Swirling shadows

[Crystara]

I did 200 combines of pure velium bars last night and got 7 skill ups total, it's not a real cheap way to go, 600 bars at 262pp each, plus tempers.

[Spektor]

After digging up whatever I could to do skillups, and a bit of farming, I have hit 199 (from 188) after 1087 combines.

On average.. 1 skillup per 98 combines or so. I think this is more than bad luck, I think the RNG wants me drive me insane or something. In 5 days, my luck hasn't changed, at all.

WTB Hammer of the Ironfrost!

[Flintforge]

Stats please

I was just curious if all you who are posting how many combines it took you to get skillups could possibly also post your stats STR/WIS/INT??

I know its supposed to be highest of those 3 but why is it that some folks can get averages of 15 per skillup over thousands of combines and some can get 90 attempts per skillup over thousands of combines?

Maybe more than meets the eye??

I am getting about 35 combines per skillup at
STR 265
WIS 120
INT 75 <-----dorf :P

[Spektor]

c/o my Magelo profile:

STR 332 (capped at 305)
WIS 301 (>305 with c3/5)
INT 160

[Catranizi]

290 str, about 20 combines per skill ups from 200-212.

[Flintforge]

Stats

Holy cow, I wish I could get my stats that high spek

Hmm pretty amazing you are having that bad of luck. I have spent TONS of hours now getting enough components for 100 attempts and am going to hit the forge again soon. Will let you all know how it goes with above stats.

[Boleslav]

<Quote>This is so frustrating. Why must smithing be the hardest tradeskill to raise!?</Quote>

One of them has to be…

Boleslav Forgehammer
Paladin of Brell in his 65th Campaign
E'ci – Sacred Destiny

[Taushar]

Re: Swirling shadows

Originally posted by Zeralenn
There have to be a gazillion posts on this subjects, but the easiest place to get swirling shadows is in Shadeweaver's Thicket, around the tunnel entrance to Paludal where the lesser shades spawn. If you have AoE anything or can swarm kite, just gather up anything that moves in the area (everything is a PH for lesser shades) and nuke hell out of anything that so much as twitches.

They're all less than level 10 up there so you can do these en masse.

...Zera

Yes, but it's not efficient to do AoE on these guys, they die too quick. As a cleric with my hammer, I can kill them in 1-2 hits on the average. Once thing I do is, get a KEI then go cast my hammer pet at one then go melee another. This works well and my pet hammer almost always kills in one blow. I can almost double my kill rate that way.

Taushar

[Reflan]

I think it's just crazy luck. My luck was horrendous with smithing -- 756 combines from 188 to 195, for instance -- and my wisdom was anywhere from 265 to about 305 at that time. (I started buying innate enlightenment and planar power FAST!) Later I got up to 325 max with KEI...and still came nowhere near the 20 or less combos per skill point that is so very commonly reported on these boards even by people with comparatively low stats, commonly enough that it has become almost a kind of mantra or steady background hum.

Yet so, so many people had great luck, regardless of my luck. Very atypical experience is always possible.

I sometimes like to give an example regarding luck of how crazy luck can be very real. Playing seven card stud in a casino on a 7-man table, I once not only got three of a kind my first three cards three times in a row (!!!), but get this -- it was the SAME three of a kind -- three nines, three times in a row.

If you see that, there's probably a much better than 99% chance someone is cheating, no matter how many cameras are on. But, it happened to me.

Incredibly freaky, even billion-to-one, luck happens. The bad kind too, unfortunately.

[Quesci]

Re: Re: Swirling shadows

Originally posted by Taushar
Yes, but it's not efficient to do AoE on these guys, they die too quick. As a cleric with my hammer, I can kill them in 1-2 hits on the average. Once thing I do is, get a KEI then go cast my hammer pet at one then go melee another. This works well and my pet hammer almost always kills in one blow. I can almost double my kill rate that way.

If you pull a few mobs before you cast your hammer, then the hammer will stick around for more than one kill. Normally the hammer will poof as soon as it's target is dead, but if another mob has hit you then the hammer will move on to that target. I use my staff of temperate flux to pull 15-20 mobs at a time and then cast my sword pet. It kills the mobs as I wander around with a huge train behind me pulling more.

This is nice when there is no one else in the area because I can leave the corpses on the ground as I move around. The ones with no loot will disappear in 30 seconds, so by the time I get back around to looting the corpses, the only ones there have something on them.

I don't know if clerics have any way to pull with an instant click item like my flux staff, but you could use a white ceramic band. That has a very short cast time and the small nuke will aggro the mobs.

Good luck

[Everquestguyis]

Shadeweaver's Thicket is the ticket.

[Everquestguyis]

Well the trust best way is to go to ST and either AOE or use your pet to cut through the guys.