Apprentice Toxicologist Trophy  

 

Would like to state for the record here, I did the Apprentice Toxicology Test and received my Beginners Trophy and Apprentice Certificate. I did as the quest stated and immediately equipped the trophy in my primary slot and placed the Certificate in my Mortar and Pestle and hit combine. I got the message that my trophy had evolved, so I checked the evolution screen and the percent into evolution for the next trophy lvl was already at 14%. I had started the test already at 107 in skill for PM, and had made one skill up doing the test. That was on the Eyeburn Solution, the only poison that was still highher than my skill. I got to the lvl of skill I was at by making Brain Freeze and Powdered Banality, the ingredients are all buyable in Crescent Reach. So, since I had spent the whole day running around getting the drops necessary for the test, I decided to just go make more of the Powdered Banality. The Trophy went up in evolution quite fast. Seemed like 2% for every successful combine. I was able to get the Freshman Trophy evolution before I hit the cap on the Powdered Banality and was actually a few percent into getting the Journeymans done. At this point, I started making Spirit of Sloth, since I could buy all of the ingredients from Vendors. I did not start to see any more gains on the evoulution of the Trophy until I had hit a raw skill of 175. After this, the trophy started to evolve, but at maybe half the rate it was at before. The most interesting thing I found, was that once I hit a raw skill of 200, and did one more SUCCESSFUL combine, my trophy evolved to the Journeyman. I know I was no where near that mark in evolution when I hit 200. Not sure why this happened the way it did, but was a nice surprise. Was almost like the Trophy knew I was no longer a freshman and took the next step in evolution to match my skill lvl.