DE tradeskill questionFollow

Neither.
Friends dont let friends smith or tailor. Both are large scale plat sinks. Ill refer you to www.eqtraders.com for comments on these two trade skills.

With that said smithing may have the best potential at the GM high end.
Tailoring at the lower end when you combine 2 spider silks into a silk swatch and then sell the swatch for 15 to 30 p in the bazaar.

The answer doesn't change either, you cannot make Plat proffit from Smithing or Tailoring untill you have elemental flagging and then it depends on what drops you can find.

You can do smithing with less money, but more time. Shadowscream armor costs very little to make and trivials over 250, however, it will take a bazillion years of farming. Check into the cultural smithing/tailoring for DEs. There may be a quicker/cheaper way up. Once you get into the mid 100s, do fine plate stuff (smithing of course.) If you farm your own leather padding, the cost is not too expensive. Your successes sell back for about what they cost to make, so you only lose on your failures. It cost me about 500pp to go fro 162 to 188. I'm now on to Enchanted Velium Bits (trivial 222.) I'm farming the velium myself; I refuse to pay 100pp for 1 small piece of velium. So it's taknig a long long time. But I'm getting there.

WWW.EQTRADERS.COM has some great how to guides for all the trades. It's a great resource. Ally's is another great resource for searching recipies (I find Ally's is better than EQTraders because of the way it's set up.) I would just search for recipies in the trade I'm working on that's higher than my current skill. I can then pick out the recipe that I think would work best for me (i.e., the one that's the cheapest, or all vendor bought.)

Edited, Wed Mar 3 09:23:17 2004 by amastropolo

for the third time, 'you can not make plat from either unless you have Elemental access' cultural armour and tailoring for Dark elves are not sort after since there is far better stuff that you can buy for less pp.

Greetings,

Sorry to disagree Tarv, but I've kitted myself out in not bad gear, advanced several tradeskills to 200 and 2 over that, plus still have about 170k in the bank - all from tailoring! And this without doing any PoP tailoring.

Acrylia studded sleeves I can sell up to 4 sets overnight, every night, at 600pp per set. Acrylia reinforced boots and gloves also fly off the shelves. I've sold about 75 Fleeting quivers at prices between 2.5 - 4.5k each. Cobalt drake belts and Black/Haze Pantherskin armours are also regular sellers.

If you want to make heavy amounts of platinum, I'm sure you're correct Tarv. But being a casual gamer, I'm quite happy rolling over my modest profits and investing some of them in the pursuit of that elusive 250 Tailoring skill! Ginerdar, I'm no expert on DE tailoring, but you CAN make money at it - you could probably make a fortune just selling leather padding at 40pp per item - and you may find that there are DE-only combines that you can turn a nice profit on.

Hope this helps!