*starts looking into how to slap someone through the internets*

My apologies to those that imploded with me while I was trying to multitask earlier this morning. (I thought women were supposed to be good at that??!!) But your deaths were not in vain. This is what I was working on:
Butterfly Cupcakes!

Devil's Food cupcakes with buttercream frosting (dyed with green food coloring) and dark chocolate/white chocolate butterfly wings. My first try! Didn't turn out half bad .... except for the whole getting everyone killed part. Eep!

Those are really, really really! nice.

Very impressive.

Next time, make a new thread, like "So, now that you finally have the guardian guilds, what do you think?". You were too obviously lying.

I'm apparently crazy, not only have I taken up Forging as a trade, I've also taken up Artisan!

Now get Bookbinding, Tinkering, and Poisons, and you'll soon receive in the mail this handsome framed certificate and a one-month supply of the coma-inducing pharmaceutical of your choice.

Ooo. Very nice!

Where are all of the Cosmic enchanters?

If we had the Guardian guilds we'd have more Cosmic enchanters!

The proper solution to this is to delete tinkering and allow bards to specialize in either elemental or cosmic enchanting.

What's wrong with tinkering? Tinkering's cool.

Tinkering is a nice idea, but completely awful in comparison to the other enchanting specializations.

This.

One problem with Tinkering is that it requires unusual items (which are far more commodity-intensive than, say, rings), such as music boxes and horns. Another problem is that even if you disregard the type of items being enchanted, the vast majority of Tinkering enchantments are useless or, at best, utterly marginal.

That being said, inscriptions and Tempo are great for Bards, so all is not lost.

Certainly. Of course, since you require various skills in other skillsets to be able to place those enchantments it'd be a pretty empty skillset.

Which would make it as useful as tinkering is now.

Edit- Actually, to be clearer about it the obvious solution would be to -not- require the Elemental or Cosmic skills. There is no equivalent skill that determines what a tinkerer can and can't enchant beyond their skill level in tinkering. I adore the idea of tinkering, but the enchantable items are far, far too expensive and the enchantments are largely useless in comparison to other specialization enchantments.

Thanks for the tip!

But at least we could do statues.

Cool!

I got the scroll of protection and disruption mixed up.