What are my options?

[byelka]

I have been doing solstice robes to skill up on.

But from posts and my own thoughts on the matter it might start to get a bit pricy once I hit 210 or so in skill.

Now what do I do?
Solstice robes are nice for me because they triv at above 250 and because I have a HIE cleric all the materials can be easily gotten by myself or the open market. I can get 100 combine together pretty easily.

What else that triv above 210 (or multiple things) can I pop into the bazaar and buy enough components for under 200PP an attempt and get enough for 100 attempts lets say by checking the bazaar frequently over a 5 day period?

-Byelka

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

Realistically? You'd have a better chance of petitioning a GM to give you the skill. <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/feliciachaorazz.gif alt="And we know THAT wont happen!">

Your best bet, if money's an issue, is to either stick with robes, or make reinforced acrylia armor, and farm the materials.

Depending on your race, you could do cultural robes instead of Solstice...provided you can get the foraged ingredients and the runes/words needed. I do Robes of Wings myself: about 70pp/combine, I think (not at home atm, will check when I get there)

[byelka]

it does not have to be one recipe.

but if I can buy 20 attempts at X and 40 attempts at y and 40 attempts at Z in a given week from the bazaar

and if each of those attempts cost under 250PP so 25KP for 100 combines

what are my options aside from solstice robes

[Velurian]

The lower end LoY robes might fit your criteria, depending on what race you are. For the erudite robes, I can generally get together about 30 (total) of the research components per week at reasonable prices. Some of the foraged components can be hard to get (the bamboo shoots for erudite robes are just silly -- no one hunts there, and even when people do, the pandas are so rare that you'd be lucky to get one bamboo per hour from hunting), but if you're the right race, and actually got lucky enough to be a race that gets their foraged components in zones where people actually hunt, you can get a decent number of these just by going to the zones in question and advertising for them over public channels.

Past that, I'd keep my eyes open for cheap othmir fur -- past the fur itself, the cost on these is only about 15pp. But this will be hit and miss, and highly server-dependent.

Other than these, you're pretty much stuck with robes or farming your own components.

[Minuit]

it does not have to be one recipe.

but if I can buy 20 attempts at X and 40 attempts at y and 40 attempts at Z in a given week from the bazaar

and if each of those attempts cost under 250PP so 25KP for 100 combines

what are my options aside from solstice robes

Perhaps you should go to the bazaar on your server and find out for yourself.

You may even want to look at http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_tailoring.htm and follow a few links in there to see what to look for. If you don't have the patience to stare at lists of ingredients and mindlessly click on the /bazaar window for even a few minutes, then you probably aren't going to enjoy tailoring.

[byelka]

It was as I feared no one really knows.

but tailoring above 200 was not suppose to be easy

I usually do my own research on tradeskilling but I thought that someone else might have dived into this matter before I did. I will make alist of recipes and see what I can find. I am a halfling so I cannot do LoY robes. But I will keep my eyes opened for other things.

[Suva]

Arctic wyvern masks were not too expensive, but when I did em I also farmed some of the pieces instead of buying. I did a mix of wyvern masks and solstice robes to around 230 and then just did masks the rest of the way to 250. The only problem with the masks was there is hardly any resale rate and they only sell to a vendor for 5pp.

[byelka]

Resell price is not an issue for me i would just like to keep the cost under 250PP per attempt hopefully under 200PP.

ATM solstice robes meet that for me but once I start succeeding on them more often I don't think they will.

[xonbink]

As A GM Halfling Tailor I dont know why you have such a low budget - at 210 skill you would be very easily making Leatherfoot Haversacks - which sell for quite a decent amount of pp ( 6k on tunare) they cost about half that on a good day - less if you find bargains or farm Blue diamonds -

Soon you will have a bank account to allow you to make the solstice robe combines 100 at a time - which is a good way to go as well - since the robes sell back for a decent amount -

Find a JCM 2 or JCM 3 chanter to make the gem studded chains - with failurs of 10pct or less your getting your chains for half the price of just a 250 skill jeweler -

figure about 350 per chain (with donation to the chanter for making them) and at 210 skill you will see probably about 10 pct success if your lucky -

but 2 solstice robes out of 20 attempts uses only 2 chains, (700pp) and 60 tunare silk swatches - (about 2500pp roughly if you do your own imbues) if robes still sell for around 1k each on your server (or more) your looking at 20 attempts for a total cost of about 1500pp or less (get creative and farm more )

Good luck and you will get there -

Oh and save all your HQ brute hides- I found that starting at 240 skill (with geerlok) i was making all storm reaper pieces with good success, and was getting skilllups at the rate of about 4 or 5 attempts per skill -)

xonbink
250 skill halflng tailor + needle
250 skilll jeweler + eyeglass

[byelka]

Thanks for the info =)

And I am making Leatherfoot haversacks

but try to get 100 attempts for haversacks together in a weeks time
it aint gonna happen thus far I have attempted 32 to date

I make lots of PP off of em =)

Which I have been rolling into solstice robe combines. Which are doing great ATM but I fear at some point I will be suceeding too often and that there might be a better alternative for skill ups

[Hzark]

I think you are looking at this the wrong way. I got from 0 to 250 in 15 weeks, at a profit, without farming.

There is no need to keep attempts below 200p per attempt if you can sell the products at a profit or at least break even.

Acrylia Reinforced Armour (apart from the masks, wristbands and gorgets) can be sold at break-even or even a slight profit without farming at all.

Depending on the prices on your server, if you reckon on paying up to 150pp per flawless rockhopper hide and up to 75pp per brick of acrylia, the items that use 2 boning will cost you 300p per attempt, but you can sell the products.

I regularly sell sleeves for 425pp. Prices may be lower if competition is high, but at worst, your NET cost per combine is going to be a hell of a lot less than 200pp per combine.

I recommend, however, that you make a range of acrylia reinforced items, including those requiring 3 or 4 boning, as this gives you a range of products to sell and speeds up sales. Often the same toon will buy 3 items from you.

[Ironthew]

Artic wyvern caps

The arctic wyvern hides sell for pretty cheap in the bazaar, at least on Xegony, I can usually find a stack or so to buy for 50-100pp. Velium is also cheap in the bazaar, typically 40pp or less per small brick. So at most, for each combine I pay 180pp, and more typically around 100pp, well within your budget. Make your own coldain velium temper! And for even cheaper combines, take an inventory full of empty bags and farm th velium, in 4 hours of late night camping I fill every inventory slot with velium

[Kytelae]

Skillups on wyvern hide seems pretty low though, so the lesser cost is mitigated by the greater number of attempts you need.

And I agree about making a wider range of acrylia reinforced items. There are so many one-boning items on the market that you can barely give them away. OTOH, I can sell sleeves, which are two bonings, pretty easily. They don't sell for enough to recoup your costs if you're buying both hides and acrylia in the bazaar, mind you. But it's better to get some of your plat back than none, I say.