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Trades skill for Bards?Follow
Scholar
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I play on a progression server and you can only take one trade skill above 200 (for now). I have been looking at the different trade skills to see if one benefits a bard more than the others would. I can find no reason to favor one over another. Am I missing something? Is there a trade skill that down the line will benefit me? Any suggestions on a trade skill to specialize in? Also, why? Thanks for any ideas. I have a couple of skills just short of 200 and don't want to take one over 200 until I can choose which one would be of the greatest benefit.
Trade skills don't benefit specific classes per se. Their purpose is to make things which you can use or you can sell to other players. In progression days all the skills had some value but it seems to me, IIRC, that jewelcraft had the best potential for making plat since player-made jewelry, like the HP/mana rings, earrings and necklaces, were in great demand. Smithing and Tailoring had their value too since everybody needs gear to wear. It was always clear that jewelcraft was an expensive skill to raise since skillups required expensive components that were not available from vendors, like diamonds and blue diamonds. Alchemy was useful in those days too but that's a trade that only shamans can learn, as with poison-making for rogues. I do remember that I made a LOT of pp way back when with my enchanter and her jewelcraft skill.
Sippin 115 DRU **** Firiona Vie ****Agnarr
FV: 115 WAR ENC CLE MAG WIZ SHD SHM Master Alchemist ROG Master Tinkerer & Poison-Maker
Master Artisan (300+) * Baker * Brewer * Fletcher * Jeweler * Potter * Researcher * Smith * Tailor
Agnarr: 65 DRU ENC SHD MAG CLE ROG WIZ BRD WAR
FV: 115 WAR ENC CLE MAG WIZ SHD SHM Master Alchemist ROG Master Tinkerer & Poison-Maker
Master Artisan (300+) * Baker * Brewer * Fletcher * Jeweler * Potter * Researcher * Smith * Tailor
Agnarr: 65 DRU ENC SHD MAG CLE ROG WIZ BRD WAR
Baking/brewing for the food that gives the bonuses (Misty Thicket Picnic, Qeynos Afternoon Tea) are also highly desired, however those two are generally easy to raise (fast, cheap especially with the "Combine All" option now, you can stock up 500 combines worth of materials click combine all and walk away) so there are a lot more out there than the others.
Edited, Feb 22nd 2016 2:45pm by amastropolo
Edited, Feb 22nd 2016 2:45pm by amastropolo
On a progression server there is great plat to be made in several of the tradeskills if you are early to level up your skill and are able to hock your wares a lot.
Once the market is set, it will be harder to profit on the skill up stuff (example you can sell the nearly junk smithing stuff for profit the first week or so of a new server).
Out of era idols make pottery lucrative for some, but that is early era (while they are overpowered).
Is there a big tradeskill quest you are going to do in a later expac (Shawl in Velious, Breakdown in Communication in Gates of Discord, etc.) as that may sway you depending on class (I know you are a bard, I don't know what sways a bard so much).
Research is valuable, though I can't speak to the bard market for what they can make (I've only ever done research on Int casters).
The mats I see people wanting to buy the most are research, tailoring and some gems.
If you are in a guild, you might want to coordinate your early efforts. If 2 people are already going to max tailoring, and another is the smith, maybe you are going to be the brewer and so on.
Once the market is set, it will be harder to profit on the skill up stuff (example you can sell the nearly junk smithing stuff for profit the first week or so of a new server).
Out of era idols make pottery lucrative for some, but that is early era (while they are overpowered).
Is there a big tradeskill quest you are going to do in a later expac (Shawl in Velious, Breakdown in Communication in Gates of Discord, etc.) as that may sway you depending on class (I know you are a bard, I don't know what sways a bard so much).
Research is valuable, though I can't speak to the bard market for what they can make (I've only ever done research on Int casters).
The mats I see people wanting to buy the most are research, tailoring and some gems.
If you are in a guild, you might want to coordinate your early efforts. If 2 people are already going to max tailoring, and another is the smith, maybe you are going to be the brewer and so on.
Scholar
19 posts
Thanks for the good input, still gives me a lot to think about. I am not looking to make plat doing tradeskills. As was mentioned it only viable at the beginning of the curve and considering the time and plat investment to raise a tradeskill there are better ways to make plat. I was thinking more of making "no trade" items that would be the most beneficial to a bard character. I know when I played years ago there was some "no trade" food and beverage stat items that were nice although those are not in the game yet on progression servers. I have been pouring over the different recipes for tradeskills in the early game to see if there are items like that that I would need the skill to be over 200 for. It just gets very confusing very fast trying to look at all tradeskills and which era each recipe is from. In my searching it doesn't seem to matter as I have not found that "most important" skill for a bard. So was hoping there was a bard that was am expert on tradeskills who might know of something that I have been unable to find in my searching. So gonna weigh the info you guys have given me and go from there unless someone in the next few days has some additional info to consider. Thanks
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