PoR TS TrophiesFollow

1. The trophy must be equipped. It doesn't matter which slot (can be in ranged for instance), but it can't just be in your inventory.

2. The trophy evolves with successful, non-trivial combines that are WITHIN 100 pts of your current skill. So, if your skill is 200 and you successfully combine something with a 350 trivial, no evolution. Successfully combine something with a 199 trivial, no evolution. Successfully combine something with a 299 trivial, you should get some evolution.

3. Make sure you "pre-evolve" your trophies. When you first get the trophy you get the beginner's trophy and a certificate if you have higher then beginner skill (100+). You have to equip the trophy and "combine" the certificate in that tradeskills container to evolve your trophy to the correct level, possibly partially evolved to the next level, depending on your current skill.

4. The trophy and your skill don't move at the exact same rate. If you are doing combines that don't yield successful combines for some reason but you skill up quickly, the trophy will lag. The reverse can happen if you get a lot of successful combines but slow skill ups. If you reach the next "level" before your trophy, the trophy will have accelerated evolution as long as you continue doing non-trivial combines (succuessfully of course). If the trophy reaches the next step before your skill, it will evolve to the next level but it will NOT evolve any further until your skill catches up. Clear as mud? :)

EDIT: Wanted to add one thing. A lot of people don't realize that you can "push" your trophy to the next level, even if you can't raise that skill any longer. Like, if you have brewing above 200 but don't want to spend the AA's to take another TS over 200, you can take that other TS to 200 and the trophy evolves to journeyman. You can continue to do combines that are trivial 210, never raise a skill point, but your trophy will continue to evolve to master level. Once it evolves to master it won't evolve any longer until you spend the AAs to take it above 200 and get the skill to master as well, but it's good to do if you want those little bit of extra stats/skill mod/weight reduction bag percentage.

Edited, Dec 1st 2006 1:21pm by Jiggidyjay

Bump and rate up for this very good post, Jiggidyjay! I was wondering how the TS trophys work for quite some time now, thanks for the clarification!

Also, don't do combines in the guildhall. Instances are bugged and won't eveolve your trophy.