Sonic Wolf Bane - Tailoring Trivials

[Kadath]

I just got a rude shock - I have been using the owlbear tunic (triv 135) to skill up tailoring, being far more convenient than Wu's. The one problem with it was that the required owlbear pelts were uncommon drops - dropping at the same rate as perfect owlbear pelts.

Until yesterdays patch - when owlbear pelts were slightly more common.

Unfortunately, I am now getting the "cannot advance your skill" message with owlbear tunics and a tailoring skill of 101 (and no geerlok or even my tailoring mod cape).

This obviously presents a problem if the weapon components still have a 135 trivial. Can anyone confirm? I'd check myself, but am unable to locate the 2 owlbear cub claws needed for an earlier stage.

[cattywumpus]

I just checked the owlbear tunics and found that they were not trivial at 122 skill.

I went 2 for 3 and got the skill-up on the second combine. The third combine was also a success and still not trivial.

[Kadath]

That's very interesting. I went to check my logs, and I really was getting the trivial message. But I noticed another thing: out of 10+ combines (I wasn't keeping count), I only had two successes.

[Thu Jun 12 20:31:45 2003] You can no longer advance your skill from making this item.

I'm going to assume it was an aberration, and will try again.

[Kadath]

Yes, I did the same combine today, and it is now still not trivial at 101. False alarm. The server has been reset a couple of times since then (reported as down on the server select screen), I assume that this was fixed as a result of the reset.

Thanks.