Starting a Crafter

[Lilianne]

Good luck!

The market on my server is flooded with botting crafters. Hard to sell stuff, because you get undercut by botters flooding the market with stuff.

Of course, when you have people with multiple crafts max level within a week or two of release (non legacy) you knew botting was an issue. I still laugh when I see people with 4 + craft classes maxed, thinking that it's not obvious they botted.

How many threads are you going to go on about all these "crafting bots." As someone who has literally manually leveled all of my crafting classes it's starting to get offensive. Guess what, some of us have massive gil amounts from the first wave of pre relics when we all had a single craft leveled. Gil + triple HQ leves = increadably easy craft leveling. Maybe we all just actually spent the time focusing more on the crafting side of things and can flood the market because we can?

[MithrasInvictus]

Maybe we all just actually spent the time focusing more on the crafting side of things and can flood the market because we can?

Just because we can, doesn't mean that we should. I never flood with my product, I hold it in store and release it in a set amount each day as things sell in order to try to retain a high value for my labour (similar to the way the real world diamond trade works). Flooding is unnecessary, and a serious pain in the butt! If you aren't sitting on an absurd amount of product, you won't need to clear it out at rock-bottom prices, you'll spend less time crafting to try to turn a profit, and your labour will be worth more.

[jpnova]

Now lets not go off topic, I was talking to a crafter in game and he suggested I get the following skills for cross classing.

In order of importance-

Tricks of Trade - ALC 15
Hasty Touch - CUL 15
Rumination- CRP 15
Steady Hands II - CUL 37
Byregot's Blessing- CRP 50
Innovation- GSM 50
Careful Synthesis II- WVR 50
Ingenuity II- BSM 50