Looking for suggestions.

[Daylar Farshot]

Hiya's! I'm currently sitting at 160 (got 2 points from doin the actual shawl combines lol) and I'm trying to find a good way to get to 250 without blowing my pocket out of the ground (stop laughing) by buying multiple gems from vendors. Yes, the Soltice robe trivials at 250 but Ruby, Saphires, Peridots, and whatever god too much =/.

Now I was looking at doing Ribbons but I was in WC today and got a whole whopping 1 Plains Roots from my forage button and was mass slaughtering the zone to find nadda on corpses...

Was just looking up the combines for doing Arctic Wyvern combines, and it seems like a not-so-bad combine, esp. since you can make your own coldain tempers now for a bit cheaper and you can fish the Cod's between kills.

Rockhoppers are also an option yes, but Supurb Hides (uhg) and on my server Acrylia is like 60-100pp per brick... Bad enough I did Fletching to 250 off those things lol (/bye 100kpp).

So if there's any combines I've overlooked that wouldn't be too time consuming (what isn't these days when you pass 150 lol) to get the pieces for, post your thoughts

Got 4 trades GM'd this is the only one I don't have at 200 lol.

EDIT: Oh BTW, what's this "the RNG hates me" stuff? RNG = Rangers no?

[Pockets FullOfGold]

I've been farming since I started my Tailoring skill and I can say it's a very slow process. Months and months of farming can happen depending on what your class is. If you have the funds buying your way through the Bazaar can be a quick way to race through the skillups.

The cheapest way to get to 242 is doing Acrylia Studded and Acrylia Reinforced. It will cost you a few PP to make the Paeala Tannin, but farming the Acrylia will more than make up for the cost you spend for the Tannin. Just be prepared for those long days of farming the Rockhoppers in DSP and farming the Grimling Orefinders or Grol Baku Soldiers in TM for Acrylia.

RNG is Random Number Generator... it's what gives you your skillups.

Pockets FullOfGold

[Meirril]

Ok, 3 bits of advice

1st bit: give up on tailoring. Pretend it dosen't exist, THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS, THERE ARE NO CHEEP WAYS TO GM THIS SKILL.
Solstice robes are the shortcut, their still long, tedious, expensive, and fraught with success (only trade skill combine that I know of that you pray to fail.). If you not willing to sacrifice down to the bone, this isn't for you.

2nd bit: Try to figure out the price of combines, and then figure out what your own farming can do. For instance, those "cheep" wyvern hide combines arn't. 13pp for a wyvern hide from a merchant (easy to find if you can shop the othmir merchants), about 40pp for a small brick of velium (standardly sold), so figure aprox 20pp for each peice. 2 peices for each velium bit + a coldain temper (another 26pp, only 14pp if you do all of the subcombines to make it yourself), 3 bits + coldain temper for 2 studs. So 4 tempers and 6 peices per 2 studs = 176pp. Add 2 hides to make 2 masks (leave out the mask pattern cost) makes it 202pp for 2 combines, or 101pp per Wyvern hide studded mask combine. Now if you hunt your own velium you just removed 60pp per combine. If you hunt your own hides, you eliminate another 13pp. That reduces the cost to 28pp per combine (and enough time to make you think about buying ready made temper.). If you plan on trying to GM a trade skill, do a little thinking and reaserch. Yes you can ask here, but honestly after getting a few ideas do a little thinking yourself.

3rd peice of advice: figure out if you can make any plat with what you make. Honestly, if your worried about plat you'll want to sell a few things. Making what people are willing to buy is going to take more time and effort, but it could help fund your tailoring. Again with this reaserch and thinking thing I keep hyping. If that isn't for you, more power to ya, but honestly its a good thing.

p.s. Its been one of those days, even I can tell I'm extra sarcastic today.

[Taraddar]

Re: Looking for suggestions.

Hiya's! I'm currently sitting at 160 (got 2 points from doin the actual shawl combines lol) and I'm trying to find a good way to get to 250 without blowing my pocket out of the ground (stop laughing) by buying multiple gems from vendors. Yes, the Soltice robe trivials at 250 but Ruby, Saphires, Peridots, and whatever god too much =/.

Now I was looking at doing Ribbons but I was in WC today and got a whole whopping 1 Plains Roots from my forage button and was mass slaughtering the zone to find nadda on corpses...

Was just looking up the combines for doing Arctic Wyvern combines, and it seems like a not-so-bad combine, esp. since you can make your own coldain tempers now for a bit cheaper and you can fish the Cod's between kills.

Rockhoppers are also an option yes, but Supurb Hides (uhg) and on my server Acrylia is like 60-100pp per brick... Bad enough I did Fletching to 250 off those things lol (/bye 100kpp).

So if there's any combines I've overlooked that wouldn't be too time consuming (what isn't these days when you pass 150 lol) to get the pieces for, post your thoughts

Got 4 trades GM'd this is the only one I don't have at 200 lol.

EDIT: Oh BTW, what's this "the RNG hates me" stuff? RNG = Rangers no?

First RNG on these forums usually referse to the Random Number Generator not rangers and when it hates you it's really bad.

As far as tailoring goes it's a toss up. Given your level your obviously high enough to farm any of the components for any of it and given enough time the right recipes can be very inexpensive PP wise in exchange for being very expensive time wise.

If you farm everything yourself for the arctic wyvern it can be pretty cheap. If you farm acrylia it's even cheaper.

If your looking to do it cheaply with out spending your life farming well good luck. You best bet then is to look for ANY combine that isn't trival and you can sell for more than your cost to make it given cost for items in the bazaar and are willing to farm and your success rate. For example the studded acrylia cloak is a pretty nice stat item. Problem with that is almost every up and coming tailor knows that to so often times there is a lot of market saturation making the cost very low or even below cost.

Depending on your servers market and your situation solstice robes might be a viable option. Personally thats what I did from 187 to 226 and I didn't track my exact cost but in the long run given that my bank account didn't go down even given buying and saving tailoring supplies the whole time I'd say I probably made a profit on them. The catch tho is that I had a 53 druid on my second account that i used to imbue and process most of my emeralds and swatches for me while I raided keeping my cost down and making the time investment minimal since it was just down time on raids. I also used enchanters with JCM3 for all my chain combines. The combination of these factors let me break even or make a profit with 2 or more robes made out of 20 combines. So initially i was loosing a bit but by the time I got to 226 and finally decided the successes where getting to high to be a viable skill up method I was making a profit on my combines. The was dependant on me being able to sell the robes reasonably at 1000-1250pp. If your market is lower or you can't cover some of the other needed things this is harder to skill up on with out loosing money.

[Hippo]

I feel I should just put this point across one more time, there are no 'fast' or 'cheap' ways of making a GM tailor out of your character. I have searched and searched for the best way that suits my style of play and that is the Solstice Robes, but for others the easiest method maybe Acrylia Reinforced Armor because they can comfortably farm the required rockhopper hides and acrylia.