Talk:If They Only Had a Brain

This is a great quest to power-level your tinkering skill, assuming it's above 50 to start with. With a potion of progress it takes two cycles per combine to get pristine (sometimes only one just to mess up your rhythm). I got 28 levels in 5 minutes doing 56 combines (112 brains) and still had a minute left on the potion when I maxed my level at 405. The brains stack 15 to a square, so you don't need a ton of free bag space. The brains are no trade and not merchantable, and all disappear when you complete the quest, as does the recipe, so max your skill before you complete the quest. I didn't experiment with stopping the combine after one cycle to see if I still got 50% skillups that way, if so that would be even faster. Baconlettuceandtomato (talk) 02:05, July 27, 2014 (UTC)