Ok, first attemp at this,so her we go...
1. Always have food and water, you use power to do trades and this helps wwith power regen.
2. There is 2 forms of spells <icons> for doing your combines, one increases progress, and the other is durability. If all you want is experence and sell the items, get the 3 icons grouped together for your combine and read the discription, will be (incresses progress at cost of power, incresses progress at the chance of success lowered, and incresed progress with durability lowered). You do have to counter any trade failures, BUT you can cast at any pointt as long as you have power.
Also, if you wnt durability instead, as you will use or sell items, find the same three skills for durablity. I usualy cast the one for durabilty at cost of power and counter with the rest unles things are going wrong..as they do, then i chain cast all three!
3. Skill levels DO count. As your skill increases, your counters will take less power and do more at progress or durability, as well as a better chance to make pristine easier.
4. Sub combines. ALWAYS, ALWAYS <did i say ALWAYS?> try for prisitne subs. You can not make a pristine item from less than pristine sub combines. When you are doing Workshop tasks < level 10 + > it is easier to stop combines at shaped combines than to try to chase a failing combine that starts ot as shaped. If you forget to stop it in time doing the buff chase, all comines sell to merchant for close to same amount no matter what the quality.
5. Keep all gathering, foresting ect. skills maxed, do the (n00b) zones first and distroy what you cant use or sell from house vault. after level 20, you can go to attonica and start there since it has a required skill level of 20. Any chance you get, gather, forrest...ect.. As your skill improves, so does your chance to find a rare ( silver, sisal root ect. ) selling one of those can finance your trade levels for a bit.
6. Last of all, remember, as your experience level incresses, so do your cap on foraging. Also, as your trade skill level goes up, the easier it is to creat prisitnes and your trade skill level cap goes up, keep them all caped !
That is the basics, if any have additional info, or better info, please post it.
Just want to say thanks to my good friends in guild < bastiage & Jentle> for sharing thier hard won know how with me , a n00b!
Thanks guys!
Coanell
lvl 20 'Zerker
lvl 19 outfitter
Edited, Sat Aug 27 12:42:47 2005 by coanell