The Serpent's Spine Pottery Guide
Pottery is one of the more straight-forward Tradeskills to level in EQ. It is expensive, yes and it is time consuming but there aren't many recipes you have to jump back and forth between. Also once you get your Pottery skill up you can make Golden Idols of <insert deity here>. Some of them aren't very good, but others like the Golden Idol of Tunare are useful for later quests.
Once the Gates of Discord expansion pack goes live there's an alternative method to raising every Tradeskill in the game to 54. I believe these quests to be a waste of time, however, they teach you recipes that can't be learned anywhere else and for that reason must be done at least once to reach 350 Pottery. If you're interested in learning more about the GoD Tradeskill Quests then follow the link provided.
Pottery 1 - 21
Speak with your trainer.
Unfired Casserole Dish (199 Trivial)
1 Casserole Dish
1 Ceramic Lining
1 Large Block of Clay
1 Water Flask
Unfired Elaborate Hilt Casting Mold (222 Trivial)
1 Superb Silk
Unfired Elaborate Blade Shaped Mold (223 Trivial)
1 Superb Silk
Unfired Elaborate Large Axe Shaped Mold (227 Trivial)
1 Large Axe Head Shaped Mold Sketch
4 Large Block of Clay1 Superb Silk
If you'd like to make Palladium to reach 274 Trivial in Jewelcrafting that option is available to you in the Dragons of Norrath Jewelcrafting Guide. That'll still leave the last 30 points of Jewelcrafting for you to complete though. Two routes available are Unfired Star Ruby Encrusted Steins and Golden Idols, both of these are talked about more in my Classic Everquest Pottery Guide.
Additional Information
- If you choose to use a Draught of the Craftsman you'll have enough juice to max out two Tradeskills usually. So come prepared with a lot of materials before popping a pot!
- If you don't see any materials that you need listed in The Bazaar setup a Buyer on a day when you don't plan on playing much to buy the items you need. Mention in general chat what you're buying (and even pay double what the other barters ask to get peoples attention if you want). Maybe someone who is killing in the zones and reading general will offload their loot to you.
- Aside from the uses mentioned above it's useful for every player to max out all of their Tradeskills for tangible useful benefits. You can only acquire things like Artisan's Prize and Sacred Prayer Shawl of the Duke from maxing out your Tradeskills. Those of you whom are wondering if this is all even worth it, well now you know.
- Under "General" in the AA window get the Salvage AA as soon as you possibly can, preferably before you start raising all of your Tradeskills. It'll save you a lot of plat.
- As aforementioned every Tradeskill has a Trophy. Here is a list of all 6 quests for the 
Pottery Trophy.