Bonecrafting 101

[Fire]

i just made rings up to 60~ with little to no loss npc'ing them or desynth

[onorok]

Now I'm rollin'

Since 54.0 I decided I would try and get all the materials myself figuring a two item synth isn't too hard. So far so good, I've collected about 6 or 7 wind clusters, and paying attention to the day, I've been synthing the scorpion shells as soon as I get them. Selling to the guild usually, and I'm actually stocking up some gil for gear upgrades.

[guyincorporated]

Nice! Can you turn a profit selling scorp rings to the guild (assuming you buy them...of course you profit if you have no costs hehe)? If I recall correctly, scorpion shells always seem to hover around 1k apiece.

So I started rolling along making scorpion arrowheads. They're going to be my new best friend. I managed to buy about 18 scoripon claws yesterday in windurst for only 300 gil apiece!!!

So I got about a point and a half yesterday, it was funny, I either got .2 skill or nothing. So now I'm at 47 and can still profit off scorp arrowheads for a good long while.

.8 skill and 14k guildpoints to my pimpin' sunglasses! /joy

[onorok]

Originally posted by guyincorporated
Nice! Can you turn a profit selling scorp rings to the guild (assuming you buy them...of course you profit if you have no costs hehe)? If I recall correctly, scorpion shells always seem to hover around 1k apiece.

Yeah, the guild is buying them for 507 each on my server. I thought about putting them in bazaar or AH, but honestly, only about 2 sell per day in Jeuno, and none sell anywhere else.

[Fire]

got Lv90 bonecraft today! and then .1 right after that ;p so 90.1 and now i need to start finding something new to synth ;/
the glasses are hawt btw, ill post a pic tommorrow if i remember ;p

[onorok]

Originally posted by Fire
got Lv90 bonecraft today! and then .1 right after that ;p so 90.1 and now i need to start finding something new to synth ;/
the glasses are hawt btw, ill post a pic tommorrow if i remember ;p

Nice one. Congrats!

[KingPred]

what should i craft from 64 to 70? ;;

[guyincorporated]

Ding, 50! And I'm getting my sunglasses today, too!!

Scorpion arrowheads have been very very good to me =D.

Lets see, 2 wind crystals (300g) + 2 bone chips (300g) + 2 Scorpion claws (600-1000g) = 1 dozen arrowheads (3500g). At the worst, that's still over 100% profit on a skillup synth!

sweeeeet.

[onorok]

I hit 60 last night! Scorpion shells were hard to farm up, so I was buying when I could and crafting on days which would have better skill up rates. It was full moon on a Windsday. Already turned in the craftsman exam item, but I'm now going to work on getting leathercraft to 60 and decide my path from there.

[guyincorporated]

I got my sunglasses yesterday! Suck it, everyone who doesn't have them!

[Target_Master]

Hah, you guys are so far above me it's not even funny. I'm still at lvl 43 bonecrafting cause I haven't played in about a month.

On the plus side though.... I'm 6/24 on spike necklaces. First time I made 12 in one go and got 2/12 without adv support. Second time I got 4/12 with adv support. Both were on darksday close to 0%. I don't remember the exact moonphase for the first attempt but the second attempt was 2% Darksday.

Those necklaces cost about 2k to make and I sell mine for 11-12k on the Garuda server. I love it so much, they sell best in Windurst too. They probably sell well in Jeuno since it's a lvl 21 item but I haven't checked there yet. People in Kazham buy spike's too so I'll just peddle my wares there for now.

Next thing for me is scorp arrowheads, I'll fail a bunch for the first 2 lvls but meh, the items are worth like 600 gil total so if I fail I really don't care. The gil that I make off the spike necklaces is the gil I'll be using to level up my crafting from here on out and the higher I get the greater my spike > fang ration will be.

I'll update later, take care fellow crafters.

[dRqmist]

is there any rules to price change in the guild shop?
I synthing bone ring and selling it back to npc and i noticed selling price of it range between like 330 to 470ish depending on the day... is there certain days when it's the price goes higher or is it totally random?

[Target_Master]

I think it's dependent on how many items have been sold to the guild. When I used to sell bone rings to the guild the price went down if I sold more until they just stopped accepting them.

Buying materials works in the same fashion. If you guys a bunch of the same item over a few days you'll see the price increase until you can no longer buy anymore.

I buy bone arrows and sell them to the AH, they cost 3 gil each in the bone guild and go for 800 a stack. But I can only buy about 150 before they're all sold out. If I go to buy more the next day they'll only have about 20 and they'll be 6 gil each.

Basically all the Guilds have their own stocks like real stores. If they get too much of something they pay less for it and sell it for less and if they lose too much of something they'll sell it for more and pay more for it.

[Target_Master]

Well, after a day of semi-frustrating crafting I'm now at 46.1 Bonecrafting. I started making scorpion arrowheads at lvl 44 bonecrafting and yes, even with adv support that's low and I expected to fail a bunch, lol. So that's why it wasn't fully frustrating.

Now that I'm at 46.1 next time I synth the failures shoudln't be so bad, and once I get to 53 bonecrafting I'll probably have about a guarenteed 33%+ success rate on Spike Necklaces. I love making those things. I made 4 as I prevoiusly mentioned and sold each one for 12k in windurst. In jeuno they sell like hot cakes, but they sell for 8-9k. Windurst, I was the only one selling, so I rose price to 12k and (assuming it's them) the people in Kazham buy it cause they have no choice, lol. Most don't know any better or can't be bothered to fly over to jeuno cause they wanna get back to xp'in.

Considering it only costs about 2k to make a spike necklace (give or take 500 gil) selling for 12k is huge profit. ...and to think, I'll be making profit off of scorpion arrowheads while making profit of that too, win win, lol.


Oh yeah... guyincorporated... notice any difference with shades or do they just look cool?

[guyincorporated]

I haven't crafted enough with them, but I doubt I'll ever really notice a change. But I'm ok with that. I really bought them for the looks and prestige.