Ok, Im making my second crafter, in hopes of being able to make or repair just about anything I need. My first crafter is LJ/carpenter/tinker/fletcher, (has proven to be super handy) it has swords and magery for defense since he sometimes runs into nasties while trying to gather the rare woods.

Now I am trying to squeeze as much stuff onto this second one as possible.
The only skill that is fairly developed at this point is alchemy (70s) so I am flexible and open to ideas.
This is the template I am considering.


100-alchemy
100-tailor
100-mining
100-blacksmith
100-magery (mainly for gating. ev's and invis as needed)
60 to 70 EI ***
30 to 40 cooking ***


those last two: "evaluate int & cooking" are what I am really debating.
Is arms lore critical to blacksmithing? How about taste ID with the alchemy and cooking?

If so, I will drop EI and cooking, for whatever is more neccessary.

At first I really wanted 100 cooking, cuz I thought it would be fun. After playing with it, I do think its fun, but I just cant see any real benefit to having it. The stuff you can make at high levels, I have seen sell cheap on vendors. So, I just wanted to keep a little cooking skill so I can barbecue the ribs and such to keep my warriors fed.

The EI was just to add a little damage if I have to flamestrike a vampire bat or something. But, Im wondering if 60 is even enough to consider.

Please tell me what you guys and gals think. Thanks!

The skills that you need to make what you want in the game are as follows:
Tailoring
Blacksmithy
Tinkering
Fletching
carpentry
Fishing
Mining
Lumberjacking
Alchemy
Music (put on carpentry character.)

You'll notice thats 10 GM kills
So 5 on each character. I'd recommend 75 Mage/Eval and 50 med or focus for mana regen. Remember that you don't want to be wearing much armor if ure gonna get PK'd. Less to insure.

Arms lore and taste id are useless skills. They won't help in crafting at all.

We need less crafters, and more pvpers.

Maddux, its mrore crafters that ya can kill, whilst they run their unattended macros..............

Less crafters less powder of fort............less powder of fort the cost will go up!

I put chiv on my crafter types, cause I can get away with only having to have 60 points dedicated, meaning I can have more crafting points. I have yet to find a reason to need to be gating around with my crafter yet. Oh also, you guys forgot scribe too. That is where you get your scrappers and slayer books from..

*pokes Maddux in the bum with pitch fork!*

Don't forget inscription as a craft (I stone it with my mage)

That is what I do but his inscritpion is only at 85 now.

Just a note...
The must haves on this character from the start were alchemy and mining. I added the magery to get around and kill the occasional monster I may run into. I was trying to come up with a catchy name as we all do when creating a new character...then it struck me!
I made this character female.. and named her after my ex girlfriend since she was a poisonous witch and a gold digger.
lol Good times
8c)

I hav a scribe mage, so I don't need a crafter with inscription. Read something about killing two birds with one stone......... I say I have a scribe mage, I have a scribe with some magery on, not yet finished.