Bonecrafting 101

[DocTerror]

Ok so I've gotten bonecrafting to 24 and I started looking at some of the high level things you can make like Gavial armor and such and I couldnt find one thing that sold for more then 90k. Is there no uber item you can make at say 100 bonecraft that would bring in alot of cash?

[Zelld]

Scorpion Harness.

[onorok]

And for the scorpion harnass you'll also need leathercraft skill, probably around 30-ish bare minimum. The venomous claw sells for 4.6 million, at least on Valefor, but I've heard of people getting the drop and then paying a bonecrafter 100k gil and supplying the materials, and then giving another 400k or so if they get a +1 of it.

Anyways, this weekend I managed to get my hands on two demon horns :spin: LS took a big skill up party to fight demons and let me go along. Basically everyone got a nice item before being allowed to lot again on the next batch of nice items. I lucked out getting the two horns, plus some other stuff worth a good amount of gil. Crafted both during new moon, forget which day, and had success on both and a 0.1 skill up.

So my plan now is to let the LS know, and any woodcrafters, that I will craft demon arrowheads for anyone that supplies the horn. I'll supply the bone chip and wind crystal. A stack of demon arrowheads seems to be sitting at 31k on all AH's, horns are 12k, so the selling point is 24k vs. 31k. Already had one friend take me up on it, so hopefully more follow suit. And leathercraft is rolling along nicely, will probably hit 20 by the next darksday I can get on.

Oh yeah, and have any of you been reading about this element direction theory that is popping up? Basically craft facing in the direction that corresponds to the element chart you can see when talking to specific NPCs. I tried it out, not sure if it's true or not but yesterday I crafted 7 spike necklaces (HQ) out of 12 fang necklace synths; full moon, darksday, facing south (earth element). Last time I tried 12 on a full moon darksday I had 1 spike necklace. Anyways, the other synths I did yesterday, dark crystal is south also, and wind crystal is southeast.

[Fire]

10 successfull harness
2 unsuccessfull harness
1 HQ harness

and as for the failures :/ both claws lost ; ; and not really much you can say except sorry. :/ this game is trash when it comes to crafting. Failed on fucking full moon earth day with 90bone/52leather, glasses, and guild support... wtf is that?

[Timoham]

Just got to 60 bone tonight (yayayay) and decided fuck woodworking (first craft I took to 60) and broke my contract with the guild to start getting the sunglasses. I've also decided I want to go to 100 with it. I've got a question though... how do you higher ups get known and contacted for a scorpion harness or other such stuff? Just hope someone notices or does word spread quickly? I wouldn't really worry about it not getting around too much if I didn't stick to one linkshell with a pretty tight knit group of friends so the word wouldn't just spread itself around without me putting a lot of effor into it. :\

[guyincorporated]

Question for you guys:

I got my craft on for the first time in a week or so:
I was at about 53.5 and was making scorpion rings with hq support and sunglasses ^^. I made 27 rings in about 35 synths (not bad in my opinion), and I got about 1.1 skillgain. A little slow, but oh well.

So the stupid rings only sell back for 450-500, so I thought I'd try desynthing them. I used 28 lightning crystals and only got 13 successes, and whats worse: I got -=ZERO=- skillups. Was this just a rediculous fluke, or is the desynth recipe too low or what?

[Timoham]

Desynthing is horrible skill ups in general for every craft. It's pretty rare that you get skill from a desynth. :\ Also I've found that desynths take more skill to do successfully than it would take to make the recipe.

[onorok]

Scorpion facemasks were the guild point item for me yesterday, and my leather was at the point I was making ram leather for skill ups, so I managed to make about 24 masks, got about 1.6 skill on bone, and set-up a bazaar out front selling the extra masks. Hopefully they've sold.

And doing a second craft to 60 is a lot easier after what I learned doing bone to 60. I'm actually making a nice profit on leather at the point I'm at.

[onorok]

Originally posted by Timoham
Desynthing is horrible skill ups in general for every craft. It's pretty rare that you get skill from a desynth. :\ Also I've found that desynths take more skill to do successfully than it would take to make the recipe.

Yeah, the more I tried desynthing, the more I realized it was a waste of supplies. I did get about 0.4 skill up desynthing roughly 24 solea when I started out leather, but after that I decided desynthing was not a good idea.

[Timoham]

Item on midgard was scorpion masks too. Maybe it's universal? I never really thought about that.

[onorok]

Originally posted by Timoham
Item on midgard was scorpion masks too. Maybe it's universal? I never really thought about that.

Quite possibly. I guess people of a certain rank are on the same cycle. I wish I could find out what the item was without having to go to Windurst every day. This one forum I joined recently has a thread tracking the guild point value of each item:

http://s7.invisionfree.com/TheCraft/...?showtopic=143

I'm 1/4 the way to that bone enhancement item. Going to get that before I get glasses, and honestly, I just really want the apron.

[Fire]

should build up all the points u can at low level bonecraft :/ all iget asked for is shit like shofar and behemoth ring for guild points :/ its so ass i want to /cry cuz i cant get key items;;

[Timoham]

Wow, I didn't really think that guild point items were related to your rank but it makes sense. That really sucks. Glad I found out about it earlish though so I don't get screwed the same way you did. :\ That's a bit fucked up.

[onorok]

Originally posted by Fire
should build up all the points u can at low level bonecraft :/ all iget asked for is shit like shofar and behemoth ring for guild points :/ its so ass i want to /cry cuz i cant get key items;;

It never cycles back to low level stuff? Hmm. If that's the case I might stop bone at 70.0 until I can get all the stuff I want. Do you know what the second key item is? I'm guessing it gets offered when you get artisan rank.

[Fire]

nah man i slacked off after i got my glasses lol :/ if i had known guild points were gonna be more important i woulda kept it up but i only got 10k points now :/ still 30k for first one;; and it does cycle back down but not as much.