Poll: Favorite/Most Useful TradeskillFollow

I picked tailoring because when I have nothing else to do, I can just find a spot to sit in and break out the sewing kit. Smithing would have to be my second choice though.

This is a hard choice. The subject is "favorite" and the poll reads "most useful", which unfortunately, is too different things. I chose smithing in the poll since I think it's the most useful (other then tinkering, which kinda miffs me since it's limited to gnomes only). While all of the tradeskills occasionally require components from other tradeskills, it seems like smithed items are required more often. Of course some smithing and tailoring requires brewing, cooking requires some fishing, etc, etc, but pretty much all of the big 7 TSes (except JC and brewing maybe) requires smithing at some point or another. Add to that things like DoN cultural armor and you have a pretty useful TS.

My favorite, on the other hand, is brewing. It's not the most useful since most of the recipies are solely for RP purposes, but you can make some pretty interesting drinks. The same applies for baking, but it usually requires too many foraged components (my bards forage is capped at 50, grrr). Being able to make miraculous drinks on the cheap is nice as well since my bard is a Vah Shir and drinks like it's cool.

I did not pick alchemy as it is not open to all players but it has been very useful both the the shaman and my other povar characters.

I picked baking as everyone has to eat. Making your own fish rolls to stretch out the stat food is great. Making your own stat food is even better!

I chose Smithing, because it was the most fun for me overall (had 200+ in everything but tailoring on my Ranger), and because there was a huge demand for my services in the guild I was in. It was just after OOW was released, and I also made a lot of money on magnetic combines, which I never seemed to fail (Bazu as well).

Farming for Shadowscream components separates the men from the goblins. I actually enjoyed heading to the Twilight Sea for an hour or so before raids.

I voted for Jewelcraft as I think that it's the most useful (crafted augs!).

My favourite is Tailoring, although I hate farming for the components!

Awww, you love me, you really love me! :)

EDIT: WTH, day before Turkey day, I'm getting off of work early, and Odz going out of his way to make me happy. +1 for all!

Edited, Nov 22nd 2006 10:11am by Jiggidyjay

I'm with Whitman on this - I choose none of the above. I did try tradeskilling, many years ago, but, other than Fletching, to keep myself in arrows, I have never tradeskilled since and never will. EQ tradeskilling, to me, is an exercise in boredom and mind-numbing gathering of junk, and it just soaks up money for a net return of... nothing. How do you make a small fortune tradeskilling? You start off with a large fortune :)

A friend of mine is a fanatical tradeskiller, and is amazingly good at virtually all of them, but he's never yet made money on it. I admire him for it, but pity him too, in a weird way, heh.

Just my personal opinions though, and whatever floats your EQ boat, so to speak :)



Edited, Nov 23rd 2006 12:16pm by Krago

Fletching! because it keeps rangers happy!

Eh,'Smithing, though I am no good at it. I also build my own arrows, though a guildie does make better ones for the guild bank. Some of the higher end crafted stuff is really good, I hear, and I should get my **** over to the forge and develop some skill for my mates sake.

Bakeing by far, way i see it for the most part you final result in other high end combines in other skills are usualy tradeable, thats not the case with baking you need to make em yourself for the real good stuff, it also happens to be an easy skill to max out too...

but if you dont care what you eat, smithing and tailoring be on the top end of the list too very usefull...

I think reshearch is the most important as this is the only way to get some spells. either you make it or someone must make them for you.

Baking has to be the most usefull unless you'd rather be on an Ration and water diet. Brewing has to be the favirote just to get drunk with.