Advice on next steps...

[Emron]

My skill has reached 95 now, and I'm wondering what path I should take now. I have scrounged up a couple of stacks of the components needed to make the dyes for the ribbons, and I have close to 100 silk swatches saved up. I've worked on every tradeskill save jewelry. My intent would be to create an alt and make the mana vials for Wu's myself, down to making the poison vials. I'm looking for the cheapest route, as I don't mind farming......

Should I farm for HQ cat pelts until I reach the trivial on tailored quivers before I start working with Wu's or Ribbons? And if so what is the best place to farm for cat pelts?
Thanks,
Emron of Terris-Thule

[Mahlig]

Next step, hunt lions for HQ cat pelts for quivers. Then crystalline silks then on to Wu's (or ribbons). I, personally would save any ribbon ingredients for 158-187 as the above mentioned are far easier to farm than anything above 158 trivial. GL to you.

[Cavel]

My Tailor is only around 110 or so. I went straight from cured silk into wu's Armor and plan to continue till Wu's is trivial. I approched this with the thought of least items to combine and least amount of farming that I could do. In my experiance you will get 1HQ pelt off of about every 10 or so cats as opposed to 1-4 silks off of every 2 or so spiders. To me it was easier to farm the spiders and gain silks than to farm cats for quivers (Then again I have a chanter standing by to make all the mana).

From a cost point of view I would say quivers, but from an ease of farming point of view I say Wu's, you have to decied if you have the money to burn.

[Moraganth]

Bah.. it only took me about 6 weeks to collect enough hq cat pelts to go from 82 to 115 :P

er... anyway... Stonebrunt has a much higher drop rate on hq cat pelts than EK ever dreamed of having, and if the pelt upgrade quest is still live in the frog city, any mq pelts you get are usable that way.

That said, if you can do your own mana vials, wu's isn't a bad way to go; but, buying the vials is a lot more time efficient... unless you vendor mine in loy for zombie skins for a week or so before doing you vial runs.

[andyhre]

I skipped quivers

On E'ci, if you shop wisely, you can get crystalline silk at 2pp or less per. I slowly accumulated about 100 swatches and then got the thread and got myself from 95 to 110, then did it again and went from 110 to 126. I am getting ready to do this one last time to get to 131. EDIT: I got very lucky last night and got those last 5 points in 11 tries.

I think, given the lack of stackability of quivers, this was faster and easier. And I have slowly resold some of my successes such that the ultimate cost was not horrible.

Plus, I skinned down my HQ cat pelts and sold them as leather padding, which more than paid for all the crystalline silks.

Now, of course, I will need to be a consumer rather than a supplier of spider silks in the market, as I guess I need to move over to Wu's (time to start brewing I guess), but I'd strongly recommend thinking about skipping the quivers if you have access to the Crystalline Silk. In fact, my skill progression has been fairly straightforward and affordable:

Swatches to 15, Tattered to 26, Woven Madrake Roots to 66, Picnic Baskets to 72, Greyhopper items to 95 (those shoes are the best at the end), and now Crystalline Silk. I did a lot of my late 20s and early 30s in Marus Seru and the Greyhopper hides are an occupational hazard of time there. Witht he exception of the Mandrake Roots, which was a 500pp investment to get my tailoring high enough to make being a Leather Padding merchant an affordable profession, all of this was very cheap, and done just by merchant diving, bazaar bargain hunting, and storing stuff I looted myself.

[sir0die]

ok, the part i caught onto was that you are planning on skilling in all tradeskills. I'd reccommend hunting EK for HQ pelts.

kill everything you can, spiders (silk for tailoring), snakes (eggs for MTP), wolves/hounds, more pelts (leather padding for smithing), and of course lions (more padding for smithing and HQ's for quivers), wolf/lion meat (halas 10lbs pies) there is also some quest in Ek that involves taking lion meat to a merchant, can't remember what though, ties into finding a killer

pretty much everything that drops is usable by a tradeskill, i think snake fangs and snake skin aren't, but the skins are components for some lower lvl spells. Not sure if fangs are used in poison making (never played a rouge)