Wtith SOR expansion, tradeskilling bots has become needed so you can benefit from the upgraded TS Mask.
I've found getting skills to 300 is enough, and I've even skipped the whole get your trophy blah blah blah because I am lazy and the mask combines never need anything but SOR TS mats which by now if you're here you have stacks of.
While I've had some toons fail combines, the only loss is the SOR TS mats needed in the combine ( I did have to re-create the delicate inscribed lattice which is a subcombine needed to make the 2nd mask a couple of times on one bot, but 4 others had no issues.) I've gotten my bots to the 3rd level mask so far and wanted to share my thoughts on an easy place to farm the mats to get your bots to 300 skills in JC, Tailoring and Smithing:
I typically farm with my 130 group geared rogue and I found a great place to get silks, pelts, multiple types of ores, diamonds and blue diamonds to be Morrel's castle within House of Thule.
I personally like the pirate island which isn't easy to get to, unless you can double invis or are a rogue. But since you're here to farm, why not kill everything on the way?
This zone is almost always empty. Mobs spawn quick and my 130 rogue tears thru em without ever needing a healer. I can clear the island with a couple mins of downtime waiting for respawns.
Bonus loot includes silk to make extraplanar tailoring bags, research pages, huntman's etheral quiver (clicky summon arrows), a pet class pet shrink clicky and a bard/rogue illusion (no trade).
I use EQ traders forum, which is sometimes broken for best options based on whatever mats I have in quantity. https://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/fo...i-mods/36211-the-ultimate-eq-tradeskill-guide
This guide is a forum that is no longer maintained, and requires some scrolling to read the various sections but the images are still good (I've saved a local copy for future needs should I need them and the site is gone.)
I've found getting skills to 300 is enough, and I've even skipped the whole get your trophy blah blah blah because I am lazy and the mask combines never need anything but SOR TS mats which by now if you're here you have stacks of.
While I've had some toons fail combines, the only loss is the SOR TS mats needed in the combine ( I did have to re-create the delicate inscribed lattice which is a subcombine needed to make the 2nd mask a couple of times on one bot, but 4 others had no issues.) I've gotten my bots to the 3rd level mask so far and wanted to share my thoughts on an easy place to farm the mats to get your bots to 300 skills in JC, Tailoring and Smithing:
I typically farm with my 130 group geared rogue and I found a great place to get silks, pelts, multiple types of ores, diamonds and blue diamonds to be Morrel's castle within House of Thule.
I personally like the pirate island which isn't easy to get to, unless you can double invis or are a rogue. But since you're here to farm, why not kill everything on the way?
This zone is almost always empty. Mobs spawn quick and my 130 rogue tears thru em without ever needing a healer. I can clear the island with a couple mins of downtime waiting for respawns.
Bonus loot includes silk to make extraplanar tailoring bags, research pages, huntman's etheral quiver (clicky summon arrows), a pet class pet shrink clicky and a bard/rogue illusion (no trade).
I use EQ traders forum, which is sometimes broken for best options based on whatever mats I have in quantity. https://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/fo...i-mods/36211-the-ultimate-eq-tradeskill-guide
This guide is a forum that is no longer maintained, and requires some scrolling to read the various sections but the images are still good (I've saved a local copy for future needs should I need them and the site is gone.)
