Blacksmith or Tailor?

zudamar
zudamar Posts: 8 Arc User
edited April 2010 in Dungeons & Tactics
I have made a venomacer and I am long overdue chooseing a manufacture skill. My problem is I can't decide between blacksmith or Tailor some of the armours / magic weapons I can produce in either one seem appealing. I think a large portion of my problem is that I can't get much more information then:

Tailor: produces various armour...
Blacksmith: produces various weapons, magic weapons (and so on)

I am looking for information/recomendations for the long run, (preferable from players who have gotten far in the mentioned skills)
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  • allansaltwater
    allansaltwater Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    You don't need to choose one or the other ... in fact you can do ALL 4 ... they're not mutually exclusive.
  • _Garra_ - Harshlands
    _Garra_ - Harshlands Posts: 389 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I myself was in that same predicament... i recommend making a new character for that... reasons being u will have a harder time getting materials from lower lvl mobs at a higher lvl then u would at a lower lvl.

    Personally i would recommend an archer for that ... us the character for manufacturing skills and build them up...

    I started an archer 2 days ago and my manufacturing is now lvl 4 :D lol now im making Legendary weapons and such... believe me its worth doing

    b:victory
  • ilystah
    ilystah Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Just level up all 4 of them. For leveling blacksmith manufacture cheap weapon such as axe. Tailor if you manufacture your own armor you probably don't need to produce anything extra to level up. Same for ornament. Apo is easy to level up because mats is quite available.
  • _Garra_ - Harshlands
    _Garra_ - Harshlands Posts: 389 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    ilystah wrote: »
    Just level up all 4 of them. For leveling blacksmith manufacture cheap weapon such as axe. Tailor if you manufacture your own armor you probably don't need to produce anything extra to level up. Same for ornament. Apo is easy to level up because mats is quite available.

    For sure .. go to Raging Tides and ur in a gold mine
  • charlieizboss
    charlieizboss Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    if u r levelling trades...save the l3 mfg supplies like rough fur, purified oil, conce. glue and ummm oh yeah silk thread for the L4 quests in tailor, blacksmith and craftsman.
    BEWARE: they trick you, just when you get rid of all your L3 junk to move to L4, BAM you have to get a pile of L3 stuff together again, and now you are too high level to grind them (press O cha-ching)
    (apothecary is no quest...u just have to visit the NPC in the center of serious hostile L80 mobs heh 8D and buy the book while u r there so u dont have to go back to that godforsaken little lake a second time like how i noobed out.)

    the quest is to make 3 different 2-star items. this can burn through up to 6 tries EACH, and wow do you eat up the 4 above mentioned materials (i say up to 6 tries bacause that's how many i had to do on a couple. some went on first try. i would say the average was about 3 tries per item for me)

    this leads back to the farming issue. i tested farming with both a L60 and a L30-40..the drops were far better for the low level. in fact i levelled from L30 to L40 just grinding these mats to get the L4 trade skill quests finished for the L60. so the above recommendation to get a second "mats grinder" character together is a good one. i used a veno because a veno is a mindless destroying machine. i may even start a second veno to follow behind the first one by 20 levels...
    "HEY! snowman! i used to be snow white too....then i drifted..
  • Archalt - Sanctuary
    Archalt - Sanctuary Posts: 103 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I lvl tailor because I find a lot of armors as drops and I can decompose them to chi stones for my genie. I always buy my equips, so I only use it to make chi stones.
    ◄ Alt for posting. | PVE Sage Archer and happy with it.
  • Arkadie - Harshlands
    Arkadie - Harshlands Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    _Garra_ - Harshlands wrote: »
    I myself was in that same predicament... i recommend making a new character for that... reasons being u will have a harder time getting materials from lower lvl mobs at a higher lvl then u would at a lower lvl.

    Personally i would recommend an archer for that ... us the character for manufacturing skills and build them up...

    I started an archer 2 days ago and my manufacturing is now lvl 4 :D lol now im making Legendary weapons and such... believe me its worth doing

    b:victory

    I may or may not restart one for another reason, although I was under the impression I could onl do one, I was stocking up on supplies from all of them for a while (anything that said can be used to produce...) that gave me a jumpstart I also have a younger brother who thinks running around city of the Lost collecting supplies and 1 hit killing monsters is the greatest thing ever b:chuckle


    Garra thanks for the heads up on that

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