

So, buying Artisan Essentials Volume 9 when you are a level 3 artisan won't do you much good - you won't be able to scribe it for six more crafting levels. For your basic books, the volume number matches your artisan level. The first thing to note when looking at recipe books are the volume numbers. Ok, so you're staring at these books for sale, and scratching your head over which ones you need first. Once you ding 20 in your subclass, they will also offer you the level 20-29 books, and so on. After you ding level 10 in your selected class, they will then offer you your level 10-19 class books as well. When you are an artisan, they will only show you the artisan books. Note, however, that they will offer only the books appropriate to the level and class of the person buying the books. This person handles all your tradeskill certification needs (hail them) and also happily sells advanced artisan books as well as all your common recipes through level 50. Outside each village tradeskill instance (as in, all instances but the ones in North Qeynos and West Freeport) as well as just outside Tunare's Pages in Keletin, there is an NPC with "Crafting Trainer" under their name. The most recent change, with GU38, removed the need to run to expansion zones for your level 51-69 essentials books. There have been many changes to tradeskills since the launch of EQ2, and, unsurprisingly, that means things have often changed on the recipe book front as well.

Recipe Books - The Good, Bad and Necessary
