Haze Panther Mask

[Kassiye]

It looks like the trivial for this combine is wrong. According to EQTraders, it should be trivial at 252.

http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_...r=080110100000

When I attempted the combine with a 300 skill betabuffed toon though, it didn't give me the "You can no longer advance your skill from making this item" message. It looks like it also attempted to calculate a skillup, because I then got the following error message:

You have become better at Baking! (250)
You have become better at Tailoring! (250)
You have become better at Blacksmithing! (250)
You have become better at Fletching! (250)
You have become better at Jewelry Making! (250)
You have become better at Pottery! (250)
Only 1 tradeskill is allowed to exceed 200. Resetting tradeskills.
You have become better at Tailoring! (200)

All of the other haze panther combines were trivial to a 300 skill tailor.

[kanras]

Looked into this a bit. I'm under the impression that all of the velious leather (not furs, silks, etc.) combines should be at 335 trivial.

Mid-2004 EQTC trivial data: Link
Early 2005 complaints about a patch nerfing velious leather combines down to 252 (they were previously being used as a skill path to 300): SOE link

the trivials on solstice robes and all velious leather were 335 before the patch (and an excellent skill-up route)

People on EQTC were posting about updated trivials to these combines just after this patch too.

[Kassiye]

You know, I would be inclined to believe that. I just checked with the calculator on EQTraders and it's telling me to expect a 50% success rate at 188 skill if the trivial is 252. That's way too high. I was one of the two GM tailors on MMarr back on live. I remember farming enough components to do tailoring binges of 50 combines at a time and being thrilled if I got more than a handful of successes. (This was back before the wu's recipes were introduced. Man, was I mad after busting my ass to raise my skill and then they added an easy skillup path!) =P

If that's the case, then the haze panther mask is probably set to the correct trivial and all of the others are wrong. If you want me to re-test the recipes after adjusting the trivials though, you'll have to summon me a stack of haze panther skins. There's nothing wrong with the drop rate on them! They're stupidly rare. Took me the better part of 2 weeks to farm enough. o_O

[kanras]

The drop rate is correct unless you can prove it was patched in otherwise. Going to bump up the rest of the trivials on the velious leathers.

Thanks.

[Kassiye]

That's what I was saying. They're supposed to be stupidly difficult to get and they are.

Will the already confirmed Velious leather recipes need to be re-done once you've changed the trivials?

[kanras]

Trivials for all arctic wyvern, black pantherskin, cobalt drake, haze panther, and tigeraptor combines set to 335, pending update.