[mikesjustice]

Gsmithing should never be your first craft, there's just too much room for error. I personally knew of a crafting newb that spent 150m just to get to lvl 70, because he didn't know how to craft. Yeah, that's a correct statement. He started off running a very profitable casino at first.

For myself, I've been in the crafting game a long time, learned most of the secrets, where to cut corners, how to take advange of situations. I've also leveled gsmithing on multiple mules as well.

During the height of inflation, I managed to hit 70 from 0, on about 7 million gil, nearly but not completely plvl style. Your cost will directly go hand and hand with your knowledge. By the time I reached 100 gsmithing, I had spent about 110 million gil minus sell backs, and HQ items I made during the stretch.

Granted, this was my fourth lvl (100) craft at that time, and I studied and finanically planned my path literally for 5 months before I did so.

Inflation is dead, deflation is happening atm. With that comes lower prices, but also less capital for many people. The down effect is that people will buy less, as there's less gil in the hands of the community. This makes skill up slower.

As far as 70-80, by today's prices I'd estimate about 20m conservatively, possibly up towards 30m.

80-87 is relatively break even.

87-92/93 ish is another relatively large round of loss.

93-100 is loss again.