barbarian tailoring

[nasstardly]

Is barbarian a bad choice to strive to make a GM tailor?

I want to tailor with my barb beastlord but cant find anything on barb tailoring. Are there any barbarian cultural tailoring?

Thx

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

There is no barbarian cultural tailoring. They have smithed armor that is wearable by Beastlords, which can make it a little confusing.

The following races have 'normal' cultural tailoring - halfings, wood elves and erudites.

These races have tailored robes that use research components - humans, erudites, dark elves, iksar, high elves and gnomes (all of the races with intelligence casters)

[Taraddar]

If memory serves the smithed armor is also tribunal only altho Mith marr seems to be a popular choice for barb bst for some reason.

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

Yes, it is Tribunal only, but I'm not sure Mith Marr is a choice off of... Sullon Zek, I think? If it is, they are the only ones with that choice, outside of that server.

[nasstardly]

hmm

So what would be the best armor that a barbarian beastlord could make for himself as a tailor? is black pantherskin posible (is it even crafted?)

Thx

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

Go look under Velious tailoring and PoP tailoring - those are doable by theoretically anyone. (Of sufficient level to get the materials, naturally).

No, look closer at what I said - that armor is beastlord wearable, but made with smithing.

[nasstardly]

pantherskin

Black pantherskin is tailored is it not?

Thx

[Taraddar]

Yes, it is Tribunal only, but I'm not sure Mith Marr is a choice off of... Sullon Zek, I think? If it is, they are the only ones with that choice, outside of that server.

MM is a choice for barb bst on all servers as a guildmate found out when she looked into having me make armor for her bst. She was mm and not tribunal and had no option for cultural. I've run into more MM barb bsts than tribunal so far. Not sure why but i have.

[nasstardly]

further question

I am playing on the new server (no one over lvl 35) and want to do tradeskills with my buddy there. He is a halfling druid. Should I do the blacksmithing and him the tailoring as a better option because right now it is the other way around.

Thx

[Mahlig]

Yes. Druid cultural is tailoring. Barbarian is smithing. You should be the smith and he should be the tailor.

EDIT: Druid? Did I say Druid? Ahem...I meant Halfling.

[Meirril]

I am playing on the new server (no one over lvl 35) and want to do tradeskills with my buddy there. He is a halfling druid. Should I do the blacksmithing and him the tailoring as a better option because right now it is the other way around.

If all your interested in is the cultural recipees, the answer is yes you should smith and your friend should tailor. If your interested in making some armor for yourself before you become a Grand Master, then look into tailoring (or helping your friend tailor). If you think "tailoring sounds cool", go for it. While tailoring is the hardest trade skill to grand master its also very rewarding IN THE LONG RUN. If your looking for something quick to help you and your buddy out I'd check into pottery (yes, pottery. Making star ruby steins, and tunare idols for PoTC quest earrings and then trading them for the rest you need is a big help. Making range slot items that are decent dosen't hurt either. Most of all, Pottery is quick, easy, and cheep to GM compaired to tailoring or smithing.)

If your realy want to max out your options though, a halfling tailor is very good, and a human smith has alot of options that other smiths don't.

[Ravenstorm]

new server???what new server? ack didnt know we had another new server.



stormraven (fv server)

[Moraganth]

The best (highest level - you can determine how good for yourself) tailoried armors you'll be able to make for your beast is panther and drake... both are player made, neither trivial, and the require hides from wakening lands, and cobalt scar respectiively.

Panther also requires yew tannin (from yew leaves in wakening - droped, foraged, and groundspawn, but still fairly rare), and smithed velium boning

Drake also requires drake tannin (from drake eggs - foraged in ToV, Western Wastes, Skyshrine.. and i've heard rumors of Dragon Necropolis, but my druid friend couldn't confirm), and smithed velium boning.

With a 240 tailor, you're looking at a 50% success rate. Sadly, there's only a few good pieces in each set.

Another option is the acrylia reinforced armor (trivial ~240), requiring flawless hopperhides and smithed acrylia boning. For the most part, this armor is very cheap now, and raising your tailoring just to make it wouldn't be very cost effective. Again, there are several nice piee in the set, but not all are worth wearing.

As an added bonus, if you did get your skills up in tailoring, and got the proper drops, there are a couple pieces of shaded hide armor (trivial ~230) witch are fairly nice. These require rare drops in maidens eye and ahkeva... are are exceptionally annoying to try farming.

At this time, the better route to go is probably to buy from other people who have yeilded to the insanity of tailoring, as most of the pieces you'd want to use are much, much, much cheaper than even considering tryign to raise skill.... or use dropped armor.

If you're really interested in tailoring, or tradeskills in general, there is nothing like wearing somethign you made.... if you are ambivelent, or worse yet hate, tradeskills... you won't like investing the effort for what you will end up with as a reward.

[Calabar]

As you are playing on the new server, you will not, as of yet, be able to simply buy armor in the bazaar like you could if you were on an older server. But otherwise Moraganth has made some very good points. Depending on the number of hours your able to play, and your play style, it could take you years to reach 250 in either tailoring or smithing. Of all the trade skills, these two should not be attempted above a basic level unless you enjoy working on the skill itself.

That having been said, if the two of you do wish to pursue these skills I would suggest that you take up smithing and your halfling friend do the tailoring. A halfling tailor has a number of advantages that a barbarian tailor does not. And at higher skill levels halflings can make weight reduction bags, including a 10 slot bag that holds giant sized items and has 100% weight reduction. If my druid had been a halfling instead of a wood elf, I would have been working on my tailoring a lot harder then I have been. *smiles*

Best of luck with whatever decision you make.

[Troodon]

These races have tailored robes that use research components - humans, erudites, dark elves, iksar, high elves and gnomes (all of the races with intelligence casters)

Well not quite all, hehe. Frogloks have int casters (wizards) but no LoY robes. I still wonder why, since frogloks themselves were part of the same expansion that brought the new robe recipes.