High Elf Tailoring - Robe of Skewn

[Andara Lan`Gstrom]

Hi tailors, I have a question for you:

I'm a high elf magician, level 62 with 200 research and 182 tailoring. I've been making Robe of Skewn to skill up on.

I have found a trader in the bazaar that sells a (seemingly) unlimited number of Nilitims 115. So much so that I have 4 stacks of the swatches in my bank.

Now, these robes trivial at 222. The silver ribbons cost 15pp to make and the guy sells the Nilitims 115 at 30pp per, I farm the lichenclover myself, and then factoring the cost of water, quills and parchments, for a total cost of maybe 45.6pp per combine. That's less than half the price that the platinum ribbons alone cost, and have a (if limited) resale value of about 50 pp. The running around is a bit of a pain though.

I just did 44 combines, with 1 skill up (181-182). :P Sounds like the RNG plus the difficulty of attaining higher trivial skillups, unless there is some unmentioned skill up nerf on this combine but I am not one to give in to supersition. I feel like I'm in tailoring heaven after having spent about 7k on platinum ribbons.


My Question is:
These robes are a viable skill up route to 222, right?


I can farm lichenclovers easily enough, plus the drovargs drop enough plat to finance or at least cover part of the purchasing of the ribbons. Right now, the only holdback seems to be my desire -- or lack there of-- to farm lichenclovers and how fast I can kill those suckers. I've spent so much time in FV that I've seen 3 AJ in one day.

Has anyone else gone this route?

[Velurian]

It's a perfectly reasonable skillup route (I did Robes of Inverse, the Erudite equivalent, for a while), except that I'm skeptical of the continued availablity of the Nilitim's page in the quantity you'd need to make that practical. You mention having 4 stacks in the bank as if that's a lot -- if you're lucky, that's 4 skillups

To take this alone to 222, you should expect to need at least 30-40 stacks of swatches; the bazaar trader may seem to have an unlimited supply, but I can assure you that it's not that unlimited...

It's a great recipe to skill up on, for cost reasons, for as long as the supply holds out; if I were you, I'd thank my lucky stars for any cheap skillups that you get from this recipe, and mix it in with whatever other skillup recipes you can get components for cheap.

[Moonlilly]

From what I have seen Tears of Prexus for the Robe of Tears is the most common component out there.

[Taushar]

Yep, I am using both Robes of Skewn and Tears of Prexus to make Robes of Tears to skill up. I got particularly good skill up last time getting 7 points in 27 combines of both Robes or Tears and Robes of Skewn. It is a very valid way to skill up for me.

Taushar

[Andara Lan`Gstrom]

Well, tailoring isn't my only goal in EQ, and there's another stack for sale right now .

I know it will be slow and take a lot of stuff. I've made some Robes of Tears too and a couple of Robes of Slant (3/3 on those). Farming Sylvan berries is a pain though I find.

Thanks for the input.