And so, I've been camping the Fishing guild down in Bibiki Bay for the past few days. Other people also wait for the guild to open, but I can still get roughly four stacks of Cobalt Jellyfish before the guild's daily supply is all bought out, which is enough for a stack of Mercury or more, if I HQ. Pretty nice- I get to save about 20k per stack of Mercury, although I can't help but feel my efforts are slightly misdirected, seeing as how I can make more money HQ'ing Silver Earrings than synthing Mercury.
But, oh wait, the Auction Houses are all out of Mercury. Right, so that's why I've been camping the guild!
Anyway, my goal was to get that last level off Gold Gauntlets, where it was then time for the final push through Gold hell- Gold Bucklers. The good news is that I actually calculated the costs, and I think done correctly, the monetary cost for Gold Bucklers is just slightly cheaper than Gold Gauntlets, although they don't desynth as well. Hoepfully I'll have enough money to last me through to level 80, although I have this sinking feeling I will run out sometime at Goldsmithing 79.
Anyway...
This skillup session was split into two sessions- one at the New Moon, and one at the Darksday prior, so a Waning Crescent. I had to cut the first skillup session short, because I ran out of Mercury, and had no way of picking up some more in time. >_< (Hence my running over to Bibiki)
Starting Goldsmithing skill: 76.0
Skillup synth: Gold Gauntlets (cap 77)
Imagery Support: None
Equipment of note: Pluto's Staff
Direction: North
Location: Rosel's Armour Shop (K-8)
Moghancement: Powerful Fire
Moon phase: Darksday, Waning Crescent (21%)
76.0
4:40 Success, +0.1!
76.1
4:59 Success.
5:20 Success, +0.1!
76.2
5:34 Success.
5:53 Success, +0.1!
76.3
7:33 Success, +0.1!
76.4
7:50 Success.
8:04 Success.
8:17 Success, +0.1!
76.5
8:55 Success.
9:11 Success.
12:44 Success.
13:00 Success.
No skillup in the last four synths. ; ; Ah well...there was always the New Moon to look forward to:
Starting Goldsmithing skill: 76.5
Skillup synth: Gold Gauntlets (cap 77)
Imagery Support: None
Equipment of note: Pluto's Staff
Direction: North
Location: Rosel's Armour Shop (K-8)
Moghancement: Powerful Fire
Moon phase: Darksday, New Moon (2%)
76.5
0:05 Success, +0.1!
76.6
0:18 Success.
0:32 Success.
0:47 Success.
2:16 Failed- lost two Cermet Chunks, mercury.
2:30 Success.
I complained about not getting skillups, when Seraphpdh mentioned avoiding the early mornings, instead trying for close to dawn. Looking back at my last notes, I saw a good skillup run around 5 o'clock, so I just sat around desynthing until then.
5:03 Success, +0.1!
Guess he was right. ^^
76.7
5:23 Success, +0.1!
76.8
5:42 Success.
6:06 Success.
7:16 Success, +0.1!
76.9
9:27 Success, +0.1!
Goldsmithing 77! Three more levels to go! Even better, that only took up twenty-five synths, or two stacks of Gold Ingots, so I just saved about 1.5m gil there on ingredients, which will come in very handy when the time comes to make that last push through to 80. ^^
I moved onto Gold Bucklers now:
Starting Goldsmithing skill: 77.0
Skillup synth: Gold Gauntlets (cap 77)
Imagery Support: None
Equipment of note: Pluto's Staff
Direction: North
Location: Rosel's Armour Shop (K-8)
Moghancement: Powerful Fire
Moon phase: Darksday, New Moon (2%)
77.0
10:54 Success, +0.1!
77.1
11:09 Success.
18:55 Failed- lost the Gold Ingot.
19:09 Success.
And then I ran out of Targes. >_< Oh well, I can easily make some more Targes anyway- they just take time to make, because you need a piece of Holly Lumber (which is easy to get), but you also need two Iron Sheets, which are proving to be more of a challenge. Iron Ingots are low in supply for some reason, and the sheets are likewise. I guess I'll just personally sheet up a stack of Iron Ingots in preparation for this, but so far, I've only been able to get one stack of Iron Ingots...perhaps it's time to get out my Worker's gear again and go mining? >_<
