The articles linked in here are meant as very basic introductions to various trade skills in Norrath. Since Norrath is a dynamic world, things DO change with time -- experimentation is encouraged.

Some of these guides are WAY out of date, but we currently have no active tradeskill guide editor. Please pardon the dust, and if you feel the urge to rewrite and/or submit new guides, post something on the message boards.

• Before you start
• Alchemy
• Baking
• Brewing
• Fishing
• Fletching
• Foraging
• Jewelcraft
• Make Poison
• Pottery
• Smithing, plus basic questions answered on Advanced and Cultural Smithing
• Tailoring

Other things you might want to learn about

• Finding a merchant's best price
• Guide to pelt drops (pre-Luclin)
• Velious tradeskill spawn/drop information (anyone want to tackle a similar listing for Luclin?)
• The Baking Cannibal's Guide to People Part Drops (racial meats for bakers)
• Merchant Mining - delving through a merchants extra inventory for valuable tradeskill items
• For those of you interested in spell research, I recommend Mythiran Tower as a good source of information.
• For those of you interested in working on tinkering, the Tinkering Compendium has a lovely "Getting Started" section

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