PoP Pottery Question

[pennyrose]

I have been working for some time on various tradeskills with different alts. I had not paid much attention to the PoP recipes, with the exception of baking and tinkering which seemed very straightforward, because I belong to a small, family-oriented guild that was not in a position to do any planar exploring and because I find the planar recipes confusing, probably because of their interdependence.

Lately some of my guildies have graduated to planar groups on the first tier (is that what it is called?) planes, PoI, PoN, PoJ, PoD. I need to know what to ask them to save for me for planar recipes that I might use to skill up and/or create things for sale in bazaar or for my use for my characters or as gifts.

I do have the printed out recipes for pottery, but I am not sure which of them would be useful for me to try.

My pottery is at 232 right now. I am raising it via the Earring of Nature combines and an occasional spiritstone/faithstone, but it is slow going. Are there useful high level planar pottery recipes out there? It appears some of the ceramic recipes make nice items, but is it possible to get or buy the glaze components, diamonds and other components? If you succeed in making these, is there a ready market?

It may help you tailor your advice a little to my specific situation if you know I have the following skills: pottery 232, baking 230, brewing 210, jc 200, fishing 200, tailoring 193, smithing 189, tinkering 188, fletching 174.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Pennyrose

[Yalum]

If you buy components, you should also have no trouble making Ceramic Skulls of Decay (slow seller, crowded market, not worth the trouble) or the Ceramic Swords of War (decent if you can put up a 24/7 trader mule and be patient). Also available is the Ceramic Shield of Valor, which some folks have success with, but I'm actually 4k in the hole after trying a few of them. I just can't sell high enough to cover the cost of the Metallic Liquid.

For the rest the only reasonable source of components is to go hunt them yourself, but with first tier access you can only make two. The Ceramic Hammer of Innovation, which is largely worthless, and the Ceramic Gavel of Justice, which will make you great, heaping mounds of platinum. They're not going to sell as fast as PotC components, but profit margins are much, much better.

You will need the help of 61+ casters to imbue the diamonds, but even if you're reduced to ooc'ing for help you'll find one eventually.

Of course, markets on your server may vary.

[Unmei]

Yalum covered it pretty well - though I've found that, with some extreme patience, it's possible to get the pieces for Ceramic rods of storms as well.

In general, each planar pottery item requires:

2-3 dropped items (Two to make the glaze, one as part of the imbue spell. Sometimes the item for the imbue is also one of the glaze items.)
A raw diamond (Technically these are dropped too, but they're all over the vendors and should be generally easy to obtain.)
Tanaan Clay (11 PP in PoK)
A high quality firing sheet
Some good luck.

If you need any clarifications on what things you need, or where to get them, nose around the forum, or ask in this thread.

[pennyrose]

Thanks for your quick reply, which was more encouraging than I expected. I was worried after I posted that my question was really foolish and that you would tell me I should go back to kindergarten. Smile.

I will definitely look around for components for those items you suggested. Sometimes I don't even care if there are easier or cheaper ways to raise skill at the moment, I just need to try something different to break the monotony.

Pennyrose (on behalf of Tazzia, the potter in the family)