Last 200 combines I went from skill 226 to 233. 7skill ups.
next combine was a Ceramic Sword of War for a guildie and got 234.
then 2 Ceramic Skull of Decay's.
In the process on making another 200 combine run and will let you know how it goes.

Edit: Did another 199 combines.

Went from skill 234 to 241. 7 skill ups. Averaging 29 combines per skill up. Getting the ingrediants together for 260 more combines. will let ya now how it goes.

[Luvimt]

Odd that 233-234 took only 1 combine for both of us, wonder if there are other trends.