The tailor is able to make his own clothes and cloth-based armor and items, both for personal use and for sale to others.
What are the best strategies for using and developing the tailoring skill? Which recipes are the most and least useful? What classes are best suited to tailoring? What cities are the best places to practice your trade? Can you make a profit off of tailoring, and if so how?
Post your strategies on how to best use and develop the tailoring skill, and read, rate and comment on those posted by others.
Try East Commons. I made good money by hunting bears and lions and selling their pelts off to tailors at the tunnel that stand there are all day and shout auctions that they want to buy Pelts.
So you can do two things, you can hunt which is cheaper but more time consuming or just stand at the tunnel and auction to buy. On Tunare HQ Bear pelts go for 35pp, HQ Cat go for 5-10pp, and all LQ and MQ's go for 1-5pp each.
There are also plenty of spiders around so it's a great place for tailors.
Hello all... i am a lvl 19 warr on thouluxe paells. I want to get into tailoring.. what can i make, and how can i make it. what do i need to get started.. can someone please let me know either in game (char name is Jilliana) or e-mail at KinkyKitty69@hotmail.com
Also if there is someone looking for a certain type of skin or pelt... let me know and for a price i will hunt them for you
thanks in advance Jilliana Lvl 19 warrior Thouluxe Paells
I suggest that you do not pursue tailoring. You are a warrior, so a more useful skill for you is Blacksmithing. Being a tank, that would be a more useful skill. With it, you can create Chainmail and Platemail armor, which would be much more useful than what you can make with tailoring, which is armor for monks and pure casters
I AM A 54 TAILOR AND HAVE BEEN MAKING STUDDED LEATHER ARMOR FOR SOME TIME NOW. I AM ABOUT TO START MAKING CURED SILK ARMOR AND BEARSKIN POTION BAGS. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE MY OWN BACK PACKS BUT HIGH QUALITY BEAR SKINS ARE VERY HARD TO FIND CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE BEST PLACE TO FIND THEM
MOST BEARS DROP HQ PELTS, NOTES EXCEPTION IS THE KODIAKS, GRIZZLEYS HAVE EVEN DROPPED ONE FOR ME. BUT IF YOU TALK IN CAPS ALL THE TIME YOU WILL SCARE THE BEARS AWAY, THUS LOWERING THE QWALITY OF THE PELTS DUE TO THE STRESSES CAUSED.
Does anyone know what to tailor above Tailoring Skill Level 158? Being a Wood Elf, I heard Wood Elf Mithral Reinforced Armor. Does anyone have the trivial levels of this?
IMO Halas is one of the best cities to begin tailoring in all of Norrath. It's newbie zone of Everfrost Peaks has an unending stream of wolves and bears for ruined pelts, and sometimes LQ or better (yes even HQ bear pelts). Not only that, but there are also the woolly spiders that drop spiderling silk, and larger spiders out in the plains of Everfrost that drop regular silk. With the combination of items availible in and around Halas, it is a great place to tailor.
I have 95 SkillPoints saved up from the guild trainer (will probably be more as i level). I want to make Cured Silk Armor or even Wu's armor for my monk friend, but i don't want to spend time searching for pelts and making stud. My question is: Can i raise my TailorSkill to 26 by making Silk Cord then put all 95 skill pts into tailoring through the guild trainer at one time?
What I think everyone means (but isn't quite saying) is that you can't use guild skill points to raise trade skills past a skill level of 20 (or is it 21 . . .). If you have NO tailoring skill, you can put 20/21 points into it. If you have a tailoring skill of 26 you can't put ANY points into it, and you'll get the message that was described earlier ("You must learn advanced trade skills in this field" or something to that effect). Hope that clears things up a little.
The maximum number of points allowed to be trained into any trade skill is 20 or 21, not sure on this for i have around 50 skill in tailoring, but i know that it is something like that, an inconvienance, but put them into other required trade skills. Tailoring will require smithing and brewing as well, so why not put em into that and then into your weapon skills. Hope this helps, and BTW good hunting zones for pelts is NRO, Oasis and SRo. Also if ya wanna go directly from swatches to raw silk as an iksar that is totally possible, hope this helps. Good luck young ones!
I've started a new character just to be a tailor and was only able to put 20 skill points in to it. After that it said advanced skills must be learned in the field =(.
I has my skill at 44 now trivial to making the large bag what is the next steps to Master that are fairly cheep to do? I can make studded but it is not selling on my server and is a waste to sell to a merchant. any other ideas? Should I start to make the reinforced?
I've seen a reciepe for the infamous Fleeting Quiver and it requires a High Quality Lion Skin. I've hunted hundreds of lions in EK and seen many a 'ruined lion skin' but never HQ. Anybody know where to find lions that might drop one?
I've been told that the HQ Lion Skin you need are taken ONLY from the Highland Lions. I don't know the validity of this, but it was an item of much discussion one evening (in OOC).
Actually you can make the entire skinning knife on the west side of the world. You'll need a small BRICK of Ore, Dagger Mold, Hilt Mold, and Water Flask.. The Brick you can get in Erud.. from Shauna Orefinder by their blacksmith. The hilt mold you can buy in West Karana from a man named Skinner ( i think that's his name), the dagger mold can be purchases from McPherson's Bloody Blades in Halas. And the water flask ? Well I dont' know where to get those :-D
a smith makes it for you he needs to have at least 30 points in his skill to be successful if you are on brell send a tell to lunitic i can and will make them have mold avilible and will meet you in ec. same with small banded
Is there a web that has all the tailoring receipts? Especially those with magical attributes?
I am a gnome mage and since I could not find any magical tailoring receipts, all I found useful is some raw silk sets of wearings eg. sleevs, caps etc and they are all about trivial lvl 36. I don't know if i should really practice this skills or just ask someone else to help me.
I was just wondering if there is any way to raise tailoring up form 0 points without putting any practice points into it. In other words, is there anyway to raise tailoring by simply doing the skill? Do you gain points even if you fail in it? Sorry if I may sound dumb to some of you EQ veterans, but I assure you, I am no idiot, just new :) Thanks in advance.
Actually yes....all you have to do is combine spiderling silk into silk thread by placing two into you sewing kit and hitting combine. The same for spider silk to make silk swatches. These recipes will raise your tailoring and it is impossible to fail so you dont lose anything. You can get your tailoring up to around 16 doing this alone. Hope it helps.
yes you can raise your skill from zero by just attempting, but it will take a long time to reach lvl 1. Id reccomend just "wasting" 1 0r 2 points of training, will save you alot of spider silks)
I started playing eq about a week and a half ago. I am a half elf warrior at lvl 17 alreay, trust me a lot of hard work to get to there this fast! :) But I have a problem, I keep missing my slashes, my 2h slashing skill is around 90. Someone told me my dex is the problem, it's at 87 right now. How can I improve my dex?? I dont have a lot of cash to spend, only 200pp saved up and I got crappy armour too, ac at 223 :( What should I do?? I hate to see myself missing shots after shots, very frustrating! Please help!! Also, I am wondering will drinking certain alcohol gives me some good dex? should I even spend time brewing or drinking lol..Thanks in advance for the help!
What kind of armour do you have?! My lvl 17 druid has a base ac of 304 and i have leather armour. Take some of that money and buy you some bronze armour.
all you need is 1 vial of vicous mana 4 heady kiolas the right amount of swatches and then the pattern gloves needall of the above along with a greater lightstone
Is there an accepted price for the various compenents required for Tailoring? If not, I thought I'd get the ball rolling and list the prices I've been paying for stuff (on Solusek Ro)... HQ wolf or cat pelt 2-3pp HQ bear pelt 30-35pp Silk Swatch 50pp per stack of 20 Heady Kiola 1pp (till I could brew my own)
Im at the stage in my tailoring career that I am now in need of crystalline silks. I am too high a level to get xp from killing those spiders, so I'd rather just by the silks. Does anyone know what the going price for them is? And where the best place to find someone selling them?
TO MAKE THIS EXCELLENT MONK ARMOUR, DO YOU NEED NOT ONLY THE SILK SW+PATTERN BUT ALSO YOU NEED TO BREW 1BOTTLE 1 FLASK WATER 2 KIOLAS SAP AND ADD THIS TO THE SEWING KIT?????????????????????????? ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED KUNGFUZHOU 17TH TIER
You need to put the bottle, water and saps in a brew barrel to brew Heady Kiolas and it doesn't trivial till about level 46 BREWING skill. Once you've successfully brewed the Heady Kiolas you put them in your sewing kit with the silk dswatches and pattern.
If you don't have any brewing skill your best bet is to find someone who does and buy the kiolas from them. I think they go for about 1pp each.
Brewing is quite easy and fun to do though. Check the Brewing lists or eqtraders.com for info.
Failure rate is still quite high even when making Heady Kiola is 'trivial'. I have much better success after learning another couple of drinks to trivial and raising my skill into the 60s.
When I try to make vale studded leather ( halfling cultural armor made with Brute hides and studs)in the Vale sewing kit using the Leathers of the Vale book formulas (purchased in Rivervale from npc merchant) I get a fails to combine. Reinforced formulas made with high quality Brute hides and boning apparently work. Does anyone know if the vale studded leather is bugged or are the formulas in the book false?
I dunno if you have or not, but check out eqtraders.com I saw a link to it above that should take you to the tailoring section. It should list the correct recipe.
Does anyone know of a way to raise skill in tailoring post wu's fighting armor besides attempting the really high velious tailoring items (wyrven, cobalt drake hide etc.) i have recently had my last piece of wu's trivial (trivial at 158) and dread trying to raise skill by making the higher lvl velious armors because the materials are hard to collect and the trivial is almost 100 skill higher than what i currently have. If there is a way please let me know, otherwise let me know what you believe is the eastest of the ultra high trivial armor from velious to raise skill on.
Also, if your looking for a good website on tailoring, the best i have found is
http://www.lokari.net/everquest/tailoring.html
if you have a better one, please post it.
Ehin Treekeeper 51st Druid of Bertoxx Norrathian Justice
ill tell ya. It's in felwithe. theres a shop called 'shop of all holos' - or really close to it. go upstairs. talk to the guy on the wall. he sells mithril. if you want to know more about it, hail him.
P.s. i'm not sure bout paladins and tiger hide armor. we like cool shunung plate stuff, remember)?
Is it possible to buy unlimited supply of any quality type pelt(not ruined) from some vendor, if so please let me know who he is and where, getting pelts and silks sucks.
Nope, pelts and silks are not normally sold by vendors. The only time you'll run across them is if another player has sold there to loot to that merchant.