Tailoring 217+ Question

[Sond Planeshifter]

I am very close to being done with Signet of the Arcane, only skill I have left is Tailoring which is 217 at the moment, but wish to have it 240 before attemping to combine Fire Robe.

I have spent so much money it isn't even funny, and now I am broke. Think I had like 2.4 million when I started trade skilling with all skills at zero.

Anyway, Im going to farm the rest of my combines unless I land some nice item to sell, but since Im so wrapped up in farming, this isnt likely.

What I want to know is this, what is the easiest thing for a 65 Wizard in elemental/time gear with a 420aa to garm to get tailoring to 240 and where.

I have been doing Holgresh in Wakening Lands, it is very easy but slow and then the vials of distilled mana are like 200 pp each which adds up when doing 200+ combines and stuff. So I was going to do Othmir cause clear mana vials are much cheaper, but it seems slow as well.

Am I missing something? Or they all this slow and hard to farm on yer own? The best thing I have found to do for combines are the LoY Gnome Robes, but Runes of the Astral are kinda hard to come by in quantity.

If anyone knows a place with lots of mobs that a Wizard could solo easily to get Runes of the Astral I'd appreciate the tip, but if not, which path has the least cost and farming times to get to 240 from 217.

[Pockets FullOfGold]

I can't say this is too easy or too hard and I'm not sure if you have a character to forage for you but if you do you can try a few things...

1. Make Acrylia Reinforced Armor. Flawless Rockhopper Hides (which will probably take the longest to gather up), Acrylia Studs(being your 65 you might try Acrylia Caverns to farm the Acrylia as I've found that to be the location with the most drops and you may even get a small bit of exp at times) and Paeala Tannin (bought from merchants and brewed). Trivials at 242.

2. Make Tigeraptor Armor. Tigeraptor Hide (fairly easy to farm in WL for these and green to me at 61). Velium Studs (Velium will be the hardest and most expensive thing for you to buy/farm. Another post talks about where good places to farm Velium is). Drake Egg Oil (I have heard that having a forager available and foraging in Temple of Veeshan gets you alot of Drake Eggs). Trivial is over 250.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Moraganth]

Am I missing something? Or they all this slow and hard to farm on yer own?

Yes.

Tailoring wasn't a skill they created to be bought up; it was not designed to be done in a week, or even a month; it was not designed to be powerleveled through.... it was designed to be long, difficult, and take an immense amount of farming, effort, and patience.

If it was easy, there'd be as many 250 tailors as there is 250 jewelers.

That said.. this is the same question as many, many others have asked.. and the answer is the same. Look at the recipes available, and combine everything you possibly can that isnt already trivial.

there are guides here:

http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/ar...r=040110000000

and various discussions in these threads that may give you insights:

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=10612

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=10475

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=9992

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=7731

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=9958

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=9901

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=1693

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=8597

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=9675

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...&threadid=9549

[piting]

Sond, I'd recommend you make LoY cultural robes.

Each race with INT casters has a set of 6 robes. Each robe requires 2 dropped items, but most are fairly easily farmable or merchant bought (or even trader bought).

The first robe trivs at 212, 2nd 222 etc. Each attempt costs between 20p and 105p, which makes the robes quite cheap, and you can sell the robes at a profit. Importantly (imho) the success rate with the robes is quite high, even the 5th and 6th robes, which triv over 250, my skill is at 216.

cheers

(EDIT didn't notice you are a gnome (yay!). check my thread on farming one of the components - cauldron prawns, http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=10904)

[jamdread]

hehe

Grats sond on completing Robe for Grimli quest =)

He's on my server (in my guild in fact)

[Sond Planeshifter]

Hey Jam, Yeah thanks for advice guys, but I ended up just spending about a million pp on arctic wyvern mask combines. Completed Signet of the Arcane last night.

[Myrron]

Grats Sond!

Hehe, I've never had more than 23k at one time. Fortunately, I'm at the point where most gear upgrades for me are no-drop, so I'm finally seeing money building up in the bank. It's probably just as well, my tailoring is reaching "expensive" levels. Of course, there's that pesky alt of mine I could always twink...

--Myrron

[Malodium]

Sond, I'd recommend you make LoY cultural robes.

Each race with INT casters has a set of 6 robes. Each robe requires 2 dropped items, but most are fairly easily farmable or merchant bought (or even trader bought).

The first robe trivs at 212, 2nd 222 etc. Each attempt costs between 20p and 105p, which makes the robes quite cheap, and you can sell the robes at a profit. Importantly (imho) the success rate with the robes is quite high, even the 5th and 6th robes, which triv over 250, my skill is at 216.

Each robe also requires a forage only item, which non foragers pay top dollar for. Along with the rather expensive ribbons and the hard to farm research items, im not sure how anyone could say these were a good route.
Maybe im missing something.

[Malodium]

So they sell well?
I suppose it would be worth it if so. At least I could make my cash back.

The tough part is still the foraged item though.

Which reminds me, anyone know where I can find some good info on foraging? I do have a level 23 or so halfling ranger who can forage, but obviously her skill isnt too high. Does higher skill levels allow foraging of the better items?

[Kornaena]

Initially I sold the level 1 robes for 50pp and level 2 for 75pp. They are no longer real viable though, I sell the level 2 for 30pp but usually just eat the loss on the level 1 and 2 selling to a vendor. 9ppeach to vendor, worst case cost to make is 30pp each for me.

The level 3 robes sell a little better, you can make a small profit on them, currently I sell them for 65-75pp, before 225. So the profit margin on them is low.

The level 4 and 6 robes is where I recoup my cost. Level 4 I sell for 500pp a pop, which is cheap, but is over 400pp profit. Selling a few of them closes the gap in my losses.

Level 6 robes for dark elf at least sell for upwards of 10k. Cost for me has been 65pp because I buy premade ribbons people skill up on. That is a huge profit margin, so I not only break even, but I make alot of money even after the level 1 and 2 robe losses.

To supplement the robe income, I buy runes and words for other classes robes and swatch them. Pay 2-3pp per item and sell for 15pp each. Is not much, but it adds up quick. Same with small pieces acrylia I find on vendors, make studded acrylia eventhough trivial and sell for a few hundred dollar profit.

I will say that research spells have been my biggest money maker. I have made more with other skills, but I invested very little in research. Over 100k sold in level 59/60 kunark spells since they were added. Vendor farming near LDoN mission zone outs yields tons of runes and words.

[piting]

Each LoY robe combine requires 2 dropped items, one of which is also foragable! You can simply farm mobs if you can't forage.

My earlier post (above) has a link to a thread where I give some stats on Cauldron Prawns (gnomes). My experience has been that the prawns drop about 10% of the time. I don't think that is a bad rate, the problem is that there is only one camp of aqua goblins in the whole zone and that camp has only 4 mobs. This means that it takes about 2hrs to kill 100 mobs and get about 10 prawns.

The other forage/drop item for gnomes is Steamfont Springwater and that drops in (of course) steamfont where there are numerous camps. I prefer to kill the camps near the druid ring - which means 3 camps (around 20 mobs) - and so (even if the drop rate is actually lower than 10%) springwater is easy to collect. You also have the option of checking the merchants and "hiring" newbies.

cheers

[Malodium]

I didnt notice any drop info on any of the foraged stuff. Is there anywhere I can find what mobs I can kill for the same items?

[astianax]

what race are you, malo? these are what i've managed to dig up, with no info at all on the high elves options
gnomes: steamfont kobolds and dagnor goblins
dark elves: overthere cacti and reportedly sol a goblins
erudites: spiders/snakes/seahorses in erud's crossing and pandas in stonebrunt (amazingly rare)
humans: any beetle in north karana and...something in jaggedpine

[Kornaena]

I know the goblin camp near najena in Lavastorm can drop ashweed. They are 6 minute spawns on 3 of them, and no clue on the 4th(is alot longer). I also got ashweed at the goblin camp near Sol A, have not been to SoL A to check.

[Veldin Darkfire]

Lets just add a little bit here. NOT all of the Top End robes sell well. You see the Darkies got some Developer loving while the High Elvels {did not}

Regen 2 will sell well.
Reagent conservation 3 will not.

If your a darkie great! Make some plat.

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