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Skilling up with Aid Grimel and chain Rez / CoH :)
Normally, using the Aid Grimel method to skill up on blacksmithing is a major pain, because the breastplate that he gives you is LORE. That means that each combine requires a trip to the top of the library, say the trigger phrase, then take the elevator back down and walk over to the forge, do the combine, and then start all over again. Doing 100 trips back and forth is not only mind-numbingly tedious but hard on the wrists.
Now, casters have a slight shortcut - they can bind next to Aid Grimel, and then lev down the elevator shaft to get to the forge.
However, with the help of my friends Byelka [she of the famouse tradeskill guides] and Juevos, I was able to cut down the time quite a bit, and do something I had always wanted to try.
I started by placing a corpse at the forge (generated by jumping down the elevator shaft), Byelka was spam-click rezzing me so I always had a rez box open that I could click at any time. Juevos was up next to Aid Grimel, casting CoH whenever he saw a combine message. Both the corpse and the mage were positioned such that I would be facing the forge / Grimel when summoned. I had 5 stacks of Acid Wash, some of which were purchased in the bazaar for as low as 5pp each. (Leftovers probably).
In addition, neither Rez nor CoH causes inventory or containers to be closed. Only the forge is closed because you are too far away.
I create a hotkey to target Aid Grimel, pause 1 tick, and then say "I am well versed in the art of blacksmithing".
So the process went like this:
After CoH:
Hit hotkey, which ends up with with a Filthy Breastplace in cursor.
Click in already-open inventory window.
Click "Yes" on rez box.
Elapsed time: 0.5 seconds.
Now you are next to the forge.
Click on forge.
Click "experiment" (since Cleansed BP is not a learnable recipe.)
Control click to transfer one acid wash from already open inventory container window to forge.
Click to transfer Filthy BP from inventory to forge.
Click combine. Resulting item is destroyed since its lore and I already have one in inventory.
While this is going on, the cleric has already clicked the corpse to produce another rez dialog.
Elapsed time: 2-3 seconds.
Now, the mage has seen the tradeskill combine message, and starts a CoH. This costs 7pp for a pearl, so that has to be factored into the cost for a combine. Elapsed time for the CoH is somewhat longer, 5 seconds or so.
The limiting factor on this is the mage's mana. What we did is give the mage a manastone, which the mage would use to recover from. To keep the mage healed, the mage would summon me a mod rod every few minutes. Whenever mage was getting low on health, I would click on my mod rod (being freshly rezzed, I had a fair amount of health but no mana) and that would be just enough to cast a 680 point "Sylvan Water" on the mage. If mana was really low, we would summon Byelka up for a few complete heals.
Now, since I had rez effects on the whole time, you might wonder if my skillup rate was low due to the fact that my strength was down. However, as has already been mentioned, stats only affect skillup chance on unsuccessful combines - since I had a Geerlok, my effective skill was greater than the trivial, which means I was getting 95% successes. So the low STR did not matter.
Total cost for 100 combines, including pearls was under 2K; I got 5 skillups and trivialed on the Cleansed BP.
It was not something I would want to do every day, or expect my friends to do for me, but it was fun. In fact, the thing that slowed me down the most was laughing my ass off while doing it.
Now, casters have a slight shortcut - they can bind next to Aid Grimel, and then lev down the elevator shaft to get to the forge.
However, with the help of my friends Byelka [she of the famouse tradeskill guides] and Juevos, I was able to cut down the time quite a bit, and do something I had always wanted to try.
I started by placing a corpse at the forge (generated by jumping down the elevator shaft), Byelka was spam-click rezzing me so I always had a rez box open that I could click at any time. Juevos was up next to Aid Grimel, casting CoH whenever he saw a combine message. Both the corpse and the mage were positioned such that I would be facing the forge / Grimel when summoned. I had 5 stacks of Acid Wash, some of which were purchased in the bazaar for as low as 5pp each. (Leftovers probably).
In addition, neither Rez nor CoH causes inventory or containers to be closed. Only the forge is closed because you are too far away.
I create a hotkey to target Aid Grimel, pause 1 tick, and then say "I am well versed in the art of blacksmithing".
So the process went like this:
After CoH:
Hit hotkey, which ends up with with a Filthy Breastplace in cursor.
Click in already-open inventory window.
Click "Yes" on rez box.
Elapsed time: 0.5 seconds.
Now you are next to the forge.
Click on forge.
Click "experiment" (since Cleansed BP is not a learnable recipe.)
Control click to transfer one acid wash from already open inventory container window to forge.
Click to transfer Filthy BP from inventory to forge.
Click combine. Resulting item is destroyed since its lore and I already have one in inventory.
While this is going on, the cleric has already clicked the corpse to produce another rez dialog.
Elapsed time: 2-3 seconds.
Now, the mage has seen the tradeskill combine message, and starts a CoH. This costs 7pp for a pearl, so that has to be factored into the cost for a combine. Elapsed time for the CoH is somewhat longer, 5 seconds or so.
The limiting factor on this is the mage's mana. What we did is give the mage a manastone, which the mage would use to recover from. To keep the mage healed, the mage would summon me a mod rod every few minutes. Whenever mage was getting low on health, I would click on my mod rod (being freshly rezzed, I had a fair amount of health but no mana) and that would be just enough to cast a 680 point "Sylvan Water" on the mage. If mana was really low, we would summon Byelka up for a few complete heals.
Now, since I had rez effects on the whole time, you might wonder if my skillup rate was low due to the fact that my strength was down. However, as has already been mentioned, stats only affect skillup chance on unsuccessful combines - since I had a Geerlok, my effective skill was greater than the trivial, which means I was getting 95% successes. So the low STR did not matter.
Total cost for 100 combines, including pearls was under 2K; I got 5 skillups and trivialed on the Cleansed BP.
It was not something I would want to do every day, or expect my friends to do for me, but it was fun. In fact, the thing that slowed me down the most was laughing my ass off while doing it.
Wizard of the 67th house of the Seventh Hammer
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