Somewhat better day (FFX)

[thistlechaser]

When I was finishing leathercrafting on Thistle, I had said that goldsmithing 50-60 was harder than leather 90-100. That was no joke, not by a long shot. I'd go so far as to say that gold 50-60 is many many many times harder than leather 90-100.

13 hours, a million or so gil, and I clawed my way from gold 54 to 57 today. The most insane part of this is, as hard as it is, this is my second time doing it. I must smoke crack, seriously.

The synthing was just so rough today: Buy/make 300K worth of metal: 0 skill ups. Another 300K: .1 total. 500K of materials: 0 skill ups. (52-56 is a really rough stretch, no good items and far under cap.)

There was no BRD static today, so all I did was synthing. Synthing for skill or making the items I needed to skill. The only "break" was doing some leather synths for profit.

I've spent about 6 million on Chaser thus far, that includes everything from her Jeuno airship pass (500K) to all of her gobbiebag expansions to a kazillion book shelves for her moghouse (so expensive, and she still needs a few more) to all her skilling.

Luckily things will get somewhat easier once I hit 60 (or so I'm told). I should be able to make a profit (assuming I don't break too much). Plus I'll slow down and do more mining, or at least I think I will.

Also, one of my favorite animated movies was on today (Prince of Egypt), which brightened my day quite a bit.

Tomorrow: A little more skilling, but hopefully not like today. I said my goal for the weekend was 'at or near gold 60', and 58 counts as near in my book. So if I can get at least one more level, I'll be ... well, not happy but not kicking myself either. 60 would be nicer, but I'm not going to kill myself to get it.

Comments

[naldene.livejournal.com]

I honestly think 90% of people in the world that say they are busy/stressed out/hard working could try compare themselves to Thistle and fail dismally. Once again my respect for you grows Thistle =3.

Oh~ I have a small question for you: Which craft do you think is most newbie friendly and/or cheapest for me to try my hand at? @.@

[naikitty.livejournal.com]

Alchemy or cooking, both of which are handy to have leveled to some degree. X3 (And go figure, the two I picked to level past 60... @_@)

[naldene.livejournal.com]

*Huggles Nai~!* Thankiesn yet again~ <3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks!

Which craft do you think is most newbie friendly and/or cheapest for me to try my hand at? @.@

It is my belief that everyone on the game should have Alchemy at 60. If you're careful, you can make profit skilling it, plus everyone needs stuff made with it. Powder/oil for invisible/sneak (there are places with magic aggro, so even mages need that), plus things like hi-potions.

As a mage, you should level cooking as well. Luckily cooking is the cheapest/easiest craft out there! With cooking skilled, you can make all the food and drinks that mages use -- cheaply!

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

I got all of my lvl 1 mules mog lockers, 70 extra spaces each, it doesn't need fame, and doesn't cost anything (at least up to expansions which need a few imp.mythril and a few imp.gold to go from 40 to 70) and is easy to solo.
The warp NPC is also much cheaper than buying an airship pass (about 2k each use), and accomplishes the same result.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's on my (long long) list of things to do. I could use the extra space...