Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

( Numbers back here... )

First level where I made profit! Yay! The 8 'other' synths were ori ingots (needed to process the ores to make space). Losing only 2 elemental ores out of 34 rocks!

Unfortunately I have 12 ores to move. I've been being bad and buying more ores before the beads sell, so they're stacking up.

Four more levels of ore -> bead, then on to something else!

( Synths, losses, profit, etc. )

Difference between last level and this one: I bought nearly every ore for 100K, sold every bead for 103K to 110K. Last level was ore prices of 80K and bead prices of 120K. :/ Oh well, still better than previous and future skillup snyths! It's funny to think that soon I'll be looking back at this as the good old days...

Mostly for myself, but if anyone's interested: ( Number of synths, losses, successes for one level... )

I've been on the tail end of things through the whole of my goldsmithing skilling. There were other synths before this one which had been profitable just weeks/months before I hit them but by the time I got to them they became a loss. Unfortunately ore->bead is becoming the same.

When I started the level, ores sold for 90K and beads sold for 110. Prices of beads fell to 105K then to 100K. Prices of ores rose from 90K to 95K and now 100K. While I can accept not making a profit while I skill, the problem is when I fail a synth and lose an ore -- without the bit of profit from the successes, the 100K loss per failed synth hurts.

I looked hard for a different synth to do, but this still looks like the best one. >< I keep saying I'm going to quit goldsmithing, I said it as recently as yesterday, but I have such a hard time stopping. :/

genomeffxi had asked me about my plans for the end of goldsmithing skilling. This looks like my likely item. ( Cut to decrease spam for the 99% of my uninterested flist. )