Gold Smithing 101?

[Dard]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

hello ^^w

just saw that alot of ppl here have trouble getting to 60 goldsmith
I also had that trouble but i managed to reround that problem with some time spending on mining gold; mythril ores and moblin gear, and steal mythril beastcoins in davoi.
Dont expect from me for a good skill/profit guide, this is only for the patient ppl
This is the path i take when i could make Mythril ingots:

Mythril Beastcoin x 4 + Fire crystal = 1 Mythril ingot

Mythril Ingot x 2 + Wind crystal = Mythril Earring

Mythril Earring + lightning crystal = 1 Mythril Ingot ( nq , hq1) / 2 Mythril Ingot (hq2)- this one you will get hardly but still with desynth Mog enhancement it still helps

Mythril Ingot x 2 + Fire crystal = Mythril Ring

After this i went for Silver Beastcoins

Silver Ingot x 3 + Fire Crystal = Silver Bangles ( till lvl cap 49 )

Now its the tricky part
After i took GS to 49 I started to farm right away Gold orcmasks
I didnt care if i had many breaks I was doing it for the few skill ups and to not loose much gil on crafting for skill ups.

My targets where Orcish trooper for the gold orcmasks, and i still steal mythril beastcoins for my other skill up target recipe.

OK, after that long desynth and farming I managed to get less than 2000k in gil with the gold ingots from the Gold orcmasks. Bought some 8 stacks of gold beastcoins and managed to skill up to 51.

Now the real hardcore, its the mining part, if u mine in Oldtown u might be able to get some gold ores and get ur GS to 53, i did that and also tried to steal the NM in west ronfaure Bigmouthbilly ( total waste of time better mining trust me -.- )
so after some time i got some gold ores and after that ( 2 months ) i got lvl 53 GS.

And the last part but most important: remember about those Mythril beastcoins that i stole in Davoi?
I didnt sold them, instead i crafted them to make Mythril ingots and used them to make Mythril sheets.

You now asking " why so?"

Well... because i used this recipe to get to 60, and this one includes alot of stacks of Mythril sheets unfortunatelly, but better than waste ur gil in gold ingots ( problably half of the total cost, depending of the server), well here it is the recipe, its a lvl 61 recipe cap:

Mythril Sheet x2 + Fire Crystal = Mythril Cuisses
Square Of Ram Leather

Also dont expect of returning gil from this recipe if u put in the ah, if it sells less than 3,5K just npc it.

well hope this help u getting to 60
just dont waste ur gil on power skilling unless u have a veteran to assist u in desynth the results from the ingots, and yes the cheap way is mining but takes alot of patient. and if u have alchemy to 60 u also can make a profit from glass fiber ( desynth from moblin gear also ) mining in Oldtown.

[Animate Blade]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

yeah even though im from sandy, i still try and head over to bastok to kill the huge numbers of worms for the ores

[Daos]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

A stack is 12 items that are all placed in the same inventory slot.

[Anela]

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Dumb question, but what is a stack?

[Kiryn]

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I just started doing Goldsmithing. And i'm only level 1. And I did like seven recipes.

Including the 4 x Copper Ores + 1 Fire Crystal. And my skill is at 1.3.

[Kessy]

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After Months of saving Materials

I can Confirm that Goldsmithing lvl 70 to lvl 92 cost me at least 50 Million gil


Also lvl 92-94 cost me 10 stacks of Platinum ingots and about 2 Million in HQ Gems, roughly about 17 million. I desynth most everything, so I got some of the materials back.

o_o I always here things like in smithing and goldsmithing you use lots of gil to get it real high, but my question is how does it work? As in how do afford it? Is there something you can make to give you enough gil to continue your craft?

[Kessy]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

A very long time... I HQ one skill 20 synth and 1 HQ +2 VIT ring out of like 5 tries on both. Need very high skill in order to make nice money in goldsmithing. I leveled mainly to synth gold ingots on the side whenever I accumulate some beastcoins, and to desynth gold orcmask. If I want money though, will need to go beyond this ^^

On titan brass sheets are cheap to make and sell for about 15-20k per stack so that easy to make. Its one of the few things to make profit from if your a Goldsmither just starting to do silver ingots

[Rockmaster]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

After Months of saving Materials

I can Confirm that Goldsmithing lvl 70 to lvl 92 cost me at least 50 Million gil


Also lvl 92-94 cost me 10 stacks of Platinum ingots and about 2 Million in HQ Gems, roughly about 17 million. I desynth most everything, so I got some of the materials back.

[Aeolus]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

So you cant get apron till 68?>.< R the glassed 38 then?

[ImpactionActionHero]

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I had always thought synthesis support only helped the resulting product, but it does help your skill ups very much. I was amazed to see skill ups on every synth, while using fire crystals and facing West of course.

[Avoklex]

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SKydust, I believe u can obtain your first major GP item at skill level 38. The apron is somewhere like 68, and the the last item is upwards in the 80's.

[ImpactionActionHero]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

For 1-5 I've found synthing and desynthing Copper Rings to be the easiest. Two ingots to make the rings along with a fire crystal, then the ring and a lightning crystal desynths it. You can make, break, then remake the same ring over and over. On average I found three stacks of each crystal and two stacks of ingots work out well.

I've only started, but I found this method to be a lot mroe efficient than copper ore. For one there's the synth and desynth for skill ups trick, and two the ingots stack which make purchasing them less of a chore.

[balvenie]

Re: Gold Smithing 101?

I'm only at level 28, but here is the path I took:

0-1 Copper ingots (Desynth from yag necklace)
0-3 Copper ingots (Copper Ore recipie)
3-9 Brass ingots (Zinc + 3 Copper, save these)
9-12 Silver thread (Requires 43 clothcraft minimum)
12-14 Coronettes ( Requires 11 Bonecraft)
14-18 Silver Ingots (Silver beastcoin recipie)
18-20 Silver Ingots (Silver Ore Recipie)
18-21 Shrimp Lure (sells for good profit)
21-24 Silver Bullet (Requires 49 Alchemy Minimum)
24-27 Silver Hairpin (Bridge synth, I skipped these)
24-28 Thief Tools (Sell for profit, but slowly, Requires Smithing and Woodworking)
25-31 Hirashin (Sells quick) <-- Currently here

I am a profit crafter, so I only make what I can sell each leveling session (maybe more if I know it'll move faster). I was lucky to have some other crafts leveled before Goldsmithing, so I was able to use multi-craft synths.

[Skydust]

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the sun glasses....what lvl of goldsmithing do you get those? O.o;; very noob question T_T

[DizavidHZ]

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I joined GS becaue of Copper ingots. You only need 5k for a stack of fire crystals, then around 9-20 gil for copper ores. If you start as soon as they open you can make a lil over two stacks of ingots (note bronze ingots for BS work too) at about 15-17k. So thats 10k for the crystals, but then two stacks of ingots bring in about 30-34K; making a great profit for newbies like me. In fact I wrote this out for newbies like me; Copper, Bronze, and Brass Ingots have been a central part of my gil for new spells ><

And Sam; I believe you can go recruit at lvl 8; you need a Copper Hairpin (please forgive me) if I'm wrong. I'm lvl 9 and am pretty sure recruit was my new rank.
Copper Hairpins can be bought at AH if you're lazy/lacking materials or gil to make one; cause by lvl 8 its *easy* to make Copper hairpins.