Skillup Recommendations

[skace]

The sheer number of recipes in the game is giving me a headache when trying to figure out the cheapest way to get to 200. I see a lot of guides out there, but they all have strange dates, like 2002 or even older and I was wondering if anyone could just give me some quick advice from the perspective of all the expansions.

I'm a level 61 druid, I have 88 skill in tailoring and am looking to get it to 200, possibly 201 (to lock it in). I have 120+ crystalline silk threads and 200+ crystalline silks already at my disposal.

Should I start farming cat skins or is there a better way? I'm looking for the quickest and easiest way within reason. I only have 3k plat and my server has very little on bazaar.

I appreciate any help as tailoring is the trade skill I'm fearing the most (don't really have time to farm right now). Thanks!

[Wyora]

I just started doing tailoring on my gnome and in the last week got her up to 179 doing the following (not listing things I did that are already trivial to you):

77 - 115 Tailored Quiver
116 - 128 Wu's Fighting Collar (requires mana vials and a heady kiola - brewing)
129 - 135 Wu's Fighting Wristbands
136 - 144 Wu's Fighting Mantle
145 - 151 Wu's Fighting Sleeves
152 - 158 Wu's Fighting Shirt
159 - 162 Golden Indigo Ribbons (honey berry is easily forgaged or cheap in the bazaar)
168 - 182 Platinum Indigo (the platinum ribbon may be a bit expensive for you)

My next step will be a combination of Expert level armor (gnomes use crystalline silk) and Expert symbols (drachnid silk and lambent stones). These will take you up to 220ish. If you're not a gnome or froglok, then the expert armor will use a different item, so either sell the crystalline silk or use it Crystalline silk items (will take you up to 131).

[skace]

So Wu's is where it's at still eh? At least this is a good sanity check to make sure I'm not wasting money. I've got a 61 Enchanter but wasn't sure I wanted to buy bulk gems. Thanks!

[Ddemons Ddemise]

[QUOTE=Wyora]I just started doing tailoring on my gnome and in the last week got her up to 179 doing the following (not listing things I did that are already trivial to you):

77 - 115 Tailored Quiver
[QUOTE]
up to 108 you can use the HQ bear and wolf pelts for Reinforced armor as well ..
i just went to Nedaria's with a stack or 4 of the steel boning and killed like crazy..
brought all the ingredients and just dropped everything i made on the ground.. took me about an hour from whatever skill i was at (i dun remember )

[skace]

So yesterday, I started on Quivers. I went from Nedaria's to Stonebrunt Mountains to East Karana. And at the end, EK was still the best zone. Kind of shocked me. In Nedaria, I could pull an absolute ton of bears and cats, but I'd have to run around for 30 minutes getting them all from different parts of the zone, the giant cliff being a constant annoyance, and after 6 AEs I only had 6 HQ bear pelts and 10 HQ cat pelts (a lot more wolf pelts than any other location though). The tigers in Stonebrunt dropped an awesome number of pelts, the problem there is that there weren't any concentrated tiger spawns, too sparse, too much running. So I ended up back at boring old EK. Where I ended up pulling in 30 HQ catp elts at the late end of my night as well as ~65 silk swatches. I can't believe EK is still where I end up after all these expansions, aah, crazy.

[mewkus]

There use to be a guy in Gukta who would exchange lower quality pelts for the next grade up (at 3 to 1 ratio). As I recall he made the exodus to Rathe with the rest of the frogs but had some sort of faction issue with him. I don't know if that's been fixed or not or if he still exists. But, if so it's an source of additional HQ pelts.

[Sukrasisx]

There use to be a guy in Gukta who would exchange lower quality pelts for the next grade up (at 3 to 1 ratio). As I recall he made the exodus to Rathe with the rest of the frogs but had some sort of faction issue with him. I don't know if that's been fixed or not or if he still exists. But, if so it's an source of additional HQ pelts.

Allakhazam lists this quest as still being active in the froggies' new home in Rathe Mountains, but the description says that you have to be a Froglok or use Illusion Froglok to do the trade.

[Gaell Stormracer]

Yes, that's exactly how I got Gaell from the point at which Platinum Indigo Ribbons went trivial, to where Expert's Brambleborn Cuirass did - East Karana for HQ and MQ cat pelts, and using a level 1 frog alt to get the MQ cat changed to HQ by Dar Forager Lumun.

[skace]

I finished with Wu's and I'm kind of surprised to find out that my next steps require foraged ingredients? That can't be quick by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately, on my server, I can't rely on someone selling the ingredients in bazaar, so if I'm going to go with something foraged I have to forage each component myself. Youch.

Question is, if you couldn't buy the foraged ingredients for ribbons, would that still be your preferred skillup path?

Thanks!

[ChaseFV]

Do keep in mind that most of the foraged components for LoY robes/ribbons have been added to the drop tables of one or more mobs in the same zone(s) in which they are foraged.

[Ozadar]

Or do what I did . . . build a ranger or druid to use as a forager. I suppose you can kill some of the mobs that drop the foraged items, but I quickly abandoned that as it was too time consuming. Take care to save ribbons that your race can make robes out of. I'm still yielding results from higher level combines for the ribbons I saved.

Ozadar of the 70th Corpse
Erudite Tradeskiller of Zek
Member of 1450 Club

Baking - 264
Brewing - 250
Fletching - 250
Jewelry - 263
Pottery - 249
Smithing - 233
Tailoring - 223
Research - 200
Fishing - 200

(+5-8% to all skills) + Salvage 3

[skace]

luckily my tailor is also a druid. I have some spare AA and am thinking of buying that AA that will get me more foraged goods per click. Hmm, good tip on saving the ribbons for robes, I would probably have sold them. So I guess I'll pick my zone and forage / AE at the same time and see what I come up with, thanks!