| Re: Hey, goldsmithers. well, there are a few recipes that you can use, but just like anything else most of your profit in gs would come from HQs, and unfortunately it doesn't really pay off until you get high enough to at least HQ gems consistently. You're talking about your 70-80s there.
But I have found it profitable to desynth moblin mail. You can get it from moblins or you can get it from mining in Oldtown Movapolos. You're gonna wanna be in the upper 50s to avoid aggro there.
The thing about Moblin pieces is that once you get to around 50-52, you have a chance of desynthing Moblin Mail and Moblin Helms into Gold Ingots. Even if you don't get gold, Moblin Helm gives you 1 brass ingot and Moblin Mail gets you 3. Not a very reliable way of making money, but it helps along with my mining. The fact that I can desynth Moblin Masks into Glass Fiber (Alchemy) and Moblin Armor into cotton thread (Clothcrafting) helps too. But you can get a lot of Moblin pieces cheaply from just mining in Oldton. So you have lots of chances to get gold ingots. Mining in Oldton also gets you a lot of silver and iron, and it's best to have Smithing leveled to about 18-20 so you can make the most of mining there. a stack of iron ingots on my server goes for 40K. You can also pick up platinum ore and gold ore there on rare occasion.
Other than that, there's not much to be made for me in terms of profit in goldsmithing. Prices on servers vary greatly so you'll have to look at the recipes and look at the prices on your server and see if there is something that works. But in my experience, Goldsmithing doesn't offer much in the way of profit until you can HQ things. Sometimes you'll break even. Most times you'll lose gil. The goldsmithing market is basically just broken by all the higher level goldsmithers and it makes it difficult to get up there. It can be done, it's just hard and long.
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