"Easy" Tailoring Path?

[Larn Lobos]

I recently saw this message on Allakhazam's (I'm not sure where the original came from):

Can we get some details on the plans to address the tradeskill issues with regards to skill up paths? Specifically, tailoring for non-karana worshipers and fletching for non-wood elfs or non-karana worshipers have nearly impossible skill up paths to 300.

This seems to imply that there is an "easy" (or at least, less frustrating) path in Tailoring to 300 for Karana worshippers. Being a halfling druid, I would very much like to find this path, but all my searching so far has been in vain.

I started my tradeskilling career as a Tailor, and it is now my LOWEST tradeskill.

Any help in uncovering this is greatly appreciated!

Larn Lobos

[Xulan]

The karana tailoring path isn't really easier than the main path. Maybe a couple of small exceptions in there, as far as I know.

Tailoring is fine. Ideally, no tradeskill would have "clickable" paths. All tradeskills would have been better with some dropped items for all recipies 250+ (perhaps even 200+) and set-up in such a way that skill goes up with combines that are done for actual usage and not just for skill points.

Tailoring is the closest skill to this ideal. Smithing is second. If the Solstice stuff is ever fixed, smithing and pottery will be closer to the ideal. Fletching is a over the top due to low demand in bows and that one must be flagged to get parts for the combines, but the right idea is there.

Don't want to get to 300? Get to 250 and buy the rest of the skill with aa's (mastery 3).

I took the clicky path because it was there, and I don't want to see it nerfed for others, but I would like to see a more natural system. It's hard to correc that after the fact without affecting people. Perhaps when the cap is raised to 350, with 500ish-trivial items, it will be so =)

[hermitw]

Smithing is second?

I'm not sure I see eye to eye with you on that one. It took me a year to get my tailoring to 290 and that was with searching every night in the bazaar for required components. And that was before blocks stacked so it was always a pita to have to make the pieces, etc. Even getting through the 100s was hard because this was my first toon and I was poor.

With smithing I made it from 0 to 255 in 3 weeks flat for a fraction of the plat I paid for superb hides, etc. And instead of 4 mules full of armor that takes awhile to sell, I have only a few bags because, up until you get to mistletoe sickles, the armor sells for good plat to vendors or, for ldon stuff, can be turned into Tribute at favorable rates. And mistletoe sickles sell like handmade backpacks - easily 5 - 10 every night - so there is no chance I'm gonna have to fill up several mules just leveling up.

And being a wood elf, I have had it easy compared to many other races!

Likewise, Jewelry took me a week to get to 282 for less than 30K plat so far. Pottery is going to cost me a bit more maybe, not sure, as I'm only up to 213 - 2 days after I started working on it. I've heard tinkering can be tough but just started a gnome toon so too early to tell - however doesn't look too bad looking at the trivial list.

I just laugh with joy doing any other tradeskill than tailoring - the difference in time and plat is so amazing, but especially in time. The simple fact is that there is NO pathway up that I know of that doesn't require farmed drops - beginning at 80 (and mandrakes isn't much of a pathway up when you compare that mandrake combines sell for nothing back to vendors compared to banded armor. So really, tailoring requires dropped items starting at about 0.)

Maybe I've just been doing something wrong and there is really an easy way to get tailoring from 0 to 250 for less than 50K in 3 days, but somehow I missed it.

IMO (at least until I do tinkering or research) there is no second compared to tailoring - it is in a class by itself.

[hermitw]

Update

Well, after taking my Tinkerer from 50 to 200 in one week I can definitely say that tinkering also does not even come close to tailoring for a difficult skill up path. Everything is store bought up to 200 if you want, or DoN cultural gives an easy path with easy to find drops like crystalline silk if you want to save some plat.

Only poison making and research remain to be compared....

[Twistagain]

Poison Making is extremely easy and dirt cheap up to 275. Beyond that requires some farming (I've found Crystallized Sulfur to be easiest), but nothing like tailoring (even tailoring in the mid-high 100s.)

[Nolrog]

Poison Making is extremely easy and dirt cheap up to 275. Beyond that requires some farming (I've found Crystallized Sulfur to be easiest), but nothing like tailoring (even tailoring in the mid-high 100s.)

Technically, you can buy all the poison making stuff from a vendor. Scoriae Bite; the phos powder and the gold ember powder drop so often that it's practically a vendor bought item.

[YurienStonebow]

even wiht it being commonplace it still gets expensive

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Its chump change compared to tailoring

[YurienStonebow]

smithing is chump change compared to tailoring

[Flatley]

I decided to spend AA's in Tailoring rather than try to get to 300 the hard way. This way I have a better chance of skilling up, but I decided to use Leatherfoot Haversacks as my skill up path as I am plat poor.

Flatley Riverdancer
"As a tailor, I am all toes"

[AB-girlie]

sometimes i wish i didnt get those aa´s before i had my tailoring way over 280.
never failinf a holgresh fur cloak can be somewhat frustrating. atm i got em on every char,in every bag,everywhere.. ooh,and did someone say ice silk caps ?
they are still a sweet newbie item,but when you have more than 100 of them yu start to hate them ) would prefer failing and have a chance to salvage some stuff instead ..

[Luvimt]

sometimes i wish i didnt get those aa´s before i had my tailoring way over 280.
never failinf a holgresh fur cloak can be somewhat frustrating. atm i got em on every char,in every bag,everywhere.. ooh,and did someone say ice silk caps ?
they are still a sweet newbie item,but when you have more than 100 of them yu start to hate them ) would prefer failing and have a chance to salvage some stuff instead ..

Tribute them - i get about 250 for othmir cloaks iirc. I would imagine holgresh would gain a similar tribute amount.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

What do you do once you max out your tribute at 200k? (Am I imagining things or was the tribute cap higher in the past? When did it change?)

I've destroyed enough Othmir armor to clothe half the species.

[GnekroeGnomicon]

What do you do once you max out your tribute at 200k? (Am I imagining things or was the tribute cap higher in the past? When did it change?)

Guild tribute! Though I could've swore I had over 200k tribute last spring...

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Yes exactly... the cap used to be higher I could swear.

Also guild tribute caps out at 500k... pretty easy to fill that up too.