Cultural trade skills.

[Calthaer]

It's a shame; it kind of seems like cultural tradeskills (like most of them) are kind of worthless. Can be pretty expensive to get up the skill needed to make them; by the time you can, no one is interested in the items, as it's easier and cheaper to buy farmed loot that has better stats. Also, you have worship the "right" deity for your race in order to make use of the Imbued versions. Too bad for me...I am a wood elf who chose not to worship Tunare; I left EQ before cultural tradeskills & didn't really know. This is one of those things it seems like EQ eventually "fixed" - making cultural separate from religion, where classic isn't necessarily better.

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by Calthaer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's a shame; it kind of seems like cultural tradeskills (like most of them) are kind of worthless. Can be pretty expensive to get up the skill needed to make them; by the time you can, no one is interested in the items, as it's easier and cheaper to buy farmed loot that has better stats. Also, you have worship the "right" deity for your race in order to make use of the Imbued versions. Too bad for me...I am a wood elf who chose not to worship Tunare; I left EQ before cultural tradeskills & didn't really know. This is one of those things it seems like EQ eventually "fixed" - making cultural separate from religion, where classic isn't necessarily better.

It's definitely cheaper to find a smith and have them make the pieces you want. But it's nigh impossible to resell, and the time spent camping random temper ingredients could farm you enough plat elsewhere to just buy the set or other similar armor. I leveled up smithing for cultural armor but turns out nobody ever buys the dang stuff even though it has solid stats.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Calthaer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's a shame; it kind of seems like cultural tradeskills (like most of them) are kind of worthless. Can be pretty expensive to get up the skill needed to make them; by the time you can, no one is interested in the items, as it's easier and cheaper to buy farmed loot that has better stats. Also, you have worship the "right" deity for your race in order to make use of the Imbued versions. Too bad for me...I am a wood elf who chose not to worship Tunare; I left EQ before cultural tradeskills & didn't really know. This is one of those things it seems like EQ eventually "fixed" - making cultural separate from religion, where classic isn't necessarily better.

For the most part. I like tailored armor, I have 5 pcs on my wolfelf drui. That's an exception though. Cultural plate isn't bad in and of itself, but yes apart from the recipe. Cultural weapon recipes are good, but the actual weapons barely qualify as newbie starting weapons. Tradeskills are still good, not expensive to raise to a point, just takes time which isn't a bad thing. It's a lot better than in a lot of newer games, like where I left off with gw2 after the first year, crafting was just destroyed by saturation, and mats were way more valuable than the product.