Crafting tips

Durruck

Pirate!
If you have any tips of ways to craft more efficiently, please post them here.

I have two:

1) For Apothecary... in the higher levels, you need higher levels of water to get successes. However, at 120 skill, I found this...after wasting a LOT of extra L100 water... Instead of using two Level 100 water, only use 1. You will see the message about this potion being unstable. Add a Level 1 water as your second stabilizer and see if you are guaranteed a success. I haven't tried using the Level 1 bottles - mostly been using the L50 and whatever higher level bottles I get from PQ bags.

2) For Talisman-making (Hedge-wizardry). In the higher levels, instead of buying tons of high-level gold dust, curios, and essences... just collect your normal fragments, and use whatever materials you happen to have on hand, but beyond that, use the level 1 materials for gains, and save the higher level materials to make talismans to use/sell/trade/give to the guild.

The L1 dust/essence/curio result in a crappy talisman (usually +3), but will have the same chance of gaining as using higher materials. The only thing that seems to impact your chance of gaining is the level of the fragment.
 
1. Take scavenging and make your spouse cultivate and apothecaritate.

2. Take scavenging, sell loot on AH, buy what you want on the AH.
 
Another Apothecary tip:

You can use water set below your current range, plus 2 level one waters.

ie, at 125 skill, you can use 100, 1, 1 and still be guaranteed a success.

*edit* changed the word "gain" to "success" in the last line. that makes a little difference :)
 
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