What do we do now?

[GenJoe]

I leveled up my weaponsmith and I ended up not making any money unlike people who do clothing.

Blacksmith actually makes decent money by making artisan off hands.. But that's beside the point, crafting 3star+ can't be a specialized effort and you need to do all of them. By the sounds of it, you don't really like crafting all that much and I don't think there's a reason for you to pursue it.


For me, I'm just trying to save up gil for the FC airship. Other than that, I'm just playing like I normally do, while trying to catch up on MSQ and working on my alt (crafter only deal, you don't really need one) in my spare time. Clearing some pve content.


Remember this though, if you haven't cleared all the raids and duties yet, come Heavensward, you'll probably never get to experience them as they're meant to be.. Since everyone will be horribly overgeared and lvl sync'd down for the old content. So if you haven't done those and you have any interest in them, I'd suggest you do it. Not for the gear, but because this will likely be your only chance to experience them.

[Lemuria]

Blacksmith actually makes decent money by making artisan off hands.. But that's beside the point, crafting 3star+ can't be a specialized effort and you need to do all of them. By the sounds of it, you don't really like crafting all that much and I don't think there's a reason for you to pursue it.

The irony is that the costs involved to get to 3-star on every craft exceed any profits you're likely to make from it. Prices are constantly being flattened by those who had the initial capital to hit 3-star early on and are now progressing through 4-star crafts.

Unless you had the early advantage (ie, being rich), getting a foothold in the market is an expensive and long-term investment. And yes, I'm a 3-star crafter myself working on 4-star for weaver currently.

[GenJoe]

The irony is that the costs involved to get to 3-star on every craft exceed any profits you're likely to make from it. Prices are constantly being flattened by those who had the initial capital to hit 3-star early on and are now progressing through 4-star crafts.

That is true and off-topic but I'll add my two cents.

The reason that model fails to make you money is because you're playing your part in a pyramid. The top tier get all the money because well, everybody below them is their customer hence generating revenue for them. Second tier of crafters have people in tier 3 to sell to, PLUS competition from the top tier, and occasionally need to feed more money into tier 1.. Third tier, has to compete against Tiers 1 and 2 and has an even narrower customer base.

How can you work around this? Simple, sell something that EVERY crafter needs, 4 stars or 2 stars. Make the 4 star crafters open up their wallets and spend their money.. This is hard to do because they can literally make just about everything on their own.. So where can you find their weak spots? Time! and.. RNG!

Specialize in items that are tedious and time consuming with heavy RNG influence.If you can find an item that meets the criteria and has high demand from crafters and you can make ALL the crafters your customers because not everybody wants to do the dirty work of crafting for hours just to have RNG screw you over