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From what I've been able to tell, the FFXI tradeskills are full of hurt, requiring lots of time and investment to get anywhere, and the NPCs are about as helpful as rocks when it comes to getting good advice, so instead I decided to inflict my noobishness on y'all with these questions:
What does one need to do with tradeskills and gathering skills to make the most profit while adventuring? I don't mean to ever spend hours forging swords, I just want to be able to make the most of the random things that fall off of monsters. I've got insect wings and lizard tails and other assorted junk, none of it's worth anything to the NPC stores. I'd like to be able to actually use the monster junk for stuff that's useful to me, or stuff that's better to sell, and that's as far as my tradeskill aspirations go.
Ditto for the above with HELM; not looking to spend a whole evening mining, but if there's decent money in mining a rock that I'm walking past anyways, I'd like to mine it. But the tools to mine and harvest seem a bit pricey to my level 8 finances, and I understand they have a bad habit of breaking, so I'm leery of buying pickaxes to carry around with me.
So I guess you could call me a casual tradeskiller, I want to make the most of gathering and tradeskilling opportunities that I find during my travels, but am not looking to go down a pure tradeskill path and forge legendary weapons and armor or spend the hours of time and millions of gil involved in that dedication.
Any advice would be appreciated!
What does one need to do with tradeskills and gathering skills to make the most profit while adventuring? I don't mean to ever spend hours forging swords, I just want to be able to make the most of the random things that fall off of monsters. I've got insect wings and lizard tails and other assorted junk, none of it's worth anything to the NPC stores. I'd like to be able to actually use the monster junk for stuff that's useful to me, or stuff that's better to sell, and that's as far as my tradeskill aspirations go.
Ditto for the above with HELM; not looking to spend a whole evening mining, but if there's decent money in mining a rock that I'm walking past anyways, I'd like to mine it. But the tools to mine and harvest seem a bit pricey to my level 8 finances, and I understand they have a bad habit of breaking, so I'm leery of buying pickaxes to carry around with me.
So I guess you could call me a casual tradeskiller, I want to make the most of gathering and tradeskilling opportunities that I find during my travels, but am not looking to go down a pure tradeskill path and forge legendary weapons and armor or spend the hours of time and millions of gil involved in that dedication.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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