{I'm back!}

Yowzers, it's been a while. Granted, my break from the game did little to help out in this respect, but I haven't been able to garden as of late simply because I've been jetting all over the world (irl), so the pots would have to wait for a time where I would actually be in one plane two check the plants for two weeks.

Actually, I wonder if anyone even reads this blog, since it is a rather niche topic, but I guess for the sake of interest, I might as well keep it going.

The inflation of last Christmas affected me slightly. Gold Ingots went shooting up to about 2.1m/stk now, as opposed to 1.4m/stk when I took my break. I have this gut feeling that those extra 700ks will eventually add up, although the good news is that the Ashura price on the AH has also gone up, so I still effectively lose just a Gold Thread per synth. Too bad those have gone up to 1.1m/stk, so I've been trying to get the odd thread or two from camping the Clothcrafting guild in Windy as of late.

It's still some 73k per thread, but that's still better than the 90k or so the AH asks for.

I tried synthing up some Ashuras before I left. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to key in the data before leaving, so I don't remember the specifics, but I managed to get +0.2 in four synths, putting me at 73.6.

It is from there that I continue.

Starting Goldsmithing skill: 73.6
Skillup synth: Ashura (cap 75)
Imagery Support: None
Equipment of note: Pluto's Staff
Direction: North
Location: Mog House
Moghancement: Powerful Fire
Moon phase: Darksday, Waning Crescent (31%)

73.6
3:11 Success, +0.1!

73.7
3:30 Success.
3:45 Success.
3:59 Success.

After waiting for some of the Ashuras to sell, I tried again, with the same conditions, except that the moon phase had now changed to Darksday, Waning Crescent (12%).

5:45 Success, +0.1!

73.8
5:58 Success.
6:11 Failed- lost the gold ingot, gold thread.
7:37 Success, +0.1!

So just 0.1 separates me from Goldsmithing 74. I'll get that tomorrow, when the moonphase lines up to be just the combination I like it at, although I really ought to give this Darksday, New Moon thing a try sometime. It's been 27 Ashura synths up to 73.9 though, so that's exactly on par with the "3-synths-per-skillup" idea, so I guess I shouldn't really be complaining. ^^