The Best Tradeskill to Grandmaster Is ...

[loramin]

The subject pretty much says it all: every toon gets just one grandmaster tradeskill, and I'm curious which one everyone thinks is best.

Feel free to adjust your answer by race since some cultural tradeskills are better than others.

*EDIT*
Just to clarify by "grandmaster" I mean get a skill higher than 200 in that tradeskill. For those that didn't know, you can get every tradeskill up to 200, but the moment one of them goes over 200 you become a "grandmaster" in that tradeskill and can't raise any others above 200 (kinda like specializations for casters).

[Daldaen]

JC -> Smithing (if you can make decent cultural) -> Tailoring (come Velious and only if you want to spend a lot of time and hundreds of thousands of plat getting to 250) -> Baking/Brewing/Pottery/Fletching are all equally useless.

TSes are largely useless until Luclin and PoP. Its one of the reasons those were two of EQ's best expansions. TSes were finally made relevant for all types of players.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TSes are largely useless until Luclin and PoP.

Oh I completely understand (and let's be honest, they weren't all that useful even in those expansions). But some masochistic part of me wants to GM a tradeskill anyway, so I'm wondering which of the (all useless) tradeskills is the least useless to have 200+ skill in this era.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh I completely understand (and let's be honest, they weren't all that useful even in those expansions). But some masochistic part of me wants to GM a tradeskill anyway, so I'm wondering which of the (all useless) tradeskills is the least useless to have 200+ skill in this era.

It was extremely useful. People were able to make bank on TSing alone. Here you can make a little doing JCing or Cultural armor. But not anything compared to camping sebilis or HS.

But during Luclin/PoP you could rack in solid money.

Luclin - The Earring of Solstice alone, was reason enough to TS. FT1 Earring that was 9 items, gave reason to do many TS. Also worth mentioning is the cultural revamp that introduced more powerful cultural armor with level recs.
PoP - Everything. Even fricken Pottery became useful with focus items. Fletching was useful with EP bows that were BIS for any non-PoTime raider. Baking/Brewing yielded some very solid stat food (BPP etc.). Smithing/Tailoring had armor lines in many zones, the EP ones were as good as or better than Ornate armor in some cases, again a very saught after/hard to obtain tradeable item made with crafting is great for the economy. JC created some very rare items (EP Rings) that were damn near raid stats, and some very common items that were great stats for any-old noob (Valor rings)

Etc.

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TSes are largely useless until Luclin and PoP. Its one of the reasons those were two of EQ's best expansions. TSes were finally made relevant for all types of players.

Taking this server to PoP would be pretty darn awesome.

::Cue firestorm of vitriolic debate about why cats on the moon stunk::

[Whirled]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Taking this server to PoP would be pretty darn awesome.

::Cue firestorm of vitriolic debate about why cats on the moon stunk::

It would ... even if on a 3-5 year rate per expansion

[azeth]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The subject pretty much says it all: every toon gets just one grandmaster tradeskill, and I'm curious which one everyone thinks is best.

Feel free to adjust your answer by race since some cultural tradeskills are better than others.

*EDIT*
Just to clarify by "grandmaster" I mean get a skill higher than 200 in that tradeskill. For those that didn't know, you can get every tradeskill up to 200, but the moment one of them goes over 200 you become a "grandmaster" in that tradeskill and can't raise any others above 200 (kinda like specializations for casters).

The coldain shawl is nice, needs a few different trade skills. Its not BiS though, so I guess your choice

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

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Go pottery and never look back

[zanderklocke]

Originally Posted by Yumyums Inmahtumtums [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Go pottery and never look back

It's actually impossible to go to 200 on pottery on this server. I don't know what Velious introduces, but currently, the highest you can go is 188.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by zanderklocke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's actually impossible to go to 200 on pottery on this server. I don't know what Velious introduces, but currently, the highest you can go is 188.

I was pretty sure you can get 250 here. The Idol combines are Classic I thought.

http://eqtraders.com/items/show_item.php?item=3838

The Golden Idols obviously are not but I think those were. I don't see any reason why they couldn't be made, all of those components are sold or obtained in Kunark or Classic zones.

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...t=Idol+pottery

That post in September 2001 proves they functioned in Velious.

Now that I think about it... WTB Idol of Inny and Idol of Tunare.