shortcut in smithing for halflings and erudites

[Secone]

DISCLAIMER: i dont have any halfling or erudite alts, so i havent tried this my self, only thought about it. But here it goes:

Their new DoN cultural Experts metal bars are made with Drop Of Mercury that can be made by rogues with a litle skill in poison making.
The trivial for the bar is 122 and the metal can be used to make the new cultural armor that has a max trivial at 222.

on another note, halflings that follows karana can use: Steel Arrowheads to 188 in smithing ...

So if there is any halflings or erudites that wants to skill up in smithing, hurry before the nerf it ...

[Arny]

Drop Of Mercury that can be made by rogues with a litle skill in poison making

Not strictly true. Whilst the Drop Of Mercury trivials at 62 you need a poison making skill of 200 (unmodified) or you get the "you are not high enough to even attempt this combine" message.

[Secone]

Notes: Reported craftable at skill 192

To get a rog to 192 skill in poison making takes about a single day ... atleast thats what it took to get my L33 ROG to 200+.

With the posibility to compleately skip fine plate, Velium bits and some shadowscream i would say its a viable skill up path.

[Arny]

It actually took me about 3 hours (plus 17k pp) to get my old rogue to 200 skill in poison making using pok storebought ingrediants. I too read the notes that I could make the mercury at 192 skill, but when I did it, 3 days ago, I needed 200 skill before I could do the combine. Maybe with a geerlok (which I didn't have) at 192?

[Vamen]

The recipe for the Steel arrowheads seems to have changed. I am not sure when, but upon attempting a combine last night (Mar16 post-patch) there was an additional ingrediant required - imbued plains pebble shard (if memory serves me correctly).

[Ziela]

Sure you weren't trying to make blessed steel arrowheads? Those require the shard. Or maybe they did change it as a way of nerfing that fletching route.

[Boleslav]

Since drops of mercury can be player made with no farming, it is easy to gather them by going into /buyer and offering plat for them.

I put my buyer up with a request for 40 of them at (I think) 5pp each. Got them all the first night.

Boleslav Forgehammer
Paladin of Brell in his 67th Campaign
E'ci - Sacred Destiny

[Vamen]

Ziela you may be correct, thank you. I will check again *crosses fingers*