282-300 path?

[Bobaten]

From my undestanding, any stats above 400 is useless. I found that out on this link. Yes, it helps to get it up to 400 but above that does not help.

Taushar

Since tinkering doesn't have an alt stat, and is also a level 2 difficulty skill, the max success chance is at 430. However, any int/wis over 215 is only useful for increasing your pass one check on failures.
So if you are doing combines with a 95% success rate, at 215 int you would have a 100% chance on 95% of your combines, and a 50% chance on 5% of your combines, for an overall 97.5% chance of making it through the pass one check for skill ups. If you are doing combines with a high trivial, or a success cap then the extra stats can help more. For example GM trophies seem to be success capped at 75%, so you would only have a 87.5% chance of making it past pass one at 215 int.

[Wodon]

Yttrium

Yttrium drops pretty frequently in the deep, I've been farming it at the shrink wand guy. His common drop, the cloak, is not lore & tributes for around 1300.

If you go through the northern entrance to the back tunnels, there are (or were for me) no see invis mobs on the way, so I ran my warrior alt there & got him the shrink wand.

Masters servolink armor does seem to have a greatly improved skill up rate, I got about 5 or 6 skillups in the 230 range on just one stack, where I was getting maybe 1-2 on geerloks.

[Mukkul]

Yttrium for master's servolinked sleeves from 282 to 290. You could continue with yttrium to make servolinked greaves or cuirass to 300, but those take 3x the yttrium per combine.

I chose Clockwork Observer Bracer from 290 to 300 where you farm blue diamond + minotaur blood + glob of tar + leather padding + imbued ruby (about 10 stacks each, it took me). The bracers tribute for 3240 each. It's very tedious but not as numbing as yttrium in my opinion.

Also woks from whatever clockwork carapaces you can scrape up.

Wabba

[mtrix1]

Well, you never know how much farming you can handle (see my ther posts for drop rates). I am sitting at 292 after consuming all my Yttrium and have not had a skillup on master's breastplates (3 yttrium per combine) in over 400 yttrium. A bad run indeed. I think I may as well give the tinkered cultural a run - it trivs at 304 and costs about 10k/stack of ingredients with easy mobs to kill. The blue diamonds may be a pain though...

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Since tinkering doesn't have an alt stat, and is also a level 2 difficulty skill, the max success chance is at 430.

415 actually... the subtraction for no alt-stat takes place before the divisions not after.

[Bobaten]

415 actually... the subtraction for no alt-stat takes place before the divisions not after.

Duh, yeah. That's what I get for posting at 3 in the morning without paying attention.

Another group of items I have been using for skill ups (well, attempted skill ups), is the chronal/discordant/bazu seals. They are all trivial above 300, and vendors will pay you about the price of the parts minus the steel itself. I have been picking up the steels for 400-500 in the bazaar (about the same from npcs too). I save the bazu seals to use or sell, and sell the lower ones to npcs.