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Effedup · 04-20-2008, 05:15 PM

Thank you both for your input. My ls leader laughs at me when I tell him my goal of levelling a craft without losing my shirt to do it (after spending almost 200k to get leathercrafting to a dumpy 11 or 12 I'm tending to agree) but until now cooking seemed like it was gonna be pretty good as far as that goes; cheap ingredients, easy 1-2 item synths, and food sells generally well on the A.H.. However, it seems like I'm just in for a rough patch here.

Jei, I'm prolly going to end up levelling on grape juice to 50, it's the simplest synth, but it sells so slowly on the A.H. that I'm prolly gonna end up NPcing them and taking the loss. Same with pies (gotta do something with all that pie dough), NQ apple pies sell for about what they NPC (even less sometimes, which really boggles my mind), so Melon it will probably be, unless I find a synth that's less costly in that range (and save those pie doughs for when I can actually HQ something) ^^

Murphie, I haven't really been using a guide either since most guides were written before all the bans and are pretty much useless now, considering half the things peeps talk about "selling well" haven't sold on the A.H. since around when the guide was written...my current method is to scour ffxiah's recipes and sit and calculate what every item is gonna cost me, what it NPCs for, what it AHs for...in general I ignore the nasty synths too (I really dont want to spend 2 hours muling ingredients from all over the world). I've been keeping a log of my progress thus far (working on a little guide for peeps in my ls if they want it ^^), but today I sat down to plot my course from 50+ and, honestly, sitting here adding up rock salts, dried marjoram, and San d'Orian Flour over and over again is making me quite insane. If anything comes to mind in the future, please let me know...

On the subject of Key Items, other than Raw Fish Handling, is there any others that I should be concerned with getting? And what's the best method to getting guild points? Do you get money AND points, or just points? Sorry if these questions are noobish, but no one else in my ls has levelled a craft to the point where these things come into play, and I can't make heads or tails of it myself...

Thanks again! ^^

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Effedup Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 233 Style: My Mood: Thanks: 21 Thanked 12x in 8 Posts Gil: 6,523 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 6,523 Donate	Re: Cooking without losing a fortune? Thank you both for your input. My ls leader laughs at me when I tell him my goal of levelling a craft without losing my shirt to do it (after spending almost 200k to get leathercrafting to a dumpy 11 or 12 I'm tending to agree) but until now cooking seemed like it was gonna be pretty good as far as that goes; cheap ingredients, easy 1-2 item synths, and food sells generally well on the A.H.. However, it seems like I'm just in for a rough patch here. Jei, I'm prolly going to end up levelling on grape juice to 50, it's the simplest synth, but it sells so slowly on the A.H. that I'm prolly gonna end up NPcing them and taking the loss. Same with pies (gotta do something with all that pie dough), NQ apple pies sell for about what they NPC (even less sometimes, which really boggles my mind), so Melon it will probably be, unless I find a synth that's less costly in that range (and save those pie doughs for when I can actually HQ something) ^^ Murphie, I haven't really been using a guide either since most guides were written before all the bans and are pretty much useless now, considering half the things peeps talk about "selling well" haven't sold on the A.H. since around when the guide was written...my current method is to scour ffxiah's recipes and sit and calculate what every item is gonna cost me, what it NPCs for, what it AHs for...in general I ignore the nasty synths too (I really dont want to spend 2 hours muling ingredients from all over the world). I've been keeping a log of my progress thus far (working on a little guide for peeps in my ls if they want it ^^), but today I sat down to plot my course from 50+ and, honestly, sitting here adding up rock salts, dried marjoram, and San d'Orian Flour over and over again is making me quite insane. If anything comes to mind in the future, please let me know... On the subject of Key Items, other than Raw Fish Handling, is there any others that I should be concerned with getting? And what's the best method to getting guild points? Do you get money AND points, or just points? Sorry if these questions are noobish, but no one else in my ls has levelled a craft to the point where these things come into play, and I can't make heads or tails of it myself... Thanks again! ^^ I need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale. It cannot be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs. - Patrick Bateman Last edited by Effedup : 04-20-2008 at 07:19 PM.
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