Race to 50

[kukurumei]

Walnut Bread kind of sucks at 20. Chamomile Tea until La Noscean Toast at 45 wasn't too tedious, honestly. Maybe Acorn Cookies, but in all honesty, if I remember it right you only needed to craft the Rye Flour, the rest was immediately purchasable (Mineral Water and the Iron Acorns). It also helps realizing that the stuff like Table Salt adds so little to the Quality bar that you can just Quick Synth it without taking a blow to your conscience.

That said, my personal experiences were something like this so far:

Weaver/Armourer > Carpenter > Blacksmith > Leatherworking > Goldsmith/Culinarian > Alchemist

Just the fact that Weaver and Armourer uses so damn many components sends the shard usage skyrocketing. I'm tired of farming shards but I refuse to accidentally buy shards gathered by bots and funding the RMT. -_-

no way! Crp is way way easy.

On a cost+developement+cross class general anaylise

Easy: Alchemy
Easy-ish: Leather, Cooking
Middle: GSM, CRP
Hard: BSM/Armorer
Harder: Weaver

Some can be made easier like weaver that has very few cross class but lots of stages (mat->yarn->cloth -> clothes) but is overall terribly expensive and more expensive at the cost of quick synths, and this is not even including the farming of dirmite and fleece.

Some need considerable cross class materials like BSM, and thus make the tally much more cost infeffective and time consuming.

Some are made easier by applying "tricks" such as the the leatherwork and cooking, to vastly speed things up.

But overall, the easiest and most profitable and craft speed is alchemy (hi potion is godly) durring leveling