08-08-2006, 05:35 PM | #1 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK, Lancashire Posts: 60 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 1,943 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,943 Donate | Low level gil-maker? Ok guys sorry if this got mentioned anywhere before in this forum, anywho I've just finished with Woodworking to 60 and starting on Smithing, although on my server, the stuff I can make on Woodworking give very small, slow profit.. and I heard you can profit good from Smithing on a low level like 25+ but i fail to see the money makers.. can anyone fill me in, it would help because it would fun me rather than going to woodworking and getting small profit to do my next 5 synths on smithing, meh you get the picture   Crank dat Soulja boy.. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-08-2006, 05:53 PM | #2 (permalink) | | Senior Veteran Oracle of Knowledge Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4,410 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 102 Thanked 1,274x in 771 Posts Gil: 1,934 Bank: 77,532 Total Gil: 79,467 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? Ingots? | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-08-2006, 06:04 PM | #3 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK, Lancashire Posts: 60 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 1,943 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,943 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? I looked into that.. I got told Iron ingots were the first gil maker.
but costing about 40k to make a stack.. and AH price of 40k.. hmmmmmm
whats it like on other servers..?  Crank dat Soulja boy.. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-08-2006, 06:40 PM | #4 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 386 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 6 Thanked 8x in 8 Posts Gil: 1,275 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,275 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? What I did at low levels was mine Yughott Grotto (sp?). On my server, hardly anyone
there and you can get a lot of iron ore. 40k a stack is pretty good when all you are
paying for is the fire crystals and the pick axes. Only thing you use up is time, but
skillin' up, and making money at the same time is a good thing in my book. You will
also get some ores that are more rare such as gold and darksteel. (not to mention
pebbles which are fun to throw at orcs)
Also, while you are at it, you can level up some Goldsmithing a bit. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-08-2006, 06:54 PM | #5 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK, Lancashire Posts: 60 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 1,943 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,943 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? | Originally Posted by Davitron3000 | (not to mention
pebbles which are fun to throw at orcs) | rofl
yea, good idea i never see anyone in Yughott Grotto on Unicorn and I go there alot (kazham keys for LS and BCNM30s) I might try this.  Crank dat Soulja boy.. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-09-2006, 03:02 AM | #6 (permalink) | | red means NO Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 2,705 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood: Thanks: 55 Thanked 147x in 88 Posts Gil: 18,692 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 18,692 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? for any craft to be profitable, if you cant HQ, you better start farming the materials. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-09-2006, 03:28 AM | #7 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 33 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 703 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 703 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? Make a trip to basok and check local bazaars every now and then also. Often you can find lower level players that are mining up iron ore and selling it a bit low to clear their inventory. Ingots, and ingots > sheets were nice moneymakers for me when I did, but that was a couple years ago. Sometimes now, I think you can buy iron/steel ingots from the guild cheaper than the AH. >< | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-09-2006, 07:40 AM | #8 (permalink) | | Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 859 Style: Light - Version 4 Thanks: 11 Thanked 21x in 15 Posts Gil: 13,127 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 13,127 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? I noticed that stacks of Bronze ingots sell pretty well in Jeuno. But that might be dependent on which server you are. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-09-2006, 12:36 PM | #9 (permalink) | | Lightness Keeper of Knowledge Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,389 Style: Light - Version 4 My Mood: Thanks: 90 Thanked 128x in 76 Posts Gil: 6,961 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 6,961 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? cant you desynth iron/steel ingots from quadav helms? Omni@Remora: NIN75 RNG75 MNK75 COR75 BST63 BRD45
♪♫ San d'Oria Complete ♪♫ ZM Complete ♪♫ CoP Complete ♪♫ AM Complete ♪♫ | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-09-2006, 12:44 PM | #10 (permalink) | | Senior Veteran Oracle of Knowledge Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4,410 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 102 Thanked 1,274x in 771 Posts Gil: 1,934 Bank: 77,532 Total Gil: 79,467 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? | Originally Posted by Omni | | cant you desynth iron/steel ingots from quadav helms? | 49 smithing | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-15-2006, 09:51 AM | #11 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 40 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 197 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 197 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? mining + crafting = profitable at lower levels  Woodworking 100+3
Smithing 100+3
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Goldsmithing 100+3
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Cloth 82 | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-15-2006, 11:10 AM | #12 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 155 Style: Light - Version 5 Thanks: 3 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 423 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 423 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? | Originally Posted by Balfree | | for any craft to be profitable, if you cant HQ, you better start farming the materials. | I've always felt this to be a fallacy. Unless your server has prices that are just horrible, then I don't know about that. But there's generally money to be made in making ingredients for other crafters, such as threads, cloths, ingots, leathers, etc. I can't say much for other crafts like alchemy and cooking, but I made most my money on making cloths.
Also, ninja tools are often profitable. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 08-15-2006, 12:09 PM | #13 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 65 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 18,688 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 18,688 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? | Originally Posted by raidenn | | I noticed that stacks of Bronze ingots sell pretty well in Jeuno. But that might be dependent on which server you are. | Yeah same here. I believe about 3-4 months ago they were selling for 30k a stack. I made a bunch of stacks and watched them fly. But in about 5 days they went down to 15k  And now they're 8-10k. Fire crystals at that time were 9k a stack too. @.@ But it doesn't take more than 2k to make a stack so 8k of profit isn't too bad(as long as you farm your crystals).  37WHM/25BRD/17BLM/16THF/07WAR/05MNK All other Jobs 1.
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Rank5 | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 10-06-2006, 05:09 PM | #14 (permalink) | | Veteran Member Keeper of Knowledge Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Honolulu Posts: 2,250 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood: Thanks: 62 Thanked 34x in 20 Posts Gil: 11,319 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 11,319 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? Originally Posted by Omni | | cant you desynth iron/steel ingots from quadav helms? | Quadav Helms, unless you can farm them yourself, are expensive on the AH, mostly because it's used for a quest in Bastok.
I'd rather mine and synth my own. I sometimes got lucky and got steel ingot out of the deal, which I hoard up. You can either sell them later in stacks or use it for yourself (If you plan on leveling ninja, a lot of weapons and shurikens use steel ingots in the recipes) | | ::Quote Selected:: | | 04-26-2007, 09:52 AM | #15 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 218 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 218 Donate | Re: Low level gil-maker? Originally Posted by Balfree | | for any craft to be profitable, if you cant HQ, you better start farming the materials. | In my experience that is not correct. I have never made an HQ, I have never mined a thing, and I've made about 50-60k so far from my Smithing, which is only level 13. I know that is still small beans for established players, but for a new player like me that is healthy revenue. And considering that many people think leveling a tradeskill is a cost, rather than a profit, I think I'm doing well.
The few times I have tried to mine, I found it to be a distinctly un-profitable activity, when I compared it to how much money I could earn by farming unrelated items and simply selling them, etc.
I think a more accurate statement would be: For any craft to be profitable, you had better learn how to buy things cheaply from NPC's, and become familiar with the quirks of the seperate AH's. | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -8. The time now is 03:32 AM. | | |