Video: How to Make an Elm Strong BoxFollow

Question!

I was making regular elm strong boxes last night but was only getting the 6 slot boxes and didn't even have the two extra crafting bars (i had two bars to get through instead of four).

Not sure if I was using pristine subcomponents? Could this be the reason why I was making the 6 slot boxes instead of 8?

Woodworking is a heck of a lot easier then baking. Baking just absolutely stinks. I can easily fail on greens despite using spells with little to zero skillups.

ffreak: very very good movie. informative and funny. rate up and gratz :)

bubspeed, yes, you need pristine components (at least for the primary component), else you won't have the 4 bars.

I will buy the seven slotted ones from you then. How many slots in your bank does the box take up, just one? And can bags with items inside be placed in the box?

Cool, your name is Thanos right? Are you in Freeport?

Actually, FFreak, only the primary component needs to be Pristine, I thought. It and your skill level are the only things that will have an effect on item quality. At least, that's what I read in the crafting guides on the official forums.

Now of course, I'd love to be wrong, so then I could slowly replace the 6-7 slot boxes I ended up with the other night with nice, shiny 8 slot boxes.

Also, I notice that you use your buffs almost constantly during the crafting process. Is this how you manage to keep your durability so high? I found that while I was able to craft a certain number of pristine products in all categories (save that of the actual boxes for some reason), I wasn't always very successful at it. Regardless, nice video, and thanks. :)

Edited, Thu Dec 9 09:08:05 2004 by Miravelle

See my edit above. :)

I'm going to try my hand at it with all pristines and see if I'm able to maintain quality a bit better.

LOL, good luck. Just so I don't mislead you guys out of say the 8 elm boxes I made last night only 2 were Pristine. The other 6 were only 7 slotted boxes. These were all made using the same materials and methods you saw in the video. I still don't understand the mechanics of crafting completly, but I am starting to know enough to be dangerous.

More power to you though if you get them made differently. Post your methods if you find a different way to do it. I was just lucky enough to get it on film when I did it to show you it can be done even if you aren't teh uber crafter!!1!11!

Happy crafting!

I have a question,

When you make a prestine box, it has more slots in it.

What happens for scrolls? If I am crafting a Apprentience III Courage spell for example, what do you get for making it to prestine? It will be an upgrade scroll no mater how well you make it. Does maing it to Prestine make it a Adept I or something?

From all of my reading on the various tradeskill forums out there, I've found that quality of the scroll has absolutely no effect on the quality of the ability. And there are no accounts of difference in effectiveness when using a Crude App III vs. a Pristine App III.

If it did have any effect at all, you'd have to be able to re-scribe a certain level of a spell if you ever found a better version.

Thats not all true you only need 1 item that is Pristine in order to make a end item pristine, having more then one now in a build will not make it easier to do it. If you do make all your own items making them all pristine will get you more exp when making them so by all means do that. Exp is good :)

I you want to think that go ahead no harm in it. I would put money on your skill was finally high enought to give you the ability. Belive me after going thru beta and play live I can tell you have all items being the best will not make up for skill in the area you are craft no more then it would in RL.

The idea is as you get better at your craft you make better items. After all dog poo plated with gold is still poo.

The only "bonus" you get from making a pristine scroll is more xp. Nothing more, nothing less.

I have noticed NO difference when using low quality componets. It may depend on the specific item your making.

Personaly I use low quality items for anything that does not give me exp and is not a primary componet. I can still make a Perfect final product 95% of the time. Of course there is nothing you can do against that rare random -200/200. ;)This lets me crank out base componets in secounds, instead of a minute. Kicked out 20 burlap patterns this morning from scratch in under half an hour. Including making the thread.


Edited, Thu Dec 9 12:47:13 2004 by Corison