I need some help picking my craft

[juniglee]

Thanks for the comments everyone. So if I level goldsmith and not other classes then it will take me longer to get HQ items because of the lack of cross class skills requiring me to spend more money on material. If I level mining along side it then it will save me the money correct?

I speak from experience here as someone who has no other lv15 cross class skills (I am working on getting them now however), and already have a lv50 GSM.

You won't be able to craft the 1-star or 2-star items (or at least HQ them with NQ materials), but you should be able to craft all other things. The class itself is fairly self-contained - most of the stuff you need for GSM can be gotten simply via mining, or crafted materials from the GSM class itself - you hardly need crafted materials from other classes (ie. yarns, cloth, lumber, plates, rivets, oil, glue, etc). Mining gives you all the ore you need for GSM.

Once you hit 50, you can even craft your own HQ ilv49 accessories or crafting accessories to spiritbond with. And they are fairly easy to craft without many of the Lv15 cross class skills.

The only caveat I can think of is that you can't get HQ miner accessories from GSM, with the exception of earrings - they're all made from LTW. However, it's perfectly easy to level up Miner without any +GP from accessories. In fact, what you can do is craft some accessories via GSM (for example, sunstone/danburite/malachite accessories pre-38, heliodor/goshenite/aquamarine accessories from 38 to 46, and amber/zircon/spinel accessories from 46 to 50), then spiritbond them as you mine, and break them down for materia.