No, you can synth things anywhere. The guild sells ingredients and will can give you synth image support, which temporarily increases your skill slightly. But there is no need to go to the guild to craft. BTW, the Woodworking Guild is in Northern San D'Oria, near the zone for Port Sandy in case you decide to go there.

I'm a level 73 Carpenter and already have the Carpenter Key Item Lumberjack. I didn't have any of those Woodworking Skill + Armor parts. I'm 71 level over the cap for normal Arrowwood Lumber.

First i was so excited about Lumberjack. You can save so much time and crystals if you are a good Woodworker who can get much HQs. And, i know im not level 100 or close to it, but i thought that i'm one of the "better" ones with my lvl 73 and i thought i could get many HQs while crafting Arrowwood Lumber with Lumberjack.

But know what? We had Darksday today, 50% Last Quarter Moon (Waning). I was walking to Carpenter's Landing to buy some cheap Bundling Twine and Arrowwood Logs. I started crafting... 12 crafts, 12 whole crafts, and NOT a single HQ! Ah, and one fail!!! I just thought: WTF? A fail here and there happens to everyone, but i was realy pissed that i didn't got a single HQ with lvl 73 Woodworking.

I logged out and checked the Recipe List here if they have any changes for Arrowwood Lumber in combine with Lumberjack. Only thing i have found is that they have the skillcap for Yew Lumber in combine with Lumberjack in there List:

Normal Yew Lumber: lvl 22 cap
Lumberjack Yew Lumber: lvl 59 cap

Some lines under i found Ebony Lumber:

Normal Ebony Lumber: lvl 61 cap
Lumberjack Ebony Lumber: lvl 64 cap

Read the User posts to those Lumbers but couldnt find out where they have there info about the cap from. But maybe it's like with Yew Lumber that all the low level Lumbers have a high cap in combine with Lumberjack. That would explain why i didnt got a single HQ today. (maybe they did that so the low lvl crafters also still can make some profit with those Lumbers)

Ah, and before i forget: On other days (dunno when exactly and dunno anymore the Moonphase) i got some HQs with Lumberjack. Would say about 30%-40% of the crafts where HQ1 (only very less HQ2 or HQ3, but i got 2 HQ3 so far *g*), rest normal and some fails (to much fails if you ask me...)

Please be patient with my english, if you look in my profile you'll see that i'm from germany. Making some mistakes here and there *g*

thanks for the idea.. 18 per log (with level 9 fame in region) is great.. I got skill ups and made money.. woodworking rocks! This worked on rumah server too.. so it's not just that your lucky.

When Bastok controls a certain region, there is an NPC in Bastok Mines who sells it for about 18 gil a piece. But you didn't hear that from me....and keep it on the downlow...don't want too many people buying her stock. That'll teach them players from hogging up the guild supplies; to me, that is just plain wrong.

guid hall runs out so it goes dark