Evolving the last trophy

[Sliggoth]

Just thought I would start a thread discussing results in trying to evolve the trophy to 7, since there arent any new tailoring recipes Im hoping to work out what old recipes may give us a decent rate of evolution.


Only thing I tried so far was tailored GM don augs, had a few hides in the bank and people asking for augs.

10 gm augs for one point of evolution on the trophy...indicating that it will take 1000 aug tries to evolve, not good.


Anyone have any other data?.



Sliggoth, druid/ tailor of 7th Hammer

[tuis]

As a human, I intend to shissar scale it making master cultural leather bp and legs. On my last run of just shy of 40 successes I jumped 6 or 7%. Ballparking it I figure a bit under 500 more successes so my goal is 1500 scales. My buyer is set to reel them in but no one is farming them on Zek. Looks like I'm on my own.

[Fonceur]

Sliggoth you are probably one combine away from a skill up. Doing velium mastodon cloak and GM aug, it takes about 5 combines per skill up, I am at 7% currently...

[tnexus]

Old cultural ftw! =)

[Centuri]

T, I need some wood elf parts....

c'mere. /cocks a finger.


/looks at the holgresh cave with distaste and goes back to work.

[tuis]

The wonders of boxing...I plant myself in the holgresh cave, right in the middle, where I am certain to aggro everything. Pet kills them off. Meanwhile I'm tearing up Ssra with my monk for scales. So far 16 stacks of scales vs 3 of holgresh fur, trophy at 15%. This is gonna take awhile. =(

[Ilona]

Mine is going ever so slowly, as I make GM augments. Needless to say it's only got 1 or 2% on it so far.

I would do old cultural, but I really ought to use the BDs for skilling up those characters that aren't at 300 yet before those skillup options get changed.

[AB-girlie]

holgresh, hound, mastodon and ice burrower did well for me so far. currently on 10%,and i really dont think its slow (not compared to my jc trophy)

[Dyllwin]

I decided to finally start levelling my tailoring trophy since I got the last of the standard seven trophies the other day. I blew through most of my stockpile of tailoring components that I had been saving for my chanter to level up on (needless to say she's not speaking to me right now). It was a mix of Velious furs, Elemental and Old-world Halfling Cultural, so between 308 and 335 trivials. On the 308 and 322 trivial items I was getting a straight 1% every 5 combines. On the 335 trivials I was getting 3% every 14 combines (1% in 5, 1% in 5 then 1% in 4). I did 35 335 trivial combines in a row, and this pattern held constant.

Sooo, I'm sitting at 26% into level 6 and looking to doing another 350ish combines of Old Cultural, mixing it up with whatever new GM and elemental/fur I can find. Now if the people selling the 300+ Blue Diamonds in the bazaar weren't still asking 600 - 1000pp each I might be able to afford it Time to leave my buyer up again hehe

[Ysall]

Holgresh, hound, mastodon and ice burrower are my primary skillup source at the moment, but only because there are some serious pharmers of Western Wastes in operation on my server, and I just bought up about 6 months of their work in 1 day.

I've also been doing Bazu and Discordant Seals using Magnificant Hides and Mottled Hides. I'd actually been gathering and hoarding these for about 5 months before the new release came out, and in all that time, only gathered enough for 90 combines.

I'm up to 52% on my trophy, and the breakdown is roughly as follows:-

GM Symbols (using Glossy Drake Hides) – 20
Ice burrower caps – 70 combines
Holgresh Cloaks – 40 combines
Velium Hound fur – 40 combines
Bazu Seals – 60 combines
Discordant Seals – 20 combines

[Ysall]

I just wish I had one of the old cultural tailoring paths, but HIE only get cultural smithing. Even the silk class stuff is made by smithing, which is rather bizarre.

[tuis]

Humans got jacked on old cultural tailoring...the price we pay for our other tradeskill advantages, I guess.

[Sliggoth]

Just wanted to add in now: doing various velious furs, GM augs, don master armors tailoring is definitely going to be the slowest trophy for me to evolve.

Doing further GM augs i am seeing a percentage up roughly like this: 5 augs, one up, 5 augs one up, 4 augs one up. For some odd reason the first raise to one percent seemed to take twice as long as any other raise...maybe a quirk there.

Either don cultural or farming in WW seem to be the best routes, neither is fast tho.


Sliggoth