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Daywolf · #1 03-08-2016, 02:53 PM

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

Will DEX help with Tradeskill skill-ups?

Generally for success. Then you often have another stat involved in the skill-up upon success (e.g. int). Depends on the tradeskill. So like jewel crafting should work as having dex for combine success, but int to count for any possible skill-up on combine success. You can probably find a formula at the eqemu site, I've never directly looked at it. Of course may not be exact to here, but should show the general formula which was likely rudimentarily copied to p99 early on from PEQ files.

As for selling tradeskill items, just depends on what it is and how much you want to make from it. Trades like jewel crafting can take a ton of time to make back the investment, but for like smithing it's not too hard. It was easier to sell tradeskill stuff on live, but it's not flat out broken here like in most games. Not a get rich quick thing ...by far. Good you like it, so do I, start early and gear yourself as you go. Gotta luv that cultural armor. Cultural weapons suck though, no bonus, early version better fit for newbies yet requiring vets to make. Well, EQ tradeskills were never the best anyway, but still better than most.

Oh as for blacksmithing, it could very well be dex+str. I'm not sure though. But I had really good success buffing my str up and fairly good dex. Obviously you want human warrior for that as best possible choice, thanks to the big multi-cultural trade skill list humans have in the elf simulator hehe.

Golaniel · #2 03-09-2016, 12:56 AM

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

Obviously you want human warrior for that as best possible choice, thanks to the big multi-cultural trade skill list humans have in the elf simulator hehe.

Say wha? Is this just a joke that is lost on me?

Daywolf · #3 03-09-2016, 01:27 AM

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Say wha? Is this just a joke that is lost on me?

Don't know what you mean. http://wiki.project1999.com/Cultural_Tradeskills:_Human
Why would that insane list be a joke of some sort? Can't do anything like that in an elf cultural forge hehe that's for sure. Humans are OP on their cultural forge.

Anyway you mentioned rolling human, I figured that was the reason why, which is a big reason why as a tradeskiller. But I guess not.
Lucks

Pyrion · #4 03-08-2016, 09:57 AM

If you want to be human for cosmetic reasons, consider half elf, they look really nice [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

The main race advantages are stats (ogre, troll), size (smaller races), sneak (halfling), hide (halfling, dark elf), frontal stun immunity (ogre) and my personal favourite regeneration (troll, iksar). Iksar gets some added AC as well. If stats or abilities are not so important for you, just go human.

Evil races (especially iksar) do have a disadvantage in their choices of available vendors, but in my view that disadvantage is easily overcome.

Golaniel · #5 03-08-2016, 02:01 PM

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If you want to be human for cosmetic reasons, consider half elf, they look really nice [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

Yes, I want human for cosmetic reasons, but I'm not fundamentally opposed to Half Elf and Barbarian since they are pretty close to human-looking. Between HE and Barb, is either one clearly better?

My intended play style is likely going to be:
- Nearly no solo level grinding except for first few levels.
- Grouping up for pretty much anything that groups do, even if it's bad exp. This means I need somewhat quick access to groups - cant sit LFG for 1-2 hours each night.
- Sporadic/sparse login activity. This coupled with the previous point means I will probably never be able to tank high-end raids, as much as I'd love to.
- Want to make sure I'm not discriminated against for group tanking and occasional low level raid tanking simply on account of my race (noting that I wont have access to twink gear either).
- Will likely focus very heavily on tradeskills. Quite possible that I will master them all, as I did back in 2001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

Pyrion · #6 03-08-2016, 10:04 AM

I forgot about gnomes. A tinkering warrior maybe interesting if you are into tradeskills.

The cultural tradeskill armor for gnomes is very special:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Clockwork_Watchman_Armor
There even is a 40% haste item there, the vambraces. Needs batteries to recharge though... should be funny [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pyrion · #7 03-09-2016, 04:25 AM

Notice that all those cultural things work with half elves as well.

Golaniel · #8 03-09-2016, 04:34 AM

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Notice that all those cultural things work with half elves as well.

The items can be *worn* by Half Elves, but can they be crafted by Half Elves?

http://wiki.project1999.com/Cultural...ills:_Half_Elf says Half Elves can't craft nuffin' cultural [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Daywolf · #9 03-09-2016, 04:54 AM

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The items can be *worn* by Half Elves, but can they be crafted by Half Elves?

http://wiki.project1999.com/Cultural...ills:_Half_Elf says Half Elves can't craft nuffin' cultural [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Only humans can use the human cultural forges. That list I linked is only for the human cultural forge. In other words, you can either buy the armor or roll a human to make it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
See? OP! Hehe. But the human can just be a lowbie mule to do it.
And yeah, only 1 trade can raise above 200.

Golaniel · #10 03-09-2016, 04:30 AM

Woh...I totally forgot that things like Imbued Field Plate could only be created by Humans??

I crafted myself (very very painstakingly) a full set of Imbued Field Plate way back when...

As a side note...really sucked that I had chosen Mith Marr as my deity, because my Imbued Field Plate had all WIS/INT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Talk about terrible for a Warrior. Then add to that the fact that Mith Marr imbue is a Diamond, the most expensive imbue stone if I remember correctly. I was really a glutton for punishment, but I loved Blacksmithing so much that I STILL created my full set and wore it. Definitely going Rallos Zek this time around!

Surprised that the Imbued Field Plate stuff even has trivial values on them...thought that those never went trivial but maybe that was before the skill cap was 250?

Is it still possible to craft the "Master" hammer or whatever it was, that gave a boost in smithing skill but was super high level to create itself?

Lastly, does p99 still limit you to only going beyond 200 with only one tradeskill (if I remember correct from classic)?