Tradeskills have not been managed all that well by Sony devs. They do add new recipes, some darn nice ones, but then they cut the legs out from players who invest a lot of time and energy into raising their skills by moving the tradeskill products to NPC vendors. Not everything, of course. You can still make money making bags, potions, powersources, a few other things. I know I've made my share this way. But nowadays tradeskilling is just a minor side "hobby" where once upon a time in EQ players who liked that kind of thing devoted most of their game time to skillin' and made a good return for their time and energy.
But I'm getting off-topic now, which I'm prone to do...
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Sippin 115 DRU **** Firiona Vie ****Agnarr
FV: 115 WAR ENC CLE MAG WIZ SHD SHM Master Alchemist ROG Master Tinkerer & Poison-Maker
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