Planning to Skill Bone & alchemy, advice...

[poweryoga]

Here's my build plan for Bone craft and alchemy, please comment on it and insert your own advice...

Note I'm trying to power level these crafts (maybe take 2-4 days to level all these) so if I can take a slight loss and still skill up I'll do it. I'm planning on selling most stuff to the guild (except for arrowheads, those I'll sell slowly)

Bonecraft

Bone Hairpin -> 3-4
Bone Arrowhd.×6 -> 9
Bone Ring -> 17
Beetle Ring->beetle jaw -> 24
Gelatin -> 28
Horn Ring -> 31
Fang Arrowhd. ×6 -> 37-38
Horn Arrowhd. x6 -> 43
Carapace Mask -> 45
Scorp.Arrowhead -> 53
Scorp.Ring -> Scorp.Shell -> 60

Alchemy

Beeswax -> 5 (save)
Tsurara -> 6
Poison Dust -> 6-11 (Yellow Globe)
Mercury -> 12-14
Echo Drop -> 18-20
Silent Oil -> 24 (slime oil type)
Glass Fiber Rod -> 29
Minnow 29-31
Artificial Lens -> 33
Vitriol -> 43
Prism Powder -> Use up all art.lens :D
Holy Water -> 43-51
Fix Carbon Rod 45-49
Cerment -> 51-53(56)
Glass Fiber -> 53-61

[Fuuko]

~3 - Shell Earring - Wind Crystal + 2 Sea Shell
4 - Bone Hairpin - Wind Crystal + Bone Chip
7 - Shell Ring - Wind Crystal + Fish Scales + Sea Shell
9 - Bone arrowheads (6, HQ 8~12) - Wind Crystal + 2 Bone Chip
12 (Goldsmithing 3) - Bone Earring - Wind Crystal + 2 Bone Chip + Brass Ingot
15 - Fang Necklace - Earth Crystal + Black Tiger Fang + 4 Bat Fang + 2 Bone Chip + Grass Thread
17 - Bone Ring - Wind Crystal + Large Sheep Tooth + Bone Chip
18 - Bone Mask - Earth Crystal + Sheep Leather + Giant Femur + Bone Chip
28. Beetle Mask [Earth] Lizard Skin, Beetle Jaw
33. Beetle Arrowheads*6 [Wind] Beetle Jaw, Bone Chip
37. Horn Ring [Wind] Fish Scales, Ram Horn
38. Bone Cudgel [Wind] Bone Chip*6, Grass Cloth, Giant Femur
43. Horn Arrowheads*6 [Wind] Bone Chip, Ram Horn
47. Horn [Wind] Beetle Jaw, Ram Horn
50. + Leathercraft: 13 Carapace Harness [Earth] Dhamel Leather*2, Crab Shell*2
53. Scorpion Arrowheads*6 [Wind] Bone Chip, Scorpion Claw
60. Scorpion Ring [Wind] Scorpion Shell
64. Scorpion Mask [Earth] Rem Leather, Scorpion Shell
70. Demon's Ring [Wind] Fish Scales, Demon Horn

[poweryoga]

omg hi kore~ ^^

thanks for the advice~ i'll take a look into those that don't have other crafting requirements...

(lvl 0 leathercraft :spin: )

[minuet]

Cermet from 51-53

Skilling up with these are pretty terrible since a failure hurts a lot, they give very few skill-ups, and there aren't a huge supply of them coming into the AH.

Cermet: fire crystals ~1500 + 48 magic pot shards ~56k = 57,500gil a stack, can sell on my server for 50-55kish: very little loss here.

You could try Sleeping Potions, Fire 1500 + Chamomile ~1500 + Sleepshroom ~1200 + Poison Flour ~6000 = 10200 a stack, can sell for 10-20k.

This too also gives not so great skillups, and very very rarely sells, but if it does sell you can get a decent return. Chamomile and poison flour can be bought from npcs, and sleepshrooms are always in great quantity in sandoria (cheapest) and bastok. Blow-ups also do not hurt much.

If you have enough gil to cover the initial expense, you can try cermet, but check the AH's to see how fast it sells, and what kind of supply there is. 50k+ alchemy ingredients dont' sell like hotcakes.

For glass fiber, fire + 8 flint stones, I recommend doing this at 55+, even at 56 or so with support, I was getting lots of annoying blow-ups, and infrequent skill-ups.

Wait till you start making glass fiber to start using up those artificial lenses, since it is Light + lens + 2x glass fiber, and you won't fail as much.

[Moriar]

Do scorpion rings till 58 (58-60 willl take too many rings), then start scorpion masks. I did them till 61 which is where I started doing bone Patas > 68. I think the patas are a much better option than demon rings since you dont risk losing a 15k demon horn every synth (they are only about 3k to make.) Also demon rings sell for crap on Unicorn.

[Soliloquy]

I'm also considering levelling up alchemy... was interested in a skillup path, but you've already posted it. ^_^;

How much do you expect to spend (after selling the results) to get from 29-60ish? My alchemy is already 29, so I'm curious. I'm on a different server, but even a rough estimate would help. Thanks. ^_^

[poweryoga]

i made this list back when i didn't have access to FFXI and i've made some changes since, but i'm not up to 29 yet. ^^