300 Finally!

[Prexis]

This was a bit unexpected, as I didn't expect to get much past 295 when I made this run yesterday (if I made it that far). I started off with 286 skill and was making othmir fur cloaks to 295. I had been doing othmir exclusively from 252 up due to the relative cheapness of working with this material. I was collecting holgresh fur, velium hound fur, velium mastodon fur & ice burrower silk the entire time as well, but was saving all of that for the last 5 points. Unfortunately, as a half-elf, DoN cultural was not a viable skill up route. I use 1 mule to store supplies for whatever trade I'm working on at the time. As a general rule I won't start combines until I can do at least 100, but usually start when my mule is full (this includes mana vials, threads, and anything else not on vendors in the PoK).

The last 9 skill ups from 286-295 I averaged about 1 skill up per 26 combines. I had prepped expecting about 1 skill up per 30 combines for this run so was close to what I expected. I don't have the exact numbers, but from 252-286 I made 3 runs with othmir fur. The 1st 2 of those runs I averaged about 1 skill up per 18 combines & the 3rd one was around 28 combines per.

What I really did not expect was the last 5 points. It only took 88 total combines for the 5 skill ups, so roughly 18 combines per skill up. I had enough materials for 111 combines of holgresh & western wastes drops, so wasn't really expecting to make it on this run.

This was my last skill to cap. The other 6 trades were done by the end of march, but took a 6 month break before getting into tailoring.