Training Tailoring skill?

[SnowPyr]

I've been able to get nearly all the skills to 15-20 with more or less grinding. Some are easier than others (defense is the probably easiest). But Tailoring is a mystery. The resources needed to practice it are so hard to get in bulk, and I feel like a real monster just slaughtering innocent sheep. Maybe this needs more tuning? Or maybe I just missed something somewhere.

[Zentun]

I can't see other way to level up Tailoring if not killing sheeps, each sheep takes 2 minutes to respawn and their drop are not 100%, it's talking way to long to level up

[Machika]

The 2 perfect animal drops seem to take a while as well. Rabbits and crabs not too long but the bats way longer.

[Morfo2]

Originally posted by Machika:

The 2 perfect animal drops seem to take a while as well. Rabbits and crabs not too long but the bats way longer.

I'm having the same issue, i've already dropped enought perfect items from rabbits and crabs but I cannot get the bats

[2009dh]

There is a hunter selling sheepskin for 10 in the tailor shop in haywind (next to bank).

Edit - never mind - he only has 3 in stock.

[Swoto]

The tailoring grind definitely feels a lot longer than all the other skills.

My advice would be to make use of the Haywind Teleport spell you can buy at the leftmost magic shop for 1800g. It helps bank faster and if you're quick you can farm 2 sheep pens at once. There's one sheep pen north of town with 5 sheep in it, and another on the road from the starter town near the brewery with 6.

If you're having trouble making gold for the teleport spell, the 2nd tier of fish you can catch at the docks sells for 75g each cooked and a full inventory of them is exactly 1800g.

[DontTreadOnMe]

Originally posted by PTMorfo2Fæ:

Originally posted by Machika:

The 2 perfect animal drops seem to take a while as well. Rabbits and crabs not too long but the bats way longer.

I'm having the same issue, i've already dropped enought perfect items from rabbits and crabs but I cannot get the bats

I managed to get the bat thingy today. It seems to be a random event. Keep plugging away.

[SnowPyr]

Gold is not a problem. There's very little to spend it on and everything you craft for grinding has to be sold. But just imagining the number of sheep you have to kill to get enough skins to grind Tailoring to 20 is nightmarish.

[Trindalas]

It seems a bit odd, are there no shears? I haven’t gone far yet so I’m still pretty new to it (having gotten it due to similarities to older RuneScape, which I loved, but always wanted single player and I’m not fond of the newish combat system, I still just use classic combat even though it handicaps me, on the rare occasions I log in, lol. I miss rs original and rs2. It just feels like a more generic mmo these days)

[Andreas Spanakis]

there are no shops that sell crafting equipment. Unless you pick the specific skill at the start of character creation, at which point you get some cool items. For example if you pick tailoring at character creation you start with 2 items that offer exp boost for that skill.
So.. if you are not too far in the game, i would suggest you restart it and pick tailoring (along with other such skills). I think cooking and fishing have no boost equipment item also but i cant tell you if you start with special items like in tailoring

[DontTreadOnMe]

Originally posted by SnowPyr:

Gold is not a problem. There's very little to spend it on and everything you craft for grinding has to be sold. But just imagining the number of sheep you have to kill to get enough skins to grind Tailoring to 20 is nightmarish.

Re murdering sheep: if you attack them without a weapon in your hand, it takes a while to kill them and they fight back in the meantime. This builds up your defence stat as a knock-on effect. Again it's a grind but it works.

[SnowPyr]

Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe:

Re murdering sheep: if you attack them without a weapon in your hand, it takes a while to kill them and they fight back in the meantime. This builds up your defense stat as a knock-on effect. Again it's a grind but it works.

Grinding defense is super easy - just aggro every mob in the vicinity when you're shopping trees or fishing or mining. You gain experience every time they attack even if they miss. So 6 angry rabbits or zombies or wolves will give continuous experience while you're chopping trees.

[goodFish]

Originally posted by 2009dh:

There is a hunter selling sheepskin for 10 in the tailor shop in haywind (next to bank).

Edit - never mind - he only has 3 in stock.

I timed it btw - his stock regenerates 1 hide every 120 seconds.

[Fakum]

Which is still super slow... The shops are laughably small stocked and near useless anyway.

[CipherDec]

Kill sheep then I don't know when you can use it, but next to the first big city you come too. There are two fields of Cotton you can harvest I think its past the bandit lord?

[CipherDec]

Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe:

Originally posted by SnowPyr:

Gold is not a problem. There's very little to spend it on and everything you craft for grinding has to be sold. But just imagining the number of sheep you have to kill to get enough skins to grind Tailoring to 20 is nightmarish.

Re murdering sheep: if you attack them without a weapon in your hand, it takes a while to kill them and they fight back in the meantime. This builds up your defence stat as a knock-on effect. Again it's a grind but it works.

The best way to get defense up is to farm trolls between your cabin and the small town with a forge. They drop fingers which you use to make daggers later on, and the end guy drops good items. I farmed them for a while, get your casting high enough to cast heal, and just go to town. I think they also drop Food so you have another source of healing. I got to 20 in attack and defense fast there.