Wood Elf Cultural Tailoring...a few ???

[LilTailor]

I know the results in cultural tailoring are pretty lame (stat-wise) compared to other items, but is this a good way to level up tailoring? It seems like a pain in the butt to forage all the stuff, but better than farming acrylia or velium, IMO. I've been pretty stuck at 184 tailoring and I just want to level up!
Also, the recipes section says that oak bark can be found on the ground in BB, does anyone know where? I've never seen it there.
Thanks for any help, as you can tell, I'm new to this board.

[Mahlig]

I have found oak bark in BB in several places. It seems to be in random places. The more prevalent place I have found it was around the hill by the 2 huts near the GFay zone. I have also found it near the Goblin camp between the crossroads and Dagnor's Cauldron. I also found one in the swale by the goblin camp to the left of Kaladim (as you face out). Oak bark is also foraged in Kithcor Forest. Not too bad, just tedious.

Do I think this is a viable method? Yes, I do...if you are on a server where people hunt in LoIO and OT. On Legends, LoIO and OT are relative ghost towns. Other servers, you port in and auction to buy the Excellent Sabretooth Hides for 20pp or so and the young players will sell them to you. It will also alert them that someone will buy them and they will stop destroying them. GL.

[Sparkling]

Wood Elf cultural

I spent a coupl0e weeks foraging some Oak Bark and Mornin Dews. Made *WAY* too many Mithril Studs, and crafted my Fier`Dal Sewing kit (and several duplicates for friends) and my Embriodering needle (few extras of those too). Only to discover... the oak bark, the morning dews, the mithril and the Excellent Sabre Tooth tigre hides are not what is expensive about making cultural armor. It's the BLUE DIAMOND(s) used in every combine. As many as 5 blue diamonds (5 for the tunic) and 3 chances to fail on each blue diamond in the preparation process.

I gave up on this for now and decided to persue other tailoring recipes until Blue Diamonds become plentiful.

Good luck!
-Sparkling Icewolf

EDIT: I was wrong on there being 5 blue diamonds, looks like 3 is the maximum for Tunic. If you succeed on every step of the way.

[LilTailor]

I think I'm missing something...I didn't think I needed a blue diamond for each combine. I need to go re-research this!

Thanks for the input!

Lil~

[Sparkling]

Recipe outlined

From this page:

http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_woodelf_cultural.htm

embroidering needle, excellent sabertooth hide, oak bark tannin, imbued emerald, proper tailoring pattern, appropriate numbers of infused mithril boning

mask, wristband, gorget, boots - 1 infused mithril boning
skull cap, shoulderpads, gloves, sleeves, belt - 2 infused mithril boning
pants, cloak, tunic - 3 infused mithril boning

Breakdown of ingredeints:
http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/smithing_implements.htm

embroidering needle: needle mold, metal bits, celestial essence, flask water 122

http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/celestial_solvent.htm
Celestial essence: a mortar & pestle, celestial solvent, Scent of Marr

(Back to the Cultural tailoring page)
oak bark tannin: oak bark (foraged in Kithicor Forest & Warslik's Woods, ground spawn in Butcherblock), flask of water trivial 102

infused mithril boning: celestial temper, small brick mithril, file <=120

(THIS is where the blue diamonds are hiding!!)
http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_temper.htm

celestial temper: purified water, blue diamond powder* 136

*blue diamond powder = blue diamond, jar of acid (combine in kiln, trivial <=93)

SOOOOO... you get three chances to fail on the blue diamonds. Once in the powder, once in the temper and once in the boning. Four if you count the final combine in the pattern as well.

I misread Celstial Temper as Celestial Essence the first time and thought it was a reasonable avenue for skilling up tailoring as well, I was willing to forage my oak barks and morning dews and farm my excellent Sabertooth hides... but farming Blue Diamonds... that's rather a bit out of my league.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Hopefully some of the other suggestions people have made will be helpful for you in getting your skill up. I started a thread asking about low cost tailoring and many helpful people responded to me there, if you would like to review their responses as well.

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8676

Blessings to you!
-Sparkling Icewolf

[LilTailor]

Ahh, ok. I'm not worried about that one yet, gonna work on the reinforced up until 228, then i'll reevaluate.
Thanks again!

Lil~

[Thicket Tundrabog]

I skilled up extensively on Wood Elf Cultural on my way to 250 tailoring. There are a couple of good skillup items (trivial 215 and 228 if I remember correctly).

Skillups on WE Cultural are more frequent than on Velious armor.

Here's how I got my components.

Excellent Sabertooth Tiger Hides:

Port to Skyfire, egress to zone, zone to Overthere, auction for hides while running to FM zone, zone to FM, egress to LOIO zone, zone to LOIO, auction for hides while running to FV zone, zone to FV, auction while egressing to bridge, check vendors, repeat when necessary. I bought hides for 20 pp each from other players.

Oak Bark:

Forget ground spawn. I found a few, but it was too time consuming. I foraged oak bark in Kithicor while doing alchemy combines when I made celestial essence for coldain tempers (for Velious tailoring). At other times I did the forage/log out/log in/forage again routine. I could forage 7 or 8 oak bark an hour this way.

Mithril bricks and emeralds are vendor bought.

I definitely recommend skilling up to 228 on Wood Elf Cultural.

Thicket

[Kasanya]

There are several different sets of wood elf cultural armor. BDs are only required for the high end set that is not trivial at 250. The other sets trivial around 120 and 220 respectively and are good skillup paths.

Personally, I did a mix of acrylia reinforced, reinforced cultural, and Velious combines once I was 188+. I found it less tedious to farm components when it wasnt the same thing over and over and over.

[Sparkling]

For 220 skill the stats suck though

Yeah but the armor that you make with 220 skill, for something that hard to make, the stats suck. Seems like a lot of work and a waste of hard-to-find excellent hides, rare foraged oak barks and morning dews, etc. to make armor that no one will even want to wear. The stats are hardly any different than the armor with the (regular) Sabertooth Tiger hides and studs. *sigh* Nothing anyone here on the list can do about it though. Just another annoyance that irritated me, and has really discouraged me on working towards 250 tailoring. I haven't given up, I'm just discouraged.

-Sparkling icewolf

[Mahlig]

I know the results in cultural tailoring are pretty lame (stat-wise) compared to other items, but is this a good way to level up tailoring? It seems like a pain in the butt to forage all the stuff, but better than farming acrylia or velium, IMO. I've been pretty stuck at 184 tailoring and I just want to level up!

That is what the original question and desire.

Yeah but the armor that you make with 220 skill, for something that hard to make, the stats suck. Seems like a lot of work and a waste of hard-to-find excellent hides, rare foraged oak barks and morning dews, etc. to make armor that no one will even want to wear.

You just stated information that LilTailor already knows. The answer to the question is "Yes, it is viable...and one I recommend." And if you want to speak on useless armor for the price (time or money), I invite you to look at the comparable Erudite Steelsilk Armor. I dare not open that dead horse though (My class/race has it worse than your class/race).

[Sparkling]

/apologise

Sorry.

Didn't mean to upset anyone.