Skillup Advice ??

[Quikpick]

My tailoring is sitting at 171 at the moment. I am in the process of raising my tradeskills for the Aid Grimel quest. Most of them are already at the level needed for a decent chance at success on the combines.

Here's my current dilemma with tailoring:

- I have a good amount of acrylia, maybe 10 stacks. No rockhopper hides however. Superb sell for 100pp each, flawless 300pp each. Buying them is not an option. I can clear the entire hopper gave myself before repops if it isn't camped. I spent about 2 hours in DS last night, got maybe a stack of superb and 10 flawless hides. Don't mind farming them at the moment, but DS is often camped on my server.

- I have a fair amount of wyvern hides, maybe 4-5 stacks. Velium is my problem here. Each small piece sells for 35pp per on my server. I really dislike farming velium, I suppose I'll have that same problem when I use up all my acrylia but from my experiences, acrylia is far more common drop than velium.

- I have begun farming silks to use the Ceremonial Solstice Robe as an option for a few skillup points. A stack of silks sells for about 200pp, I have been buying them when I see them at that price. A friend imbues the emeralds for me and I have 250 JC so I can make the chains myself. My idea here is to try these robes early on so I don't make too many of them since a robe only sells for 700pp.

Some background information, I am a 65 wizard with pretty good gear. I have about 150k in the bank but all of that can't be spent on tailoring. I still have to raise fletching up from 202, so that will take a bit of plat.

Any advice would be appreciated...

[Tinile]

Also have LoY ribbons and robes, since you are a wizard your race has robes.

Those are the main options for skill ups. Find which doesn't bug you the most and do it. You most likely will be doing some solstice robes, some velious and some acrylia. You only need to decide which you want to farm first.

[Quikpick]

I looked at the LoY ribbons but unfortunately, I do not have access to a forager. I would imagine the robes would be difficult to make in mass quantities as it is hard to find some of those runes in the order of 100+ amounts.

[Myrron]

First you need to make a choice: is it faster for you to farm the supplies yourself or is it faster for you to farm an area to make money in order to buy supplies?

If you end up deciding to farm supplies yourself, some thoughts:

Don't bother buying silk, run around in EK and PBAoE everything. Very quick silk collection, and if you grab some lions, you can sell the pelts. Be sure to snag a few chasm crawlers in your PBAoE in order to keep the crags spawning.

While tedious, every miner in CC is a nuke to you. Wander about, nuke, collect velium. I've never tried the PBAoE trick there because there's usually some lower levels around and I don't want them caught up in it, but I have heard of others doing it there too.

Otherwise you face the same problems every other tailor faces: past Wu's there are very few choices. You have LoY and Acrylia studded to 187/188, then Acrylia reinforced, solstice robes, velious tailoring, and for some lucky people more LoY choices or cultural. I personally did a lot of solstice robes since I could imbue my own emeralds and used the PBAoE method (and now Boo Boo) to collect silks quickly. My successes are getting annoying though, so I've been mixing it up lately with arctic wyvern.

--Myrron

[Bosch]

Originally posted by Tinile
Also have LoY ribbons and robes, since you are a wizard your race has robes.

Unless he's a frog.

[Quikpick]

Don't bother buying silk, run around in EK and PBAoE everything. Very quick silk collection, and if you grab some lions, you can sell the pelts. Be sure to snag a few chasm crawlers in your PBAoE in order to keep the crags spawning.

I have been doing the AE thing in EK, I agro anything that moves. It's still kind of slow going considering the amount of silks that I will need. Been buying them at reasonable prices to augment my supply. Heh, I forgot how tedious the sub-combines are for that robe.

I guess mixing it up is the best solution so I don't go completely mental.

[Myrron]

I'm sooo sick of celestial essences from making that robe. If I wasn't so cheap...bah, but I am.

--Myrron

[Chenier]

Most tailors do a bit of everything so they don't completely loose their minds...

You might also consider the 5th floor of ToFS. 12 golems spawn and drop velium, everyone else drops vendor weapons worth 4-7pp each as well as cash. If you've got good hps/regen, you could aggro the whole floor and PBAE once (putz mobs). Loot and wait for respawn; nice if you're doing other stuff around the house or watching TV.

If you've got a second account, bring a mule with you so you can stay longer to collect more. (Remember that if you bind them in the bazaar and they are under level 10, duel and kill them for a free port back to the bazaar).

Spiders: bind in the spider area of upper guk. If the camp is open, you can kill the 10 or 12 spiders that are there (again, aggro, 1 PBAE), then port to EK, run some spiders and yard trash and kill until the spiders have spawned again in guk. Non-stop spidey killing, while bopping around and keeping it interesting.

Bring a collapsible mortar and pestle with you everywhere along wtih stacks of CE components so you can click through a few whenever you've got a few minutes. Also very cool if you want to really annoy the people in your group. =)

(SoE: pwweeeeeaaaasssse make combine spam a filter!)

Or, stick closer to acrylia if you are able to farm acrylia at a fairly good clip. Farming the hoppers should be no big deal.

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You're thinking the right thing - just mix it up. When you get sick of a particular area to farm, go somewhere else and farm a different component. And come here when you need to moan and whine about how much farming sucks. We know and we'll give you hugs. =)

[Wandazula]

Farming rockhoppers is no big deal IF they aren't camped to high heaven... which they almost always are.

/sigh.


on a good note for me ... tailoring 212 here ... woo woo!

[PetrosDaroc]

Wow, the robes actually sell for 700pp on your server? On E'ci they've dropped down to about 200-400pp per robe (which I just don't understand, it costs at least 500pp to make a robe)...

[Melzas]

Because anything that you want to sell is cheap and anything that you want to buy is expensive.

[Silound]

I would very much advise you save the acrylia for fletching, making condensed substance arrows is fairly cheap and they will even sell off in bazaar. Solstice robes are good til 210, past 210 tehy begin to succeed over half the time. You can get your own LoY dye componenets by slaughtering the kobolds around druid port in steamfont. they drop springwater, and you can occasionally find osme on merchants. I have a level 15 gnome necro who farms and vendor mines there once a day for dye parts. Pas 210, I would go with AW or any other velious drops, sinc eyou only need 10 more skill points. you can get 2 easy ones by doing eth swatches to 212, but must have 210 modified skill to attempt. For 8 skillups, I dont see a problem in doing whatever you have on hand.

[novel44]

Solstice robes are good til 210...

What skill would you sugest starting this at?

Thanks

[Silound]

I started my solsstice robes right after platinum ribbons became trivial. at a mere 50pp per combine, its cheaper than buying parts for anything else.

[drtyaty]

Humm

My robes of the inverse don't sell at 90pp/robe.

What combine is only 50pp/combine? I know you are not talking about Solstice Robes are you?