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    high elf enchanter 66 just go back to EQ after a 1 year break.
    My tailoring is at 200 and thanks to some refunds apparently, I decided to take the TS AA to skill tailoring further.
    I have 2 questions :
    1) is salvage worth the cost for someone like me planning to go to 300 (he it was 250 before :!!=), I have some AA to spend
    2) what's a good way to skill knowing I dual a forager who can help me in the farming

    I knew LoY robes where a pretty good way to skill up until 240's or something, plus I still have a fair amount of swatch and my druid is ok for the boring forage part.
    I remember Solstice robe is a pretty easy way to skill up but costly.
    Since I don't know what came after OoW, and read that they made some cutural armors also in DoN, is it worth to take that way ?
    anyway, any advice appreciated.
    thanks

  • #2
    Salvage is always useful.

    If you're planning to go to 300, mastery will in the end be useless.

    Hope you haven't already spent those AA.

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    • #3
      Don tailoring isn't a good skill up path post 200 because the drops are very rare depending on your race.You can try othmirs or other velious furs or reinforced arcylia leathers.There is a drop in DoDH called a sporial skin which drops off the mushroomen that trivals at 276:-) Hope this helps

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      • #4
        at what point is amstery useful then Qaladar? i'm at around 200 in most skills and got 6 AA i can afford to spend

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        • #5
          Mastery reduces fails. As you always skill up on stuff that trivials above your skill level, mastery is always useful.

          Success is rougly twice as likely to result in a skillup than a failure is. By reducing failing, you increase your successes and therefore your chances to skill up.

          BUT, assuming you skill up using something that is close to your skill level, like up to 20-30 points above your skill level, you always succeed 95% of the time. This is why mastery is close to completely useless while skilling up.

          Now, on the other hand when you want to make something useful, it does help. Useful stuff usually has a trivial WAY over 300. It gives you a natural chance of success likely in a range that you're not comfortable with. Like trying GM Chest Symbol at smithing 230. Not good chances. So, by buying mastery, you increase your chance of success of making something. And that increased chance is when it's useful / worth it.

          In conclusion, buy tradeskill mastery when you have stopped / completed skilling up and start making very high trivial items.

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          • #6
            If you plan on going to 300, you will reach max chance of success on everything without mastery. Thus at that point you won't need it.

            Don't take mastery for skilling... take it if you plan to make high triv things with lowish skill and are too lazy to skillup. Otherwise, it's wasted.

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            • #7
              Lazy

              Lazy might not be the correct term to use here, lack of funding and a desire to acquire higher end items before getting to higher trivial levels might be a better way to look at it.

              Personally, I'm only at about 220 Tailoring right now, and planning on going to 300 at some point, but really would like my GM BP, I've collected the GDH's to make an attempt, but haven't got the cash to skill up past 250 easily, and sometimes it's very difficult to find the Wyvern camp open (and I refuse on a personal level to slaughter the othmir).

              So considering the ease with which you can get AA's nowadays (I can get 2 or 3 AA's in the time it takes me to gather a stack of Wyvern Hides), is it really so far fetched to get those mastery AA's before you max out 300?

              Calrain Wolfpacer

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              • #8
                You can't skillup past 250 on wyvern.

                Start killing otters.

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                • #9
                  Wyverns

                  Using Wyvern to go 220 to 252.....

                  Calrain Wolfpacer

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                  • #10
                    Sorry... I got hung up on your statement that you didn't have the cash to skillup past 250.

                    My mistake.

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