Complete Tradeskill Guide 3.0

[Yulser]

for fishing, just invest in a bait dispenser (expecially if you want to fish for items for other tradeskills) buy a stack of fresh fish in PoK, make up a couple stacks of bait (stacks to 250) and have at it until your 200.. worked great for me that way and you can do other things based on your lvl like spell casting practice, non combat skill practice, talk with friends, or just work on that AT skill

[Devilcharm]

I have to agree, making the Epicthieck's stuff is way too expensive for a viable skill-up route on tailoring. Even if a person is made of plat, it should only be used in the 243-252 range.

Instead, an alternative is expert's symbols from 200-222. Drachnid silk drops often and one can readily farm lambent stones and make some plat, or just vendor buy them as they are all over the place... kinda pricey buying them from vendor tho.

From 223-231 make barbed whip stocks. Hynid manes drop a lot.
232-242 the traditional acrylia method, or some of the velious masks (trivial at 252, but you need a lot of stuff)

From 253-276 prepared sporali skin.
277-282 Holgresh fur moccasins
283-295 othmir fur cloak.
296-300 ice silk whatever, or don cultural.

[Kumudil]

Baking triv 282 alternative

Jord Meat Pie trivial 282 gave me some easy skillups. You just need some eggs and some Jord meat and just two combines.

[Arfyak Reflux]

Pottery

I recommend the Unfired Poison Vial vice the Unfired Large Bowl. The vial is significantly cheaper and, with Crow's Special Brew, can be all store bought (or partially farmed for those really trying to save cp's). A large bowl scetch is 1.5p, total for all components of a unfired poison vial is less than .5p.

[Devilcharm]

One day of farming (3 hours) on a 70 warrior in ML yeilded the following rockhopper hides:

87 Damaged
98 Low Quality
78 Medium Quality
14 High Quality (was surprised at how low that count was)
59 Supurb
45 Flawless

I always knew the flawless rockhopper hides were common, never knew they were that common tho. I always seen them for sale in the bazaar 150-500pp when they were in my skill-up range. So I always assumed they were rare w/o actually going out to farm them. Now I feel like a stoop for when I got all excited for getting them at 100pp ea thinking it was a hot deal.

After seeing how common they do indeed drop, I take back my earlier post. Use them for skilling up 223-242. As we all know acrylia drops even more common then the hides, so that is not really a concern. 243-252 I reevaluated as the best skill-up route is arctic wyvern hides and cobalt drake hides / velium method. Farming flawlesses at that rate, 14 days of playing time can yield you 430-830 range or there abouts range of flawlesses. Which is more then enough to skill from 223-242 unless you have a really crappy run in with the RNG like my rogue is having >

[Lillanu]

I would add Palladium Fire Opal Ring, it's a level 1 70 HP ring. On Luclin, Scale ore is about 250 plat each, and the Fire opal is 50 plat. The Palladium Fire Opal Rings should sell quickly at 200-300 plat, so in my opinion, it would be much better than some other routes. (I did Velium BD, and GSC, so I'm not sure, but it seems to probably be better.)

[adrift]

Spell Research

Instead of training runes, buy an advanced research book in Abysmal Sea for 52.5p (select one appropiate for class) and do LoY swatches..trivials are 92 to 154. It is easy to find the parts for first 3 swatches (e.g. Rune of Socery, Essence of Rathe, Tears of Prexus) which will take you to 132. It is still possible to find parts for remaining three levels, just becomes progessively rare.

There is quest in Gunthak to get a free research book, but you need to be 101+ in research to receive book. Buying the book will allow you research the first two swatches prior to reaching 101+. After trying to find runes for wizard, i gave up and used swatches to go from 61 to 128 (and still currently checking merchants for swatch components).

[Ozadar]

Tinkering Suggestions

I'm new to tinkering but my gnome chanter found these recipes cheap, easy, and fast to get to 135.

Flameless Lantern 68
Stalking Probe 102
Powered Gloves 122
Tinkered Catapult 135

Powered Gloves and Tinkered Catapult were very easy and cheap. Saved a lot of time from farming for geerlocks to say the least.


Ozadar of the 70th Corpse
Erudite Tradeskiller of Zek
Member of 1450 Club

Baking - 264
Brewing - 250
Fletching - 251
Jewelry - 266
Pottery - 249
Smithing - 233
Tailoring - 223
Research - 200
Fishing - 200

(+5-8% to all skills) + Salvage 3

[Lillanu]

Powered Gloves 122
Tinkered Catapult 135

Powered Gloves and Tinkered Catapult were very easy and cheap. Saved a lot of time from farming for geerlocks to say the least.

I think if you buy the acrylia for 10 pp each (I got them in bulk (a few hundred) for 8-9pp each), the Geerlok Hammers are only 25-30 plat, which is cheaper than both Powered Gloves and Tinkered Catapults. Prices on acrylia always depend on server though. Also, I prefer more combines of one item rather than 3 different combines if there isn't that much of a difference in plat (MTP from 192+ rather than 10 lb pies then MTPs, or switching directly to Gold Malachite Bracelet after Electrum Malachite Bracelet).

[Elyssanda]

I think if you buy the acrylia for 10 pp each (I got them in bulk (a few hundred) for 8-9pp each), the Geerlok Hammers are only 25-30 plat, which is cheaper than both Powered Gloves and Tinkered Catapults. Prices on acrylia always depend on server though.

I believe the hammers were included because it's rather easy to FARM acrylia which makes the price even lower.

[Lillanu]

I believe the hammers were included because it's rather easy to FARM acrylia which makes the price even lower.

Yep, and I meant that even buying the acrylia is still cheaper than powered gloves/tinkered catapults

[Twistagain]

I think if you buy the acrylia for 10 pp each (I got them in bulk (a few hundred) for 8-9pp each), the Geerlok Hammers are only 25-30 plat, which is cheaper than both Powered Gloves and Tinkered Catapults. Prices on acrylia always depend on server though. Also, I prefer more combines of one item rather than 3 different combines if there isn't that much of a difference in plat (MTP from 192+ rather than 10 lb pies then MTPs, or switching directly to Gold Malachite Bracelet after Electrum Malachite Bracelet).

Powered Gloves cost 42.071p and trivial at 122.
Tinkered Catapults cost 32.238p and trivial at 135.
Geerlok Hammers cost 30.448p + the cost/time of acrylia and trivial at 215.

My suggestion would be dependant on if you are/know a decent fletcher.

1) If so, skip the gloves and do catapults up to 135, then switch to Geerloks.

2) If not, then see if you can get the acrylia for cheaper than 11.623 each (or have the patience to farm and save that much per combine.)
a) If you can't, do Powered Gloves to 122, then switch to Geerloks.
b) If you can, then go directly to Geerloks.

So, pretty much, it depends on your bow supply and/or your acrylia supply.

[Mukkle]

Sub 100 tailoring

Not sure if I missed this combine, so:

Greyhopper Hide Mask - 1x greyhopper hide(Marus Seru) + Mask pattern(5silver 2copper) Trivial 88

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Greyhopper Hide Boots - 1x greyhopper hide(Marus Seru) + Boot pattern(5silver 2copper) Trivial 95

I did masks to 75, then boots to 95 - took 60 greyhopper hides for a total cost of 3pp 12sp.

[Habbo]

Sticky

Ahh, Sticky went away!

[Strokker]

I noticed this they unstickied it../sniff.