Is this still the best guide for leveling tradeskills: http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/for...i-mods/36211-the-ultimate-eq-tradeskill-guide Just curious if there were any new recipes in the latest expansions that might make leveling a skill a bit easier.
Look in here too: https://www.townshiprebellion.com/tradeskills-home Lots of good stuff and goes beyond 300
It depends on what you have. If you have an excess of plat, versus time, versus raw materials... biggest advice is just see what you have a high quantity of and use that first, then ask around for what fits with what you don't wanna do (IE farm versus pay) and go from there. I've done all tradeskills for like 50k plat and like a hundred hours but you can also do it for 3 million plat and like 15 hours ya know?
That's what I used a few years ago and I don't know of any recipes in the last few years that streamline leveling it.
That guide is good, and you can still follow it to a great success. Although it is outdated nova days. Here is my reasonings: Since a patch a couple expansions ago the tradeskill success rate is greatly improved for low skills. In practical terms, up-toa tradeskill level 200 or so skill improves every couple of combine attempts, so there is no need to complicate the tradeskill paths with recipies with many recipies with trivials less than 200 or so. 2-3 should be enoough. Also, newest changes in components availability opened new paths to mastering tradeskills. Let me use Baking for example: I usually do Fish Rolls (trivial 135) - as mentioned in the guide, all components merchant bought. It all costs pennies, so I simply fail my way through low skill levels, a few lost pp is not worth worrying about. (at skill 50 I go to Freeport to pick up a trophy quest) Then I do Patty Melt (trivial 191) - also mentioned as step 3 in the guide. Again, all storebought, all cost cheap, I do not worry about failures. And then I divert from the guide. I start making Deluxe Feshwater Fish Omelette - trivial 282. Why not in the guide? It uses Coarse Salt and eggs, which were farmable and salt - very expensive before. Today - all merchant bought components, under 3 pp per combine. I buy stacks of 1000 of components, make Egg Butter subcombine and just start combining all. And from 283 to 300 pick your favorite recipie, I often convert current and prior expansion drops as subcombines for premium food, those have high trivials. Similar variations exist for all tradeskills. It usually takes just 4-5 recipies to master the tradeskill to 300. So, the guide is very good, it's very effective in terms of results-per-pp spent. It's just s bit outdated.
Hey thanks for making me waste an entire day making subcombines of egg batter and vegetables, only to find out that the coarse salt requires the latest expansion. Really great head's up there.
Now that Air INfused Spring Water is on the vendor in Western Wastes, pottery is simple. http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=17425&menustr=035000000000 The rest of them, not sure. Just know the old ways.
Coarse salt doesn't need the latest expansion as such, you just can't access the only vendor without it. People still sell it in the baz (albeit at inflated prices), or find a chum/guildie to go and buy you a stash. (It's also dropped by a lot of mobs in old zones but too rarely for me to suggest you farm it when there are much easier alternatives)
one of the reasons i prefer following the older guide mentioned above .. dont need to worry about current expansions stuff till you want to go above 300 really and prolly not even till you reach above 320's ish. im sure you can reach 350 even up thru TBL and below , however the current expansions from EoK on up give you more recipe's so you dont need to learn every single one from the older expansions ..
Coarse salt drops in the Dragons of Norrath expansion, and is 1 of the items on the insane forage table there too.
I always preferred the tradeskill guide 5.0 as a starting point. Later versions seem too concerned with global drops, which can be super easy but also super expensive in the bazaar. For baking, buckets of crab legs stack to 1k so are great junk food, and you can pick up plenty of claws while also building up your tribute (or selling bows for other peoples tribute to earn some money back)
Or Grilled Stuffed Brell's Bounty, may just as well forage while running around picking up the ground spawns (of which there is a lot ! Brell's Rest) Wondering what would be faster. fishing or collecting groundspawns.
I continue to tweak this one on in the EQTC Forums as newer recipes come available. I don't touch any of the others.
I've fished in Argath several times for a day each. Got a couple stacks of Raxil fish each time, stacks to 1k. They're pretty common.
For Pottery, have a buyer up. Start buying the relic fragments and other UF and beyond pottery tradeskill items. Usually people don't buy one of them and so you can get many very cheap.
Baking: Fish Rolls to 135 Patty Melts to 191 Misty Thicket Picnic to 300 and max trophy. Set up at LFay brownie fort and grind out about 100 brownie parts. Also forage vegetables/fruit while you’re there. Brewing: Fetid Essence to 135 Faydwer Shaker to 188 Minotaur Hero Brew to 248 Brut Champage to 300 and max trophy. You’ll have to mass enchant a bunch of gold bars Fletching: Class 1 Wood Point Arrows (large nock) to 16 Class 1 Wood Point Arrows (medium nock) to 36 Class 1 Wood Point Arrows (small nock) to 56 Class 3 Wood Point Arrows (large nock) to 82 Class 1 Wood Hooked Arrows (large nock) to 102 Class 4 Wood Point Arrows (large nock) to 122 Class 5 Wood Point Arrows (large nock) to 162 Class 6 Wood Point Arrows (large nock) to 202 Shaped Darkwood Recurve Bow (Silk) to 215 Shaped Darkwood Compound Bow (Silk) to 235 Shaped Shadewood Recurve Bow (Silk) to 255 Shaped Shadewood 1-Cam Bow (Silk) to 268 Shaped Shadewood Compound Bow (Silk) to 282 Tainted Feather / Fine Feather combines to 300 and max trophy The 215-282 route listed is all vendor sold but can be expensive. There are cheaper routes. If anyone has a better path to 300 lately I’m curious to hear about it. Jewelcrafting: Jewelry combines to 282 when Velium Ruby trivials out. Platinum Diamond Ring to 287 Velium Diamond Ring to 290 Platinum Blue Diamond Tiara to 295 Velium Blue Diamond Bracelet to 300 and max trophy Vendor diving should find you all the diamonds and blue diamonds you need. There may be a better option than this but this is just what I’ve always done. Pottery: Medium Bowl to 122 Spherical Bottle to 300 and max trophy. CoV vendor made this path really trivial with a store bought to 300 combine. Smithing: Metal Bits to 18 Dairy Spoon to 74 Embroidering Needle to 122 Bile Spine Needle to 132 Racial Sewing Kit to 162 Global Ore combines to 300 and max trophy If anyone has a better suggestion 163+ I’d love to hear it. Tailoring: Woven Mandrake to 66 Picnic Baskets to 76 From here you basically have to farm things. Personally I like foraged routes so I tend to go: Silver Seagreen Ribbon to 122 Golden Seagreen Ribbon to 167 Platinum Seagreen Ribbon to 187 After that the only real options are the Global Silk/Hide combines to 300. If anyone has superior paths 188+ I’m curious to hear them.
