Day 3 - am

Ok just got up and im in the middle of my first cup of coffee... growl.... ( im terrible without coffee. Im sure its as much required for life as oxygen)

Logged on bookworm , firstly i seem to have to 2 slots now for selling? the last 2 days i seem to have been limited to 1 for some reason... freaky... i have to admit i did think the newbie houses where supposed to start with 2 .. i guess i was abit bugged patch musta fixed it.

My biggest supprise was in the hours while i was sleeping i have sold 10g's worth of stuff ... go me!!!

Most of what i have sold is all my leftover t1 roots and a couple of the T1 rare crafted items, however my biggest supprise comes from the 4 comman T2 items i sold i priced them at 50s each but tbh i didn't expect any of these to sell i figured id end up vendoring them. I never sell comman stuff on my main.. well unless you count food/drink, every slot is pretty much reserved for at least mastercrafted stuff so i didn't have a clue if comman stuf would sell... i asumed not with all the talk on the fourms about about how crap this stuff is... oh well i guess someones desprate :p

Anyway it gives my 14g to play with now and has given me abit of a confidence boost ill admit i was starting to worry yesterday when i saw the rare book prices... today i want to hit 20th lvl... shouldn't be hard only 4 lvl's to go :)

My main expenditures for the morning are a 2nd briarwood strongbox (90s) , 2 boiled packbacks ( 40s each ) i tried to go for bags/boxes that gave me the most space for my money. I didn;t want to go for anything too cheap as id be replacing it too fast. It seemed after these sizes there was quite a big price jump,they arn't great but good enough to start.

Also i found advanced outfitters 10 (90s) and 14 (1g20s ) and i made the rare root and pelt up into 2 sets of boots, priced them at 10g each lets see if they sell...

I think the thing to remeber is that as a newbie entering an established game your not under the same finanical pressure as when you start in a brand new game. I remeber when i first started leiela.. game had just been released and at 15th lvl thinking my mate was fantastically rich cause he had 30s to his name.

People moan about the fact that newbies can't afford to pay the rip off prices. While ill admit its pretty hard its in the same breath true that as the established player can focus on the "twink" market so can the newbie so it's easier to make money than it was when everyone was a newbie.

And lastly After popular demand ... my current time played on bookworm is14 hours. Most of which was spent harvesting T2 :)

Day 2

Ok hit the mainland and got 10th lvl and decided to go tailor after much debate, this is one of the few class's i don't currently have and with their "new armour" ( concidered utter rubbish by many ) and there insane consumption of some of the most expensive raws on the broker the dreaded root i decided it would give me a good challenge... if i can make this work i can make any class work.

I compleated the newbie finding a profession quest. It actually worked out to be very useful as i got my essentials books from it as well as a few silver in coin and a 10 slot harvest bags.

I bought a 20 slot box for my vendor slot and the first few of the 1-10 advanced books so i could turn some of my rares into sellable items , but i was only able to make up 4 peices before i ran out of money.... grumble grumble.

So ive stuck 4 waxed leather peices of armour on the vendor and ill see if they sell. i figure i only really need one peice to sell so i can continue so if none have sold towards mid evening i plan to go peddling around the newbie zones see if i have better luck going direct the customer.

TBH T1 stuff is always hard to sell as most people dont bother upgrading thre gear till 10th.. but as i said i only need one bit to sell to continue.

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Day 2 continued....

Woot my 4 waxed items sold ... 2g each .. 8g in my pocket. ... you wouldn't belive how happy 8g could make me... i was able for the first time to buy a full stack of fuel.

I managed to turn the last of my rare raws harvested on the island into sellable products. Now i have 5g left and 10 rare items for sale... and i still have a good stock of T1 raws.

Even though im now 12th lvl ive decided to use up the last of my tier 1 raws rather than move to T2 crafting, the way i see it i have the T1 raws and moving to needing T2 raws brings a whole new set of problems so i might as well hold off on it as long as possible...

People have been asking me about why i sold the collection items to the vendor rather than sell them on the broker. although brokering is a valid stratergy i would have had to wait till i got off the island before i could broker them and i wanted to stay on the island as long as possible and i needed money for fuel immidiatly.

I didn't move off the island till i was lvl 9 AND my bag was 100% full of harvested raws, the reason for this is because it's so easy to harvest T1 raws on the island without agro i wanted to take full advantage.

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Day 2 ... yet more.

Ok thinking of packing up for the evening, ive not spent the whole day on my new crafter but a good chunk.

Got bored half way though my T1 raws and decided to move onto T2, took a look at the broker .... eeeeeeeeeek ... 4s per root or pelt, iron glup 22s each ... way more that the armour it's self sells for.

So i set off for antonica skinning knife in hand. 4 hours and 3 million deaths later i think i should have the raws to get me though T2. Tbh though harvest T2 isn't that bad most of the mobs are avoidable sure those sneaky wolves creep up on ya occasionally and swallow you whole.. but hey it's only death right ;)

I got a couple of rares on my travels convienently ones i could use as a outfitter .. rare pelt and a root. Took a look at the broker to see if i could buy an advanced book to make them into something sellable unfortunatly the cheapest book was lvl 18 and 4g ... so it's gonna have to wait till i have the lvl and the gold hehe...

All the books i was actually capable of scribing where 20g + .... ARE PEOPLE INSANE .... nope unfortunatly not .. while theres people like the " normal me about" paying those prices people arn't gonna lower them. I guess i can only blame myself normally i wouldn't think twice about paying 20g for a advanced book for a alt.

So i resigned myself to making the comman gear and dinged 16th .. yay me ... got lots of raws and 3g so not doing too bad.... ive stocked up my vendor with the leftovers, of my T1 stuff and some raws i got in T2 i wont use, food stuffs and the like... really need some of it to sell my box is full... i might have to invest in a bigger box tommorrow ... only having one slot is killing me.

oooh last added note .... ding 2nd wizard ... discovery exp for the win !!!!!

DAY 1

First step ... Create the charecter

Bookworm is Born on the Splitpaw Server ....

Day 1

Ok new charecter created.

My first step was to harvest as many raws as i could, focusing especially on the little glowy collection items which i sold to the vendor for fuel.

Once i had enough money for the fuel to make a couple of items i checked the zone to see who was in it and created items i thought might sell based on the population of the newbie zone.. which happened to be cloth / leather.

Once id spent all my fuel zoned back into the main zone and did some /OOC to try and sell some charge 50cp per item... while i /ooc'ed i havested some more.

Basically i kept doing this after creating every 2-3 items .. if the sold to a player great if not after a few mins i sold it to the vendor. Either way i got my fuel money back and could continue.

by the end of day one i have .....

hit level 9 , have a small collection of rares i can use when i get to the main island and have a total of 8s cash ... not great but hey ....

So far T1 is doable and i am making a profit ... perhaps not the 5-10pp a day i make on my main tradeskillers but certainly decent enough the newbie isn't stuck

off to bed lets see what tommorrow brings.

Whats This all about? challenge what challenge

Ok lets start with abit about me :)

My names leiela im a rather obbsessive compulsive jewellar in EQ2... and incidentaly a real person ... shock horror .... Heres a picky from my guilds gathering last weekend .. im the girl in the middle sitting down. Just so my guild leaders dont shout at me id like to add radiance is the best guild on the server in this crafter humble opinion :P

Ive got many Tradeskill alts but i consider lei to be my main. I generally spend 12 hours a day crafting in EQ2 and from this and alittle specualtion on the markets ive managed to hit 13th position on my servers rich list... dispite leielas my main i would guess most of my money has come from provisioning.

I do have adventurer level's on leiela but i still consider my self a pure crafter.. each and every level i have gained has been under protest.. dragged out of the Ts instance by my guild... who are mean and evil to me :(

There has recently been some rather drastic changes to the EQ2 crafting system and as yet i am totally undecided if i like them or not... there is lot i like and a hell of alot i hate.

How this came about ??

One of the major debates currently raging on the forums is the viability of now being a PURE crafter and if it is infact possible to start as a total newbie to the game and succeed going down this path.

There is a ton of speculation on the fourms but most of the people doing the speculation had built up before LU 24 and in all honesty had no clue of playing a pure crafter from scratch was still viable.

Hence the challenge was set !!!!!!! can i create a brand new charecter and be a pure crafter without having to resort to twinking.

rules of the game...

1) i will not aid this charecter with money or raws from my other charecters.
2) i will not allow my guild to aid this charecter.
3) i will not take aid from anyone i suspect is aware of this challenge.
4) i will not play the markets with this charecter the all items she sells she must have created or harvested.
5) raws may be obtained via the markets or though harvesting.
6) i will not intentionally level this charecters adventurer levels although discoverery exp is allowed.