Speaking of trade skills and great items, there is a new earring you can
make if your trade skills are high enough or you have a lot of friends.

To do this quest you need the trade skills to make 9 gifts. All 9 gifts are
tradable. Some gifts are harder than others. Once you have all 9 gifts, put
them in the forge and hit combine, you can not fail at this last combine.
You will receive an Earring that is druid only called Xanthe's Earring of
Nature with stats of AC 5 STR 8, STA 8, WIS 10, HP 55, mana 55, sv fire 7,
sv cold 7, sv magic 7 and recommended level 51. Druid only ! You also
receive the spell called Protection of the Cabbage. This spell is no drop
druid spell, single target version on the Protection of the Glades, level
59.

If you are not a druid, you can take this earring to Fungus Grove and turn
the druid only earring into Rebecca and she will give you a new one. The all
/ all earring is called Earring of the Solstice and the stats for the
earring are AC 5, STA 5, WIS 8, INT 8, HP 55, mana 55, sv fire 5, sv cold 5,
sv magic 5 and recommended level is 51. All - All

Many of the trade skill combines are not trivial to a 250 skilled tradesman.
So be prepared to work to get this item. My guild made about 18 of these
Earrings this past weekend. We all worked as a team and collected
components, bought gems and killed mobs for the needed items.

I would say of the 9 gifts needed, the hardest gift is the Ceremonial
Solstice Robe. This robe is selling on my server for 10,000 platinum. I have
sold 2 of them for my guild. My guild mate has a tailoring skill of 241 and
it is good to see that he is making some good money for all the hard work he
has done over the last 18 months. He also completed his 8th prayer shawl.

Another guild mate has a smithing skill of 244, but 3 weeks before this, his
skill was below 50. Smithing is a lot easier to raise that tailoring.
Tailoring takes forever to raise. Could you imagine clicking 150 combines
with a skill of 240 and not getting 1 skill increase? This is how it is for
tailoring.

I do not want to bore anyone by copying and pasting the entire quest, but I
will paste just 2 of the 9 gifts you need to give you an idea how complex
this quest is. Just notice how many combines are not trivial at 250 skill. I
was in the group when they were making the robes and I saw the first 20 robe
combines they had 3 successful tries out of 20 and the next time he was 5
for 20.

Ceremonial Solstice Robe Gift
* Combine: Gem Studded Chain + 3 Sacred Tunare Silks (unstacked) +
Tunic Pattern + Embroidery Needle (sewing kit, tailoring trivial >250, gem
studded chain and embroidery needle returned on failure, needle returned on
success)

Other combines that you need
* Gem Studded Chain = Worked Silver Chain + Sapphire + Ruby + Emerald
(jeweller's kit, jewelcraft trivial >250)
* Worked Silver Chain = 1 Enchanted Bar of Silver + 1 Metal Bits +
water (forge, smithing trivial 111)
* Sacred Tunare Silk = 1 Silk Swatch + Celestial Essence + Blessed
Dust of Tunare (sewing kit, tailoring trivial 135)
* Celestial Essence = 1 Celestial Solvent + 1 High End Research
component (mortar and pestle, no-fail combine)
* Blessed Dust of Tunare = 1 Imbued Emerald + 1 Celestial Essence + 1
Jar of Acid (kiln, pottery trivial <=122)
* Embroidery Needle = Needle Mold + water + Metal Bits + Celestial
Essence (forge, smithing trivial 122)

Misty Thicket Picnic Gift
* Misty Thicket Picnic (miraculous meal, STR 5, STA 5, WIS 5, INT 5,
size: large) = 1 Picnic Basket + 1 Marmalade Sandwich + 1 Jumjum Spiced Beer
+ 1 Jumjum Salad + 1 Royal Mints + 1 Mature Cheese + 2 (unstacked) Jumjum
Cake Slices (oven, baking trivial >250, yield 4 picnics)

Other combines/items that you will need
* Picnic Basket = 1 Woven Mandrake + 1 Steel Boning (sewing kit,
tailoring trivial 76, yield 10, snack)
* Woven Mandrake = 2 Mandrake Roots (unstacked) (sewing kit, tailoring
trivial 66)
* Steel Boning = 1 Small Brick of Ore + 1 File + water (forge,
smithing trivial <44)
* Marmalade Sandwich = 1 Apricot Marmalade + 1 Loaf of Bread (mixing
bow, baking trivial <=111, yield 12 sandwiches)
* Apricot Marmalade = 3 Frosting (unstacked) + 1 Fruit (oven, baking
trivial <=111, yield 6 marmalade)
* Jumjum Spiced Beer = Barley + Hops + Spices + Water + Bottle +
Jumjum Stalk (brew barrel, brewing trivial 162, yield 10 beer)
* Jumjum Salad = 1 Vegetables + 1 Lettuce + 1 Fennel +1 Jumjum Stalk
(mixing bowl, baking trivial 142, yield 10 salads)
* Royal Mints = Eucalyptus + Frosting (mixing bowl, baking trivial
<=83, yield 10 mints)
* Mature Cheese = Rennet + 2 Milk (unstacked) + Dairy Spoon (mixing
bowl, baking trivial 84, yield 10 cheese)
* Dairy Spoon = 2 Metal Bits (unstacked) + Scalar Mold + water (forge,
smithing trivial 86)
* Jumjum Cake Slice = 1 Jumjum Cake (oven/spit, baking trivial <=152,
yields 10 slices)
* Jumjum Cake = Jumjum Stalk + Frosting + Clump of Dough + Winter
Chocolate + Cake Round (spit/oven, baking trivial 166, yield 20 cakes)
* Winter Chocolate = 1 Brownie Parts + 2 Frosting (unstacked) (mixing
bowl, baking trivial 95)
* brownie parts drop off pretty much any brownie (Lesser Faydark,
Greater Faydark, Steamfont?), as well as from Nillipus in Rivervale

Sorry for making this email so long, but if you have any questions about
this quest or anything else, ask away.

Sistily
Gnome Warlord