Welp, many thanks again gang. after picking up a few cheap int items and then looking over the formula for skillups on eq traders... I decided (for brewing because it's cheap as hell) to just brute force it and deal with it instead of investing more pp. For brewing I didn't see gaining a 2% chance to skill up being worth it (since after sellbacks, minos cost basically nothing).
I obviously hate myself, but... brewing 248
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] - I think I may have spent 300p total on combines 1-248... had a good number of veggie stacks stock piled from my druid as well.
So glad poison/fletching is on dex... pottery I'll only go as high as thurg pots for now, but will revisit these options again once I'm 50+ (lvl 20 atm, was finding something to do while I waited for a friend to catch up).