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Ok, when I saw this.. I thought cool, a store bought route to 200 from my current 187 (not prepared to spend AA points atm, and I'm a GM brewer)
I thought yay, ok, so it's going to be expensive, but at least the resale value of the EPV is going to be ok.
So I trundles over to Eastern Wastes, blows a Tain Hammerfrost spawn, camp, come back a few hours later, finds him up again (**** he was so hard to find when I wanted him for my Dain Rings... but I digress).
Suitably rescues him gets his Coldain Smithy Hammer (I'm guessing it's a recipe error making us use that, but who knows), wanders over to Thurgadin, buys 3 stacks of Velium bars at 5250pp/stack. Gates back to PoK to make some Celestial Essences for the water and the Velium Temper (I already had 3 stacks of Coldain Heater stashed on a mule, so thought I'd save myself some money.. pfft)
Logs my chanter in to do the combines, 15 minutes later, I start the combines, get a skill up on the FIRST combine.. wooohoo, and nothing for the next 19
But at least I've now got 4 Bars of Enchanted Pure Velium I can put on the bazaar toon for 6K to recoup the cost, assuming the vendor buy back is horrendous.. Then the shock realisation that they're NO-DROP.
AARRRRGGGGHHHHH.... almost 16K for 1 skill up, and no means to recoup my expenditure...
Repeat after me.. there's no such thing as a free ride.
ops:
Bar of Enchanted Pure Velium: (Forge, trivial > 250)
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Purified Water
Coldain Velium Temper
Coldain Smithy Hammer
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Enchanted Bar of Velium
Purified Water
Coldain Velium Temper
Coldain Smithy Hammer
So I trundles over to Eastern Wastes, blows a Tain Hammerfrost spawn, camp, come back a few hours later, finds him up again (**** he was so hard to find when I wanted him for my Dain Rings... but I digress).
Suitably rescues him gets his Coldain Smithy Hammer (I'm guessing it's a recipe error making us use that, but who knows), wanders over to Thurgadin, buys 3 stacks of Velium bars at 5250pp/stack. Gates back to PoK to make some Celestial Essences for the water and the Velium Temper (I already had 3 stacks of Coldain Heater stashed on a mule, so thought I'd save myself some money.. pfft)
Logs my chanter in to do the combines, 15 minutes later, I start the combines, get a skill up on the FIRST combine.. wooohoo, and nothing for the next 19
But at least I've now got 4 Bars of Enchanted Pure Velium I can put on the bazaar toon for 6K to recoup the cost, assuming the vendor buy back is horrendous.. Then the shock realisation that they're NO-DROP.
AARRRRGGGGHHHHH.... almost 16K for 1 skill up, and no means to recoup my expenditure...
Repeat after me.. there's no such thing as a free ride.
ops:
) but I'm focusing on Freeport human cultural. Not too expensive, but easier to farm than Shadowscream for me. My in-game wife, a druid, likes to play with the Seafury cyclops in OoT, so while she kills them for exp (and mugs of sea foam), I fish for seaweed. 
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