Creating a BOD-running account
This is all from recent experience in creating an account of 5 gm smiths/tailors for gathering BODs. Granted, there are multiple ways to train literally every skill on Hybrid, but these are just some tips that I thought would be helpful to those of you who are wanting to start up a BOD account.
This guide assumes that you have all of your materials (iron ingots, cloth, sewing kits, tongs, etc.) readily available. What I did in regards to the tools was secure a bag in my house and had an adept tinker make 50 tongs and 50 sewing kits, and they seemed to last the duration of training for the 5 characters.
First of all, you will want to find a -30% taxes town, which can be done here. When I wrote this, Skara was -30%, which made things extremely easy for me, but it should work pretty much the same in any town that you can find. When you start your character, begin with the following:
- 22 INT
- rest into STR
Starting with 22 intel will allow you to cast recall twice in a row, once to get the BOD, and once to return home with it. It's not 100% necessary, but it does make things quicker when collecting BODs right after training up the characters. For skills, go with these:
- 50 blacksmithing
- 49 magery
- 1 tailoring
With 1 tailoring, you start with newbied scissors, which come in handy a lot, and worth the 1 point of skill you lose out on. As soon as you log in, use Razor to lock all of your skills immediately. Then go through the skills list and find blacksmithing, tailoring, and magery and set those to raise. These are the only skills you will need, until you finish training up your BOD related skills and decide what, if any, other skills you want to pick up.
Next, to find the tailoring guildmistress. In Skara, from the inn it's northeast just a little ways. Train from the guildmaster, which is normally around 300gp or so. Then, go find a mage shop, which, in Skara, is just a couple of screens northwest of the tailor. Here, buy one recall scroll and that's it. After you complete your purchase, place this recall scroll into your spellbook that you started with. Then, you will need to find a stablemaster and grab yourself a mount. In Skara, this is directly north of the mage shop. Once you find a stablemaster, pick yourself up a horse for around 400gp or so and hop on.
Now you will need to get your BOD character to your training location. Just fire up another account via Razor and gate him to your place where your materials are stored, friend/co-own him, etcetera. Repeat this 4 times and you will be at a point where you can begin training up the five characters.
Now for the fun part, the training. You can find macros for both tailoring and blacksmithing in the Macros section of the website. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, and I will do everything I can to help you with setting up the macros or anything else you may need. If you are a glutton for punishment and just want to train manually on your own, the best gains I've found come from crafting these items for blacksmithing:
- short spears from 50.0 blacksmithing skill to 95.0 blacksmithing skill
- platemail gorgets from 95.0 blacksmithing skill to 100.0 blacksmithing skill
For tailoring, try crafting the folowing:
- short pants from 30.0 tailoring skill to 49.7 tailoring skill
- skirt from 49.7 tailoring skill to 54.0 tailoring skill
- fancy dress from 54.0 tailoring skill to 58.0 tailoring skill
- cloak from 58.0 tailoring skill to 66.3 tailoring skill
- robe from 66.3 tailoring skill to 74.6 tailoring skill
- oil cloth from 74.6 tailoring skill to 99.6 tailoring skill
- studded gorget from 99.6 tailoring skill to 100.0 tailoring skill
That should be all the information you need to create a BOD account so you can start gathering tailoring and smithing BODs at a decent rate. Keep in mind, BODs can be received once every 3 hours, for tailoring and smithing, giving you a maximum of 8 smithing BODs and 8 tailoring BODs per character, per day. This is only if you're really dedicated and don't get much sleep. Heh. A more realistic number is along the lines of 4-6 tailoring and 4-6 smithing BODs per character, per day.
