starting again??

[ariokk]

Ok...so i'm just getting back on eq from the days when OLD cultural was cool. I'm tryin' to figure all this new stuff out to continue my smithing. I'm currently at 189 for skill. I went to the historian in PoK and bought 4 scrolls from him and scribed them but I don't know where they went. I did the quest in felwithe for a ancestoral book and it says something about gettin ink, parchment and such.....I'm kind of lost here. Where do they get scribed and what in the heck do I do now?

Ariokk

[Spoogy]

you may want to read the books before you scribe it )

you have learned alot new recipes with scribing these books.
to find them you just have to type in the metal name or maybe the name of the armor you want to create.

[ariokk]

but were they books? they looked like scrolls and had no recipes in them.

[Gilud]

Yes, it is kind of mysterious.

You should buy all the books from the cultural smithing historian and the armor historian. You'll need the armor recipes to make the templates for the cultural armor, e.g., "Fulginate Chain Boot Template".

Scribe them all. This is good because now the books are out of your inventory.

Go to a forge and open it. Search on a term such as "fulginate", and then you see the recipes.

I think (though I might be mistaken) you'll see the cultural armor recipes at your cultural forge, and the template recipes at a regular forge. You might be able to see the template recipes at your cultural forge, but I'm not sure. I was running around between Halas and PoK and numerous vendors late last night...the recipes and forges and ingredients involved are fuzzy :-)

You'll also need cultural "molds" to make the cultural armor, and cultural "patterns" to make the symbols. This is where the ink and parchment comes in, and are the result of the quests you got. There is a walk through on this site, though it is a bit inaccurate at this point, as far as gathering the impressions for the patterns, because the quests changed. But, between the walk through and a couple of other threads on the message board, and some trial and error, you'll get it figured out.

Lots of fun!

[Roanne]

They were the template recipes. When you go to your cultural forge and open the tradeskill container window (ctrl-click it if not set to default in your options) you can do a search for the recipes from there.

You're right, the scroll said it contains the recipes if you opened and read it but there were no actual recipes given in text. The recipes are in your known recipes now if you clicked scribe, however.

[Aldier]

In PoK, there is a symbols merchant, a smithing armor merchant, and tailoring armor merchant, and a tinkering armor merchant. Then there is a historian that has the in game books that explain the recipes.

The first 4 vendors only show you the books available to your race based on your skill.

[ariokk]

Ok....now it's starting to make sense. I'm going to try and make templates but one of the ingredients is the template pattern....any idea where to get these?

Ariokk

[ariokk]

nevermind...I found the patterns in PoK. Now with the new skill up with templates, I'm going to keep track of combines and money to see how much it takes to get GM. Thanks for your help everyone. I've been away too long.

Ariokk
smithing 188
brewing 156
fletching 198
pottery 135
tailoring don't even ask