I am thinking about starting a trade skill, but can't decide which one to do =(. I am thinking of smithing, sounds not toooo hard... also wanna chechk ammount of money it takes till mastery
Which trade skill should I do?
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 Ryalin01 |
Which trade skill should I do? |
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Posts: 4 (12/14/01 18:27:24) Lost in Woods |
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Wyntyr |
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Posts: 306 (12/14/01 19:42:19) Lost in Woods |
None of them are really cheap.
None of them will return your invested cash early. But a lot of them are fun!! Smithing and brewing can both be taken to 110ish for a couple hundred platinum, and all vendor bought ingredients and supplies. Tailoring requires long hours of hunting for pieces, and either mastering brewing or being on good terms with a master. Pottery pretty much is only good for quests. Jewelry...expesnive, good potential later in life for returns, but if yer not a chanter why bother? You'll lose more in income by having folks enchant bars for you than you would in doing it yourself. -Wyn |
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Shilude S |
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Posts: 91 (12/19/01 02:52:45) Lost in Woods |
Also take into account your charaters goals. As a caster I am working for the 7th shawl, a long quest, that takes a mastery in many of the existing trade skills. Pottery and Baking are fairly easy to master and fairly cheap. I mastered both for about 300pp. For Baking just go to Freeport (make fish rolls)and baking (make large bowls) go to the bank in Thurg. Tailoring is easy to raise to 138 in Crystal Caverns, just use the silks and bring the thread and patterns with you while camping the spider hall near the queen. Jewel craft is just plain useless IMO unless you are a chanter.
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Tdog14 |
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Posts: 382 (12/19/01 07:52:24) Lost in Woods |
Smithin is not hard but very time consuming because it takes so much stuff to make one thing..... When you can final make Banded is when you can start making some money.... I made toolboxes for awhile and they sold pretty good for like 5pp profit.... Send me a tell in the game i have every help guide for smithin you can find on line so just ask me for help with smithen
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Valur |
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Posts: 36 (12/20/01 08:08:06) I Fling Poo |
Don't forget the arrows, I've mastered fletching with my ranger and my war, heck even a paly can use a bow, and even tho their skill caps early, you don't have to HIT the critter to get it all rowdy. And being able to make arrows with a range of 150 when u need em is cheaper and better than buyin 25 range cheepo's, trust me, and if u can afford it u can get some decent dmg to em too. Fletching is probably the most practical for melee's who bow pull, and won't get ya much return money unless you get high enought to make the really nice bows. But like Wyn said, none of the trades are realy cheap, so might as well get day to day use out of it and maybe make some pp later )
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cikkiwhitebear |
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Posts: 48 (01/08/02 23:05:41) Lost in Woods |
i'm also working on the coldain shawl quests (i'm on my 7th--if any of you have any questions let me know, and if you're on your 6th post it! i'd like to know
 .because of the shawl quests, i've had to master nearly every tradeskill. i found it's easy to get to master in every skill cept jewelcraft (it's expensive) and tailoring (it's time consuming.... VERY time consuming). most of the other skills you can master in a few hours w/out zoning if you find a good zone to work on them. for fun, brewing and baking are really fun. i LOVE handing out bleeding brains and hot-and-spicy halfling toes and barbarian cookies but for pp, tailoring, smithing (i think), and jewelcraft (bad thing is that even my chanter friends are usually hard to get a hold of to enchant stuff for me) are prolly the most profitable at higher lvls. some of the SUPER HIGH tailored armor sells for 15k. CRAZY. but it's not easy , in fact, it's very painful and frustrating to get your tailoring high enough to make that stuff. it'll drive you nuts and i heard it takes 72k pp just to get your skill from lvl 158-250. and those 15k items do not trivialize ever!but if you HAD to choose one that you wanted to do right now, i'd prolly do fletching if i were you only cuz it'd be the most useful to me. and it's a neat feeling to kill mobs with things you made yourself. eventually, you'll be able to do all the tradeskills you want. so take your time, have fun, and check out eqtraders.com for recipes, cuz lots of the forages and mobs drop stuff that you can use for baking, brewing, tailoring, so that you can even do it slowly and work on a few different skills as you lvl, rather than doing one skill in one shot. no matter what save the silks, cuz if one day you DO decide to do tailoring, or your friends do, you'll be your favorite person and theirs. (can you tell i'm partial to tailoring?) good luck! cikki ~~friend of elusive path. member of da hui 
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