I recommend you also get as much wisdom increasing jewelry as you can. At
only 57 skill I am pretty successful at making cams. Wisdom helps immensely
with all trade skills.
Fixer, 34 gnomish enchanter
> From: sragan@...
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> My first recommendation is find you an enchanter and buy you a couple of
bracers and a necklass that raises charisma (not that expensive for a 20th
level). Also see if you can get one of the +15 charisma 'crude steins' from
the bouncer in feerot. Having a charisma of 86 instead of 60 makes a ton of
difference cash wise while you are doing all this tinkering.
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> Also realize that you can NOT gain more than 1 point in tinkering until
you get to *21*. You are stuck at 51 until then and I forget what your max
is per level.
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> Note, your milage may vary, but the first thing one should try to tinker
to gain skill is the flameless lanterns. I would usually do about 20 at a
time and it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 plat to do
(after selling the lanterns back) depending on your success rate and
charisma. Sometimes I would gain nothing, sometimes 4 or 5 points, its very
random. On average I would say I gained about a point per 20 lanterns which
means I approximately spent about 20 to 30 plat per point up to 68 where
lanterns get trivial.
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> YES, you CAN make some cash selling the cams to bowers. While nothing to
write home about you can make some fairly decent pocket change. I started
making cams at 68 (when lanterns became trivial) and my success rate was not
too bad. I could sell the cams for 25 plat to bowers, where they would
usually spend about 40 plat. They are usually VERY happy to find a tinker
that can make cams...
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> Gaining skill gets a bit more expensive here since each attempt cost maybe
12 to 15 plat. But as with the lanterns I figure I would gain about a point
every 20 cams or so, which means you really need to find a place to sell
your cams to support your tinkering habit. I was able to get my skill up to
75 making cams.
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> And thats where my story ends, without the fishing pole/telescope to
practice on tinkering has no future for me short of making a bit of pocket
change on cams. Damn those verant bastards, I still get an unexeptable rate
of failure on cams even though they are trivial. =|
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> Hope this helps, if there does exist a kind soul willing to share the
fishing pole recipe I would be eternally grateful.
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> Cheers,
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> FizzWizz of Tunare
> 35 Wizard
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