Although this is my first post to this list, ive been reading em everyday for the last few weeks.

I too am an aspiring tinkerer (skill 106) and I have successfully made Lungs and Rebreathers alike.

Well tonight, after a week of work, I took my 4000pp and went to make some lungs. Out of 10 attempts,
i succeeded on 4 of em. I then attempted to make 4 Rebreathers... Failure on all four...

Another 4000pp gone and not ONE point of skill advancement. Int is 182, wis is 100, lvl 50 character.

If any of you have any tips for me, let me know, im very close to just giving the damn skill up, ive got over
13K pp invested into it and im quite frustrated.

Thanks in advance,

Surastik Shrieker
Lvl 50 Gnome Necromancer
Cazic Thule Server

P.S. Have we just given up on the Diamond dust? I for one am still looking everywhere that i can and one
thing's for sure, Faeries DON'T drop it. I've killed about 1000 faeries, maidens, guards, royal guards and the like. not one diamond dust drop/