Reviving a dead horse so I can beat on it some more

[mewkus]

Many many months ago, there was talk from the devs that they were going to relook at the trivials of a bunch of tradeskill combines. They were going to analyze all the different combines and compare the rewards/results of the combines with the trivials. They were going to make adjustments where necessary and put those out on the test server to see if they were good and make more adjustments till they got them just right. Then they were going to put all those changes over on the live server. Then a couple days later all the tailoring trivials got hit with unannounced radical changes.

There was much complaining and it was revealed that those changes leaked out to the live servers by accident and were not intended to really go live. When asked if the trivials could be set back to where they were the response was that doing so would only serve to aggrevate players even more and that since all the trivial levels were set to change soon that they would just leave them at their new deflated values.

Fast forward a bunch of months... None of the other trivials seem to have changed. There doesn't seem to be much talk about realigning the trivial values any more. But, the accidental leakage of new tailoring trivials is still ou there.

Has everyone given up hope on getting the trivials back to where they were? Would returning the trivials really annoy/aggrevate players?

[Prexis]

Take a look at this following post in the news section of Allakhazam (From the Halfling Hodgepodge Dev Q & A - November 30, 2005). It kinda states we should be looking at a January-February timeframe for this:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/news...tml?story=6629

The relevant part of this post is quoted below for convenience:

Is fletching going to be fixed for non karana followers and/or foragers?

We have several ideas on how to extend fletching beyond its current usefulness and limitations -- This includes adding additional means to obtain 300 skill for everyone, as well as adjusting the recipes which make it far too easy for certain races and / or classes to raise their skill. Without delving too deeply into the details, expect some changes in the near future (January / February timeframe).

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, much like the question asked above, is also on the board to be addressed by adding additional recipes as well as adjusting any of those recipes which are far too easy for certain races to gain skill with.