Question on guild points

[Vyuru]

I'm wanting to take cloth crafting to 100, I am currently about level 24 cloth, and I have a few questions about how to obtain guild points and what I should buy with them.

My current evil master plan

The item for you to turn in changes once a day, and is determined by what you can synth, so, at level 28 when I can start turning in items for guild points, I am going to stop leveling cloth crafting, and focus on turning in items for guild points until I have all of the guild points that I will need. My main reason for doing this is that I do not want to see that I have to turn in some item that costs to buy/make 300k+

I can see it now.... "Todays guild point item are Vermillion cloaks!" "Thank you for your Vermillion cloak, here are your 50 GP"

Will my plan work? I'm kinda hoping so, should make getting guild points a bit easier.

My next question is what should I get with the guild points? I'm for sure getting all of the skill+1 items, but the fletching and spinning GP items seem kinda pointless to me, I'm happy enough with the current fletching yields, and spinning does save me some time crafting, but not very much.

Cloth Ensorcellment and Cloth Purification, I can see being useful, but I don't see myself making the items that these let you make anytime soon, and even then under specific conditions. I'm thinking I may wait on getting these, I may not, I'm not sure yet. Are they really useful for a weaver? Should I go all out on getting them?

[Jei]

guild point items cycle through skill ranks starting from recruite up to your current rank. Once you pass the test and become apprentice, talk to the NPC in apron around the guild to sign up for guild points. And that's the NPC you have to turn your daily guild items to. The items the guild will ask you to turn in each day will be recruit >initiate > novice > apprentice > back to recruit in this order.

I think it's still ok to train skill while you collect your points. There are certain item choices the guild can ask you for each rank. While higher rank items can sometimes be very expensive, it can random to the cheap ones too. And higher rank items also gives you more points per day. For example recruit items may be able to give you 1200 max per day, while craftsman items may be able to give you up to 6000. Getting your ranks up isn't all that bad for this amount of points IMO. And ofcourse you can always skip if it asks for unreasonable expensive items.

The items you should be focusing first are the +skills. It's almost same for every craft, the first item you can get is when you reach journeyman rank (48+.) Weaver guild has the cute glasses for you at this rank for 70,000 points. Then again the apron at 78+ skill for 100,000 points. And finally, the furniture at 88+ skill for 150,000 points.

The spinning key items can save you some crystals when making threads. Instead of 1 crystal for 1 thread, you're bundling them together and use 1 crystals for 3-6 threads instead. It's up to you really, if you make a lot of thread for money, this will safe you a little extra gil.

Cloth Ensorcellment and Cloth Purification enable you to make certain items. I don't know how useful these are really.

Double Post Edited:
oh, and check this site out. It's a very valuable tool for anyone doing guild points
http://www.titanictus.com/tools/guild/

I have heard it can contain errors. I have yet to run into one myself tho.

[Vyuru]

I think it's still ok to train skill while you collect your points. There are certain item choices the guild can ask you for each rank. While higher rank items can sometimes be very expensive, it can random to the cheap ones too. And higher rank items also gives you more points per day.

Hmm, that is true, but with alot of the lower level synths, either the ingredients are much easier to obtain, or the items can be bought from npcs, I'm going to have to look into it a bit more methinks. Though my alchemy is lvl 57, so I could farm up and buy the ingredients from the AH if I wanted to...

Spinning, yeah, I make alot of threads, but it really only saves me synthing time, crystals are easy to obtain, I don't think it would be really worthwhile for me. And for cloth purification and ensorcellment... The items you can make with them are nice, but I really don't think I would be making them for awhile yet, they are more of a specialty synth than I typically like to do. I like the more mainstream synths that sell pretty well. So I think for now I'll just go with the skill+ items.

Weaver guild has the cute glasses

Heck, I started leveling clothcraft just so that I could get the glasses for that sexy mithran librarian look, then I realised that I enjoyed clothcrafting much more than alchemy

Thanks for the reply =^.^=

[Symrustar]

I think it's a really good idea imo.... I honestly wish i had done it when I was lvlin'.... because now i'm one item short. (I have the apron, no glasses.... and even though i have the 70k to get them I'm just gonna save up and get the larger gp item, the tapestry, first now) My man also did the same sort of thing with goldsmithing.... except he stopped around 68ish and has well over 300gp for gold now which is insane. But now he can just focus on skilling and not worry about gp ever ^^. So kuddos for thinking ahead!