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was trivial today with 190 tailoring.

Was Triv at 200 - though I failed first try anyway.
Saw a report it's not triv. at 171 but can't personally confirm.

It said I couldn't increase skill just like the normal triv. message, but now that I think about it...I am capped at 200 due to AA atm, so depending on message technicalities this might be misleading.

Edited, May 20th 2009 12:07am by KathleenF

This is not like a lot of epics where you just need to get 100 skill to attempt the combine. I have 163 tailoring and failed the first combine. Thinking okay that was a fluke I paid the next 1k and tried again and succeeded, BUT it was NOT TRIVIAL AT 163 TAILORING SKILL. For these other posts saying spent 40k yada yada yada, simply go buy tattered animal hides, rough animal hides... whatever and you will spend FAR less than that. I suggest putting 21 points into tailoring at your guildmaster (highest you can train it to) and then make:

Woven Mandrake (Tailoring, 66 trivial) Yield: 1 x Woven Mandrake

Mandrake Root (2)
Storebought

Then, if you can blacksmith too, or you have a friend who can, get some:

Steel Boning (Smithing, 37 trivial) Yield: 1 x Steel Boning

File (1)
Crafted
Small Brick of Ore (1)
Dropped, Storebought, Crafted
Water Flask (1)
Foraged, Dropped, Summoned, Storebought, Quested, Crafted

at which time you can make:

Picnic Basket (Tailoring, 76 trivial) Yield: 10 x Picnic Basket
In: Loom, Tanaan Loom, Coldain Tanners Kit, Collapsible Sewing Kit, Deluxe Sewing Kit, Large Sewing Kit, Planar Sewing Kit, Small Sewing Kit
Steel Boning (1)
Crafted
Woven Mandrake (1)
Crafted

Now that you are at 76 skill, you can move on to making:

Hand Made Backpack (Tailoring, 88 trivial) Yield: 1 x Hand Made Backpack
In: Loom, Tanaan Loom, Collapsible Sewing Kit, Deluxe Sewing Kit, Large Sewing Kit, Planar Sewing Kit, Small Sewing Kit
Backpack Pattern (1)
Storebought
High Quality Rockhopper Hide (1)
Dropped

Hand Made Backpack (Tailoring, 88 trivial) Yield: 1 x Hand Made Backpack
In: Loom, Tanaan Loom, Collapsible Sewing Kit, Deluxe Sewing Kit, Large Sewing Kit, Planar Sewing Kit, Small Sewing Kit
Backpack Pattern (1)
Storebought
High Quality Bear Skin (1)
Dropped, Quested

At least with this you can make a little profit. You will be at 88 skill now. Your next step requires a little farming (unless you like paying for items in bazaar). Head to Crystal Caverns (PoK to Great Divide via book, GD to Eastern Wastes, into the orc fort in the middle of the zone, in the back inside the compound is a gate, inside that is a glowing snowball on some kind of stand, click that to enter Crystal Caverns). At the very bottom of Crystal Caverns in the way back are 3 tunnels. The middle one has spiders and this is where you will want to farm to get your crystalline silks to make:

Crystalline Silk Cap (Tailoring, 115 trivial) Yield: 1 x Crystalline Silk Cap

Cap Pattern (1)
Storebought
Crystalline Silk Swatch (1)
Crafted
Silver Thread (1)
Storebought

And assuming you have farmed enough spiders to have a ton of swatches made up, you can also make the following to progress further, noting they require 2 and 3 swatches each:

Crystalline Silk Sleeves (Tailoring, 124 trivial) Yield: 1 x Crystalline Silk Sleeves

Crystalline Silk Swatch (2)
Crafted
Silver Thread (1)
Storebought
Sleeve Pattern (1)
Storebought

AND:

Crystalline Silk Shirt (Tailoring, 131 trivial) Yield: 1 x Crystalline Silk Shirt
In: Loom, Tanaan Loom, Coldain Tanners Kit, Collapsible Sewing Kit, Deluxe Sewing Kit, Large Sewing Kit, Planar Sewing Kit
Crystalline Silk Swatch (3)
Crafted
Silver Thread (1)
Storebought
Tunic Pattern (1)
Storebought

Now you are at 131 skill with relatively no money spent and little time invested. From this point on, I recommend doing the template combines with various animal pelts such as:

Flawed Leather Gloves Template (Tailoring, 198 trivial) Yield: 1 x Flawed Leather Gloves Template

Flawed Animal Pelt (1)
Dropped
Leather Gloves Template Pattern (1)
Storebought
Simple Sewing Needle (1)
Storebought, Returned on Failure, Returned on Success
String Filament (1)
Storebought
Tanning Chemicals (1)
Storebought

Doing this, you can usually find the pelts in the bazaar (not always cheap) or you can farm them yourself. If you farm them yourself, the only cash you will really be paying out is for the Filament that is used, but can easily raise your skill above 200 by doing this.


So all in all, if you would rather invest the time rather than a TON of plat, it really isn't that difficult, nor does it take that long. I was able to raise my tailoring to 163 using this method (I had collected the pelts as I leveled knowing I would need to raise tailoring) in a matter of about 45 minutes.

got lucky had a skill of 0 and spent 24k and got it

Made this on the 6th try with 66 in tailoring on 2/9/08

I started with a skill of 146 and failed three times Ding skill 147 !

Finally made it on the fourth try. No trivial message

I got a skill of 109 in Tailoring. I combined it in 2nd try...

shur wish someone would post the triv on this