Go to Crescent Reach and do the freebie research tasks to get your skill up and the basic idea of research combines. See
Researcher Akila to get the quests.
After that, put the pages they said to save in the item search (or www.eqtraders.com if don't have premium Alla access) and find out what recipe(s) they're used in, and what trivials. You might also look at
this thread on what to do to skill up, under the Research section.
For spells, basically you need 1 dropped papyrus, scroll, etc. and then clean it, then combine that result with an ink, quill, ink additive and some other stuff, all vendor purchasable.
Other research recipes involve other items, as you'll see doing the freebie quest in CR.
Yther Ore.
Edited, Dec 24th 2008 9:46am by Yther