Gold Hell complete!

Once again, I planned for skilling up on the next coming Darksday, New Moon, and in preparation for its arrival, I stocked up four sets of synths (that is, 48 Gold Ingots and 48 vials of Mercury) in my Mog Safe. I felt it was important for me to get this over and done with, not only just for completeness' sake, but also because it's almost certain that Bastok would be back in its usual third place next week, and there was no telling when the next time I'd get easy access to lots of Targes would be. >_<

Starting Goldsmithing skill: 79.0
Skillup synth: Gold Buckler (cap 80)
Imagery Support: None
Equipment of note: Pluto's Staff
Direction: North
Location: Deegis's Armour (H-6)
Moghancement: Powerful Fire
Moon phase: Darksday, New Moon (2%)

79.0
0:01 Success.
0:22 Success.
0:35 Failed- lost the targe.
0:47 Failed- lost the gold ingot, targe.
0:59 Success.
1:47 Success.
2:25 Success, +0.1!

79.1
2:41 Success.
2:55 Success.
3:07 Success.
3:21 Success.
3:37 Failed- lost the gold ingot.
3:55 Success.
5:15 Success.
6:08 Success.
6:22 Success.
6:38 Success.
6:58 Success, +0.1!

I have to admit, it wasn't exactly the most encouraging of starts. I was debating for a while over whether I should wait for another day while desynthing some of the Gold Bucklers, but eventually decided that, come hell or high water, I was going to get Goldsmithing 80 tonight! >_<

79.2
7:20 Success, +0.1!

79.3
7:36 Success.
10:02 Success.
10:15 Success.
10:28 Success.
10:43 Success.
10:57 Success.
11:11 Success, +0.1!

79.4
19:08 Success.
19:22 Failed- lost the mercury, +0.1!

79.5
19:50 Success.
20:14 Failed- lost the mercury, targe.
20:28 Success.
20:44 Success, +0.1!

79.6
21:05 Success.
21:21 Success.
22:07 Success.
22:23 Success.
22:37 Success.
22:55 Success.

It now turned to Firesday, New Moon (0%).

2:00 Success.
2:12 Success, +0.1!

79.7
2:27 Success.
2:42 Success, +0.1!

79.8
2:57 Success.
3:09 Success.
3:26 Success.
3:38 Success.
5:39 Success.
5:51 Success.
6:26 Success.
6:39 Success.
6:52 Success, +0.1!

79.9
7:12 Success, +0.1!



It is done. Goldsmithing 80. OMG, OMG, OMG, I am finally done with the Goldsmithing hell. {/joy}

The sense of accomplishment of going through Goldsmithing hell and making it out in one piece on the other side is just marvellous. On another note, I sure am glad I sold my Hedgehog Bomb for 4m, because as it turns out, I ended up just shy of 4m in the end, so yeah, I really ended up needing that in the end. ^^;