Items sold from Goldsmith crafting

[Sapphidia]

As more and more people have hit 50 Goldsmith and learned how to reliably HQ even the higher level items, there's just no real demand. You -can- always make a profit though. Without fail, the 49 jewellery, and the mythril and silver rings of Crafting (and similar craft/gather stuff) will sell for a few thousand each.

The problem though is that you're having to pay a thousand in mats to make each one. And the issue isnt just the raw mats. The biggest issue is Wind Shards.

Wind Shards, which are sitting at 50 gil each on my server, are the hidden cost of crafting. You can buy Electrum Ingots for 400 each, or make them yourself, but when you need 250-300 gil of shards just to make the ingot not counting the ore itself, then even if you mine the ore you'll barely break even. And spending time mining Wind Shards isnt especially profitable. It's easy but slow.

You can't really use Mining as a reason to state that it's profitable. Mining has a cost of -time-. Sure, you might mine all the ore you need for electrum jewellery. You might also mine all the wind shards you need. But that took you time, it can't be considered free. If being a miner made those appear magically in your inventory regularly, yes, mining would make it profitable. But you you spend an hour mining to make jewellery... you could have just bought the mining mats off the Market, and spent that hour crafting MORE stuff to sell for profit. Right now mining seems to have a really bad return on time investment.

If you craft a handful of desirable jewels each day, you'll sell them and make profit. But it wont be a big profit, and you'll probably find far better ways to spend time making money than sitting there crafting rings for 500 gil profit a go. I still find the biggest income for me is running AK/CM/whatever with 5 high quality 49 accessories on, then Converting and selling the materia. The only thing that being a goldsmith does is mean I save a couple of thousand by making the accessories myself rather than buying them all from the market.

[Selyndria]

Level 49 HQ jewelry + 2 CM runs = 100% spiritbond. Grade 3 materia. Helps to have 50 miner as there is 0 expense. Savage aim/might materia seem to be quite common and those go for 15k a piece on my server all day. Been working on my DL gear and making bank at the same time.