>I tried pottery myself, I ran my ass off and I am quite fast with the
>mouse clicking items around, and I never got more than 40p per hour,
>which means that I make more money fighting things with my level 23
>paladin. But sure, you can "cheat" like this, I imagine that if you >have
>the patience, you can be wearing steel plate and wield a well >balanced
>sword within a month of a new server opening, with a level >10 character..
>But the pottery you would have to do would take SOOO >much time.. It will
>bore you to death not to mention give your >fingers cramps.. ;) I estimate
>if you do it well you can have full >set of steel plate and a wb sword in
>about 75 realtime hours of >pottery.. If you really want to "cheat" like
>this, and spend the time >required to do it, I feel VERY sorry for you.. ;)
>But then again >there are those that play over 10h per day(I feel sorry for
>them >already;), they can be wearing this set of nice items in about a week
> >and a half..
>
>- Avron Elselynn -
I myself have used pottery to help work up my smithing skills, after having
sunk over 300p into it without using ANY trade skills at all. So I can
understand how easy it is to use, and the temptation to abuse it. What I've
found is happening now, is that players are forming super "twink" guilds;
they all learn pottery, and then work up their cash. Now as you said, for an
example 75 hours of pottery, is now cut to 7.5 hours. Now just imagine a
larger guild which is pretty common - say 20 to 30 members. You just cut it
down to 2.5 to 3.5 hours each. In no time whatsoever, you'll have a massive
army of "twinks" that could quite possibly mow down most things (within
reason mind you - I don't think they'll be taking on giants and dragons!) if
they group rush and gaining levels quickly. With this in mind, I'd be
perfectly happy just to break even, rather than make a profit off of a trade
skill. After all, Verant put them there for us to use wheter it was
forethought or afterthought. But truthfully, who wants to use a trade skill
which at the moment, has little to no real value/use and that costs you both
time and money ingame? Very few will endeavor to take on such a task.