One guide to rule them all. One guide to find them.

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I think i went from vendor bought carpentry to GM with around 53k boards. I think I strayed a bit from the guide at the early stages as some items cost less boards while still giving good gains

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When beginning to train tinkering, I recommend you try hammers for awhile in the late 30's to mid 40's. They use 1 ingot and seem to give better gains.

For tailoring I recommend doing short pants till the high 40's instead of fancy shirts. They're the same difficulty and cost fewer resouces. Also, skirts work well till the mid 50's.

Short pants to 48, skirts to 54, robes to 74.6 worked very well for me.

Not sure where else to say this, but in this guide and in the compendium it states that animal lore helps in taming creatures. I believe it only helps in giving successful commands and makes veterinary more effective. If anyone knows that I am wrong in this feel free to contribute!

On tailoring, Fancy Shirts hit 100% success rate at 49.8 displayed skill and stops giving gains. Also, shouldn't all of these be displayed skill instead of real? Anyhow, I switched to Fancy Dress at this point. Still working.

This is correct, animal lore has no influence on whether or not you will fail or succeed to tame a creature & this is entirely calculated by the tamer's skill in animal taming. That entry on the Compendium for animal lore is an error, & there is likely other instances where information is not entirely correct. A bulk of this data was exported from a handful of sources, and we've not yet been able to go back & give it an extensive review & overhaul.

Thanks!

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I just recently started on Inscription, but copying books from one to the other was able to get me to 50.0, instead of 45.0.

Thanks for this guide though, I've been referring to it on a daily basis. Would love to see it expanded even further. One piece of info that would be useful is if we knew the 'estimated gold amount to GM'.

Tailoring: Took me about 20k cloth to get to Oil Cloth skill (74,6 displayed). Freaking robes suck It took 5764 Oil Cloths to hit 99.5 real and displayed. I'll let you know when I GM how much leather it took.

Oh, also that 20k cloth was with cutting the results. So maybe 35k total cloth used? I dunno.

Edit: 99.5 to GM took 750 leather with recycling

Hey, not to nit pick.. but just noticed what is probably a cut and past error

Suggestion: For Forensic Evaluation, you should add that you can tell whether or not a player is in the Thieves Guild, and if they are, it will make them grey to you. I found that info in this post by Chris:

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1448

Towards the bottom in the "Perma Grey Flag" section: "If you are a member of the NPC Thieve's Guild, any player who successfully uses the Forensic Evaluation skill to reveal your membership in said guild may either attack or steal from you. If a player attacks you and that player dies and reports you for murder, you will be suspended from the thieves guild for the amount of time it takes for the short murder count (8 hours) to decay. While suspended you still cannot give murder counts, but cannot use the disguise kit or steal from innocents."

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The advice on Item ID is outdated. ID wands no longer drop like candy.

New format looks nice. Great job and thanks for upkeeping this thing.

Is it the part about the Brit GY?

They still seem to be dropping OK for me. I purchased one ID wand when I was a noobie from a player vendor, and I've just continually found replacements since then. Not a ton, but enough to keep me going.

For raising lockpicking, you can no longer go 0-95 on a GM locked box. You need to have incrementally stronger boxes.

0-30: Train from an NPC (tinkers)
30-50: Use a 30/30 player created locked box (create a new character with 30 tinker/30 carpentry)
50-76: Use a 50/50 player created locked box (create a new character with 50 tinker/50 carpentry)
76-95: Use a 100/100 player created locked box (maybe ask on IRC...)
95-GM: Level 4 Dungeon Chests

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Didn't know wands were still dropping. I haven't been getting any and I'm grinding bones like crazy recenty. Maybe just bad luck.

Also, you can go from 30 to 76 Lockpicking on a 50/50 chest using only a few more picks (like 50 more). Just did that on my LP'er because I had tons of picks and fewer character slots All the way to 95 only took 600 picks.

Assuming we're referencing the ID wands which at one time were potentially dropping off graveyard spawn, this was disabled after the patch which corrected the loot-packs for all critters & other sources. However wands can still drop as loot on higher end creatures, as well as mib's, dungeon chests & treasure chests.