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neighbortaru wrote:
oh wow! thanks so much for posting the CoP screens. Gives me something to look forward to when I get it.
there's something I've always been meaning to ask you (and forgive me if you've covered this aready), but do you mind telling me how you got the shaded specs. I heard you have to enter into some kind of contract with the GS guild and trade items to them, is that correct? How long and how much did it take to get them?
Thanks.
your eager reader.
To neighbortaru: The Shaded Specs is a goldsmithing guildpoint item. It was implemented in a past patch for ways for high level crafters to go beyond the 100 point maximum in any given craft. This is how you end up HQ'ing level 100 recipes. Each guild has 3 items. One item that does +1 to your craft, and then an apron that does +2 to your craft. There is a 3rd item that is furniture. It supposedly helps in your synthing too. Once you go into a contract with one guild, you cannot start a contract with another unless you cancel your current contract. I do believe all guild points are lost when you cancel a contract.
I don't know about the other guilds, but the first goldsmithing item costs 70000 guild points. This is the Shaded Specs. Guild points are obtained by trading a certain item the guild asks for to an NPC. Depending on the crafting difficulty of the item they request, you can gain anywhere from 1000 guild points to about 6000. Recipes range from simple to really hard and cheap to really expensive.
I spent many weeks everyday at the goldsmithing guild trying to submit the right item. Some items are really easy to make but low on trade-in points (such as copper hairpins.) I had to make about 25 of these to get about 2000 points and that was the cap for the day. As you can tell, that's 25 fire crystals and copper ingots. Well that's a hefty amount plus I had to make my own copper ingots. The price per item was very bad on this recipe.
Well sometimes you run into the fact that the components to make a certain item aren't for sale. I had to skip a couple recipes for that day just because the item they asked for was rare. An example was the Mythril Gorget:
Mythril Gorget - Level 56
Gold Ingot　x1
Jadeite　x1
Mythril Chain x1
Mythril Sheet　x1
Mercury x1
Well all those items are really easy to get except the Jadeite. The Jadeite is an HQ2 synthesis of the Green Rock. As you know, HQing something at a certain degree is just luck. The problem I had with that recipe is that there were 0 green rocks on sale in all the cities as well as 0 jadeites. I had to skip this day's recipe. I would've bought the Mythril Gorget from the AH too, but nobody ever makes these.
Another example is when the guild asked for the Chain Choker:
Chain Choker - Level 39
Garnet　x1
Silver Chain ×2
Again, this is a really easy recipe. Problem? Garnet is an HQ1 of the Red Rock. None were on sale in all cities but red rocks were. I bought about 20 red rocks and I only got 2 garnets. I either kept getting NQs (Sardonyx) or HQ2s (Sunstones). The Goldsmithing "gods" were against me that day.
To sum it up, I probably spent about 1 million gil on these glasses. It took me a month and a half (crafting everyday, skipping only about 3-5 days total). Hope this answers your question.
oh wow! thanks so much for posting the CoP screens. Gives me something to look forward to when I get it.
there's something I've always been meaning to ask you (and forgive me if you've covered this aready), but do you mind telling me how you got the shaded specs. I heard you have to enter into some kind of contract with the GS guild and trade items to them, is that correct? How long and how much did it take to get them?
Thanks.
your eager reader.
To neighbortaru: The Shaded Specs is a goldsmithing guildpoint item. It was implemented in a past patch for ways for high level crafters to go beyond the 100 point maximum in any given craft. This is how you end up HQ'ing level 100 recipes. Each guild has 3 items. One item that does +1 to your craft, and then an apron that does +2 to your craft. There is a 3rd item that is furniture. It supposedly helps in your synthing too. Once you go into a contract with one guild, you cannot start a contract with another unless you cancel your current contract. I do believe all guild points are lost when you cancel a contract.
I don't know about the other guilds, but the first goldsmithing item costs 70000 guild points. This is the Shaded Specs. Guild points are obtained by trading a certain item the guild asks for to an NPC. Depending on the crafting difficulty of the item they request, you can gain anywhere from 1000 guild points to about 6000. Recipes range from simple to really hard and cheap to really expensive.
I spent many weeks everyday at the goldsmithing guild trying to submit the right item. Some items are really easy to make but low on trade-in points (such as copper hairpins.) I had to make about 25 of these to get about 2000 points and that was the cap for the day. As you can tell, that's 25 fire crystals and copper ingots. Well that's a hefty amount plus I had to make my own copper ingots. The price per item was very bad on this recipe.
Well sometimes you run into the fact that the components to make a certain item aren't for sale. I had to skip a couple recipes for that day just because the item they asked for was rare. An example was the Mythril Gorget:
Mythril Gorget - Level 56
Gold Ingot　x1
Jadeite　x1
Mythril Chain x1
Mythril Sheet　x1
Mercury x1
Well all those items are really easy to get except the Jadeite. The Jadeite is an HQ2 synthesis of the Green Rock. As you know, HQing something at a certain degree is just luck. The problem I had with that recipe is that there were 0 green rocks on sale in all the cities as well as 0 jadeites. I had to skip this day's recipe. I would've bought the Mythril Gorget from the AH too, but nobody ever makes these.
Another example is when the guild asked for the Chain Choker:
Chain Choker - Level 39
Garnet　x1
Silver Chain ×2
Again, this is a really easy recipe. Problem? Garnet is an HQ1 of the Red Rock. None were on sale in all cities but red rocks were. I bought about 20 red rocks and I only got 2 garnets. I either kept getting NQs (Sardonyx) or HQ2s (Sunstones). The Goldsmithing "gods" were against me that day.
To sum it up, I probably spent about 1 million gil on these glasses. It took me a month and a half (crafting everyday, skipping only about 3-5 days total). Hope this answers your question.
Unfortunately that sounds rather depressing 
I only know a few of the NA LSes on our server. Hope you find a good one. I would point you to some of the ones I do like that aren't HNMLS but I don't know if they are recruiting (or who the leaders are).
The one for my dream character is a shot of that place the boy shows you when he gives you that mysterious amulet (which many of us guess is Al'Taieu); that place is pretty. ^^
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