Game Mechanics: Pottery Leveling

[Valerik]

So I've been at it in Thurgadin for about 2 hours doing Small Bowl Combines, according to my logs I've done 729 combines as of 08:41 8/3/2015 and my skill has only increased to 60.

I feel as if the skillup rate for pottery is incorrect. At least to my memory, pottery was one of those tradeskills that leveled up VERY fast compared to other tradeskills and I feel that the current skillup rate is not classic.


EVIDENCE

DATE: 3-30-2001

If you happen to make a bowl, just destroy it and continue. A fast way to do this is to have two empty 10 slot bags that you fill with clay and two open top inventory slots that contain a stack of water and a stack of bowl sketches. Position the open bag of clay and the pottery wheel container so that you can drop in a clay, control-click the stack of water and sketches (this selects one from the stack) and pop combine. The skill goes up very fast, I think my record was eight increases in a row.

http://www.monkly-business.net/forum...ead.php?t=8717

DATE: 10-4-2001

Here is the info on how to make the self teleport potion to thurgadin! In total took me 1 hour to get skill up in pottery to 125 and 2 hours to get ingredients in CC for about 6 of them. There are 3 things you need to do: 1 get your skill up in pottery, 2 get the ingredients from CC and 3 get the container to combine them in from Frundle Frenkler in town.

http://orderofreverentmirthsb.yuku.c...otion-It-Works

DATE: 7-6-2001

I thought I would help those wondering as to why to do pottery. First off, it levels up super fast; below skill of 100 I never went more than three tries without a lvl.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...#m994428794870

[Thulack]

Are you doing combines on a toon with very low wis/int?

[Valerik]

I buffed my wis/int up by having an enchanter buff me. It isn't just me though, I know of several int casters who were trying to level their pottery and having really terrible luck on skill ups.

[Wovenspirit]

I can second this bug. I am a magician with 215+ int, even more while buffed. I did 20 combines and didn't get a single skill up. something definitely seems off...

P.S - my pottery is at skill 1

[maurilax]

took me less than 2 hours on Cleric and enchanter wis 200 + wis or int.

took about 5 hours on stupid fat ogre warrior with neither.

seems ok to me

[Valerik]

The point I'm trying to make is that it should fly up regardless. Current skill up rate isn't classic.

[Ele]

Maybe RNG hates you?

[Valerik]

Possibly, but I think it's more likely the formula for skillup is out-of-whack, given I am not the only one to observe its slow advancement.