First, I apologize profusely if this question is answered anywhere else on the board or the site, but I've spent about 2 hours researching this stuff, and came up with very limited answers to my questions.
Background: I have a L37 Ogre Warrior of Rallos Zek on the new Venril Sathir server. Basically there is very little economy currently, and I am on very limited resources. I do have high level characters pre-poop on other servers, so I have a good idea regardin the long term committment to tradeskills. My goal is to get Fierce Heraldic armor for my war ASAP, and I think the easiest way to do so would be to become a smith myself. Not to mention I have not done smithing since the beginning of retail for EQ, so want to get back into it.
Onto my questions.
My first question is somewhat basic, I know that the armor stems from human warrior stuff in Qeynos. Is it possible for my Ogre War of Rallos Zek to smith this stuff, or is it REQUIRED that only a human smith can make it? (I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but want to see if anything changed since Poop).
Second question, if I can not make it myself, should I start a smithing twink, a human smith simply to make this with a 2nd char? Any pros or cons to this?
Third question, what do you guys think the approximate cost of getting my skill to the 242 range (required to max out smithing with that special hammer)? Currently I am broke, but can borrow upto 5K or so. Also, I figure I might as well work up my skill to the 100+ range now, and get to the 200ish range when I get some more money, and finally L55+ get to 250. It'd be a lot better than doing 1-250 when I'm at L65.
Final question, if I go ahead with this scheme, having a twink char with smithing to 250... should I raise that char's other tradeskills, like brewery and pottery (for this armor), or do it on my main chars?
-Cuellar
Background: I have a L37 Ogre Warrior of Rallos Zek on the new Venril Sathir server. Basically there is very little economy currently, and I am on very limited resources. I do have high level characters pre-poop on other servers, so I have a good idea regardin the long term committment to tradeskills. My goal is to get Fierce Heraldic armor for my war ASAP, and I think the easiest way to do so would be to become a smith myself. Not to mention I have not done smithing since the beginning of retail for EQ, so want to get back into it.
Onto my questions.
My first question is somewhat basic, I know that the armor stems from human warrior stuff in Qeynos. Is it possible for my Ogre War of Rallos Zek to smith this stuff, or is it REQUIRED that only a human smith can make it? (I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but want to see if anything changed since Poop).
Second question, if I can not make it myself, should I start a smithing twink, a human smith simply to make this with a 2nd char? Any pros or cons to this?
Third question, what do you guys think the approximate cost of getting my skill to the 242 range (required to max out smithing with that special hammer)? Currently I am broke, but can borrow upto 5K or so. Also, I figure I might as well work up my skill to the 100+ range now, and get to the 200ish range when I get some more money, and finally L55+ get to 250. It'd be a lot better than doing 1-250 when I'm at L65.
Final question, if I go ahead with this scheme, having a twink char with smithing to 250... should I raise that char's other tradeskills, like brewery and pottery (for this armor), or do it on my main chars?
-Cuellar
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