Hello all .. just starting a few questions

[DrKvothe]

If you plan on sitting in EC a lot on your character, bothering with certain tradeskills up until the first useful item is trivial can be great additional cash. For example, it's really not terribly expensive to get high enough alchemy to make SoW, invis vs undead, and shrink pots, and those provide fairly passive profit whenever you've got an item to unload in EC.

Another example would probably be the 10 slot bags and bearskin bags from tailoring. You can hunt the mats yourself at low levels. For a melee, you want to turn all of your loot into new gear like weapons and haste items, but as a caster you just need ~1k pp worth of jewelry, which you'll pick up pretty quickly.

[loramin]

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

If you plan on sitting in EC a lot on your character, bothering with certain tradeskills up until the first useful item is trivial can be great additional cash. For example, it's really not terribly expensive to get high enough alchemy to make SoW, invis vs undead, and shrink pots, and those provide fairly passive profit whenever you've got an item to unload in EC.

Another example would probably be the 10 slot bags and bearskin bags from tailoring. You can hunt the mats yourself at low levels. For a melee, you want to turn all of your loot into new gear like weapons and haste items, but as a caster you just need ~1k pp worth of jewelry, which you'll pick up pretty quickly.

That's true, but ONLY if you don't value the time you spend in EC at all. If you do then the math works out something like:

time to make a 10-dose potion: 5 min
time to sell a 10-dose potion: 1 hour? 2 hours? more? Let's be generous and say 55 minutes
profit on a 10-dose potion: 30 plat (something like that; they sell for 100 and cost like 70 to make)
profit: 30 plat/hour

... and that's not counting the time to run back to your hometown (to buy alchemy components) and to run to EC. It's not counting the time it will take you to level up your alchemy. And it assumes you will find a buyer in 55 minutes, when in fact you could spend hours in EC and not sell a single potion.

Oh, and you have to spend money to get your alchemy up in the first place. I don't remember how much it takes, but let's say 300 plat. That means that you lose money until you've sold your first 10 potions (ie. wasted 10 hours on top of the time to learn alchemy).

Or you could go adventure, earn some XP, and probably earn at least 30 plat an hour. That's why I say that tradeskills are for fun, not making money.