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Compiled Crafting Resources


Guild locations and hours of operation:

Alchemy guild: Bastok Mines K-7 08:00-23:00, closed on Lightsday

Bonecraft guild: Windurst Woods H-12 08:00-23:00, closed on Windsday

Clothcraft guild: Windurst Woods F-12 06:00-21:00, closed on Firesday
Secondary location: Selbina H-9

Cooking guild: Windurst Waters E-6 05:00-20:00, closed on Darksday

Fishing Guild: Port Windurst C-8 03:00-18:00, closed on Lightningsday
Secondary location: Selbina H-9

Goldsmithing guild: Bastok Markets H-8 08:00-23:00, closed on Iceday
Secondary location: Mhaura G-8

Leathercraft guild: Southern San d'Oria D-8 03:00-18:00, closed on Iceday

Smithing guild: Bastok Metalworks E-7 08:00-23:00, closed on Watersday
Secondary location: Northern San d'Oria E-5

Woodworking guild: Northern San d'Oria E-3 06:00-21:00, closed on Firesday

 
Allakhazam crafting recipe lists by guild:     Somepage crafting recipe lists by guild: 
Alchemy                                        Alchemy 
Bonecraft                                      Bonecraft 
Clothcraft                                     Clothcraft 
Cooking                                        Cooking 
Fishing                                        Fishing 
Goldsmithing                                   Goldsmithing 
Leathercraft                                   Leathercraft    
Smithing                                       Smithing 
Woodworking                                    Woodworking 
 
Somepage desynthesis recipe lists by guild: 
 
Alchemy desynthesis 
Bonecraft desynthesis 
Clothcraft desynthesis 
Goldsmithing desynthesis 
Leathercraft desynthesis 
Smithing desynthesis 
Woodworking desynthesis

Guild test items:

Click here for my test item chart

Days of the week (in chronological order) with their theoretical geographical direction:

Firesday - Northwest
Earthsday - South
Watersday - West
Windsday - Southeast
Iceday - East
Lightningsday - Southwest
Lightsday - Northeast
Darksday - North

Which direction do I face to influence HQ/skillup with a:

Fire crystal: west or north
Earth crystal: Southeast or north
Water: Southwest or north
Wind: East or north
Ice: Northwest or north
Lightning: South or north
Light: Unsure...
Dark: Unsure...

Which direction do I face to influence success with a:

Fire crystal: Northwest or east
Earth crystal: South or southwest
Water: West or northwest
Wind: Southeast or south
Ice: East or southeast
Lightning: Southwest or west
Light: Unsure...
Dark: Unsure...

HQ Tiers:

It is theorized that a certain number of levels over the cap of a recipe will yield more HQ results. Here are commonly accepted figures:

Tier 0 = 0 to 10 levels above cap gives you 1-2% chance of HQ result.
Tier 1 = 11 to 30 levels above cap gives you about 10% chance of HQ result.
Tier 2 = 31 to 50 levels above cap gives you about 25% chance of HQ result.
Tier 3 = 51 or more levels above cap gives you about 50% chance of HQ result.

Note that these above figures are only an estimation (and an average over time) so your mileage may vary. Another theory states that most HQ results are obtained during Lightsday/Darksday on new moon...

Various helpful crafting links:

Lokyst's FFXI crafting timer
Vana'Navi
Crafting compass
FFXI AH online
Allakhazam item search

If you know of any further information or links that would be useful for this post please let me know and I will add them. Thanks for looking and happy/profitable crafting!

Edited, Sep 3rd 2007 4:37pm by Tankor

Very useful for guild point items:

http://www.ffrecipe.com/guildPattern.php?lang=en

Jehebbyo's Cookbooks -- very well done printable versions of synths. Extremely useful for a desk reference. I use the cooking one alllll the time.

Do you still have the source files? I could pick up where you left off depending on how you did it. What were you using to store the data, a database or .txt files?

Edited, Sep 14th 2006 at 6:25am EDT by Wint

Okay, I got a couple of Screen Shots here.

First.
Second.

These show very little actually. The main program is MDI based, and each child is a Record Set Display of the guild. Only the Alchemy is functional in the program as it's the one I was using while designing the interface. The File Menu as you can see in the second Screen Shot show's Close Alchemy as it is the currently active child window. This is of course redundant but a good design for those that like to see that sort of stuff in the File Menu.

The Guild and Window Menus are similar but very different. The Guild Menu creats a child window for the selected guild IFF it doesn't exist yet. Where they both join together is that for an existing window child either menu can be used to bring it to the front.

The Help Menu currently only as About in it for info about the program. i.e. Version Number, Author, and data. The data I have is current of 06/22/2006.

I started this project as something useful to make while learning C#/Winforms. I know C++/MFC, C, and Win32API pretty darn well. I know little about Java though.

If you need any additional info just PM me.

Wow. Great job. I'll be using this in the future. I hope the admins splice this into the stickies on the trade skill forum boards.

Good job