Fastest way to 250.......

[Hagle]

What is the fastest way to 250? Dont care how much I spend within reason. Have 100k to work with and am at 188 already. And can come up with alot more if I need to.

[Menion]

Read This
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Try using this
This question is asked at least 10 times a week...page through a couple posts, or look at the recipe page or do a little research.

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Work.

[Hagle]

Umm,
Q: What's the fastest way to 250?
A: Short answer: Nobody really knows. Since May 8th, Smithing was drastically changed. However, a lot of trivials have been narrowed down, so the best advice is to figure out which trivial is the closest above your skill and work to that.

Better said whoever wrote this doesnt know. The shortest distance between two points will always be a straight line. There is an optimal path and I have read nothing that helps. All the guides I've read tell you the cheap way to go not the fastest.

PS. /sarcasm on. Thanks for being so helpfull Menion.

[Zhorn]

Try reading a few pages into this board.....

Or try the search feature.

Don't flame people for telling you to do what you should have done in the first place.

Have a happy day.

EDIT: "/reality check on" IF you had scroll down a bit on Menions link you would have seen a section that had a handy link and said:

Q: How do I build my skills? Are there any guides?

There are several located at the main site, on the Learn a Skill--Smithing page.

Q: Is there a way to raise skill without farming?

Realistically? No. While it is *possible* to get all of the items you need off of the vendors or traders, you will either invest a lot of time or a lot of platinum (or both) searching for the ingredients; a lot more than you would have spent if you gather your own components.

EDIT2: UNLESS you have a cultural path post 188, the only way to advance to 250 without pharming is Mistletoe cutting sickles. If you do have a cultural path then pharming = time therefore cultural is not the fastest unless an unlimited supply of components is for sale in bazaar. Note also that mistletoe cutting sickles sickles requires you to buy LARGE amount of imbued emeralds or get friends to do it.

[Zhorn]

At 188 skill... your 100k would get you about 280 final sickle combine attempts.
That MIGHT get you 15 to 20 skillups.

You may get lucky 5% of the time thus netting about 14 sickles.
Which might then fund another 40 to 50 attempts dependant on sell back in bazaar.

So you might get 16 skill points from your 100k.

Welcome to the world of powersmithing. You wont hit break even on sickles til you are about 220 raw skill + geerlok maybe. (Depends how busted your servers sickle market is too!).

Now.... IF you are in a big raiding guild you can try to snag a +15% XTC hammer from Ssra and skill up easy on etheral bricks from 192 to 212. Then at 219 skill you are max mod skill.

OR if you are a LARGE race u can get a massive girdle of the forge and skill up on ethereal bricks from 200 to 212 and then be on max mod skill at 230 skill.

Now, try reading around on the boards and see what you can find.
All this s.hit has been mentioned time and time again, but what the hell.

[Hagle]

Thanks, Zorn.

about the whole flame thing I cant tell you how many times I come to a new board and get flamed for asking a simple question. Yes I have looked around but I'm NOT goin to read every freaking post there is. The purpose of a msg board is so you can ask questions.

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

You dont have to "read every freaking post there is": that's what the http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/search.phpSEARCH</a> feature is for. <img src="http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcrazz.gif" alt="Lazy!">

[Menion]

PS. /sarcasm on. Thanks for being so helpfull Menion.

I was not being sarcastic in my 1st post, I was stating that if you had simply read the FAQ or use the Search engine you would have gotten your answer a lot quicker. This question is asked at least once a week, this and the OMG did they nerf the RNG(government conspiracy posts) after every patch become annoying after awhile. Do some research on your own 1st then if you have questions still most people on this board are more than willing to help.

Look at this...I just went and clicked Search I typed in 250 smithing and selected the smithing board and got back 428 results on that topic.

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There that was not so hard now was it?

[kiztent]

The fastest way to 250 is whatever method yields the most non-trivial combines per unit time.

Without knowing your class, race, level, access to [enchanters over 49, tunare priests over 29], other trade skills you have and at what levels and play schedule no one can comment any further.

Since this the is second most common question (right after the cheapest way to 250), a quick hit of the search function would've saved you some trouble.

[Zeralenn]

I have been doing some experiments with this and the evidence seems to suggest that you skill up the fastest staying as close to your trivial level as possible. This does not seem to affect your successes per skillup, but it drastically reduces your FAILURES per skillup. You do fewer combines to get a skillup staying close to your trivials. Fewer combines = faster skilling.

...Zera