======================================================================== Easy skill-ups for beginners from skill 1 to 191 (and on to 250) Meals yield 1 (unless stated), are small and light weight. Firstly, to make baking easier -- not sitting in front of an oven -- purchase "a spit" as a combining container for baking anywhere. Also, you will want to carry many backpacks for only baking items so you won't have to revisit merhcants as often. You will have to purchase a mixing bowl at some point. If you can afford it, go to the bazaar and purchase a Collapsed Spit and a Collapsed Mixing Bowl. If you want to raise your baking skills all in one session you should have a few hundred PP to buy several stacks of supplies. ----TAA----------------------------------------------------------------- 082 Fish Fillet 135 Fish Rolls 143 Fillet of Lion 191 Patty Melt 202 Storm Salmon Fillets 202 Ohabah Truffles 083 Cream (yield 8) 065 Creamy Fennel Sauce (yield 6) 226 Halas 10lb Meat Pie (yield 6) 242 Holy Cake (yield 6) 335 Misty Thicket Picnic (yield 4) ======================================================================== This is a precursor to the "0 to 135 on fish rolls" The Plane of Knowledge has a vendor that sells bat wings in the same area as one that sells fresh fish, but to speed things up start off by buying a spit and a few stacks of Jug of Sauces from the baking vendor then head over to to the pool to get the fresh fish. Fish Fillet (trivial 86?) 1 fresh fish 1 jug of sauces ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You could use several recipes to gradually raise your skill, but to save wandering through several recipes at the start I will stay with just one. This may take some time to make the hundreds of combines, but with a spit and two basic ingredients you can look back at this step with nostalgia when you are trying get those skill points to 200 or beyond. Traditionally people would master baking by making hundreds of Fish Rolls. Fish Rolls (trivial 135, banquet) 1 batwing 1 fresh fish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When filets were introduced they were easier to make than fish rolls. Since then the price of bear and lion meat has been nerfed from 1sp to 1gp each. Make rolls to skill 135 then fillets to 143. Bear/lion meats are sold by butchers. Wolf/mammoth meats are MOB drops and yield TEN fillets each. Fillet of ____ (trivial 143, meal) 1 bear meat 1 fillet knife (always returned) (smith, 76) 3 metal bits 1 scaler mold 1 water flask ( From here I went straight to Patty Melts. But be familiar with this process since the Fillets in Cream are used in making Halas 10lb Meat Pies.) ---------------- Be careful not to make too many Cream or Creamy Fennel Sauce: FIVE successful combines of Cream will yield TWO stacks! Those two stacks of Cream you can make TWELVE stacks of Sauce! So save the Cream, making Creamy Fennel Sauce as needed. Cream (trivial 83, meal, YIELD 8) Mixing Bowl 2 milk 1 benzoin (alchemy) 1 dairy spool (always returned) (smith, 74) 2 metal bits 1 scaler mold 1 water flask ---------------- Creamy Fennel Sauce (trivial 65, meal, YIELD 6) Mixing Bowl 1 cream 1 fennel (alchemy) 1 flour ---------------- ____ Fillet in Cream (trivial 152, hearty meal, stat) 1 ____ fillet 1 creamy fennel sauce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fill many bags with cheese from Jaggedpine Forest and move to a butcher - one with meat and bread - to get to skill 191. Wolf meat can be used as well as bear or lion meat. Patty melt (trivial 191, banquet) 1 bear/lion meat 1 loaf of bread 1 cheese 1 non-stick frying pan (always returned) (smith, 91) 1 metal bits 1 frying pan mold (also from JPF) 1 water flask 1 ceramic lining (pottery, 36) 1 small block of clay 1 ceramic lining sketch 1 water flask 1 quality firing sheet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reaching baking skill 200. Storm Salmon Fillet The hard part is gaining access to Plane of Storms (EQ:PoP). You can purchase Storm Salmon, if anybody is selling, or ask a friend to fish for you if you do not have planar access. Using the fishing skill in the zone-in area you can raise your fishing skill while fishing for as many Storm Salmon as you have time or can tolerate. Storm Salmon Fillet (trivial 202, hearty meal) 1 storm salmon 1 jug of sauces ---------------- An option from Luclin (requiring Velious too): Mushrooms are foraged on Luclin, but not in the Nexus, Bazaar or SH Ohabah Truffles (trivial 202, yield 4, miraculous meal) DEX: +6 WIS: -1 INT: -1 AGI: +6 1 dark chocolate creme (mixing bowl, trivial 138, YIELD 6) 1 brown algae (otter camp merchant) 1 cream 1 eucalyptus leaf (alchemy) 1 frosting 1 frosting 1 mushroom ======================================================================== Most people go from roughly 191 to 250 in two or three big steps: Halas pies and Misty Thicket Picnics. Next step, lots of fillets.... Halas 10lb Meat Pie (trivial 226, yield 6, Giant, miraculous meal) DEX: +5 STA: +5 AGI: +5 HP: +30 2 clump of dough (mixing bowl, trivial 17, Yield: varies*) 1 bottle of milk 1 cup of flour 1 egg* 1 bear fillet in cream 1 lion fillet in cream 1 mammoth fillet in cream 1 wolf fillet in cream 1 sage leaf (alchemy) 1 pie tin (player made) ------------------------ pie tin (pottery option, trivial 15) unfired pie tin (pottery, trivial 115) 2 block of clay 1 pie tin sketch 1 water flask high quality firing sheet ------------------------ pie tin (smithing option, trivial 35) metal bits pie tin mold water flask ceramic lining (kiln, trivial 17) unfired ceramic lining (pottery, trivial 36) ceramic lining sketch water flask small block of clay quality firing sheet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Holy Cakes are a nice addition, and they are a 'resistance' enhancing food. (Sv ALL: +5) Holy Cake (trivial 242, yield 6, miraculous meal) Sv ALL: +5 frosting eucalyptus leaf [alchemy] celestial essence (mixing bowl, no fail) celestial solvent the scent of marr [poison] clump of dough (mixing bowl, trivial 17, Yield: varies*) bottle of milk cup of flour egg* winter chocolate (mixing bowl, trivial 95) 2 frosting brownie parts cake round (player made) ------------------------ cake round (pottery option, trivial 15) unfired cake round (pottery, trivial 115) cake round sketch glass shard water flask block of clay high quality firing sheet ------------------------ cake round (smithing option, trivial 38) cake round mold water flask metal bits (smithing, trivial 18) water flask 2 small pieces of ore ceramic lining (kiln, trivial 17) unfired ceramic lining (pottery, trivial 36) ceramic lining sketch water flask small block of clay quality firing sheet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ugh. Misty Thicket Picnic (trivial 335, yield 4, miraculous meal) STR: +5 STA: +5 WIS: +5 INT: +5 HP: +20 MANA: +30 ========================================================================