[Icemage]

If you have about 14 levels of Bonecraft under your belt, there is a very quick and easy bypass.

Lightning + Cornette (Bonecraft 14 desynthesis).

NQ, HQ1 -> Brass Ingot
HQ2, HQ3 -> Bone Chip

The nice part of this is that Cornettes can be purchased from Harmodios' music shop in Bastok Markets when Bastok is in 1st or 2nd place in conquest.

It is significantly easier to do this with stacks of (usually inexpensive) lightning crystals than burning fire crystal stacks for brass ingots, and you can sell the bone chip stacks in Windurst to defray your cost.

The Brass Ingots can then be used to synth/desynth Brass Rings:
Fire + Brass Ingot x 2 -> Brass Ring (Goldsmithing 15)
Lightning + Brass Ring -> 1 or 2 Brass Ingots (Goldsmithing 15)

That gets you within shouting distance of Silver Ingots (Goldsmithing 18):
Fire + Silver Ore x 4 -> Silver Ingot

I recommend doing some Mining in a place with a lot of Silver Ore. Yughott Grotto is a simple place to mine and yields a fair amount of silver, and will give you other higher quality ores (even better if you have some Smithing skill to convert Iron Ore into Iron Ingots to save space).

Don't do beastcoins until you can't avoid it; they're usually a losing proposition unless you time the markets well.


Icemage