So, I finally got Lv190 in Engineering and I am noticing a complete lack of any Orange recipes whatsoever at all.
Everything I train, as soon as I attain the skill necessary to get it from the trainer, it is Yellow from the get-go, seemingly deep into the yellow, as it can take 2, 3, 4, 5 attempts before I get a single level.
I don't remember seeing this in Blacksmithing or Alchemy much but then I never really took either of those past 250. Still though, I am only 190 and I am finding a really hard time finding anything that isn't going to burn holes in my wallet just to get a few levels, and try to stay ahead of the count (using the guns as a reference of what I should be, when).
My next Gun is at Lv205 and is a Lv36 gun, and my character is Lv34. So I've 2 levels to figure out how to get 15 Engineering levels, and I'm looking at my list, and I see 1 Orange, a couple yellows and all greens/greys. The Orange is an Accurate Scope, but Citrines are very expensive, and the Scopes don't seem to really sell in the AH, at least the couple I put up for 1g each didn't sell. Even that's a fairly large loss, as the Citrine and Jade used to make them cost a lot more than 1g each.
The Yellows are things like Bombs and Grenades, which require a lot of Heavy Blasting Powder, and at times I can get very unlucky with the Blasting Powder, or the Heavy Stones, sometimes I can mine 5 Iron Deposits in a row and only get like 2 heavy stones, and other times, if I got a decent amount of them, I can make 5+ and only get 1 level even though it is a yellow recipe.
Gah.
Any ideas of what I should do here?
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I used This Guide to level my engineering. However, I stopped following it and just decided to make cheap yellow things.
At that level, orange recipes are scarce, but yellow recipes aren't bad. They have 80% to up your skill, so pick the cheapest recipe to level.
Just do add, I usually make bombs/dynamites with my spare powders. That usually give me enough skills to by pass the need to make scopes (as a paladin I have no use for them anyhow).
Edited, Jan 11th 2008 7:50pm by ShinnAsuka
At that level, orange recipes are scarce, but yellow recipes aren't bad. They have 80% to up your skill, so pick the cheapest recipe to level.
Just do add, I usually make bombs/dynamites with my spare powders. That usually give me enough skills to by pass the need to make scopes (as a paladin I have no use for them anyhow).
Edited, Jan 11th 2008 7:50pm by ShinnAsuka
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I just dropped 375 mining to pick up engineering and found this guideto be pretty useful. As for the yellow skills only, you'll see that trend continue until you get up to about 290 and start making thorium tubes. Got to 300 in about an hour and a half, spent roughly 450g to get there.
Have you already made everything you can that you'll need for your goblin or gnome engineering quest? If not, do it now. You'll have to eventually anyway, and might skill up off even the green items you need to make.
well, the best way to lvl engineerign without usign that above guide, is really to make blasdting powders and then the bullets that require them. LVLing from 150-250 engineering, i used mainly the bullets at that lvl, and i ontend to conmtinue that trend. while your plans may not be orange to you, bullets are cheap to make and give skill ups often enough.
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well, the best way to lvl engineerign without usign that above guide, is really to make blasdting powders and then the bullets that require them
Make powders until they are gray. You will need them anyway so you might as well get something out of it.
After that, it's generally the cheapest or the parts that you need. Cheapest things to make are generally dynamites and/or bullets (or fireworks if you're at that level).
Don't use the Almost Gaming guide, becuase
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I have calculated these numbers as bare minimums, assuming everytime you craft something your engineering skill will go up. This is not realistic but also unpredictable, so you should expect to have to have more of the materials than required. An * next to a material means that it will be crafted by you, and you should hold on to it to be used as a material in the crafting of another item.
Edited, Jan 15th 2008 4:02pm by ShinnAsuka
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Don't use the Almost Gaming guide, becuase
I have calculated these numbers as bare minimums, assuming everytime you craft something your engineering skill will go up. This is not realistic but also unpredictable, so you should expect to have to have more of the materials than required. An * next to a material means that it will be crafted by you, and you should hold on to it to be used as a material in the crafting of another item.
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I have calculated these numbers as bare minimums, assuming everytime you craft something your engineering skill will go up. This is not realistic but also unpredictable, so you should expect to have to have more of the materials than required. An * next to a material means that it will be crafted by you, and you should hold on to it to be used as a material in the crafting of another item.
While it doesn't give you *EXCACT* numbers of how many items you need to make (none of them can do that), it does tell you the cheapest items to make from skill level A to skill level B.
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