Easier To Max Strength vs. Wis?

[Tejaye]

I am starting an alt just for smithing. I was debating between an Ogre Warrior since I thought he could max out Strength at 255 easy (I will have a Druid buffing him)......or should I create a Dwarf Cleric and try to get Wisdom to 255 (without buffs).
Is it easier getting Strength items, especially since the Ogre starts high in STR and will have STR buffs from a mid lvl 40ish Druid. Or are the Wisdom items easy enough to get to 255?
***Do any of you have a Tradeskill alt who is maxed at 250 with trophy....yet is only still lvl 1?

[Elder Neodoc]

From Playing a Shaman I have found it much harder to find +wis gear compared to +str gear that isn't rec levels

[Ursawraith]

Aye, I concur that getting Strength is much easier then Wisdom. Aside from the ease of non level restricting gear, it's also much easier to find a class to buff your Strength as there are so many that can. Any high level shaman or beastlord can easily push your strength over 100+ points.

[Tejaye]

Ogre

I will go with the Ogre Warrior than as an alt to do Smithing and get STR to 255.
So did anyone ever get to skill 250 + Trophy in a tradeskill and was only at level 1?

[Slippyblade]

Lots of folks have. I've seen many a post of folks uber pushing their tradeskill mules to GM status at level 1, though you will spend a LOT of money to do it.

[Tweedledea]

For some reason I kitted out my monk with a set of WIS gear, and I've been gathering WIS augs to add to it. I can get her to about 235 with KEI



Or does STR only help with smithing? I forget... (sorry, I don't want to open up a whole dead horse thing again)

[Tejaye]

STR

I believe that for Smithing ONLY......you can have INT; WIS; or STR.....you get a choice of these 3 to see which one would be the highest. Am I correct on this?
btw- Am I correct in thinking that the reason STR is allowd for Smithing is because Tanks will have low INT/WIS and are the most in need of Smithing?

[Angelsyn]

Str was added for Smithing so Warriors (and others) could achieve reasonable results when skilling up.

Dex was added for Fletching so Rangers (and others) could achieve reasonable results when skilling up.

Dex was added for Tailoring so Monks (and others) could achieve reasonable results when skilling up.

As for Wisdom... I found it pretty easy to get 255 Wisdom on my High Elf Cleric. So much so that I regret giving her a base 130 Wisdom now!

It's gotten to the point that any upgrade I want for +Mana also gives me more (useless at this point) +Wis... and ends up hurting my other stats.

[Myrron]

Just to clarify, as far as we know, dexterity has no influence on tailoring, just fletching (and poisonmaking? I forget).

--Myrron

[kiztent]

HoS is a 75 point STR buff.

Brilliance is a is a 14 int buff (insight is 14 wis).

Either will stick on a level 1 and if you are paying for components, it's way cheaper than the cost of components.

[Elder Neodoc]

Originally posted by Myrron
Just to clarify, as far as we know, dexterity has no influence on tailoring, just fletching (and poisonmaking? I forget).

--Myrron

HoS is a 67 point str buff, it's much better if you can find a shaman that can stack IoS and Str together. That equals a 117 str boost that can land on a level one, much better then even focus for the raw str.

[Zeralenn]

Also. you need to think about which you should be working on anyway. Face it ... an ogre warrior needs strength more than wisdom. Twink for strength, then get a strength buff.

Wis gear is easy to get but not nearly as easy to buff for. You can bridge any gap easily with buffs. (Have the shaman slap a CHA buff on while he's at it to improve your buying and selling)

...Zera

[Silound]

Being a bard I'm a bit biased, but I think a human bard is the best tradeskill class of all. We get songs to augment whatever gear and spells we already have on us, so maxing one of int/str/dex isn't difficult. Hoever, it requires leveling the bard, which I presume you don't want to do.

In said case I would go searching and see what kind of gear you can gather for twinking before you make a decision. A dwarf will probably be better imho because in the long run you have two stats you can try to get higher based on whichever is easiest to gather gear for.

[Daikoku Ashikaga]

I went with Int over STR ehrn I first got into smithing, now it does not matter. TS for alts is t just do low level subcombines


Dai

[Pootle]

If you havent already created your smithing alt, you may want to think about what cultural the race you are creating can do. This may have quite a bit of impact on your high level skilling.

Being a Halfling i have never payed much attention to cultural smithing, so I cant offer much advice.

I am sure there are people here who would be happy to put their views up tho!