Skill past 202 question

[Azebethe]

Just hit 202 pottery tonight. I have been making Opal Encrusted Stiens since 198 (about 100 attempts i believe) but now I'm confused as whether I should keep doing this or should be working with something else first ect.

I have a 24 chanter with 157 JC so making lacered gems and enchanting clay is cake (have accts available for easy transfers).

However I read about making planar stiens or crucibels instead? Working on pottery on my 60 bard so farming greenies for the clay for crucibels wouldnt be an issue either. But arent those a 236 triv as opposed to 222? Will this make a difference on skill ups or just success rate? And that said will the time invested farming clay out weigh the plat cost of gems ect?

This is my first serious trade skilling work so I'm not real sure how to look at different methods, I want to get to 250 so that I can be usefull in my guild (im still highest potter at only 202).

/boggle

You guys with 250 in most or all your trade skills? /salute

Aze

[Kahmon]

I hit about 201 or 202 with Opal steins, but decided to lighten the burden on my guilds chanters and do planar steins til 216 since tainted essences were all over PoK. After that I did Opal steins til 222 & Star ruby Steins til 250. I also made several Black Marble Mortar & Pestles at 247 to give my guilds rogues.

[Calabar]

Crucibles are a great option for players who don’t have a lot of cash on hand or who cannot farm cash quickly. I happen to fall into that category. If money isn’t an issue, or you can easily farm a decent amount of cash, you may not want to bother with crucibles. You may be able to farm them quicker, but with my spirit puppy killing the mobs one at a time I usually collected about a stack of heavy clay per hour. And by the way, heavy clay weights 0.1 and is stackable. If you have the money to throw at the skill it’ll go faster then if you have to farm for the clay.

Once you finish skilling up you may wish to make a few crucibles for the porters in your guild. They are a nice security blanket for raids and they only cost about 50pp each to make if you gather all the ingredients yourself.

[Reflan]

I made many hundreds of opal steins and star ruby encrusted steins, and sold every one. They can be very hard to find room to store, but there is a steady market for them on most servers, from what I hear. My opal steins tend to sell out very quickly, because they are cheap enough that most people don't at all mind buying two for every single one of their characters. Star ruby encrusted steins are just for the POTC ear and much more expensive, so sell much more slowly, but they sell. Don't write off steins just because you think you will lose money; you will likely make it, just slowly sometimes.

Planar peridot steins are good to 216, but since they are almost never bought, they could actually cost you more than opal steins to make, overall.

I really recommend what I wish I had done much earlier in my pottery career(250 now). Make old world idols. The ones that use amber are incredibly cheap, but it's hard for most people to find folks to do amber. However, jade old world idols are also extremely cheap, and people who can imbue jade are all over the place. Even better, shamans can imbue jade -- and shamans regenerate mana extremely quickly, of course, so if you are going to burden anyone with a request to imbue stuff, shamans are going to be the least put out by it. Being a shaman myself, I can imbue jades very quickly; the jade idols are good till 248 I think. That's a very long range. Just throw them away when you're done because there's no market, but you've barely spent any money on them anyway.

[Troodon]

All iksar shamans and the majority of troll shamans can imbue amber. Maybe it's just my server (Sol Ro) but I've rarely had problems getting amber imbued.

/who all iksar shaman 29 65

should get you an amber imbuer pretty quickly. Iksar shamans are guaranteed to be Cazic Thule followers.

Erudite clerics of CT are extrodinarily rare. In fact, erudide clerics of any deity are, in my experience.

[emma]

so ... azebethe. i need your help pls. you raised up your skills with opal encrusted steins. now i want to know whats wrong on my try.
i tried to combine all parts like eqtraders-receipe in a kiln:
-large block of magic clay
-water flask
-ceramic lining sketch
-sculpting tools
-celestial essence
-lacquered opal
-high quality firing sheet

one from every part in a kiln. this kiln is the one in pok by the pottery vendors.
but still.... you cannot combine these items in this container type
after some you cannot ..... i tried it in a pottery-wheel, but the same message.
what do i wrong on this receipe ?

[jack96jill]

you cant put the high quality firing sheet in the pottery wheel, the other stuff goes in the wheel, which makes the unfired stein, then you put the unfired stein with the firing sheet in the kiln.