halfling tailoring

[suttasy]

hey guys quick question . i was wondering if it would be better to skill up from like 180 to 220 doing halfing tailoring or going withthe velious / hopper way . To me the forageing is eazy just forage junk all night long get like enough for 40 + combines. What is giving me problems is the hq brute hides only place i know that they can drop is Warsliks Woods or am i missing somewhere they drop more often. thanks =)

[Noni DeeCups]

Skip the armor, make the bags when you get the blue diamonds and focus on the velious / hopper path.

[Silound]

Hell, make bags and give them away to people. I've gotten 5 skillups on bags since I stopped grinding my tailoring at 187. Only made abotu 40 or so bags too. Plus they aren't bad cash.

[Furyrpied]

give up on the HQ brute hides.. these are stupidly rare.

And no i'm not just saying that because i want all the hides (although i would love it if you just gave all of yours to me) but becaus they are very hard to come by.

[Tweedledea]

I got sick of farming the hides a long time back. I have about a stack of HQ in the bank, which I've accumulated slowly from vendors from time to time... I combine when the whim to equip a new mule in bright green takes me, or when I'm asked for a specific piece.

[suttasy]

thanks for the tips will do bags etc when i get the pieces also

[Durgaa]

I wouldn't dismiss out cultural tailoring out of hand, if you can find the materials at a reasonable cost. If you are a druid, set your bind point to the Brute caves in Walsilks and just pop over there before you log in and out, etc. I suppose you could do this if you are a cleric, too. But Im not sure you would want to waste your bind spot on this. Anyway, keep your eyes open in the bazaar and buy the HQ hides when they are below your "selling point." The HQ hides also drop off the other Brutes in FM and DL. You could perma camp an alt at the caves too. As far as the acorns go...foraging and picking up ground spawns should net you a few in a half hour. /ooc the zone while you are looking and you can sometimes find other players who have acorns on them or a few in their bank and trade them for buffs and/or buy them lower than the silly bazaar price. Its been my experience that the acorns are easier than the HQ brute hides. Sometimes you will get lucky and you will find a trader with 20+ hides or acorns at a reasonable price It wont be fast using this method but I think its a great way to supplement your tailoring. Some of the Imbued Vale reinforced stuff sells well to the Tribute NPC. I get more "satisfaction" from making the cultural stuff too.

[Noni DeeCups]

In my personal opinion, the armor is a waste of blue diamonds. The bags move and move fast. The armor does not. They both require blue diamonds and an acorn. Tufts of fur are very easy to forage. HQ Brute hides suck. There is really no reason to make the armor unless someone request a piece.

[Durgaa]

But you dont need to waste a BD for the Vale reinforced stuff and it will take you to 228. Im just saying that it is possible and not as completely unrealist to expect to gather some of the materials for cultural combines by timely bazaar purchasing and some foraging/searching in Misty.

[Maisie]

I did Vale reinforced mixed in with a little bit of flawless rockhopper til the NON bd halfling cultural < the Vale reinforced> went trivial at 228. It "seemed" I had a good skill up rate with them and I just bought in bazaar and let it be known I was looking.

[Bigmeeno]

Im trying to get Misty Acorns. I have spent many, many hours scouring Misty Thicket, and have yet to see any on the ground. I have read every thread on these boards that mentions acorns.

I even found the thread with /locs that were posted 2 years ago. I took those locs and added points on my map for them. Problem is, half of the points were off the map. So I reversed the coordinates, and half were still off of the map. So I highly doubt that data was valid. I also checked each point that I could get to multiple times for several EQ nights, and found nothing at any of them.

Following the tips in one of the threads, I finally loaded up my druid, cast greater wolf form on him, killed a fire beetle for the eye and equipped it, and ran around at night time with the gamma turned down for multiple EQ nights, and found nothing. Actually, I was finding bags (and I know the acorns are supposed to be green leaves on the ground)

Foraging is broken. Again. About half the time I press FORAGE after the button pops, I get told that I have to wait longer before I can forage again, and the button stays down for another full cycle.

I am quite frustrated at this point. I have spent countless hours over the past few months working on tradeskills. I intentionally left tailoring to be the last tradeskill to bring up, so that I could make all of the other things I would need to get through tailoring. And now that I am just about high enough to make something that might help pay back some of the seemingly mountains of plat that I have blown working on all these skillups, I run into something that is just so poorly implimented that I want to scream and say screw it.

[YurienStonebow]

from what i can tell leatherfoot bags are easy combines. BD drop common and the acorns are easy forage in MT and baz. thurg is the best for the fur

[Akishka]

Bigmeeno - I certainly understand your frustration, nothing worse than spending days on something and getting nowhere. However, may I gently suggest that its not broken, you are just not having the best of luck / looking in the right places? These bags sell for 6k on my server and does seem to be a pretty easily successful combine. Something has to be difficult about it to make the profit and it appears that finding the acorns is it. A quick search of my bazaar shows about 100 acorns for sale, all under 50 pp. Perhaps take a break on the foraging for a bit and buy the acorns, try the combine and see what success you have? You may find that its better for your sanity / wallet to just buy the acorns and farm someplace you know for the pp.

[Maisie]

I personally didnt find the bags a good source of skill ups, simply because 36 tufts per bag took a good while to get . < the fact I am a cleric and cant forage on my own didnt help >

However, the bags are a nice way to FUND the rest of your skilling up, it is what I did, and cut down on farming items considerably.

good luck

[Meirril]

Just my 2 cents. Acorns are harder to come by than blue diamonds.
Getting 36 tuffs of fur is realy, realy annoying. So is farming one HQ brute hide. If you arn't planning on using any cultural armor your trying to make just forget about it then and spend your efforts making a bag.
This isn't going to be a quick process but it could be a relatively cheep one. At least this one has a good chance of paying for itself unlike alot of other skill up paths.
However, I will point out that its easier to collect spider silk, make a tunare worshiping druid/cleric alt that can imbune emeralds, and find a JC GM with the JC AAs to make you chains than collect all of the forages. Depends on how much time vs plat you have (and if you can make more plat in that time than this costs).