Hey Goal/OutcastFollow

Hell, you guys probably don't even remember back this far, but I'm trying to grind up my rogue's poisonmaking and maybe make a run on the Grandmaster Seal since recent hunting left me with jacinths and black sapphires coming out of my ears. Enough to make an attempt on a seal anyway.

So my rogue is at about 172 or close enough to grind out some more Calcium rot. Past that, my idea was Dilapidating Ash (triv 183) which uses Soot Hemlock. Annoying to farm but still easily farmable in the SolA or if I get lucky on merchants. Then Monk's Hood Aconite using Wolf Bane from Splitpaw to 194 and finally Stiffening Ergot to 200ish using Heartsting Venom Sacs from Field of Bone. I also stumbled upon a couple stacks of tares lichen for Amnesic Lolium (triv 234) which I can at least grind some with though I have no illusions of reaching 234 on it.

I've heard that after 200, it's cheaper to go to stanos and buy advances than to try to keep grinding. True? Anyway, I was just curious how you guys got your poisonmaking on up there. According to an EQ Dev comment on EQTraders, DEX is used in Poisonmaking as a 3rd trait (like STR in smithing) so I've gone that route and have a decent DEX kit, my +5% Poison gizmo and graba Harnessing of Spirit before starting. My DEX isn't capped, but it's around 230-235 before I get started. I might keep my eye out for more cheap, high return dex gear.

On EQTraders MB's;



Those last few skill ups are the most painful, that's where I'd spend my training points...I think 250 is less than 100pp to train, so I would guess it would be a lot cheaper to use training points than buying ingredients and/or farming.

Link to the post which containes the quoted info;

mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?t=17915

I forgot to add the DE rogue trainer in PoK will train Make Poison to 250.

Edited, Thu Sep 16 10:49:10 2004 by sbnut

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Lord X, I suggest the Absymal Sea poison making quest to get your skill to 50 something for free.

Kill every NRo, SRo and Oasis snake and spider you see...the ingredients from those mobs will help not only your make poison but also you apply skill, if you ever intend to use it.

A very old link but still a good place to start;

Bah! I can't cut and paste links today! Kiky's poison's pages is what I was referning to, and the link from the thread at EQTraders will get you there (click on the link below to go to the EQT thread).

EQTraders has improved their Poison Making info the past year. I suggest you don't give up on it.

The LoY posion recipes are there.

Finally, go to this thread,

mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?t=322

and scroll down to the last (of 4 or 5) post. There is the link to an excellent guide (that I can't seem to copy the link to, here).


Edited, Thu Sep 16 11:05:54 2004 by sbnut

Given that everything for Spirit of Sloth is vendor purchased, I'm not sure why one would want to farm Unrest for ungodly amounts of grave mold and mushrooms unless money was a factor. I missed Spirit of Sloth on the list when I was looking for vendor purchasable combines so I might go with that after I blow through my farmed Soot Hemlock and Tare Lichens. Dependant on how much an Ethereal suspesion costs, anyway.

E. Suspension: 2pp and change. Seems worth it vs wasting night after night farming skeletons and gnolls.

Edited, Thu Sep 16 11:10:14 2004 by Jophiel

Yeah, I did some of that before but Tares Lichens sell back to players for 3pp and change and Soot Hemlock is about the same. For that kind of trouble, I'm better off buying the 2pp suspension and a couple 1.5pp vines direct instead of having to look at a thousand merchants.

Nice idea though, thanks. I was just one step ahead of you

Is Poisonmaking level capped? Typical (Lvl*5)+5 deal? For some reason I thought it wasn't but I never ran the math. My rogue is 46 which would put a traditional cap on me of 235 unless they hard cap it at 200 until 50 like some other skills.

New tradeskill interface makes tradeskilling a breeze. You only need one successful combine then all after you just click 'repeat' until all your components are used. No dragging of all parts etc.

Even I am considering raising fletching to 250

Sorry about necroposting this but it has allot of good advice on poisonmaking in it. I was finally able to ding 300 yesterday and used Scoriae Bite to get from 275-300. GEPs and phosphorous powders can be vendor farmed pretty reliably and the rest is vendor purchasable. A grandmasters seal definatly helps as I could reuse my advanced vials over and over again.

Especially when it's done by a Rogue (necro wannabes).