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I'm just learning about crafting, too. Do you know where to find electrum clusters?

Electrum clusters can be found in rocks throughout Antonica. Level 40 in mining is all that's required.

Toxicmoon: Did you create strong boxes for your bank? So far, I've only made one, but just think how much more space you'd get if you filled all bank slots with strong boxes! ^^

And as for beds, might I recommend you make something better than a generic bed, if you have the skill. Generic beds seem a bit too... small. :/

You can currently have chests in your house, but as for storage, I've heard you can't store anything in your house... yet.

Heck ya Crafting is awesome. I started a post earlier about how cool crafting is. It's great lots of people like it. But I'm even more thrilled that I know people that will never touch crafting leaving more room for those of us that do.

Amen =)

From what I understand I must have a level 40 skill in foresting to allow me to forest there. I look forward to a bigger area in which to locate nodes. The problem however is leveling my skill high enough to go there.

For Antonicia I believe the break down is this

Foresting, Trapping and mining need to be 40.
Gathering needs to be 46 or 47


Wish I knew to stay on the island =(

Personally, I hate the crafting system.

However, the more I read about how others actually enjoy the system but, more importantly, WHY they do, I think I'm beginning to see a pattern emerge.

What I'm noticing is that >IF< people stayed on IoR and maxxed their crafting skills and level, then they by and large seem to enjoy crafting in Qeynos and Freeport more simply because they are able to access far more recipes and actually make some stuff that might turn them a modest profit.

in my case, I thought to max my adventurer's level and let crafting take a backseat- I figured it'd be a piece of cake to skillup in the regular hunting grounds. The last time I was so wrong was when I was at the SciFi convention where they rolled out Magic: The Gathering and I didn't think it'd be popular.

If situations permit me to create an alt on Najena (always a FULL server thus far), you can bet that I won't leave IoR until I've totally exhausted all crafting opportunity.

Now you might think that I'm being a bit petty blaming SoE for a mistake that I ultimately made. A fair point to an extent I'll grant. But please remember that there was absolutely zero documentation that said skillups would be more difficult on Antonica as they are on IoG. In fact, I can recall no decent documentation of crafting whatsoever until this past week or so. I can't be the only one that missed the Artisian Boat due to skimpy information and for that I can blame SoE.

I am a 9 crafter, and didnt do the IoR method. I just picked up what i could while running around qeynos at low lvls, saved it in bank, and that helped ALOT. now i make furniture and storage boxes, so far highest made is a 7 storage, so dont let people fool you into thinking its easy to make pristine. anyway, stuff sells for good, altho merchent system is rough... realistic somewhat, but rough...

anyway, agreed, i enjoy the hell out of it, only wish i could raise mining easier on mainland, seems like a bioch to find nodes...

gotta join a society buddy. im sure you see them around. and then you can buy basic books from merchent within. otherwise, other books are mainly from mob drops...

You should have a note from the crafter guy on IoR. It will list all the sites you can go to. Or click on the eq2 cube and look at societies. I suggest you pick one with the highest number of members. More people around to get help/advice from and a better chance to swap out raw materials with.

Cogs

I had great luck in leveling up ALL my skills while in Oakmyst. Lots of foresting, mining, gathering, collecting, trapping. Just clear all the fish out (and keep clearing them out when they respawn) and go at it. Last night I finally got my trapping up to 40 woohooo Antonica here I come!!! I found it MOST beneficial to stay in the zone until everyone logs off for the night, no competition. Last night it was me and one other player with the whole zone to ourselves. She helped me get trapping skill up and I helped her get foresting skill up. We must have cleared the zone a gazillion times but both of us were eventually successful not to mention all the stuff gathered for tradeskilling =) Good Luck!!