Cyrstalline Silk or Low tailoring easier?

[qralt]

Been a while since I've done tailoring on my main and I've been banging my head so long against high level smithing, but I recently started another character towards their shawl. After doing the woven mandrake to trivial. I switched to crystalline silk because I had several stacks of it and didn't feel like brewing a bunch of heady kiolas. Wow what a quick skillup. I went from 66 to 131 in like no time. I had a run of 5 skillups in a row. Seemed like every other combine was a skillup at least.

Didn't do crystalline silk when I was skilling up the first time. Was wondering if this was peculiar to it or low level tailoring is just much easier than I remember.

Anyways, just another path folks might want to consider. FYI, doing Wu's afterward wasn't nearly as fast. More like 1 in 5 to 10.

[Deedolith]

I also noticed that some recipes give a better skillup / combines ratio.
Acrylia studded amors were a better skillup path than arctic wyvern (back when luclin came out)

[Aalar]

You probably just got lucky. There is no particluar combine that would give one a better skill up than any other (with both being the same trivial). Crystalline silk is the easier path - Wu's being all those subcombines to get the heady kiola. And I had to do it without the benefit of the new UI. All you new tradeskillers have it easy.

I have the utmost respect for the old 1750 club. I would never have done it myself (and I didn't).

Aalar

[Tweedledea]

Acylia studded has lower trivials than AW armour, plus velious tailoring has *awful* success rates - we're now told that a higher success rate=more skill ups. Therefore high trivial=low success rate=less skill-ups.

Voila: acrylia will be a quicker route, assuming you have the raw materials for each option laid out in front of you.

[qralt]

I know the RNG is a fickle beast, but we are talking almost 70 skillups with around 200 combines. That's just an insane high rate. I should have logged it. Usually when I get a run of skillups on anything I just try to get in as many combines as possible as soon as possible without changing anything. I think we all have acknowledged the streakiness of the RNG.

I logged her a few times to go buy more stuff from the bazaar (was in PoK) with my main.

Ah well, no matter to me. I'm happy to not have to bang my head against tailoring again. Alas, I got to 178 in smithing on my main using banded. I'm betting smithing is not going to be fun this time around.

[Kaaba]

I believe they can code a certain recipe to give better skill up rates, there are in particular some GoD recipes that give insane skill up rates, too good and coincidental to be just the RNG, and when I did Lemming bags I was getting around 1 in 3 skill ups per attempt.