Looking for Crafting Tips

[Raikki]

There's really not a lot to it. Simply find a recipe a bit above or at least near your rank that takes materials you can acquire in large volume and do it over and over and over again. Factor in shard usage and how valuable the result is as well. Early on you'll be very frustrated by not having the training you need, but you'll get it sooner or later as long as you keep up with your leves and class quests. Make sure you get all of your local leves done every cycle, even though it can be a chore sometimes. It's also very important to properly prioritize the order in which you buy the training. Tanning and Cobbling are priorities because the bread and butter of grinding Leatherworking is turning hides into leathers into vamps (the first part taking tanning, the second taking cobbling). Later on (by rank 36 at the latest) you'll want to get Tawing to do Sheepskin into Fleece. Don't bother with getting facilities support if the recipe doesn't call for it. Likewise, if something asks for Common Tannery, you won't really benefit from splurging on Master Tannery.

With leatherworking in particular there will be times where it'll be best for your sanity to bridge a gap between one good recipe and the next by using local leves alone and not grinding. These are good times to go farming for hides! If you don't have a high rank combat class already prepare to level one up, because it's essential to Leatherworking. You might have had no problem with sheep and dodo, but buffalo and toad start getting expensive if you try to buy your way through, and you need a high rank (at least mid 40s) to farm toads well by yourself.

[Gracious]

Look up Genine Asura blog on the Lodestone for some tips on low level crafting receipes.