Like jazse below pointed out below, I also received 577 guild points for the HQ version of Beaugreen Sautee, Monastic Sautee, which is very nice. Saved me a lot of materials and crystals.^^

Rowan

Same here: Worst skillup recipe ever. Or could it be that the cap has been changed to 52 in some update, because for me the skillups stopped at 52. 2 stacks of Beaugreens used for no skillup whatsoever.

Can anybody please confirm skillups AFTER 52 on this recipe! Or confirm they don't get skillups as well.

Edited, Thu Jun 30 14:15:15 2005

Hmm...also the cooking lvl seems to have gone down. I started synthing these at 50 and it took me to 52. I made about 15 more synths and not a single skill up. At 51 I was only getting .1's. Anyone else notice this? And yes, I was making this recipe, not the batagreens one ;)

Saying you profit from this is actually a lie. Saying you didn't lose much and didn't have to buy your fire crystals, because, as you said, you bought them, is more accurate.

Let's say you take the fire crystals you farmed, and sold them. That's about 2500-3000 gil you earn. (at least as of this writing on Unicorn). that's profit you have to take in consideration when you say you farmed your crystals.

IMHO, farming crystals is only an issue when you don't have the cash down to buy them outright, as once you get a higher leveled job, you can make money easier to buy a stack of crystals than farm them (clusters excluded, but gotta specify when hunting elementals)

This has been rehashed a number of times in every craft thread dealing with farming crystals, and the fact is that the farmed crystals have a value, they're not free, you put time in it to get them, and someone who buys the crystals, while losing money, can recoup that money just as easy as you saved it farming them. It's no positive argument for those with a minimum of funds to start with.

Just skilled up at 54 on these.