Tradeskills

[Rhodam_Taerrol]

Yes. When you forage anything it gets placed on your cursor but you can use the /autoinventory command to place the item on your cursor into the first available slot in your inventory. Create a simple macro:

/doability 3 (forage for example)
/autoinventory

Bind that macro to a key and then have the autofire program trigger that key. Anything that's scavenged via forage will automatically placed into inventory. You may or may not need to build a pause into the macro (not in game at the moment so I can't verify that for you) .. but you get the idea.

[Voragath]

Hah! You all should try pottery sometime. Easy if you have a cool million to spend, other than that....good luck! There is a super cheap way but I'd have to level up an alt by creating a second account ranger or whatever so that it can spend 24/7 just AF'ing in Stillmoon Temple for a stack of 20 (in one day, they are rare) of the air-infused spring waters to go the cheap route.

If anyone has an easier way than that, and it's cheaper than star rubies, I'm all ears

[Wati]

then have the autofire program trigger that key

3rd party software/hardware? Breaking the Eula?

Or do I miss something?

//Wati

[Zacatac]

If anyone has an easier way than that, and it's cheaper than star rubies, I'm all ears

While it's not cheaper, it is more useful to just start making the power sources when you get close to 300. You get 2 chances of skill up (1 for making it and 1 for firing it) per item and you get something that you can actually use.

[Bastler]

then have the autofire program trigger that key

3rd party software/hardware? Breaking the Eula?

Or do I miss something?

//Wati

Not as long as you sit at the puter and watch it fire.
You need a pause between the forage and the /autoinv, and forage has a recast of about 2min I think, you would need to time that.

[Rhodam_Taerrol]

then have the autofire program trigger that key

3rd party software/hardware? Breaking the Eula?

Or do I miss something?

//Wati

The use of Autofire had been discussed ad nauseum within the Ranger community before the /autofire command was implemented shortly after the release of Omens of War. The use of Autofire was deemed OK by SOE but was also a catalyst for having the /autofire (and /melody) commands put in place. Now an auto-forage macro may not be as useful as the the auto-fire capability was to Rangers (simply because of refresh times etc) but it's essentially the same thing. And as far as I know, nobody has ever been punished by the GMs for using Autofire while at the keyboard. Unattended macroing is where you can get in trouble.

I don't advocate cheating, ghost killing or any other nefarious activity in game but there is a difference between using MQ or plat selling and using Autofire.

[Voragath]

If anyone has an easier way than that, and it's cheaper than star rubies, I'm all ears

While it's not cheaper, it is more useful to just start making the power sources when you get close to 300. You get 2 chances of skill up (1 for making it and 1 for firing it) per item and you get something that you can actually use.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing currently. As friends/guildies come to me for PS's, I make them and it gives me the chance to skillup. It's brutal, though. I did about 40 combines the other day with zero skillups and only 1% to the trophy.

[pandax]

wait, so do you have to be at your computer if you're auto foraging, or not?

Like I said, I can certainly just only do this when I'm playing on my main account and not boxing.

[Merlaina]

Does anyone have any advice for raising tailoring? I'm currently at 198 skill and have run through all of the furs and silks I had saved for when I came back to this, but now that new cultural is out (sort of) I wanted to raise my skill so I could try to make some of that shiny armor.

I know back in the day othmir fur caps were in fashion, and I'd imagine I could slaughter the buggars pretty smurf fast now, but probably faster than they could respawn (beaming them comes to mind). My other thought was to kill minotaurs in DSH for superb animal pelt drops, since as a bonus they drop decent merchant fodder and they have casters which can drop research components.

I've scoured EQtraders and haven't seen any super-easy methods listed. Is there anything I'm missing, or am I on the right track?

[Voragath]

Does anyone have any advice for raising tailoring? I'm currently at 198 skill and have run through all of the furs and silks I had saved for when I came back to this, but now that new cultural is out (sort of) I wanted to raise my skill so I could try to make some of that shiny armor.

I know back in the day othmir fur caps were in fashion, and I'd imagine I could slaughter the buggars pretty smurf fast now, but probably faster than they could respawn (beaming them comes to mind). My other thought was to kill minotaurs in DSH for superb animal pelt drops, since as a bonus they drop decent merchant fodder and they have casters which can drop research components.

I've scoured EQtraders and haven't seen any super-easy methods listed. Is there anything I'm missing, or am I on the right track?

From what I've seen and experienced, there isn't an easy way to do tailoring. It almost all requires drops. You can ease the pain by doing the new cultural armor since it has the bonus. Other than that, stock up on a whole warehouse of patience.