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Old 08-19-2006, 09:18 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Is this the craft for me?
Well, do you enjoy working bones into the night? Do you mind if, at times, you have a hard job?

If so, it might be right for you. If you don't mind the hard manual labor, bone working can be a very juicy craft.

Most of the time you will be working with animal bones, so they aren't hard to find. If the thought of working with an part of an animal's body seems disgusting to you, you might want to consider something else.











ok, i'm out of crummy jokes. On a more serious note, if you are only lv72 as your sig states, or if you just recently got lv75, there's a lot of stuff for you to do before you should even think about a relic weapon. a relic weapon will cost, on average, 800-1400m (depends on server and how careful a shopper you are). On top of that, you'll need at least a few dynamis runs for items, possibly weeks of runs just trying to get items if you're unlucky

at the time of the most recent Vana'diel Census (under two months ago), there were only 10 stage 5 GKTN in existance, across all servers. That means that, on average, only one out of three servers even had a Relic GKTN.

This is for a very good reason, as a relic weapon is not something just anyone can do. If you are not devoted enough to find your own way to make money, test the waters in places most people don't even think of, and crunch numbers, relic will be incredibly difficult for you, especially if you don't have an entire LS backing you up on the project.

Most relics that are in existance are not the result of one man's effort, but of an LS who wanted them to have it, or even a lottery in an LS to get it. So usually, people either higher up or more liked in an LS will get support.

Alternatively, LS typically won't give support unless you've shown you have everything needed to upgrade except the dynamis peices, and they like you. No one will help you for free, and if you intend to pay people to spend their time and dynamis runs for you, you'll spend many millions on the repeated runs to attempt NMs multiple times when drop rates are poor, or you fail, etc.

I beleive someone calculated that it would usually take two years worth of dynamis runs for a relic, if you weren't buying anything outside the money you got from dynamis. And again, if you are, that's going to add up to a large amount of money in the end.


Anyway, if you decide to go through with it after you realize that it will be a very long and hard journey, most likely taking over a year of consistant work, at least make stockpile all the ingrediants you'll need to get to at least stage three or four before you start upgrading it, that way if you give up or quit, you won't have wasted items on a gimp weapon, and will at least have something decent to use, if not complete.



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