Bonecrafting 101

[Target_Master]

maybe you should make bone arrow heads until you reach level 8, then take the exam to reach 10 and *then* continue with the bone rings. I'm only at level 6 myself but if you're worried about the success rate then you can try something a little easier until you can the exam.

[arctic]

Actually, bone rings will keep giving you skill ups until 18. I kept doing them unti lt that point, did bone masks until 19.6, then switched to beetle rings. I quit beetle rings at 24.8. I am now making gelatin. The recipe is 1 Giant Femur + 1 Distilled Water + Fire Crystal = 4 Gelatin. On my server, Giant femurs are only 400-600 per femur, and gelatin is 2k-2.9k per stack.

Also, if you are in a LS, ask people for help. The majority of bonecrafting materials are fairly "worthless" and I haven't bought any materials since 13 skill.

One more thing is to remember excavation. I go excavating in Tahrongi Canyon and Shakhrami Maze just about every day now. Costs about 2.4k for 12 pickaxes. I can dig up chicken bones, giant femurs, bat fangs, bone chips, scorpion shells, turtle shells, all kinds of materials.

The worst material I've farmed so far is the beetle jaw. The drop rate is abysmal.

That's all my advice. I'm at 25 skill now.

[SerraWiz]

I just got my bonecrafting to 6, i'm working with bone arrowheads right now. I've seen that the max lvl for those is 9, so im planning to stick with them until then. I was planning to attempt bone rings at 9, but now i'm giving that some more thought after reading this thread. Also i really hate crafting tons of lower lvl rings..takes forever to get rid of them all. I made so many shell rings... still trying to sell those.

[PedaTeda]

LoL i know how u feel im still selling a shell ring from 2months ago................................i put it in my bazarr for 30 gil ! still no buy ^^

[Target_Master]

Hmm, I never had much of a problem selling my shell rings, I probably didn't make as many as you did though. I only made shell rings when I had space in the AH to put them.
I still have two shell rings that I kept and they're both +1 rings so I wear em, just for now, I'll change em eventually, lol.

My bone craft skill is level 9 and I make bone earrings. Well... I've really only made 2 so far but bone earrings is what I'm gonna focus on next.
Pretty simple receipe, I can mine the bone chips and buy brass ingots for a very small price in bastok compared to other regions.
I don't travel cities everyday or anything, I just buy a lot of what I know I'm gonna want then store em in my mog safe until I wanna use them.

In response to the first poster, I find it to be good advice, but I don't think it's very good to start trying to make the bone ring at level 7. I tried, and I only had about a 40% success rate, the materials are cheaper yes which is why I know you used it, but I figure for me personally I'll stay with bone earrings till.... level 11 or so and *then* I'll go to bone rings.
Just a matter of personal taste.

This is a good thread overall though, very helpful for am amature.... (well recruit) bone worker, lol.

[711rocks]

just sell the shell rings to npc shops/boneworking guild itself

[Target_Master]

lol, now that I think about it that's what I used to do with em. The price in the AH was either the same or not much better than the store price so I just sold the items back to the guild for instant cash. All you guys who need to rid yourselves of shell rings should sell it back to the guild unless of course it's a +1 item...... which you couldn't sell back even if you wanted to, at least not through their normal inventory...

[Target_Master]

I'm kinda curious about something that doesn't really have to do with synthing for the bone weavers, it's more to do with the collecting of materials for them.

I reside in windurst on the game and I recently started going to tahrongi canyon to mine my own materials. Now, this is my first day doing it but with the loss of 4 pick axes I mined up 2 turtle shells, 3 chicken bones, 3 bone chips and 2 bat fangs. There was also a little worm but i dropped that cause i had no more inventory space, lol.

Now, I paid about 2,900 gil for a stack of 12 pick axes, but the stuff I dug up altogether was worth about 8000 gil and I only used a third of my axes.
What I want to know is, did I just get some lucky digs because if not I don't see why everyone doesn't just farm for materials. I mean, the turtle shells are worth 2000 each and I can't use them for a good while cause I'm only rank 9 so I sold those, 4000 total. Chicken bones I *could* use for gelatin, but they're worth 1000 each and a stack of gelatin is only worth 2,900 so I ain't gonna waste my gil on that, lol. It takes two chicken bones and a distilled water to make one gelatin which is about 2000 gil's worth of materials right there. I dug up 3 of those and sold em for 3000 gil profit.

The bone chips and bat fangs are the only things I kept.

If it really is this much more profitable to mine your own stuff then I'll be able to start buying crystals soon enough instead of working for them with all the extra gil.
Heh, 1 turtle shell could buy me a stack of wind crystals with gil to spare, gotta love it.



Btw, anyone have any suggestions for a boneworker at skill level 9? I've already taken the exam so my rank title is recruit.
Btw, does taking the exam improve ur odds of success or does it just raise the cap?
I figure right now I'll just stick to making Bone Earrings, I travel to Bastok for the brass ingots and farm the bone chips. Get about 500 profit off that. Can anyone tell me if the Fang Necklace would be a good follow up? Or should I just go straight to Bone Ring?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!


P.S. Sorry for the long post, lol

[Dantay]

Thanks for the Great thread. im happy too see im not the only one who has taken up bonecrafting im lvl 62 now... still not makeing any sort of profit :confused: But im almost @ 72 where i can make the +3 Int and Mnd rings they go for about 100k each on fenrir and cost maybe 5k @ most too make +3 is the +1type of its kind thou so its still rare But i hope we can have more people poston Bonecrafting as i spend about 100k on 1 maybe 2 skill up's atm :angel: would be nice too get a little help from here on out. BTW nice thing i found at lvl 50 was i was able too make Scorpian Rings lvl 60 skill with advance synth support these cost very little too make and sell well too npc got me all the way too 60 with very littl cash lost. any sorry too drag on for so long and thanks for the thread again hope too hear more soon. bye. btw this is my first post... Hello!

[Dantay]

Hello again :confused:
fogot too but this in my last msg but i just recently made a Titanicus shell there arnt any in the AH in Fenrir apart fom the one i bought and sold for 1gil G_G and i was woundering does anyone know what i use this for/too make or how much its worth.
Thanks

[Vipex]

Very high lvl bone craft is it used for:

Gavial Cuisses Bonecraft (94) and Leathercraft (0)
Gavial Finger Gauntlets Bonecraft (96)
Gavial Greaves Bonecraft (99)
Gavial Mask Bonecraft (100)

[Dantay]

but u can make the Titanicus shell (main Part in all of these) @ lvl 37BC with [Thunder crystal & Titanicus(20k on Fenrir)]
Just made one the other Day there was none ever sold in AH so i stuck it in for 200k... well i can only hope..... LOL!:spin:

[PedaTeda]

niiice...post if and when it sells

[Dantay]

something eles i forgot about is from lvl 53-60 when u make Scorp rings a good way too save money is too De-synth the item after (ie. Scorpian Ring + Thunder crystal = Scorpian shell) that way u can sit in windurst for hours just poping to the AH every now and again for more crystals

[Target_Master]

Hmm, can you do that with any item? Say.... After I make a bone ring with a wind crystal, bone chip, and sheep tooth. I take a bone ring and lightning crystal to get my materials back?

I can break even by selling my rings, even make a profit if I sell in jeuno but If I could I'd rather just reuse the materials to get more points rather than make 12 bone rings at a time then have to try to get rid of them.... sighs.