Improving your tradeskills below 200Follow

nice post, just some alternate routes I have found that may be a little easier.

Baking - at 191 you can either do storm salmon fillets till 202 or jump into albino crawfish pies till 255. Either of these just require fished items albino crawfish being pretty easy to get in CC with a good fishing skill. The pies will still require eggs, just farm basalik (sp) eggs since they will yield 15 each combine.

Brewing - while fishing for the albino crawfish, save the fungus covered fish you will get as well. Fish fungus wine trivs out around 282 and will save you alot of ground spawn camping (kaladim constitutionals). Also, if you are working baking first, you may want to do jumjum spiced beer until 162 instead of the vodka, hulgarsh, and ginish. The jumjum stalks needed can be bought in SH as well as RV, and you can use your sucessful combines for the misty thicket picnic baskets if you want to max out baking.

Aside from the fishing, and the eggs, these routes are store bought. GL

Sikin Inglilcasta
Apprentice Artisian, Expert Brewer(297 + lvl 6 trophy), Journeyman Baker(235 + lvl 4 trophy).

Once I started these at 270ish (had enough for 720 combines and didnt want to fish again right away) I got to 297 in 1 run. My int is at 305 though, so that could help explain some of it.

Thanks SamAndDan for the Fletching advice, will try that on Thursday!

Anyone got an idea how to increase Pottery (easy, cheap) after 122?

I had started a brewing tutorial that I had only part done. (Story of my life) anyway, here it is, with all its warts.

Brewing Quick, Easy and Cheap!

I will assume that you know the basics of any trade skill: Never stack anything, get your wisdom or intellegence as high as you possibly can, get a pair of opal steins from the bazaar if your ugly and have no charisma, and that pressing the control button and clicking on a stack of anything will give you one of that item. But with the new Tradeskill Interface, all things for tradeskillers is easier now. (Thanks to all who helpped on that!) That said, lets get, um, brewing! One last assumption. We are starting at a brewing level of zero. Do not put any practice points into brewing!!! Spending your hard earned points on this is, well, pointless. As you will see.

First you need to get to the Plane of Knowledge (PoK). Have at least 3 empty 8 slot (preferably 10 slot) bags or boxes. Got to Caden Zharik at loc -340, 755. He is the gnome trader by the little bank. Buy ten stacks of fishing grubs. With good charisma, you will pay about 6 gold for ten STACKS of grubs. Then go to Barbarian across from the brew barrel (on the East side) and buy ten stacks of Flask of Water. Turn around and proceed to put one water and one fishing grub into the barrel and combine. Your making Fetid Essence and it trivials at 122. Once you learn the receipe, save it in your favorites as you will be making it for a while. Save you successes, there wont be many at first, but these will allow you to reduce your total cost. You can sell back to a vendor for 1 gold 4 silver per stack.

It took me 11 stacks with a 226 wisdom to go from zero to 122. Net cost after I sold back my sucesses? A whopping 3 plat and change!!!

Next it is a trip to the bazaar or if you have a character that forages, save those vegetables! If you are one of the unfortunate souls, like me, who doesn’t forrage, you can buy vegetables pretty cheap in the bazaar. Many times you can get them for as low as 3 plat a stack. Purchase 5 or so stacks and then we are off to Shar Vahl or any other location with Short Beer for sale. You will enter the Shadeweavers thicket from the PoK book. Turn around and head toward the teepee’s and then up the hill to the city. No worries about faction here! The Vah Shir are very accepting. Once in the city go right and then head north. Your looking for Jharia Taimil in a bar by the north gate. (Alternately you could go to South Qyenos, lots of vendors there, or to Zok Lillis in Gukta.) We are going to make Vodka!! A bottle, Short Beer (2 unstacked), vegetables, flask of water. Obviously your going to need 2 stacks of Short Beer for every stack of Vegetables that you have. Hit combine and hope for the best! This trivials at 135. Keep your successes, don’t drink them! We will need them later. Now head back to PoK!

You knew I couldn’t keep everything cheap forever and here is where the price goes up a bit. While at various vendors, they always seem to have any number of Undead Froglok Tounge (UFT). This sells for 6 gold 8 silver. Buy 3 stacks of them and get ready to produce Broog’s Old Peculiar! This smooth and unusual drink trivials at 158. On the north side of the East Trade building (where the brew barrel is) are merchants that sell all the stuff you need and may have the UFT’s too! Combine a Cask, Malt, the UFT and a flask of water. Hit combine and start the race to 158!

Remember that Vodka you made? You are going to need it soon, but first, a small side trip. Clean out 4 back packs and head to the Qyenos stone. Now, even if your KOS in Qyenos, your just going to be out killing level 3 yard trash, so if you use your head, you shouldn’t have to worry about faction here. Your target? Fire beetles. Specifically the Fire Beetle Eyes. These little guys don’t stack so you have to have a lot of space for them. If you have a little money and want to buy them for a gold a piece, most newbies working the yard will be happy to help. Especially if your able to buff and or heal them. It saves time so you can get back to PoK for your big combines! Your making a Bleeding Brain today! Trival at 168, Combine the Fire beetle eye, a shotglass, spices and vodka. Spices are from one of the Ironstoves on the south side of the East Trader building. Shot glasses are from the bartender inside that building or from the traders on the north side. Finally, you get to enjoy your success or have the fun of watching others enjoy your success. This drink is like sucking down rocket fuel! Wow, whatta punch! I dropped them around the bank and watched people stagger off. Pretty funny!

Sadly, the easy part is done. Now, you can make a return trip to the bazaar and look for the cheapest of any of the following: Innothule Mushrooms or Swamp Vegetables (both are forraged in the Innothule swamp or are ground spawn), Frost Turnip (Everfrost forrage), Deadbone Barley (Field of Bone forrage), or Payala Fruit (forrage and grounds spawn in Shadeweavers Thicket near the bandit camp). Any of these with one flask of water yield various essences. You may sell them to a vendor or to others in the tradeskill community. These all trivial at 186 except the Payala Fruit which is at 187.

Thats all the further I got... but it should give everyone a decent start! Best of luck and brew on!

Atomic

For all you tailors farming pelts, here's a quest that can turn those low and medium quality hides into HQ ones (cat, bear, and wolf only): https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2317

However just an fyi, I'm pretty sure you need to be a frog to do this (not just illusion).

Hope this helps

Bump too useful to be buried

Write it in a text editor first, then copy/paste to the forum when you're satisfied, happens to me all the time.

With the artisan charm out now, this deserves a bump

I always did fish rolls till 135 (fresh fish and batwing, both merchant purchasable). Then I go on to the Patty Melts.

I buy my poison vials in PoK off the poison vendors. I do enough sub-combines as it is when advancing tradeskills.

Rate up for this one, will definitely go for Crowe's instead of Zombie skins.

Lastnight I got my baking up to 82 with fish fillets and they are cheap to make.

Not sure how I managed to miss this thread, but well done bbot!

As a sufferer of Alt-itis, I have dabbled around with TSing, and found EQTraders to be invaluable when trying to find the cheapest or most efficient way to bump up skills. The only area I find slightly lacking is their Tinkering section, but it seems that Tinkering is more of an oddity than a respected TS, IMHO.