| The toughest part of black smithing I've found, is affording the fire crystals if you don't have any. I think it's time I just switched to one of my lower level jobs and go crystal farming in ghelsba, or stay with my warrior and go farming for crystals from goblins out in the dunes or deeper into fort ghelsba or the grotto.
1500-2000 gil for a stack of 12 crystals starts to get too pricey. I don't mind paying the shop's price for the copper/tin ores at the moment.
I raised my blacksmithing level from 2 to 4 in about 45 minutes or so, but after spending about 8k gil on crystals and materials.
Time to take up mining/logging/fishing to get gil, too, I think.  Kurgan @ Ramuh
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On ZM14, CoP missions completed. Leather 92.8+1, Cloth 60, Smithing 45, Alchemy 27 |