Is cooking worth leveling up?

[busdriver]

I was wondering if cooking would be worth leveling up for jugs and pet food?

[Lord Diablos]

sure if u like spending a few thousand hours.

[busdriver]

does it really take a long time?

[Lord Diablos]

yeah. Most of the stuff that u will have to synthesis at the beginning to higher lvl's. In which u will barely be making a profit at all. So I'd pass. But that is just my opinion. You can do it if u want. GL.

[busdriver]

i think i will pass then :p

[Ayia]

lol!

Cooking is fine, but hes rite, you wont be making, if not losing money on your first few synths.

I personally love Gold Smith ^^, bling glasses and all, only down side is on ragnarok a stack of fire crystals used to be like 2.4K now there like 3.5K X.x

It pays off later once you'll be paying 5K for synth items to get a item that sells for 22K lol *takes a handful of gold*

[Gman]

Originally posted by busdriver
I was wondering if cooking would be worth leveling up for jugs and pet food?

If you can get your skills up to about 60 in cooking, you can HQ your broths and food some of the time.

Lets say you want to use Courrier Carrie as a pet for an important mission or something. Well, a stack of Fish oil broths goes for 17-20k on my server. Or.....You can buy a few stacks of Sardines and HQ some for yourself. Rate of HQ on Carrion broth, Meat broth and Carrot broth is much higher as well. I can get HQ tiger pet almost 50% of the time, and a stack is 15k at AH.

As for pet food, the better ones are higher level and harder to HQ, but you can get HQ constantly on alpha, delta and gamma biscuits.

Seeing as its the cheapest craft to get to 60, but also the least profitable, its best to level it for your own personal use, and small gil gains if youre willing to take the time to sell. Good sellers are insect paste stacks. Pure profit, but only sell for 400-600 each. Crayfish balls also sell well. Foods used for battle are really only profitable if you can HQ them. Using ingredients that you have received via battle or had lying around helps with that as well. Farming for ingredients is not helping any though, because of the time it takes vs price for the ingredients.

[busdriver]

could you give me an estimate of what it might cost to get it to 60?

[Gman]

Originally posted by busdriver
could you give me an estimate of what it might cost to get it to 60?

I would guess that i didnt lose a whole lot of gil leveling cooking, but I did it slowly, because I pretty much refused to make items that I would take a huge bath on. Obviously at some levels it is unavoidable because of what you are able to skill on, but for the most part I was able to make money on a lot of synths because of selling at AH.

Factoring in some profitable synths like Insect Paste, Pet food Delta, crayfish paste, and a few others, then factor in some real losers like stone cheese, etc, I would say I probably ~lost~ around 50k getting cooking to 60. I sold off everyting I made to NPC or AH to minimize losses. I could be a bit off though as I started leveling cooking back when I started playing in March, and I just got to 60 a month ago.

Basically, if youre patient, you can level it up cheaply, if you want to powerlevel it, you will probably spend 200-300k getting it there (maybe more if you buy everything you need... I had tons of crystals from leveling at my disposal)