Poll: Favorite/Most Useful TradeskillFollow

I personally think they are all a waste of time. I mean why spend hours to raise your tradeskills, you cant make anything worth having at 75? Now if you could actually make something worth having then tradeskills would actually be worth it, but you cant! Wich raises another question why? You would think that if you have a 300 tradeskill you could actually make something better than you can get from a single group mob. Hell my level 70 gear from single group mobs is better than my 75 groupable mobs. WHY because eq doesnt have any idea what they are doing or they just dont care because they are to busy working on eq 2 or even eq 3 who knows. Im thinking about going to eq 2 myself because this game just isnt finetuned enough its just kinda thrown together. Anyway the most usefull tradeskill must be alchemy its the only tradeskill that actually produces across the board benefits to all players. One more thing yes i know about the augments you can make.Belive me they are basiclly outdated if you are in a raid guild thats up to date wich most arent.

Baking by far. Can't find good stat food on a permanent merchant anywhere as far as I know. Alchemy potions (at least the good ones) are easily bought in PoK. Most other tradeskills are single run items like gear or spells that you get one and thats it. Then again, if your definition of a "usefull tradeskill" is one that makes you masses of platinum then there really are none since most take tons of plat to get to the point you could make some back and there are probably dozens of other players that are also trying to make their plat back from those trades.

Jewelcrafting nets some nice jewelry with multiple aug slots and there is that tradeskilled armor that has been around since DoN, Grandmaster's armor, that you may have heard of but forgot about when posting. That armor, even though it is required level 70, is still used by many high-end raiders and non-raiders alike due to its flexibility with aug slots.



Weapons, yes. Armor, no. TSS quested armor far surpasses any single group attainable armor from prior expansions with very few exceptions (i.e. DoDH clicky mask, PoR cloak).

I'm in agreement with the majority on this poll. Alchemy is hands down the most useful tradeskill. I can't think of another tradeskill that produces items that are very valuable to the players throughout the entire skill up path to 300.

Edited, Nov 26th 2006 6:02pm by Phistikuffs

You're comparing armor from keyed/flagged zones to armor from zones that you don't need any flags or keys to get into? Even if GoD is an older expansion, the flagging requirements keep many, many casual players from entering them. If you want to compare "single-groupable" dropped gear from GoD to "single-groupable" dropped gear from TSS, it would probably be more accurate to compare drops in places like WoS, RCoD, etc.

heh.

comparing instances that a couple guilds have beaten once or twice resulting in maybe a dozen items from those instances in each of those guilds to lastblooded or bazued GM armor is pretty dumb. last bloods are common drops with amazing ac from lower zones - and hundreds of high end raiders use lastblooded armor.

Useful as in useful to most that can do?
Rules out Alchemy, tinkering, and poision making. That said, I voted:
1st) Baking
2nd) Brewing
3rd) Smithing/Tailoring depending on class/race (although high level drops really diminish the importance of these quite a bit, but not totally).
Fletching? Kinda died with LDoN as the pouch for summoning arrows hit that pretty hard, and there is still a multitude of dropped bows in game that will make do.

Most useful (in monetary terms and for helping guildies) -- Tinkering with Last Blood and Bazu augs.

Favourite: Spell Research. Especially since introduction of systematic spell research for 61-65 and 66-70 spells.

I voted for Fletching. Brewing is my fav. cause it's cool to get my toon toasted in the game since I'm probably doing the same in RL...but as far as most useful for me, definately fletching. I'm usually the puller for the group when on my main, so why not have some nice hand crafted arrows to fire at will :-)

Speaking of brewing...when are we gonna get a recipe for Jager Bombs?

I picked tailoring overall as it produces useful gear throughout a character's life and the DOD items are a godsent for causal players like me that aren't in raiding guilds.

I'd like to preface my remarks by noting that tradeskills in general are an integral part of EQ. In addition to giving me something else to do besides hunting, I can trade my stuff in the bazarr, barter, and have fun making things for other characters. Every one of the skills has come in handy in one way or another, not to mention my favorite tradeskills quests such as the earring of the solstice and blessed prayer shawl. Tradeskills rock!

Kaimi StormRuner
Xegony server (formerly Zeb)
http://eq.magelo.com/profile/877497

Edited, Nov 27th 2006 9:34pm by Kaimi

Hmm
My main is an apprentice artisan and working toward journeyman, one more tradeskill to go, and I have a hard time chosing. I think alchemy is probably the most important. I agree with the whole pots are awesome and you cant do without them idea but it kinda bites that it is limited to a certain class. I love baking and brewing the most I think. Once you get high enough the Misty Thickets and Kaladim Const. really arent that hard to make and the needed components arent that hard to come by. Personally, I HATE tailoring but well its definately useful! So, I think alchemy is the most useful but the tailoring, smithing, brewing and baking all run really close for second depending if you want stat food/drink or armor. I think Favorite and Most Useful should be two separate polls! They are not necessarily the same.

As with most I voted Alchemy. Even with the new potions out there, you still can't get sow potions without an alchemist. Love them gate potions as well. I think Alchemy is just good all around, followed only by Tailoring for bags. The other trade skills just seem to lack functionability, cost ratio is too high for what you actually get. Tinkering is fun though, and has some useful items.

Just my 2 Cents

Strommare 64 Magician of Drinal
Krastus 62 Cleric
Kras McKracken 55 Beastlord
Pitch 55 Shadowknight

Tailoring, it's just fun and is very useful for a lot of stuff. I don't see why alchemy dominated the vote, to me a tradeskill dedicated to the creation of money sinks is retarded. When I wanted speed I asked a druid, camped for jboots, or the third option... sucked it the hell up and learned to do without it and what a suprise I got better at my class and not dying whislt others were corpses in the dust. Dependence on depletable resources is never a good thing...

Liveye (lvl 70 Wizard)