Quote Originally Posted by Nyalia View Post
Some quick math: At 72 skill, you have a 54% chance of success. Let's call that a 50% chance. The cost is 6k for the sandals. You can get FC3s with about a 20% chance, and last time I checked, FC3s were going for 50k each on my server. At 50% of 20%, chances are that you'll get one FC3 per 10 desynth attempts, and 5 of those attempts were successes. If you sell/use the FC3s, that means that you've spent 60k to gain 50k, net cost of 10k, and you had 5 successes, for 2k per success. At 2k per success, and about 0.5-0.35 skill per success, that's 40k to get from 72 skill to 80 skill. And, that's not factoring in the value of the other items you can get, which include Hard Hippogryph Leather. HQ Hard Hippogryph Leather sells very nicely on my server (about 50k each), meaning if I were to do this, I would likely *gain* money while gaining skill.

So, if you find a cheaper way to do this for ANY craft, please let me know!

WVR can do similar with the pants, but the item costs double, but the HQ Vanya Silk you can get from it sells for about 180k on my server last I checked, so I'm not sure how that works out.


EDIT: Also, 54% is TOTALLY a viable percentage :P I leveled BSM from 75 to 90 using Summoning Bells, which started at 22.5% and cost me 20k each to make. This is more than half the cost and more than double the chances.
I wish I did summoning Bells when they were 20K Each. Now Treated Sprice Lumber is 100K each. Cost of Bells is rediculous.