cost for 200-250?

[Emelyn]

I'm skilling up now from 200-250 and keeping logs of what I made and the associated costs. I'm at 235 now, so it will be another few days at least.

Yesterday started out as an astoundingly bad skill session at 227, went 193 total combines before I saw 228 - I was ready to give it all up. But then the next 7 levels came after 8, 1, 15, 5, 11, 6 and 27 combines each respectively, so I guess it averages out.

[DragantheMonk]

I just recently reached 250 skill. I dont have exact numbers but I can say this....

200 INT during combines.

200-222 opal steins
222-250 star ruby encrusted steins
Received 2 skill ups on about 60 golden idols of tunare before they went trivial.

76k spent on supplies. That is the price for the materials plus donations to guild mates for imbuing, lacquering, enchanting, etc.

Dragan the Monkey - New 250 potter on Zeb

[Harvyst]

"Yesterday started out as an astoundingly bad skill session at 227, went 193 total combines before I saw 228 - I was ready to give it all up. But then the next 7 levels came after 8, 1, 15, 5, 11, 6 and 27 combines each respectively, so I guess it averages out."

Thank god, it's not just me. I am at 75 star ruby combines at skill 225, no skillups.

I'm running out room to put the blasted things.

[Syke Auttic]

I hear you...I have 4 mules filled with pottered goods and am slowly selling them off in the bazaar...finally under 20 crucibles for the first time in a few weeks.

[Emelyn]

Bleh, it lost my long post because it made me relog in after I typed it. But here's a summary

200-250 doing a variety of things (not always necesarily the cheapest thing)

1873 total combines = 37.45 combines per skill up

This broke down to:

428 Planar Steins
183 Opal Encrusted Steins
429 Star Ruby Encrusted Steins
40 Green Ceramic Bands
63 White Ceramic Bands
163 Red Ceramic Bands
131 Crucible of Escape
302 Peridot Imbued Idols
114 Emerald Imbued Idols
20 Golden Idols of Tunare

The total cost was just under 72k.

That is all raw cost to make and only includes costs for the wheel, not costs for the kiln. I did not subtract out any money for selling the resulting items in the bazaar or back to the vendor. In fact, I've already recovered that cost from sales in the bazaar and the new PoP items.

Though that figure includes the 20 very expensive golden idols of tunare, but does not include the approx 5% fail rate on the lacquered gems, so I figure it evens out had I made something more ordinary like steins for those 20.

I bought all my tainted planar essences off NPC vendors. All the heavy clay had been saved up in the bank for eons. I did all my own imbuing and enchanting clay and vials of mana. I am a GM jewelcrafter for the lacquered gems.

[BurnReich]

Just did 60 opal stein combines (two hours ago), went from 219-221. Just a bad streak for you.

[Bartox]

average of 30 combines per skill up? guess its not bad.. but its looking more and more like the old tailoring/smithing skillup rate (and worse IMO)

did 60+ combines of casserole dish at 172 skill.. 0 skill ups

granted i am not at 200 yet, but i would hope it would be faster skill up under 200 vs over 200 skill

[Bartox]

since my post...

averaging about 1 skill up per 20 combines.

[Danae]

I did 140 combines last night and went from 200 to 201. :?

[The Dwarf with a Spoon]

I am at 205 and have done 6 stacks of opal steins and have destroyd all but 4. No room and no market. I have not seen a skill up in all that time...

120 Opal steins
20 solsuk Ro Gold Idols
30 + tunare Gold Idols
12 + Crucibles

Not a single skill up. i'm getting burnt out on trying to get to 250 at this rate, but really want to make the PoP combines :x . Would you say the added trouble of doing Crucibles is better to skill on? None of these are selling on Vaz enough to account for the space and time so I just destroy the unfired parts unless a guildy needs one.

[Bartox]

skill 200 to 216 : 494 total combines (planar steins)
skill 216 to 222 : 212 total combines (opal steins)
skill 222 to 230 : 200 total combines (ceramic white bands)
skill 230 to 241 : 320 total combines (imbued idols of various dieties)
skill 241 to 242 : 100 total combines (star ruby encrusted steins)
skill 242 to 243 : 10 total combines (ceramic focus items *PoP only*)

going to just do imbued idols for last 7 points.