The Magician's Tower

SoD has gotten boring to the point where i'm doing TS'ing again. Does anyone have a link (or a quick writeup) on the best way to start/progress Spell Research?

Go to the eqtraders.com forums.

Bara

Intricate Binding Powder to Intricate Enchanted Spell Parchment. You need to research the spell Focus Mass Intricate Spellcaster's Empowering Essence.

All trivs 300+. Keep the Parchments to make spell scrolls for a further skill up chance.
Intricate BP is the first BP with a 300+ triv AFAIR.

Baramos wrote:Go to the eqtraders.com forums.

Bara

Eqtraders has diddly squat on spell research, it's the one thing they don't have covered like a blanket.

*and thanks for the tip bastler.

You obviously didn't look at "posts since beginning".

Plenty of information there.

Bara

You're correct, i went to the section titled "learn a skill".....which apparently isn't where you learn skills.

I was able to find a quick trivial list after a bit of digging. Here's the link if anyone else was curious about it;

http://www.eqtraders.com/recipes/recipe ... 0105900000" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oh yeah. I forgot all about that section. I used to use that too, and you are right - it has decayed.

But yeah, the forums generally have good information, but they are so infrequently posted these days that posts scroll off past the default 1 month.

I knew there was info there because I was racing a guy to be the first Researcher to 300 back in DoDH days (I lost to some low level Necro on Druzzil), and I wrote a lot of posts, and frequented the forums quite a bit for years thereafter, until recently when tradeskills pretty much died out. Pottery is still useful for the PSs. I know some people like to Bake, but I'd just as soon mass-produce party-platters than do any of the new stat foods.

Here's hoping the Underfoot Cultural revives things.

And for Research we'll be able to do TBS now. You know what I would like to see in Research is the ability to make a unique spell based on the theory. Or discover them with "special" parchment and no recipe. Hidden spells in the game, in other words, unlocked only by player ingenuity. I like that idea.

I have meandered from the topic. Good luck on your skillups. It won't take long using those binding powders. Then you'll be bored. Again. I know the feeling.

Bara

edit: Oh, just checked your link Red. You can also check http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?t=33385" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/skills.html?skill=9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks bara; those other links look pretty helpful as well.

Can't wait for underfoot.

I hope they allow us to make tomes for melee and hybrids. Seems rather dumb for a class to have to skill up one tradeskill to make tomes.

Dadani wrote:I hope they allow us to make tomes for melee and hybrids. Seems rather dumb for a class to have to skill up one tradeskill to make tomes.

Well theyre melee classes who have to learn to write and then scribble down coherent thoughts to teach others...