There's been a few changes I've not gotten around to noting.
a. The ability to make masks has potentially altered the table, BUT....
You can't get cloth back from recycling hats. Whether this is intentional, or a decade-long oversight, I don't know.
b. Gargoyle cloth is an option if you want to avoid leather completely, but note that the garg stuff takes a lot of cloth, and uses the SMITH, not Tailor, skill progression.
In other words, while most Tailor items start out
- 50% to make when you first gain the ability to craft
- advances 0.2% per 0.1 skill gained
- Gains continue until your chance to make (before rounding down to 100% displayed) is equal to your scrolled skil cap as a percentage (105% for a 105 scroll, 120% for a 120 scroll, etc.), meaning that gains are possible from 25.0 (no scroll) to 35.0 (if 120 scrolled) points above the minimum to make.
Gargoyle cloth items (can't remember if leather is this way too - it IS 6:30 AM and I've not gone to bed yet) and Elven quivers start out like smith items as follows:
- ZERO chance to make at the listed chance to make.
- advances 0.2% per 0.1 skill gained.
- Gains continue until your chance to make is yor scrolled skill cap as a percentage, as above...
- BUT, since you're starting out at zero instead of 50, the full scope of the skill range is open (50 points without scroll, 60 points if scrolled to 120 Tailor)
- While this means that you can gain to 120 on cloth, using gargoyle items, it also means you are going to fail a LOT more on attempts, compared to leather.
- Make sure you have a lot more sewing kits on hand, and the numbers of failures will probably offset the time gained vs. leather, so it comes down to cost comparisons.
- IF you run cloth BODs (and BUY, not craft, the stuff to fill them when possible) to get new BODs, while training, you'll be pretty much paying for your own training that way, if you use all the reward cloth you get (all dyed one color) as part of your training regimen.
So, the end result is:
1. If the account has SA, use gargoyle cloth, as well as filling junk leather (any color) BODs for items that you have possible gains from, as needed (even if turned in as smalls, you'll get more cloth from them to use making the gargoyle stuff). Multitasking is very useful in this regard.
2. If the account hasn't been upgraded, use the leather stuff, unless you have 100k of reward cloth to waste (in which case you probably can make the masks)
