Should I level DoL classes to 50 before leveling my DoH Classes?

[Aeyis]

You're paying something for it either way.

Mining your materials looks to be free, but you're still paying by way of not selling it. There's no difference between buying 50,000 gil worth of mats and farming up 50,000 gil worth of mats and then choosing not to sell them. Additionally mining takes TIME - both to level your miner, and to gather up the mats you need. That's time you could have spent crafting (and earning more money), or doing other things in the game that you might enjoy.

That isn't to say that mining is useless. You guarantee yourself supplies. You might like the notion of building stuff with materials you gathered up yourself. You might just like mining as something to do when you have some time to kill.

That's not correct. You will have obtained the materials yourself, and as such ''earned money''.

Hence why gathering your own materials if you have the time, is typically the best thing to do.


Altho the crafting expensives are the same, if you gather you earn part of it back right away.


Typically while leveling a crafting class it only loses you money rather then earning it.

[AngelKode]

These suggestions make a lot of sense. I was riding on the fact that I knew I wanted to get my gathering classes to 50 at some point but I was trying to do it in a way that would maximize profits overall.

For example, I wouldn't want to get all my DoH classes to 50 then start working on DoL because that would just be unnecessarily expensive. I ask because I wanted to see if there was something I'm missing.

I guess I'll just go ahead and farm/leves while I'll level up my ninja with the duty finder lol.

[Viviza]

It's nice to have some degree of independence from the price fluctuations, strange stack quantities, and availability of the marketboard.
(Especially on smaller servers, where prices & availability of mats generally isn't as good as on higher population servers)

True.

Hence why gathering your own materials if you have the time, is typically the best thing to do.

Typically while leveling a crafting class it only loses you money rather then earning it.

Time has value. If you can earn money faster than you can mine it, you may as well do that, buy the mats, and come out ahead.

[Aeyis]

True.





Time has value. If you can earn money faster than you can mine it, you may as well do that, buy the mats, and come out ahead.

This is true, but people in this thread are kind of forgetting that the OP still has to level his classes. Buying mats en large while leveling will only cost him large amounts of gil.

In addition he would have to collect a lot of materials that he cannot sell (but also cant use since his crafters are already past that the level where they need them), making his DoL leveling time less effective.


Time is money, and using own items still means you used their gil worth; thats only one side of the coin.
The other side is that if you do have the time, then you can turn that time into money by gathering. And obtaining value without spending any that way.
Crafting always costs money, the question is just whether you will obtain more from selling what you crafted then you originally invested.
Starting from scratch, without a gathering buffer to fall back on (you can always gather materials for a craft yourself when you are short on gil funding) is not something I would advice for a leveling crafter that does not know his markets.