Well, class is in session once again
Responses:
Setheron, I'll get from 22-34 in the next installment tomorrow sometime. Talus, while its true that fletchings are a great way to level, I refrained initially from that so I could farm all needed materials - and the only worthwhile fletchings, in my opinion, weren't applicable until later on. Excellent point though, and you'll see what I did in regards to that in an installment or two.
Notes for this installment:
When I state the level of a recipe, this is where I saw skill gains drop to almost nothing, if anything at all. We're talking .1 out of nearly 40 or 50 synths. These levels have been in general shown to be true by the list of recipes at the excellent
FFXI Mystery Tour web site. Check it out for a good resource for most anything you can think of ^^
These things noted, lets continue.
So you've made half a million hachimaki. You've gotten clothcraft 11, eking out the most you can from that recipe. What's next? Kenpogi!
Very simple. Farm grass thread and cloth the same way as before if you like (or if you feel like spending the money you earned from selling all those hachimaki, buy the thread and make it into cloth) And now you have a new recipe:
Recipe: [Level 18] Earth + Grass Thread + Grass Cloth (3) = Kenpogi
Simple formula, simple process. Make them all the way until you are about 18. Sell them on AH or bazaar for a small profit, as you'll use this gil to fund your next levels.
Now, its time for your first desynth (and no, the necklaces don't qualify imho). If you can, get a Bookholder or Taru Stool to put in your moghouse storage and get Moghancement: Desynthesis. This should help with the next recipe. Go to the guild shop, and buy all the Flax Flowers you can.
Correction, this is *not* a desynth, as noted by Kalgareth. I still recommend the above procedures to help with your efforts however.
Recipe: [Level 19] Lightning + Flax Flower (2) = Linen Thread
This won't level you as much as it will provide fodder for the push to 22. You can start using this around 16 or so, but it will fail rather often, and continues to until 3 or 4 levels above. However, its use it for your next levelling recipe, as well as many past that - we all know that thread is used in cloth generally, and yes, you will be making linen cloth.
Recipe: [Level 22] Earth + Linen Thread (3) = Linen Cloth
You'll need to take the test now, but once you have, you'll be an initiate and ready to jump even further in this craft. Use the aforementioned recipe to level to around 22, and we're done with this installment. Congrats! You've made it further than many will ever go in any craft, and now you're on your way to a bigger jump, from 23-34.
Make sure to tune in! Same Cloth time, same Cloth station!
^^v