Any problems logged with Pottery recently?

[Roadblock]

It still seems too difficulty to skill up, I gave the first 80 medium jar combines a try this today with an 85 int bard and only got from skill 0 to 9 during that time. I'm not sure but it seems like I'll need to do atleast 2x the combines listed in the guide. Wasn't it generally considered that the guide was made for any character regardless of their int/wis? Was it classically like this?