So, um, what can I do with 60 alchemy?

[Lasareth]

I'm kind of on a downturn since pling my skill, and I need a good bit of gil. I've been hoping that doing all this could have gotten me somewhere, but all I seem to be able to profit on are tsurara HQs (to vendor, after farming for an hour in beaucedine -_-) and Wax Swords +1 (which sell slower than an Arete Del Sol on Bazaar in Ghelsba).

Does anyone have any ideas what I should do? Should I just keep up alchemy and make gil in other methods in the meantime? Or is there something I'm overlooking?

Thanks in advance.

[Icemage]

You're kidding, right? Level 60 alchemy and you can't find synths to make money? :p

Black Ink
Echo Drops
Silent Oil
Prism Powder
Sairui-Ran
... just to name a few.


Icemage

[Lasareth]

Out of all the synths I've tried, the only ones that seem to make a decent margin in are level 1-10 synths. My luck just may be piss poor, but I attempted to synth Mokuto +1s, and ended up with only one +1 out of 10 :dead:

I just can't get the end products to justify the cost--that and the fact that it takes up AH space makes me wonder what the heck the purpose is.

[PetriW]

Welcome to crafting.
Find a recipe noone is making, abuse that until others catch on then find another. Everytime it becomes common knowledge a recipe gives a nice return it turns to crap due to oversupply.

Still, with HQs you should be able to make several recipes without loss. I actually powerraised my Alchemy from 0 to 60 at a profit (took 2 days total, selling stuff off took a week), just need to keep your eyes open.

[janeping]

Depends on your server, it is possible that you can't make profit in alchemy with 60 skill. If you have a lot of 60s and 70s alchemist on your server, the margin on those 20-40 skill potions is out of hand.

When I started doing alchemy, I can make a profit on silent oil, prism powder without HQ syn. These days I need HQ to break even from time to time.

I don't know how others luck is, but for me, I didn't start consistently HQ syn silent oil until 90s in Alchemy. Prism powder, I still make more regular ones than the HQ ones. (25% or so I guess).

Don't overlook antidote, blinding potions potential profit either. You'll only get profit if you HQ syn on them though.

[Jifan]

Originally posted by PetriW
Welcome to crafting.
Find a recipe noone is making, abuse that until others catch on then find another. Everytime it becomes common knowledge a recipe gives a nice return it turns to crap due to oversupply.

Still, with HQs you should be able to make several recipes without loss. I actually powerraised my Alchemy from 0 to 60 at a profit (took 2 days total, selling stuff off took a week), just need to keep your eyes open.

PL Alchemy to 60... 2 days. What did you do?