If you massacre the orcs in Crystal Caverns you will get, on average, 2 small pieces of velium per clear and a few small bricks. That's if you kill every single orc. A full set of Arctic Wyvern armor could take 120 small pieces of velium.
Sadly, this project views everything before January 1, 2002 as classic and everything after as not. On January 1, 2002, our last expansion (The Scars of Velious) was slightly unfinished and tradeskillers were unhappy. Classic feels restored!
Now we have a nice reminder of why players at EQ conventions in 2001 complained to the game makers about broken loot tables that made some recipes near-impossible until they fixed it in June 2002. After all, you're not exactly playing a game... it's more like a museum exhibit of one. As it stands, trying to max tailoring has gone from attainable with a little daily effort to an insane task, like it was in late 2001, and that's what Nilbog seems to want.
There's plenty of non-classic stuff on this server so perhaps I'm wrong and a large enough poll of some kind could change some minds to incorporate those later fixes to Velious tradeskills. Nilbog did seem to express a little concern that halfling cultural tailoring might end up being truly impossible, but as soon as someone proved the item for it should still rarely drop off a single rare mob in a single zone it was considered fine.
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Morgant Treeman
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