Tradeskills on THF

[Aruun]

I was once working on fixing tradeskills on THF and then due to circumstances beyond my control I had a forced break imposed on me. I am back now and looking at tradeskills again. Sorry for the break from my activities.

I am open to suggestions on fixing tradeskills. I have been reviewing some of the threads and added the Clockwork Carapace to the mobs in PoI. Tinkering should now be possible to get to 300. It isn’t dropping as much as Air Infused Spring Water, but you should find it a lot better than the lack of drops we had before.

I am hoping to add some new recipes in the various tradeskills that will give more options to level up versus the limited recipes we have today. This is more of a long term goal so please don’t expect me to release a ton of recipes tomorrow.

Please post suggestions and thoughts on existing recipes, what we need to add, what’s broken. I will do my best to stay on top of the concerns. I am not a fan of making the tradeskills trivial to level, tradeskills should require some significant effort. I would love to hear suggestions on making tradeskills more valuable to the server.

[catthib]

Holy moly, it's good to see you again!!!

Welcome back, sir! You were definitely missed!

My current tradeskill kneejerk response is all about Jewelcrafting/Gemcutting like what's available on Live. I know it's probably a dream and all of that, but if it could be looked at definitively and commented upon, I would appreciate it.

Thanks and again, WB!!!

[Aruun]

I will have to investigate the Jewlecraft/Gemcutting as it was on Live. I never played with JC on live since I wasn't a chanter and never had the resources. hehe.

I will start looking into it though and see if there is something we can bring across and use.

[catthib]

*bounces*

ThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!!

But I know how much stuff you would probably have to go through, so I'm throwing in a link to EQTraders which has a list of what I'm talking about...

http://www.eqtraders.com/recipes/recipe_page.php?article=48&rsa=Jewelcraft&sb=trivial&sub=&menustr=080070000000

And in the Good News Dept(tm), you don't need to be an enchanter to have fun with it!!!

[Aruun]

I am glancing through the list. The good news is many of the items are already in the item database. So that means we don't have to create them again. The bad news is that none of the recipes exist in EQEmu, so we would need to enter all of the recipes and add the materials as drops someplace. That is a bit of a pain, but not impossible. The rest of the bad news is the final items (the results of the combines) have pretty lame stats when compared to the items already on the server. So we would need to adjust them to fit better into the world.

I will start looking into them and trying to figure out how to balance them into the THF world and figure out how to get the materials integrated with our zones. Bear with me though this won't be a quick turn around item. This is going to take some serious effort to get implemented and useful.

[Falcore]

I would suggest some sort of initial boost, or quest.

A tradeskill NPC that will help you get to level 50, or maybe level 100 in any tradeskill, quest style. Go here do this, and combine blah blah BAM your level 100.

The hardest part of TS in EQ I think has always been getting started, it was always a little ambiguous at best. You dont have to hold peoples hands, but if you give them an introduction and get there feet wet so to speak, I think it would get more people getting into TS on the server.

Because once you get started

[Aruun]

I will give it some thought. I don't think it would be a do a quest get a 100 TS skills ups. However, some starter TS quests that get you some TS bonus is certainly possible. Something to get folks going.

[TheBloodmoon]

Abysmal Sea had similar quest lines on live to get people into TSing. I'd suggest making use of those ideas and toy with that option. I'll be happy to post up some links if I can find any on Allah if you'd like.

[Aruun]

I will rummage through alla a bit and see what looks good. If you have anything specific you thought was a lot of fun post some links. I will see what we can do about adding them or something similar to THF.

[Grey]

Thanks for the boost there. I need to take the time to go over my notes on tradeskills and post some suggestions.
While you can get the skills to 300+ atm I strongly believe that there should be more then one route.
My guide is a cookie cutter "fast and cheap" route but it shouldnt be one of the only ways.
I remember when I started and I wanted to do some smithing only to find that several of the items I needed were not sold on the vendor. Checked eqtraders and it said on live it was vendor sold. So I was stumped.