Whether for Ring of Ages, nostalgia, or just being a completionist, here's your guide to skilling up those tradeskills you love to hate (sometimes)! I will not cover Tinkering, Alchemy (caps at 120, by the way), Poison, or cultural recipes! Why? Because I don't know them!
Ring of Ages requires GM tradeskill items at levels 59, 69, 79, 89, and 99, in order to advance. The order is Baking, Brewing, Tailoring, Smithing, and Jewelcrafting.
I will tell you which NPCs sell what ingredients useful for raising what tradeskill, most of which are located in or next to Plane of Knowledge. USE CTRL + F TO FIND THE NPC!
Please note: Neriak is only accessible through Non-Custom NPC, as Nektulos Forest is currently closed off to players. The zone name is "neriaka" on the zone name list.
Baking
1.
Fish Rolls (135) - Very simple, combine bat wings and a fresh fish in any oven, both ingredients found in PoK. Darius Gandril sells the bat wings, and Ramos Jerwan sells fresh fish.
2.
Patty Melt (191) - Combine cheese, loaf of bread, wolf/lion/bear meat, and non-stick frying pan. Pergan Darkcloud sells cheese and bread in Jaggedpine, Klen Ironstove sells lion meat in PoK.
2a.
Non-stick frying pan (91) - Metal bits (Szrix Hammertail, PoK), water flask, frying pan mold (Tallien Brightflash, Jaggedpine), ceramic lining. Combine in a forge.
2b.
Ceramic Lining (16) - Ceramic lining sketch, small block of clay, water flask (Elisha Dirtyshoes sells all, PoK). Made on a pottery wheel.
3.
Jord Meat Pies (282) - Jord Meat (Bemli Takoth, PoK), pie tin, clump of dough.
3a.
Pie Tin (35) - Metal bits, ceramic lining, water flask, pie tin mold (Savet Ironstove, PoK). Combine in forge.
3b.
Clump of Dough (17) - Cup of flour, bottle of milk, basilisk egg (Sal Drana, Neriak Foreign Quarter). (
THIS MAKES 15)
4.
Grandmaster Baker's Spoon (250) - Dairy Spoon (Merin Darkanvil, PoK), artisan seal. Combine in oven.
4a.
Artisan Seal - Linked for lazy editing. Gems are easily found all over, and money is practically given away, so it should be simple to make plenty!
Brewing
1.
Fermented Yarrow (74) - Yarrow (Severg ODanos, PoK), water flask.
2.
Minotaur Hero's Brew (248) - Cask, Malt x3, Short Beer x2, water flask x2, yeast (Bargol Halith sells all, PoK). Yes, a lot of clicking to buy and combine, but this is the easiest way.
3.
Grandmaster's Brewing Corker (250) - Corking device, artisan seal. Combine in brew barrel, obviously.
4.
Kaladim Constitutional (335) - Celestial Essence, strange dark fungus, underfoot mushroom, soda water (Bargol Halith, PoK), fermented yarrow, cork, bottle, corking device. (
NOTE: fungus and mushroom spawn in North Kaladim, at a mushroom farm.)
***Corking device is sold by Graktak in Grobb. YES, CORKING DEVICES ARE VENDOR SOLD***
Blacksmithing
1.
Banded Mail (135) - Sheet metal (Borik Darkanvil, PoK), mold (Kaleras Darkanvil, PoK), water flask.
2.
Gothic Steel Armor (212) - Superb leather padding (Borik Darkanvil, PoK), medium quality folded sheet of metal (Tallis Paerk, PoK), smithy hammer, water flask, mold (Magnar Quok, PoK), granite temper.
2a.
Granite Temper (124) - Gargoyle granite (Terren Starwatcher, Felwithe), water flask. Combine in brew barrel.
3.
Enchanted Velium Bits (222) - Coldain velium temper, spell: enchant velium (Nimren Stonecutter, thurgadin), small piece of velium x2.
3a.
Small Piece of Velium - Rather than farming this, buy blocks of velium from Gaelsori Heriseron in Bazaar, then combine in a forge with a smithing chisel. One block of velium can yield 8 small piece of velium.
(Block -> 2 Large brick -> 4 small bricks -> 8 small pieces)4.
Grandmaster Smith's Hammer (250) - Smithy hammer, artisan seal. Combine in forge, obviously.
5.
Pure Enchanted Velium (255) - Coldain smithy hammer, coldain velium temper (Nimren Stonecutter, thurgadin), enchanted velium bar,
purified water5a.
Enchanted Velium Bar - Enchanters cast a level 43 (single bar) or 44 (five bars) spell Enchant Velium.
Fletching
1.
Make Arrows (202) - Silver tipped arrowheads, bundled steel arrow shafts, large groove nocks, set of ceramic arrow vanes.
2.
Darkwood Bows (215) - Silk string, darkwood bow staff.
4.
Shadewood Bows (255) - Silk string, shadewood bow staff.
Jewelcrafting
Since money is very easy to attain, I'm providing a skill-up path that's not cheap, but rather large gaps in between. This means that you only have to change ingredients a few times, rather than every few skill-ups.
1. Silver Opal Engagement Ring (50)
2. Topaz Electrum Earring (111)
3. Golden Jaded Bracelet (178)
4. Platinum Malachite Ring (218)
5. Platinum Pearl Ring (252)
(At this point, the price per combine is quite high, and failure rate is unusually common. The highest attainable skill level is 296)
1.
Grandmaster Jeweler's Eyeglass (250) - Glass shard (Elisha Dirtyshoes, PoK), silver bar, artisan's seal.
Pottery
1.
Unfired Sealed Poison Vial (188) - Sealed vial sketch, water flask, small block of clay, Crow's Special Brew [green bottle] (Crow, North Qeynos).
Tailoring
1.
Crystalline Armor (131) - Borik Darkanvil (PoK) sells crystalline silks. Combine two to make a swatch, then combine 1-3 swatches,
silver thread, and pattern.
2.
Golden Crimson Ribbon (162) - Gold ribbon (Kwyllon Geerlok, Gunthak),
hickory handled shears, sylvan dye.
2a.
Sylvan Dye (127) - Sylvan berries (Barkeep Tuviena, Kelethin), water flask. Combine in brew barrel.
3.
Platinum Ribbon (182) - Platinum ribbon (Kwyllon Geerlok, Gunthak),
elm handled shears, sylvan dye.
4.
Fleeting Quiver (222) -
Fleeting quiver pattern, griffon feathers, high quality lion skin, aviak egg oil,
vial of distilled mana.
THIS ITEM IS NO DROP!4a.
Aviak Egg Oil (102) - Forage aviak eggs in Butcherblock Mountains, and combine with water flask in a brew barrel.
4b.
Griffon Feathers - Rare drop from the obvious mob, griffons, griffawns, and griffennes. North Karana, East Karana, and Jaggedpine Forest have highest concentrations.
4c.
High Quality Lion Skin - Uncommon drop from lions found all over the Karanas.
5.
Tae Ew Armor (229) - Kill lizards in Cazic Thule for flawless tae ew hides and tae ew blood vials, then combine one of each to make a hardened lizard hide. Combine hardened lizard hide and pattern.
6.
Grandmaster Tailor's Needle (250) - Embroidering needle, artisan seal.
6a.
Embroidering Needle (122) -
Celestial essence, metal bits, needle mold (Tratlan Matrick, PoK), water flask. Combine in a forge.
7.
Tae Ew Hide Sack (295) - Combine two hardened lizard hides and a backpack pattern. Bag of Tinkerers weighs 1.0, but these weigh 0.1, so it helps those conscientious monks. It's also nice to give them away, since you'll be making so many.