OK... thanks for all the replies on the last post I made... didn't end up going down to shard after all cuz I forgot about the kronar-dokora conversion factor and didn't have enough anyways. I do have a new question regarding arranging, though. Does anyone know about when I can expect to be able to arrange critters, maybe starting with rats? I know I can't do it now with 40 skinning and 9 prep HOL. I know my bonus isn't terrible, but I'm sure its not all that great either. I'm guessing 50, like scouting the trails, but not 100% sure. Just curious as to what I gotta work skinning up to in order to arrange.




"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

Unfortunately you can't arrange anything till ~100 in skinning, even if that arranged critter would be trivial for you to skin.. I started being able to arrange at 60 skinning with ~25 prep HOL, I think it may depend on agility though as some people seem to be able to arrange earlier / with less of an HOL than others. I still think it's pretty odd that I would barely have enough skill to arrange a critter, then be able to almost every time get a perfect skin using a spear.


- Takaros

Wow! heh... thanks for the quick response! Guess I won't be doin any of that any time soon then :D Now... next question... are all critters arrangable at 100 or do they have different skinning reqs? I only ask cuz the messaging says you aren't skilled enough to arrange that creature or something. Anyways, thanks again fo the response!


"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

All critters have a base skinning requirement. Arranging doesn't make it easier to skin, it makes it harder. So what you might be able to skin easily, arranging may make it too hard or hard enough you don't cap it.

For instance, the capped regular skinning message is skillfully peel. When you see that all the time except for the occasional mistake, you know you are able to skin that critter. Arranging that critter may cause you to get all sorts of ranges in the arranging messaging, from messed it up to the "trophy". There have been times even with arranging I still get the skillful peel messaging. (not the trophy messaging, by the way)

Skin everything, scrape all you can, skinning gets hard to do around 80 ranks or so because nothing you can hunt teaches well unless you scrape it.


Player of Peperic Timarson, ranger in training and corn carrier for Lucky, the raccoon.
Tree-house, North Road, River's edge.
"The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well too."

Throwing another pitch out...

I can arrange with a 20 HOL cast, though I have not yet tried anything harder than bloodwolves. My skinning is 68, agility 20.

Good luck!

Lyr

For ranks under 100, most of your learning will come from scraping...skinning you need to skin very quickly. I have ML skinning once or twice skinning, and that was in a swarm of blood wolves when I was the designated skinner while three others just killed them at my feet.


Player of Peperic Timarson, ranger in training and corn carrier for Lucky, the raccoon.
Tree-house, North Road, River's edge.
"The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well too."

Didn't know that about the cambrinth


Player of Peperic Timarson, ranger in training and corn carrier for Lucky, the raccoon.
Tree-house, North Road, River's edge.
"The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well too."

Also, I have heard and it seems to hold for me is that if your burden is smaller, you skin better.


sylviir

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