Are character made instruments worth it?

[ltdan81]

My craftsman is almost capped out. I've gm'd smithing, mining, carpentry, tinkering, at 92 tailoring. I'm going to get his magery up to 75 and focus 25 and lumberjacking 5. so I have room for one more gm. I am debating whether to use that spot to get 75 music or to gm alchemy.

I need to know if gm instruments are worth th skill points. this char can make almost everthing right now. alchemy doesn't affect any other skill ( that i know of) but musicianship allows me to make insruments.

 

[Order2Chaos]

You'll might want to consider leaving room to take your Blacksmithing and Tailoring skill up to 120.0 also.

Exceptionally made instruments are better than store-bought or standard made instruments, though not as good as slayer instruments. I personally use exceptional instruments on anything that isn't so hard as to need a slayer, the greater uses over normal instruments is nice too.

You might want to consider artificially raising your magery and musicianship skill though (rings, bracelets, spell books, talismans, annoying elf only armour, etc), it's possible to not even need any real skill in Musicianship if I remember right.

 

[eolsunder1]

Most people use exceptional instruments during normal playing so yes character exceptional intruments are always wanted.

Like the other poster said, you can drop the music once you get items that will boost you up to 45% if you have plenty of gold, but you can soulstone the music and only bring it out once in a while to make instruments. I wouldn't have it as a part of your main template.

Soulstone music, make tons of exceptional instruments for friends, to sell, to store in a box, then soulstone it back and go back to your regular crafter template.

 

[ltdan81]

Thanks for your input everyone. I didn't realized that item skill bonuses were that high when I wrote this.

I read somewhere else in this forum that you have to have 55 musicianship to mark items.... I just want to clarify that is complete BS<<< sorry

I put 45 musicianship on my craftsman just to see what he could do and bam all insruments marked within three trys or less on each<<< i've got a pretty big music room in my house now.

as of right now my char is 100 mining, 100 smith, 100 tinkering, 100 carpentry....
i'm setting at 95.5 tailoring until i get the hides saved up. I've decided to take up bowcraft fletching. I'll let musicianship go down till i get my 75 magery then I'll bleed points from meditation to get my 45 again, unless i aquire the bonus items

THanks aqain and good hunting

Dan
Maxwell - GM Craftsman Catskills

 

[Guest]

I'm sure I remember GM-crafted instruments give some sort of bonus....+5% success maybe? It started ages ago, AoS maybe, I can't remember. I DO remember them flying off my vendor, tho!

Anyone else help jog my memory please?

 

[TiamatRoar]

10% success bonus.

 

[Guest]

10%? Wow, thanks!! Maybe I'll make some more for me vendor!

 

[Guest]

The GM instruments are definitely worth the usage. They can have over 900 uses and the bonus DEFINITELY helps. Even in the legendary area that bonus can save your butt against the higher end critters.

 

[ltdan81]

I FINALLY finished my main crafting template. had to make a new one to lumberjack and do bowfletching but this char template is pretty awsome and can make 80% of game craftables.

120 smithy
120 tailor
100 arms lore
100 tinkering
100 carpentry
100 mining +5
60 magery - jewled to 75+ to make them red circle for houses
10 musicianship +song woven mantle +jewls for gm instruments