Make crafting more complex.

[Capita]

I'm making money crafting 3 DoH at the same time. 1 of which is considered a huge moneysink and not profitable (LTW), 1 considered to be barely profitable and erring on a net loss (CRP), and only 1 that is considered fairly profitable (WVR). So far I've made 200k gil off crafting at the low levels, and I hear it'll increase the higher I get.

I only farm logs, which makes CRP a lot easier. It's probably the easiest one to level out of the three, and I usually have a bunch of stacks left over to sell on the MP. I farm while watching stuff on Netflix and I usually have about 5 stacks of logs by the end of an hour-long episode.

I have a ton of cotton from leveling BTN, so I'm using them to level WVR from 20-35. I made a profit selling Diremite Webs and Undyed Velveteen.

LTW was (and still is) difficult to level without making a loss.

I buy skins/hide/leather, along with the various metals needed to make belts and such, but I supply cloth with my WVR. I also only buy after I peruse the MP and make sure my leve rewards offset the cost. For example, a stack of 99 Aldgoat Leather is about 16k. A stack of Silver Ingots is about 14k. A stack of Beast Sinew is about 3k. So 33k total cost. One full leve turn-in, which uses up 9 each of the materials, rewards 3.3k, and I can repeat the leve 11 times with all the mats I have for a total reward of 36k.

I'm still a net loss due to the crystals used, but it's manageable for the amount of exp gained. I'm also making more money crafting than I was before I had them leveled.

[Gamemako]

1 of which is considered a huge moneysink and not profitable (LTW)

...how? I've made gil by the truckload off LTW. I could make tons and tons and tons more if I got off my lazy arse and made more stuff. While leveling, you get skins back from leves, meaning an hour's worth of farming stock lasts pretty much until the next leve. Go back and farm or buy more of the stuff below your level and you can sell HQs on the market for massive profit. While things like ingots are being sold at a huge loss (circa 75%), LTW and WVR are making bank on every craft these days. Massive inflation due to lack of gil sinks and limits on endgame dungeon runs are keeping prices high. Use that.

//EDIT: Derp, legacy server. That'll do it to ya.

[Capita]

//EDIT: Derp, legacy server. That'll do it to ya.

Hah, yeah. Fortunately, Gigantoad Leather fluctuates up to 40k per stack on my server, and I have a surplus of them from leve rewards. Since I can level with Aldgoat all the way up to 40 and triple turn-ins don't really use Gigantoad, I can sell those later on.

[Gamemako]

...triple turn-ins don't really use Gigantoad...

Best Served Toad does. 5 Toad Leathers, right in Gridania. Level 30 or so. You'll want to do that one for a bit until you replace it with Supply Side Logic, the same setup with Boar Leathers. The Peiste Leather one is in Whitebrim and the Raptor one is in Mor Dhona -- I couldn't do them because I didn't have either unlocked (and still can't unlock Mor Dhona, lol).

[Capita]

Best Served Toad does. 5 Toad Leathers, right in Gridania. Level 30 or so. You'll want to do that one for a bit until you replace it with Supply Side Logic, the same setup with Boar Leathers. The Peiste Leather one is in Whitebrim and the Raptor one is in Mor Dhona -- I couldn't do them because I didn't have either unlocked (and still can't unlock Mor Dhona, lol).

I've been avoiding the 5 leather turn-ins. It's significantly harder for me to HQ a 40 dura raw item than it is to HQ a 70 dura finished item. I can get up to 90% of the finished items to HQ, while HQ on a raw is somewhere between 20-30%. I've tried everything I could to raise that, but unless the raw is ~10 levels lower than me, it's just not happening.

[Arale]

...how? I've made gil by the truckload off LTW. I could make tons and tons and tons more if I got off my lazy arse and made more stuff. While leveling, you get skins back from leves, meaning an hour's worth of farming stock lasts pretty much until the next leve. Go back and farm or buy more of the stuff below your level and you can sell HQs on the market for massive profit. While things like ingots are being sold at a huge loss (circa 75%), LTW and WVR are making bank on every craft these days. Massive inflation due to lack of gil sinks and limits on endgame dungeon runs are keeping prices high. Use that.

//EDIT: Derp, legacy server. That'll do it to ya.

I can make thousands if not hundred of thousands with my lvl 40 LTW. It's all in the right items. Those items, on my server, being gathering items that require multi materials. No one wants to make them, but they sell very well. 6-10k for belts, more for boots and the like. If anything, CRP is my least profitable DoH. Even with everyone going ez mode Bards, bows sell for literally nothing in the 1-40 level range >.<