Need a new method!

[HeroFromHyrule]

My tailoring has been stuck at 83 for a while now because I just haven't wanted to spend all the time and money to raise it up. Now I really want to raise up my tailoring but I want a new method. The other night I put on all my wis gear and (while KEI'd) had about 152 Wis. I tried to combine two tailored backpacks and not only failed both times but didn't receive any skill ups. That was when it hit me, this is going to suck. Is there any other way to raise up my tailoring w/o having to buy/farm tons of HQ bear pelts? I just raised up my brewing from 44 to 93 in one day because you can buy all of the stuff needed from merchants. Tailoring doesn't have that luxury unfortunately. Any tips you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

[Myrron]

Tailoring and smithing are arguably the two toughest trades to grandmaster. Smithing post-188 is painful, and tailoring in general is painful. At your skill, backpacks and quivers are the best routes to skill up with for a while.

--Myrron

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

Success has nothing to do with your stats, only your skill, so don't worry about raising your wisdom for combining for result, only when combining to skill up. And, well, two data points without skillup isn't really a lot of data.

[Sebilrazen]

tailoring's storebought luxury only goes to 76...woven mandrake to 66... picnic baskets to 76... then you need to become a farmer/buyer

The first question is what level are you, and what class? Certain classes are excellent farmers(any caster with a PBAoE in the 50s on up), and if your a wis based skiller and use KEI when skilling, have the chanter cast insight on you too it adds another 10 wis, and it can only help., no matter how you plan on doing it, you will be spending lots and lots of time in EK, first for cat pelts, then for silk, silk and more silk...or spending alot of plat, tailoring is no joke...good luck

[HeroFromHyrule]

I was doing the combines for skill up and it was after I did the two that I realized how much of a pain it would be to keep gathering the components to continue raising my skill. I'm a 52 Paladin and probably wont have much trouble farming the necessary components. I guess if I want to do this I'm in for the long haul. Thanks.

[Jobrill]

Check the recipe page for Tailoring and check triv rates, that's usually the easiest way.

At 83 Tailoring, my reccomendation would be, first, to farm Greyhoppers in Marus Seru. They drop Greyhopper Hides, which can be tailored with a pattern for up to 95 skill. After that, you have a couple options. Since I was hunting Crystalline Spiders in Crystal Caverns for Experience, I just went and did Crystalline Silk armor til it trivialed, although you could try going to Stonebrunt mountains and killing the Leopards there to get High Quality Cat pelts and make Quivers up to 115. This might be an especially good method now that Frogloks apparently have a quest to upgrade low and medium quality pelts to high.

My Route with Tailoring so far has been to try as much as possible to plan ahead and experience in places that drop stuff I need to skill up tailoring in the hopes of minimizing farming later down the road (For example, at 51, I am currently hunting Wyverns, with the occassional Cobalt Drake if I'm feeling really plucky)

[Pockets FullOfGold]

In my experience of Tailoring, I've been doing it off and on since EQ went live, I've had alot of ups and downs. As others have said, if you don't have the plat to buy components in the bazaar, Tailoring can be time consuming. For the most part, that's the downside. The upside, at least for me, is knowing I'm doing a service for other people and helping guildmates as well.

Suggestions have been made but noone has mentioned EK. While there are plenty of locations in Luclin to go farm this or that, prior to Luclin, EK was the best source of upper end farming for Tailoring. Spiders provide the silks to make Swatches which are needed for Wu's, Cats provide the hides to make Quivers. HQ Cat Pelts are used to make quivers which will get you to 115. And since there is now a quest in Gukta that will allow you to get an HQ Cat pelt for 3 MQ Cat Pelts, you have a reason to save those MQ and LQ pelts if you don't use them to make leather padding. 3 LQ Cat pelts turned in will give you 1 MQ, then turn in 3 MQ's to get the HQ's.

I was in your Wisdom range when I was doing Backpacks/Quivers. I found it alot easier to forgoe the Backpacks, because the HQ Pelts were so rare and Luclin was not available, and I went directly to Quivers. 1 HQ Cat Pelt and 1 Pattern. They don't stack but I found a merchant to sit next to and sell the quiver as soon as I succeeded in making one. They sold for over 1 PP so I made a small profit while combining for skillups.

With Luclin you do have more choices though. Rockhoppers in most Luclin zones drop HQ Hides and these hides can be used to make Backpacks. The HQ Rockhopper Hides are alot more common than the HQ Bear Pelts so your chances of working Backpacks for skillups is alot easier.

Hope this info helps.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Pootle]

Did i see a post about a New Frog quest where you turn in 3 pelts for a higher level one....

ie. 3 medium bear = 1 HQ Bear.

Also get very used to realising that "this is gonna suck"

You are gonna be saying that a LOT!

WUs
Studded Acrylia
Reinforced Acrylia
Velious...

[Liwsa]

I always found it funny that you could break a block of ore to a large brick 1 for 1. If you want to combine bricks to make block it is what 3 large bricks together to make 1 block. Now they are giving us 3 mq pelts to get 1 HQ pelt but breaking them down it is a 1 for 1. Somehow this just doesn't seem fair. If it takes 3 to go up shouldn't we get at least 2 when we go down?

[Mahlig]

HQ Cat pelts are common drops in EK. I would go kill lions/lionesses/patriarchs/matriarchs/rogue lions for their pelts. HQ Cat Pelt + Quiver patter = 115 skill. Works beautifully!

[sir0die]

if you plan on tailoring for the long haul, hunt the hopper cave in DSp (the one that might be the sambatas at times). They drop superb and flawless also, which you'll need after you're done with the packs. for acrylia studded armor.

then either skin the mq down to lq and make leather paddings, or use the new froggie quest to upgrade them to HQ.

[Perseverence Rewarded]

I tried the pelt upgrade in Gukta yesterday and he ate 6 of my MQ rockhopper hides. I'm wondering if it's old world pelt's only.

BTW sir0die, A mime is not a terrible thing to waste.

[Moraganth]

....if your a wis based skiller and use KEI when skilling, have the chanter cast insight on you too it adds another 10 wis....

Small correction is all. Kei is a combination (and increase of the components) of the clarity, gift, and insight/brilliance lines... so none of the lower versions will stack with it.

[lyla]

Cool!

Thanks for the info, was going to make leather padding with my medium q pelts... I think I'll used them to help me skill up!

Here is the link for the quest

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2317

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[Railina]

better choice:
make padding
sell padding in the bazaar for 20pp each
take money to EK, mine vendors.
(or, if you're willing to go 3-1 anyway)
sell padding 20pp each, buy HQ hides in the bazaar 20-30pp each.