04-19-2005, 08:50 PM
About the tradeskills....
I tried a similar stratagy until I got bored and started playing only one character. This happened with the mob about lvl 23.
I would make more gatherers and fewer crafters.
Doubling up on Leatherworking for example, means that you will spend a lot of leather and time, essentially so you can get both Tribal and Elemental leatherworking. A quick peek at thott shows no BOP high end items made by either specialties. I think a much more sensible plan would be to change one of your leather/skin into herb or mine/skin. He could mail the other guy leather, and get armor in return, and mail the herbs to an alchemest and you could distribute the potions to all of your mob. Then use the AH to pick up any specialized items you are missing.
A similar argument could be made for the smiths, though I haven't looked at thott to check about the lack of BOP's, if something there is great that discounts my argument.
Almost the same argument can be made for engineering. Hunters are probably ok without explosives, and can recieve guns and ammo in the mail. Also, you might want to make the priest the engineer to increase her solo damage output. The racial engineering bonus is pretty useless IMHO.
One thing to think about is tailors and alchemests have high end recepies that are on a timer. You might want to make some more of those to take advantage of those things. You could also switch some of them over if they get past 35 and find they have fallen out of favor, just make them a mooncloth/arcanite mule.