Ninja Magic Components

[ZQM]

I posted this in the crafting & synthensis forum, but someone might be able to answer my question here.

I'm a Ninja trying to get my carpentry up to make my own Shiheis. Can anybody tell me the cheapest route in getting my level up that high (29)? As in from 0-5 make blah, from 6-10 make blah, ect.

Thanks.

[Soliloquy]

There are a few posts in the crafting and synthesis forum that detail that... I think the post is titled "woodworking pre20s", but it might be some slight variation on that.

Arrows are generally a good idea, although if your failure rate is _very_ low (-10 from cap), you'll find that you lose more money than you might wish -- arrows and their ingredients are generally so marginal for cost that you won't see profit without 100% success rate, and that's iffy. However, arrows are generally _very_ cheap per synth, usually totalling not more than 500 gil and often less per synth. Post-20s, it's extremely hard to beat this with anything else, and so you may wish to start on, say, beetle arrows or horn arrows 10 levels before cap -- 29 and 39 respectively (though caps are 10 levels higher). I liked boomerangs in the teens, 'cause I was able to make a tiny bit of profit off that, but didn't find anything else that I was able to during those levels.

You might wish to get woodworking to the 40s or so, and alchemy to the 20s, for bast parchment. It's used in many ninja tool synths, and you can save money by synthing it yourself, and even more by logging. Speaking of which, does anyone have any tips for logging for elm? Was thinking about it, but not sure if it's worth the time and cost. Is Ghelsba OK?

Sairui-ran's missing ingredient is Kazham peppers, and for the life of me I can't remember what Kodoku's is. >< I can check next time I'm in Bastok, if anyone really cares. =X