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Originally Posted by Daldaen
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The main use for Tradeskills is to get the Coldain Shawl.
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This. In classic EverQuest it's always faster and cheaper to buy whatever tradeskill item you want (10-slot backpacks, wedding rings, SoW potions, whatever) than to learn the tradeskill and make it yourself. When the server first came out that might not have been true, but at this point it's absolutely the case.
But the Shawl isn't something you can buy: to get it you have to have the requisite tradeskills. And the Shawl is one of the only ways a non-raider can get Flowing Thought (mana regen) in the Velious era. Plus those Thurgadin gate potions are part of the Shawl quest, so if you have enough Pottery to get the Shawl you can also make those (no drop) potions.
Either do a tradeskill because it sounds fun and you want to RP it, or do all the tradeskills enough to get the Shawl. If you're trying to do a tradeskill for the money or the phat lewtz it can produce you're going to be very disappointed (in classic EQ at least).