Guide - So, "Do Tradeskills, it will be fun" they said.

[Robban]

Maybe more of a question, how do you do your tradeskills?

Sharing a little of my thoughts and questions on how I do and set it all up when trying to get to 350 in tradeskills.

It all started when my main got Max AA the box crew also was almost there. I thought I would continue with some tradeskills I started with 100 (or so) years ago. I had a few around 200 - 250 so I thought I just do them all (haha) to 350 guickly(!) and go back to maxing AA on the 6-box crew. Hehe

First thing first!
Trophys!

Noticed the TS God macro from @jb321 which would get all that I hadnt started to 54. And the rest would get those free reciepes. Also all trophie quests was gotten (almost) and completed around this time. Had a few higher so had to do some farming/collecting but this didnt take long.

Tradeskill books!
I used this one, step by step

Know Before you Go: Tradeskill Books to Scribe Master List

www.townshiprebellion.com

Next, get all to 300. Some searching for Vendor bought routes, and they all went up quite quick. Some needed a litte help but got enough platinum to buy whatever needed.

The natural way to go next was of course Tradeskill recipes (max out Artisan's Prize) from @jande .
Now, I gathered alot of tradeskill materials and FIRED IT UP! This will go quick I thought. Heh! The regret of not looting tradeskill materials for 20 years was... like... total. I had nothing... almost

I now started to save everything with the 'tradeskill' tag.

Space
I quickly realized I needed som more space... so I thouht of Housing! Never really looked into this but Yeah! I fixed 3 houses and started filling it up with materials. Still.... I wasnt even close to space needed. My box crew all bought 3 houses each and I started to separate the tradeskill materials. One house with only Meat, one with ore, one with silk. Got one with flasks and one with powder, spellscrolls and even one with 'animal stuff' and so on. But yeah, 18 houses with tradeskill stuffz.

QUESTION! is this the way to go? Lots of houses? How do you guys organize things?

I then realized I had some houses with 75 spaces some with 150 and som with 300. Didnt check that when I bought the houses...... I thought all 3 room houses was the same, but no!. I am now changing them to the 300 as they get full. I also had som progression reward box wich added 200 in one yard.

QUESTION! You cant see all the stuff in all houses with the Find button in inventory right? only your own houses or something? Even when you are set as co-owner on the other houses?

Farming the Tradeskill stuffz!
When I notice I missed material, I placed a heroic druid if it could be foraged (made 6 heroics druids from the 21 anniversary, who I can delete if I want to change them I heard) or I took a char and used the
Pocketfarm.mac by @kaen01 and /radius 5000. Usually I was after a specifik mob, like /pkf pull horse or something but I figured there would be alot of other tradeskill materials there also so I would just /pkf go and clear everything. Old world zones are almost always empty anyway so.... I would just let it rampage away for some time. Also had 2 spare monks @110 I would set out in strategic places to farm on the other computers when I was tradeskilling away on the main computer. Usually 4 tradeskill bags would be enough.

Another macro to use is the dumpsterdive.mac by @Sym and buy every tradeskill item (sold by players) from every pok vendor in pok. Then use the cleanup macro by Jande to sell back everything that is vendorsold. (if someone sells vendorbought stuff to another vendor dumpsterdive will still buy it. Also gems which is also sold by vendor.) I do this from time to time to get som extra tradeskill materials people dumps on vendors.

There is also a macro on the macroquest2 vip forums which handles collections. I sometimes uses the "buy from bazaar" feature from it. Just use the shopping list from Jandes macro and copy it to that macro. It then buys anything from bazaar (at a max price you set)

Navigating between houses in your neighborhood
To make it easy when I have to empty my inventory (when finished with a tradeskill or farmed some zones) I used the /nav ui and created waypoints with names at all houses. So I just click ore and I will run to that house and I can unload my ore stuff, then click silk and I will run to the silk house and so on. Have some houses I can dump anything in, but they need to be sorted from time to time.

When all this is setup its quite fun to start a new tradeskill.
/mac ts/tradesman smithing learn (creates a shoppinglist)

then go to your neighbourhood and go to each of the 18 houses and do
/mac ts/finditem myCharName (pick up anything I need for my tradeskill) and if your houses are full with tradeskill-stuff, its very satisfying to see the macro picking up all the stuff needed.

after that I check the shopping-list ini if anything is needed from Vendors and I go to them and do /mac ts/finditem my CharName

Then do the
/mac ts/tradesman smithing learn (again) and again, and again

and go farm some zone, filling upp the houses with the stuff not needed at this tradeskill

So, currently I am at 350 with Baking, Fletching, Research and 348 on brewing (almost there). Takes alot of time but quite satisfying. Noticed I needed Poisonmaking so I took the FTP rogue to 300. I guess my chanter-gnome will do tinkering and shammy will do alchemy also.

And I would NEVER have done this without MQ2 and the macros from RedGuides.... no way

Anyway, just my story

How do you guys do?

 

[Sum1]

One fatal flaw with your post = subject line.

no one in the history of eq has ever said that.

otherwise, great post

 

[Sum1]

I’d like to see an explanation of housing ... i don’t know how to put items in the progression chest vs the yard vs the house.

 

[Grimm68]

place the box scalebound or one you can buy in the hub area. place an item in storage. then on storage screen highlight that item and click crate. moves from general storage to the crate. can even pick the crate out of storage and place in inventory with everything still in it. makes it easy to move houses or neighborhoods

 

[Robban]

One fatal flaw with your post = subject line.

no one in the history of eq has ever said that.

Correct =)

 

[jande]

no one in the history of eq has ever said that.

I have /duck
My friends want to do unspeakable things to me as every now and then I convince them to do "fun"

QUESTION! is this the way to go? Lots of houses? How do you guys organize things?

I have 4 toons that hold all my tradeskill items. Poor things have 1 20 slot bag for personal belongings all of the rest is extraplanar bags.
I think of them as my portable containers .

Housing have vanished on me before (4/5 years ago). I do have 8 houses full of collections, another 3 full of ornament. /hold thumbs they do not vanish.

QUESTION! You cant see all the stuff in all houses with the Find button in inventory right? only your own houses or something? Even when you are set as co-owner on the other houses?

Only your own plots. That is also how people get in trouble with lore items, place it in someone else's plot and they they cannot understand why they cannot loot this lore item and it is nowhere to be found. Impossible to find if you do not write down where you store something, /petition time !

Pocketfarm.mac by @kaen01 and /radius 5000.

That macro is awesome.

And I would NEVER have done this without MQ2 and the macros from RedGuides.... no way

I did it once that was quite enough for me, now I just use my own macro.

 

[Eltai86]

I have 4 toons that hold all my tradeskill items. Poor things have 1 20 slot bag for personal belongings all of the rest is extraplanar bags.
I think of them as my portable containers .

Housing have vanished on me before (4/5 years ago). I do have 8 houses full of collections, another 3 full of ornament. /hold thumbs they do not vanish.

I have 18 alts dedicated to tradeskills, 1 for Smithing, Tailoring, Baking, Brewing, Fletching, Research, JC, Pottery, Alchemy, Poisonmaking, and tinkering. Then I have 1 for all the general drops (Writing inks etc), another 4 that are just dedicated to Ores/Silks/Pelts that I have bulk quantities of, and the last two hold more that are the dump to sort later pile.

Like Jande, I've lost housing enough that I don't trust it. My collections go into a mule for each expansion and my TS hoarde is the same.

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

Like the song says, I've got a mansion I've never been to before, they tell me it's nice! I never liked using housing for anything because of the amount of zoning required. And Housing spin-up times are atrocious!

I use multiple alts on multiple accounts and loaded them up with tradeskill bags including shared bank space so they can trade things around easily. Although I try to keep them organized I sometimes just group things together by the look of the icon.

In order to find stuff later I use a method I saw written up on the Sony boards some years ago. Do the outputfile inventory to a text file in a custom folder. Then open those text files in a programmer's editor like Notepad++ and then you can search across all open files at one time. Add a hot button to each alt to do the /outputfile command every time you camp so that you keep the text files up to date.

 

[jande]

Add a hot button to each alt to do the /outputfile command every time you camp so that you keep the text files up to date.

mq2events to the rescue
keeps track of inventory/platinum/kronos/overseer currency
I keep the output in a separate directory so I can just search the directory.

[Logout]
trigger="It will take you about 30 seconds to prepare your camp#*#"
command=/multiline ; /outputfile inventory F:\eq\inv\${EverQuest.Server}_${Me.Name}.txt; /ini F:\eq\currency.ini "${MacroQuest.LoginName}" shared ${Me.PlatinumShared} ; /ini F:\eq\currency.ini "${MacroQuest.LoginName}" ${Me.CleanName} "${Me.PlatinumBank} pp|${Me.Platinum} pp|${Me.OverseerTetradrachm} overseer" ; /ini F:\eq\currency.ini Krono "${MacroQuest.LoginName}" ${Me.Krono} ;

Wish I could bind it to just /camp, have not figured out how to do that. Would be easier to not have to setup mq2event file for each toon.

 

[burdsjm]

Is there away to get a macro that will dump Tradeskill item to your house? I farm the stuff but cleaning an organizing the bags is a nightmare.

 

[Robban]

Is there away to get a macro that will dump Tradeskill item to your house? I farm the stuff but cleaning an organizing the bags is a nightmare.

Nothing I know of, but I am quite happy with how I do it. I always deposit with my main so the items stack together. And I have waypoints to everything so I just click Ore and he runs to the house with all the Ore, for example.

 

[burdsjm]

Nothing I know of, but I am quite happy with how I do it. I always deposit with my main so the items stack together. And I have waypoints to everything so I just click Ore and he runs to the house with all the Ore, for example.

Well you’re much more organized than me

wonder if there is a hotkey I can make that will auto deposit all items selected.
Just hundred and hundreds of extra clicks. And after going out and destroying old zones I can find stuff i currently need but want to keep the other TS stuff in my house.