You can start working with electrum now, you just won't be making the
magical varieties of jewelry. I'm not sure if that's a relevant concern, as
I don't remember which stones actually create magical jewelry when combined
with electrum. If the first several cheap stones don't combine to create
magic jewelry, then there is no sense in waiting... just jump right in!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HiFi Review [SMTP:hifireview@...]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 3:43 PM
> To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqenchanters] Re: Is Jewelcraft Broke?
>
> From: HiFi Review <hifireview@...>
>
> Jade is the only valuable item made from silver. It does not become
> trivial until skill level 40. You should continue to make Jade until
> skill 40.
>
> At that point you may consider waiting until level 16 to work with
> enchanted Electrum before progressing any farther. It is cheaper to
> mix cheap stones with electrum than expensives stones with silver. A
> level 22 Enchanter gave me that advice and I'm sticking by it. Save
> your money for a while and pump in a big chunk of change when you hit
> 16th.
>
> Q d'E
>
> --- osmosis <osmosis@...> wrote:
> > From: osmosis <osmosis@...>
> >
> > Make harder rings. There are at least 6 stones
> > harder than jade. I am at
> > skill 28 and I am pretty much finished with Jade
> > rings. Jade has given me
> > skills already and each stone will only give a few
> > points. I also noticed
> > that your skill advances faster if you practice soon
> > after leveling, and
> > personally I always like to sit at a table to do my
> > work, and it seems to
> > cut down on the failures a bit
> >
> > Cogg- Rallos Zek
> >
> > At 09:04 AM 5/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > >From: "Miko, Jeff" <JMiko@...>
> > >
> > >This really got me mad yesterday. I put as many
> > training points as I
> > >could into Jewelcraft. I then sunk 40 platinum into
> > the skill. I sold
> > >all the stuff I made and put it back into the
> > skill. This got me to a
> > >skill of 37 where I was combining Amber and silver.
> > I was in Freeport at
> > >the time and my skill was rising very fast I
> > thought. Last night I sunk
> > >over 70 platinum into the skill. I went up a notch
> > to using Jade and
> > >enchanted silver to make Mana Rings. In 20
> > attempts I made 13 rings and
> > >got NO SKILL IMPROVEMENT AT ALL. What gives? Am I
> > doing something
> > >wrong? I thought my 70 platinum investment would
> > get me to at least 40
> > >skill or higher. Now I'm broke, but I have yet to
> > sell the Jade rings
> > >because I was tired and frustrated. If I can get
> > 7-8 platinum per ring I
> > >should get most of my money back. I would
> > appreciate any help here guys.
> > >
> > >Also, I found my success rate making jewelry better
> > when I had full
> > >mana. I don't know if this was just a coincidence
> > or not.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
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