Ice Silk Lined Shoes  

 

not many sandals with good saves like these..they're a real keeper in pvp

Well, I was jus stating how I like the upgrades they have made to tailoring since Velious came out. Tailoring is an extremely hard skill to learn and master, and I was just stating the fact that it is now worth the problems. sorry if you all took it the wrong way.

Most of the sets of velious armor have at least some very nice pieces, haze panther armor in particular. Even these shoes aren't nearly as good, I think, as the ice silk cap: AC 5 cha+11 wis+8 int+10 mana+20 sv magic+5 sv cold+5.

Also keep in mind that these are incredibly difficult to make. They require silk from a level 60-61 (I think) ice burrower in the Western Wastes. A level 49+ enchanter must make the vial of purified mana, using up four rubies (at 130pp each), a poison vial and 1000 mana. Then you must add a 262pp platinum thread--all for a single attempt at an item with a trivial level over 250. I think there is only one known person on any server with a tailoring skill of 250. Most estimates of the cost of becoming a skill 250 tailor seem to center around 200,000pp+ and thousands of man-hours of effort.

Given that I find these shoes a bit disappointing, and would rather see the materials go towards the cap I mentioned above. (Or better yet, I'd like to see it put towards attempts at some of the pieces that still haven't been made.)

That said, I do think it's great that tailoring has been extended to the high end game. There are a number of other great tailored items that were added with Velious such as the othmir fur cap, cobalt drake belt, arctic wyvern cloak, and haze panther tunic.

I believe this is made from Ice Burrower silk. In which case, the cost for each attempt is of the region of 3kpp with a very high probability of failure if your tailoring is under 200. For that price there are better boots out there and most tailors would not waste their ice burrower silk on this item when the cap is so much more tasty.

Trewayn

There are lots of good tailored items, but they are serously hard to make...these boots, for example, you need to kill two (at least) level 60 mobs, and then spend 800pp in components to *try* to make them. And guess what? Even if your si=kill is 250, they won't be trivial. And the Wu stuff can only get you to 159. There's nothing in between. So expect to PAY any tailor who can make these.