[NuclearMechMKII]

I was just wondering, is there a way to increase your crafting skills at a good rate? Like should I try crafting items that are a lvl or two above my current skill lvl or should I just try crafting simiple items over and over again until I gain a lvl? If there's any tips for going about it, I would appreicate it alot. :wink

[redbull420]

i once gain 5 points in blacksmith by makin bronze ingots into bronze sheets all in one day

[whitebedo]

Well i tried to follow the cooking faq here but it doesn't really work well.
I first tried fire + millioncorn and it worked well till lv2. Then I saw that at lv2 you could do [Slice of Carp : Wind : Moat Carp x1] but I did like 4 of them but the 4 failed ^^ so as it's quite expensive at AH i stopped lol. Anyone knows some good things to do at lv2 of cooking?

[Taga]

Water + San D'Orian Carrot x4.

costs around 200 gil to make and sells back to npc for around 70 gil. Should get you up to 4~5 then you can make orange juice or boiled crayfish

[whitebedo]

Alright i wanted to try that but since a few days they aren't any SandO carrots in AH anymore ;; Is there a way to get them?

[whitebedo]

Ok lol I found it ^^
SSandO > Corua > G-9 ^^

[Taga]

[Orage]

In general for crafting, there are a few tips. First, try to always get hte advanced synth from your guild (more important later when things get expensive -- though sometimes you find a really cheap recipe just to skill and don't care). Second, to increase your success rate, craft on either lightsday or the day of your crystal. You'll make more items successfully so at least you get more money back to keep going.

In terms of what you should be crafting, talk to the 3 people in your guild. 1 person tells you stuff you can destroy. 1 tells you about your level, and 1 tells you a bit higher. I tend to work w/ the a bit higher guy. You'll hit something of a sweet spot w/ each recipe where you get a lot of points pretty quickly. Also, if i tend to break 2 out of 3 in teh first go, i'll shift down a scale slightly to something slightly easier.

the thing to keep in mind is that doing really hard recipes does not give you more skillpoints for trying, you'll get hte most points off stuff that you can do most of the time, but not always...At least this was true in cooking, even at level 50, was quite easy to get 2 or 3 levels in an hour or two session if i had everything setup and going on the right day and w/ imaging.

i think the big trick is just to find the cheap skillup stuff (weaving has 2 yag feathers plus wind ==> fletchings which has taken me from 13 to 16 so far for ridiculoulsly little money, i just throw feathers at crystals and don't care if it breaks).

[AlthornCS]

I fail more often than not on the day associated with my crystal. And that failure rate ONLY strikes on the day associated with the crystal I'm using. I've also heard others comment on similar things, so its possible that there's something to this, and I'm not just having a ridiculously long (as in months long) streak of freak failures.

I haven't done much synthesis on Darkday, so I can't comment on that.

[ryokoalways]

I use advance img support, and craft items 6-8 lvs above my lv. I get +.1-.3 9 out of 10 times. Currently 31 woodwork and 28 bonework. Im in the power bow business.

[NuclearMechMKII]

Cool, thanks for all the tips, I'm sure I can give it a shot and see how things turn out now ^^ Now I just have to find what works for me. Right now I have 5 smithing and 3 goldsmithing, not much but I'm workin on it slowly lol.