[Kyreth]

Regarding the guide up there for the teens, I'll add in a location- Sarutabaruta, right outside of Giddeus. Pull yourself a couple of stacks of sickles, and some crystals- wind and earth. If you haven't leveled up a Thief job, this is where to start. Go hunting everything that moves there. Yagudo drop necklaces for grass thread and the feathers are real nice later for fletchings (you'll do those around 17-22 or so). Mandragoras are Steal targets- grab Saruta Cotton off them. Crawlers are silk thread. We call that money, considering a stack is worth enough to keep you in crystals for a few days.

Dump the moko grass. Save the -red- moko grass, cotton, flax. Yagudo necklaces are your grass thread supply. Keep making cloth till you hit 4. Capes will get you to 8 (Grass thread, Grass Cloth x2, Earth Crystal). You'll need a cape for getting past your first skill cap anyway. You'll also run into crawler cocoons. Sell em off for now, cause you can't really use them till the high 40's...and they don't stack.

The cotton can be used to make cotton thread, though most people will tell you to go with using all that grass for hachimakis (to 11). Red moko grass makes red grass thread (15), though it's a rare find there. Flax flowers make linen thread (19)- you can use em that way, and/or go with Kenpogi (Grass Thread, Grass Cloth x3, Earth crystal) to 18. Those Yagudo necklaces are really nice for a starting tailor, ain't they?

But stick to that area till you skill up enough. If you level up too much to make exp, head into Giddeus itself and start picking on the monsters there for more necklaces and the more occasional harvesting points (though they're better for rarer stuff).

[Symrustar]

Okay thanks to all of your advice I am now at 54. And I was wondering if there was any other way to go than silk? Right now threads are anywhere from 52k-58k a stack which I can't afford... (espically since the green ribbon only sells for a little over 2k each ><) ... or if u guys know any good places to farm for the silk myself? I tried in windy yesterday and was only getting roughly 1 silk per 15 crawlers I'd kill. And that was with TH. Is that normal? Anyways any help would be appreciated!! Thank-you!

[Brayden]

Yeah, I think silk thread drops are crap. Ive done a lot of faming in high density crawlers areas with /thf. Best run is usu 12 in 1 hr.

[Symrustar]

That blows... maybe I'll try going back to making field hose. and then maybe try making wool doublets after that? Either way this stage of crafting blows

[Last_Viper]

sometimes i get out 3 silk from about 10 kills in rolandberry
with rdm/blm, means no TH

and yeah, silk goes up to 50k+ since the update, some other stuff is almost sold out everywhere now too
i saved 1.8M to get my way to 62 (55 atm) but with silk thats not enough, so i decide to go another way.. maybe i try this week and tell you then if it works

[Symrustar]

sweet.... deffinatly let us know how it goes. I've just been farmin' for money and buying (since I can get alot more silk that way then farming directly for silk) and then doing both the silk and the field hose. One thing i've noticed so far is that I seem to get a LOT faster skill-up on the field hose than the green ribbons. It takes me like an entire stack of silk cloths to get like +.2 skill.... but with that same ammount of synths I get almost a lvl. Is this a normal thing? And later on are there other things that will give better skill ups than other things?

[Last_Viper]

i don`t even know, but there are some post in this thread speaking about good "skill up" with some crafts..

my first try was 3 green ribbons with 0.1 skill up and 2 success lol

atm i have to spend all my gil in items, so i can`t try anything with skillin up

which level do you have now?

[Symrustar]

well I litterally just dinged 61 in my cloth, so now I'm past field hose and have moved on to making silk headbands... though I'm still diggin' around to see if there is something I can make for profit. Not having any luck so far though ; ;

[Last_Viper]

i hit 60 last week
planning now to get 1-2 more level ups and then switching to bl.choc.feather till 70+
throwing away about 1 million + of gils, not easy to say, ok i`m throwing half of my gil away, okok not really away ^^

i also got my bonecraft from 9 to 20 :D
on of the subskills i want to take 50+

[Zempten]

Sometimes it's a good idea to work on some other crafts.

Personally I've used Woodworking and Alchemy to finance my Clothcraft. I do this for 3 reasons

1) So I don't get burned out looking at how much silk I am going to need to buy and hating Clothcraft for the rest of my life
2) So I get a change of pace.
3) So I have more options on what to sell to make gil. It's useless to just have Clothcraft skilled up and when your in need of some gil for the comming days you notice that the AH is overfilling with Clothcraft materials. Having other crafts leveled to a decent skill gives you more options on what you can sell at different times because the demand and suppy is constantly changing.

I choose alchemy and woodworking because the crystals were easy to farm during the farming of silk threads. Maze of Sha. is where I farmed my silk. I did it there so I could farm the wind and earth crystals used for woodworking and clothcraft at the same time. Lightning and Water crystals were mainly what I used for Alchemy if memory serves correct. Those are easy to farm as well. Qufim Island is a hot place for Lightning and Water is easilly found practically anywhere. Also both are good money makes for me.

Alchemy is pretty decent since you can either ....
A) Fish for some of the materials
B) Buy them.

Woodworking goes without saying, it's easy to buy the logs from the NPCs, not just from the Woodworking guild. As I mentioned before used somepage.com to find exactly where


Hopes this helps

[Last_Viper]

yeah, thats the the way i will go soon
crystals are mostly not a matter since i have mule full of them

only thing is, that i have to clean up my inventory to skill some cafts

but i`ll go another route, leather, bone, gold

[Symrustar]

Well moved out of silk road finally... now onto the webs of terror!!! Waaaay worse than silk ; ; 25k each for these little babies now, but slowly but surely I'm farmin' / buying these things and lvlin' up. at 74.3 now and still truckin'! Also... *points to new sig*

[Symrustar]

Okay now I reread through the whole thread here trying to get a handle on what I should do. I made like 6 stacks of rainbow thread... and then just now turned them all into 3 stacks of rainbow cloth. But now I'm kind of stumped as to what I should do. A stack of rainbow cloth is going for 2.6mil on my server atm. So my question is... can I just do jester's headbands to 81 then immediatly jump to arhat's hakama? Or do I need to use these rainbow cloths to make these rainbow headbands? If I can I'd rather just skip the rainbow headbands and sell off my cloth so I can then make the hakama's and push myself to 88. But I dunno if that is a good idea or not. Can I get your thoughts on it??

[Last_Viper]

wow rainbow cloth is about 1.5m on our server

with 81 and + support/items you should be fine with hakamas.

i`n neraly 78 now, levling doesen`t hurt (money wise) but its sooo slow to gain at least 0.1 skill

crafting v.c. would mean no profit on pandemonium..

[Symrustar]

actually crafting anything on Midgar is usually a total loss unless u farm all the materials. The only real way to make money with it is if you HQ something.... which sucks. And Hurray now I'll have money again to continue to lvl hehe ^^