Addyyuna wrote:
The kits are nice, but they need to go beyond 50. Trouble with crafting past 50 is that the leveling rate slows down to a crawl. Then there is this thing that you can only take one craft to the max. Leveling should be determined by your level compare to the synth. Crafting a level 60 at lvl60 should give you the best leveling. Trying to craft a 65 item should give you slightly higher exp but with higher chance to fail.
Judging from the prices of these kits, kits beyond 60 would be crazy expensive anyways.
The Goldsmithing Lv50 kit is, IIRC, 17k gil per kit.
To get ONE level, you'd be blowing a good 200k (10-15 synths) on a
good day using this kit. This might or might not be better than the alternatives, but if you consider that the kits only go up in price, a Lv60 kit could easily be 25k gil or more and you'd be looking at 300k per level.
Meanwhile, there are occasional recipes in the leveling path that might be quite a bit cheaper..
EDIT: This is assuming they did not change the skillup mechanics since a few years ago when I last crafted for skillups.
Edited, Jun 26th 2014 1:10pm by Lyrailis