A Beginning Guide to Making GilFollow

Think you forgot to remind them to KEEP ALL BEASTMEN/KINDRED SEALS! Correct me if I'm wrong of course, I just perused the guide.

Nice try though.

Edited, May 23rd 2007 10:58am by JoranDax

You can only buy it here when Zulkheim's conquest is lead by San d'Oria.

The other regional merchants for Zulkheim are Rosswald in Port Bastok at J-7, and Bin Stejihna in Windurst Woods at G-8.

its actually 99, not 75 =)



desynths are only lightning crystals, lol.

edit: wasn't thinking about the beast seals, however i was right that there are no 75 BS orbs.

and, the desynths, i did not know o.O

Edited, May 23rd 2007 12:21pm by ThePsychoticOne

There are some desynths that do use wind crystals.

BST seals stack in 99, but there are no BCNM 99s. I was saying you need 20,30,40,50,60,and 75 for orbs. The highest orb you will pay for is 75. There are KSNM 99s.



Not really true. Example: Wind Crystal + Yag Necklace = Grass Thread. You are breaking down the item into its parts. Meaning you are desynthing the item, hence why I said Wind and Lightning can both be kinds of desynth. Something like... ram horn + wind =/= a desynth because you are carving. Different.



Thank you! >^.^<~~ I knew this would be really helpful. Heck, I can't even REMEMBER how much possible money (and beastman seals! ; ;) I threw out when I was starting. I threw out seals clear up until I was level 20 since no one took time to explain that they were important!


I could still really use someone who plays on a PS2 and/or an XBOX to tell me some little things about how to get to certain menus! ; ; I have no clue on that scale.


Edited, May 23rd 2007 11:54am by hikarukage

Your Sheepskin Leathermaking recipe is a (huge) bit off, but no biggie you can fix it.

Leathercraft (2)
Yield: 1

* Crystal: Dark
* Distilled Water x1
* Sheepskin x1
* Windurstian Tea Leaves x1

or

Leathercraft (2)
Yield: 1

* Crystal: Dark
* Distilled Water x1
* Sheepskin x1
* Willow Log x1

My only suggestion is I think you could simplify this somewhat. Basically the advice to new players is to keep everything and learn what sells on the AH. Beehive chips and crystals are great examples, but there are other items as well. Because inventory space is so tight in this game, particularly beginning players will be tempted to trash things or sell to NPC's when they have partial stacks, etc. But it really is vital to learn the AH, set up a queue of things to auction, etc.

I don't disagree with any of your advice, but I think you could focus your suggestions a bit more if you are trying to reach the true beginner as your audience.

I will expand the auction house section a little to include your ideas about making sure you keep partial stacks to fill up, the queue, etc... but I think you are thinking a little different then the basic player. I know I did not care so much about learning this sort of stuff as I was making a little bit of money because it was so tough.

I did not include items that did not drop from outside of the beginning zones, as you may have noticed. I chose only the three starting zones because that is the basic start of making money. From those three sets of zones, once they learn what they can fully do there, they will be able to transfer their knowledge and try more things out when they start on new areas/mobs/items.

I tried to include some basic game knowledge, some information I sure didn't know when I first started (like crafting, NMs) and some other little things.

Maybe I am missing your point... if you could, expand a little?



!!! Thank you! You can do the same with bat wings and some other items as well! I will add both of those to the guide! ^_^ Very helpful, rated you up on that!

Edited, May 23rd 2007 12:32pm by hikarukage

Edited, May 23rd 2007 12:44pm by hikarukage

an important note. Neither the wind crystal or lighting crystal synths for Yag necklass are actually desynths. A desynth will always say, "player OBTAINS X." These are regular level 1 sysnths. If they take a little time to learn about crafting mechanics, no one ever breaks on these.

An example of desynthing is Copper rings (which can be fished out in Windy with a Mithra fishing rod.) They desynth into a copper ingot with a lighting crystal.

Lightning crystal + 2 spider webs is not a desynth, even though the synthesis description says "split". Yagudo necklaces are in this cathegory too.

The problem with real desynths is, that the break rate is very high and skillups almost never happen (although it is possible). Using lightning crystals with the above mentioned results in the normal synthesis break level, skillup and HQ rate.

You can make this section generic for all systems (PS2/360/PC) by saying something like "Open the main menu, select Items, select Auto, and hit Yes". Even better, making it generic won't require an update if/when the game comes out for new systems! ^^

I guess it's a matter of experience with crafting. One thing is for sure: Whenever you use a lightning crystal on something that has been (or can be) crafted in the first place, it is a desynth. Beastman-made things are desynthesis too - mostly. An exception here is the yagudo necklace.

Uncraftable items like Flax Flower, Spider Web etc etc do not fall into the difficulty level of a real desynthesis, they can be crafted into new items just normally without much breaks.

By the way, I dont really care if you call it desynthesis anyways, it's just minor detail about crafting mechanics.

There are many interesting details about crafting. For example, when you synthesize this:

Fire Crystal + Windurstian Tea Leaves + Sage + Selbina Milk + Maple Sugar + Distilled Water

you get "A cup of San d'Orian Tea."

Now where did the cup come from?




Edited, May 23rd 2007 7:59pm by Lutia