Can you GM lumberjacking with melee?

I was just curious if you can GM lumberjacking by fighting alone. Or it it has to be from Chopin

you can get up to 65 (real) via melee
the rest is best left to choppin'

Source: this server's main website > word search > lumberjacking

yeah melee only takes you so far. but choppin is good money/helps destroy the scourge of trees across Britannia

You CAN GM Lumberjacking via melee. A patch changed this like a year ago.

Used to be until 65 yes, but now until GM!

Edit for Source: http://uorforum.com/threads/patch-58-november-25th-2014-thanksgiving-combat-changes.7653/

I have been training a new LJ today incidentally.
This character's LJ stuck at 65 on the dot.


Edit: I love linked sources! Thanks. I guess I wasn't patient enough before switching to cleavers.

Our compendium description of lumberjacking and more importantly, training methods, needs an update!

really? I GMed LJ like 2 months ago and if it wasn't impossible, it sure felt like it past 60 or so. If nothing else the gains choppin are faster.

Anyone know how long it would take to GM with melee alone?

if you average me and wylwrk's experience with Alex's comment, it appears to be anywhere between "a long time" and "never".

It took me a while on TREES, I really can't imagine how much of a PITA it'd be to try melee only. You can sell the boards (especially when you hit 85ish and get access to oak you can make pretty good money) or GM carpentry at the same time anyway so I'd rec the usual way personally, but I know some people find it dull...

I'm currently moving into a new house, so my play time is limited, wanted a way to macro up healing and lumber at same time without having to watch the screen

Suppose I can be a guinnie pig on this effort and track my hours, hatchets, and band aids or something like that.

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After I went two straight weeks on my LJ character without a gain from melee, I started chopping trees. I guess from what some others are saying it is technically possible, but I wouldn't want to test that.

Besides, chopping tress, dull as it may be, is really quite lucrative. Unfortunately I only found this out when I was already in the mid 90's for LJ, so I wasted well over 150k boards that I just trashed never realizing that they could have paid out.

So, if you are gonna chop, I'd recommend chopping in or around guard zones with a pack horse. A pack horse can carry somewhere around 2500-3000 boards at the time, and at 3-4gp per board, that's a lot. It took me about 30 minutes to fill my pack horse each time, and I mainly worked minoc and skara since they have the best forests in and around guard zones. You can chop some in East Brit while in guard zone, and Yew as well. The guard lines in Yew are tricky, though.

I have to give a hat tip to Milla Q here as well. Several times around Skara he dropped my pack horse and made off with the boards. Luckily I was able to make it out every time alive, and more often than not I had recently banked, so it wasn't a huge loss. And I got him back once near Moonglow when he strayed too close to the guard zone.

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I've been raising lj on my battle miner naturally, currently at 95 lj so it's definitely possible.

Ok I have finally GMed lumber jacking!
I just made a dummy char and put full plate on him, and gave him heater Sheilds to restock when broke. (He hit GM parry in no time)
It took what seemed forever..
Now does anyone have any good tips for GM resist?

There are resist events every couple months where you can gm resist for free

To answer this, yes. It is best to use a high armored melee pet (Drake or event polar bears are best) and have a vet, healer, hatchets, and a ton of bandies. I've done 3. After 90, it pretty much takes about 30min to an hour to get .1.... But if you would rather AFK then chop those trees, it works.

What NPC buys the boards for 3-4gp ea?