Alchemy Money Makers

[Taskmage]

I make some fair money at 60. Tsurara toolbag stacks take about 6 ice clusters to make (24-36k) and sell for 100k. So making that is about 70k an hour. Not astounding, but not bad for level 60. Only problem is there's a limited demand. Only one or two are likely to sell each day. There's rarely competition, though.

Silent Oils from Slime Oil can be very profitable, even in the 31+ HQ bracket. That's my friend's main source of income and he rakes it in. There's a lot of demand and also a lot of competition, so the price fluctuates a lot. Personally, I try to stay away from markets like that.

I haven't looked into it, but I bet there's money to be made synthing cards for that Corsair ability. There's sure to be demand for puppet attachments too, if you can get the Iatrochemistry key item. All the synths are under level 60 and have no HQ, which means less competition from higher level crafters.

It helps immensely if you have a support craft leveled. Smithing for special bolt heads and some bullets, goldsmithing for the other bullets and Shrimp Lure, woodworking for Bast Parchment, or cooking for Sairui-ran are all profit synths.

Barring that, base ingredients that you can HQ reliably like Black Ink and Beeswax can turn some fair profit. Just remember a lot of people can make them, so at times the market will flood and the selling price will become unprofitable. Just hold on to your goods when that happens and wait for it to recover.

[Sethe]

Yah, the silent oil market is cut throat.

Personally I am just going to try my hand at HQing cursed gear, I get tier 1 for cursed finger guantlets just as soon as I ding 100.

[thepirateking]

Its just easier to farm, than waste the money leveling the craft. It seems that for any craft to be effective it needs to be in the 80's-100's. It drives me batshit.

Oh I don't know.... My wife and I are slowly leveling all crafts to 60 before either of us decides on a craft to take up...I've made money almost the entire way with alchemy, cooking I save money by making things I can use, smithing works nice for small profits so far, and so on and so forth.


I think the key to making gil with ANY craft is to level a bunch of crafts, and research! Lots and lots of notes helps!

And to the op? holy water. Depending on the price of your light crystals.

[Spinnthrift]

Its just easier to farm, than waste the money leveling the craft. It seems that for any craft to be effective it needs to be in the 80's-100's. It drives me batshit.

I'm not sure about this either... I've found only Leathercraft to be costly to synth up so far without making decent returns - however - I make a ton while synthing stuff just for profit - especially as I level up, it pays for my skilling...

Alchemy - I've also found very profitable to level up - so long as you are patient. Yep, sometimes you'll have a large quantity of stock lying around on a mule, but the moment you catch a big price jump that patience pays for itself 10x over.

For example...

When I hit the silent oil stage... I found out that prices had plummeted from 40k a stack to 18-19k a stack and I had over 15 stacks on me from crafting... boy was I crying. Well... I sucked it up, sent them to a mule... and forgot about them.

Two weeks later, a new mission or something got added in an update - and prices skyrocketed to 60k a stack. I quickly muled over everything and AH'd it all. Suffice to say, it paid for various skillings in other crafts *and* left me more to upgrade my gear some more with.

Moral of the story - patience and vigilence will net you profit while crafting. Sure - an hour spent farming will net you 100k, but a point of crafting skill will take you one step closer to breaking a HQ tier on a craft and *that* is rewarding - again, if you're patient. ^^

- Saeriel

[zagex]

Its just easier to farm, than waste the money leveling the craft. It seems that for any craft to be effective it needs to be in the 80's-100's. It drives me batshit.

I think it's pure and utter BS that you have to have a craft at high levels to make money. I've made all my money crafting, and at higher levels it just comes faster.

Goldsmithing: Silver ingots sell for a chunk of profit, and so does mythril. Desynthing to make them brings better profit unless you get unlucky.
Smithing: Iron makes good money, ingots, sheets, scales, whatever (they might not sell that fast, but you can always make makibishi)
Leathercraft: Many of the leathers are profitable.
Clothcraft: Linen and Wool cloths bring in good money, and are a lot faster with Spindling key item
Woodworking: Arrows and Bolts, quiver them, and get the lumberjack keyitem

We're starting to get into crafts I haven't really levelled
Alchemy: Lot of bullets are being sold to corsairs, other than that, supersimian covered a lot.
Bonecraft: Carapace Powder sells to clothcrafters, other than that, I haven't gone far with bonecrafting
Cooking: beats me, it's at 0

All this might not come at high profit, but there's more profitable stuff as you get higher levelled. In my experience, making things that other people are going to turn around and craft with most of the time brings good money. Also, ninja tools generally sell for profit from my experiences.

*Maybe* your server just sucks with prices, but honestly, I highly doubt that everything I listed up there is a waste of money.

My mentality with crafting is that I use crafting to make money, not that I have to waste money to craft.

[Glamdring]

you don't have to be lvl 100 to make money, at 30 you HQ beeswax and animal glue pretty regularat 50 silent oil, at 65, prism powders, etc. basically once you can HQ anything there's gil to be made. But farm your materials!

[Standablaze]

I'm only 43 in Alchemy, but if you havent put in the research on what makes money then maybe you should still be farming, you will make more money farming Grain Seeds in South Gustaberg.

[Kirsteena]

I made decent money skilling alchemy at the weekend - there were absolutely 0 poison potions in the AH, so even buying all the materials and breaking a few synths, by putting them on the AH and putting the price up (only 5k a stack, but when I was already making profit extra is good) all the stacks I made sold virtually instantly, made good money. I looked later on and there were 39 stacks on the AH, driving the price right down again hehehehe.

I'm skilling alchemy to 60, purely so I can synth those nebs and cone calamary I catch while fishing into black ink and hit tier III with HQ.

[Standablaze]

Poison potions go for 5k on your server?! they are 40k on ramuh.

[Kirsteena]

Lol, no, I upped the price by 5k. They were 30k, I made them 35k....

[Standablaze]

Oh, should have upped them slowly to 40k

[Nappy]

You should check the auction for what sells, but here is some advice on making money. Has soon as you can hit the wadi and go after the thugs they drop animal glue thats sells for an always decent amount. You'll make bank fast and it helps with Alchemy.

[Standablaze]

Alchemy isnt too good on Ramuh. roughly 20k a stack. I can farm two stacks of Beehive chips in the same time and HQ them into Beeswax, 40k.

[levish]

it's decent, there aren't any zomgbbqkitten money makers but there's a few recipies to keep a steady stream of income coming in.

[rsironko]

I am not sure if this is correct or not. Can an alchemist craft potions at fairly low levels of alchemy?