Quote Originally Posted by MN_14 View Post
Hmm, one actual surefire way of earning a constant stream of income would be to get into desynthing yourself, but you'd need 3 million gil or so to start.
If you do it right, you can level desynth while making a profit, or at least, while making back nearly as much gil as you are spending. I've been going on about this for a while. At many levels, there is an item that desynths for materials worth about as much as the item cost to acquire. Brass Rings of Crafting are the best example of this. Bridesmaid's Sandals were another for the longest time (I leveled from 60-100 LTW for a grand total price of negative forty million gil). Serpentskin Hunting Belt of Scouting/Striking is a post-50 example - that one just took me from 165 LTW dSkill to 168 for a total cost of negative one million gil.

Desynth is so much more profitable than crafting right now, it's kinda sad. And you don't have to craft anything to level desynth post 50. You are far, far better off buying NQ items from vendors and buying quest rewards off the MB for a pittance.


I really need to update my guide's OP, but I've been posting tips to the thread in the interim, and I have a spreadsheet that tells you the cheapest way to level desynth for GSM, LTW, and BSM (more will come later) which updates dynamically with the prices of mats on the Faerie server.