Lowered Trivial on Enchanted Velium Bits (Not lowered)

[Deathseekerdan]

Hi there. Last week I decided to get back into smithing. I've been 185 for a long time now, so I looked around and found the recipe for EVB's. So I spent a few days farming velium, and got enough to do a couple hundred combines.

So I start combining, and everything is going well. I got a success on the third combine, and another one on the fifth. Then I got "You can no longer gain skill from making this item".

Now I'm wondering if maybe I'm missing something, or if they've really been nerfed. Would be kind of depressing since that means a heck of a lot more farming to get my smithing up.

[Renjah]

Make sure you used the spell Enchant Velium in the combine. If you forget it you make bits which have a LOW trivial.

[haplo888]

Can anybody else confirm that EVB trivial has been lowered? I read this elsewhere as well.

Somebody with 190-220 skill give 1 combine a shot..

edit: found somebody saying they got skill up:

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=14920

[Tinile]

The trivial has not been lowered. People accidentally leave out the spell scroll in their combine and get regular bits and run here screaming nerf. There's been no change to the trivial level.

[buurpie]

Is there a reason I cannot add this recipe to my tradeskill window list?

(btw i'm at 190 and it is NOT trivial)

[Pardick_KB]

Quest items are not added to the UI since you shouldnt need to make them twice

[Trentazra]

"Shouldn't", but you ought to see all the failures it took me to come up with ONE 6th shawl!

[Solarax_Manastorm]

quick question .

say i have 355 unbuffed int and my goal is to get to 222 from 189.
about how many combines or stacks of combines you think that would take? i can havea mule next to me holding 8 bags of spells plus i can hold another 7 bags and 1 bag of velium bits and tempers. just wondering how much running i will have to do and since the spell cost isnt listed ill need to calculate that as well( actualy it might be listed on caster realm let me check) ahh about 12.6 plat so each combine im gonna eat about 24 plat plus farmed velium peices so roughly 500 pp per stack
i have the hammer of ironfrost from xtc ( got it today woot) for 15% mod but since these are nodrop that dont really matter.
so basically i want about 33 skill ups. would you say it takes 20 combines at 355 int? 25? 30? 40? if it takes 40 combines per sill up that will cost me about 30k

[Pardick_KB]

If you have the hammer from xtc why not just do the pop etheral ring combines till 212 then do the EVB.

[Solarax_Manastorm]

can eitherial rings be done with modded numbers? didnt think so but havent had the oprotunity to try yet cause of the patch

and if it does work i will do those first if possible to save some money

[Pardick_KB]

Yes they can this is what so many people talk about as free points from 210 to 212 with a greelok

[Renjah]

Originally posted by Trentazra
"Shouldn't", but you ought to see all the failures it took me to come up with ONE 6th shawl!

You only ever make your 6th shawl once. Since you can't wear two shawls at once people rarely make the same one again Recepoes are only added on successes so adding the shawls to the learned list wouldnt make sense.

[StPatrick]

I just can confirm that trivial is still 222 (at least). Just yesterday levelled myself to 221 with EVB

[Nolrog]

I made them the other day, at 201 and they were not trivial.

[Secone]

I can confirm that trivial point is still 222.
Anyone want to buy some leftover veliums on AB? hehe