New human smith. Cultural question (BD)

[Kaolas]

Hello, I am a returning player to EQ and this time around I realy want to get into tradeskills. I two box and created a cleric and beastlord. My cleric is what I am considering my main at the moment so he is first up for tradeskills.

I want smithing to be my first tradeskill. I do not intend to rush through it, and want to farm for my ingrediants when I can. I was looking through all the human cultural armor (heraldic) and Noticed the set for my cleric's diety is a realy solid low-mid level set.

I plan to put more focus on skilling up/farming for blacksmithing ingrediants than actual leveling for my character. So I'm hoping I will be able to make this set before I outgrow its usefulness. My question is, Looking at the trivial levels for these items some are listed as over 300. think it was 335? and I was wondering at what skill level would I be able to make them with a somewhat decent sucsess rate?

[Dutchy]

Calculator (http://www.eqtraders.com/calculators...r=130000000000) shows at 281 skill with a 5% mod you'd hit the max succes cap on the fierce breatplates. So I would try to go with 250ish skill at least for a reasonable succes chance.
To get up there farming your own supplies.. past 222: Shadowscream up to 267 or imbued field plate up to 242 (freeport human cultural) would probably be worth looking into.

[Sharrien]

Take a look at the tradeskill trophy quests in PoR. If you are just starting on tradeskills, it's the perfect time to get your trophies done.

[Baldary]

On my route to 300, I did the old world Freeport Human Cultural to 242. The farmed ingredients are Mugs of Sea Foam that drop from cyclopses in OOT and Salwater Seaweed that is fished in the same zone. Then I did a bit of Qeynos BD Cultural (Heraldic) and it actually did have a small market for the RZ diety stuff, but today the market would be for Tribute.

Baldary