Meat Mithkabob  

People are getting all upset about this item. Which is understandable seeing how the most common melee food item is now too expensive for most people to buy.

But I urge players to take a look at the upside of this. Most people are going to be looking for a cheaper alternative for melee boost. And there will be one available for anyone with the will to try their hands at a cooking synth.

Grilled hare is a lvl 6 synth that last for 1hour. It's cheap and easy to make and a good item for new chefs to begin lvling their cooking skill with. It gives str +2 and attack +11%. Of course it doesn't stack and the stats aren't fantastic but it is what it is. A decent alternative for those without cash. I see the popularity of this item increasing assuming the price of a stack of meat kabobs continues to rise over the next few weeks. Which it probably will.

Here are a few more alternatives to both use as means to lvl your cooking skill and and use for melee.

Food________________LVL_____Lasts_____Stats
Grilled Black Hare*___6_______90min____STR +3 ATT +15%
Roast Mutton________17______60min____STR +3 ATT +15%
Juicy Mutton*________17______90min____STR +4 ATT +18%
Meat Jerky___________26______30min____STR +1 ATT + 10%
Dhalmel Steak_______29______60min____STR +4 ATT +18%

*Denotes HQ Synth

Basically my point is, before the upgrade many people's cooking skill wasn't high enough to start making gil off synths. But now, the outragous new price of the meat mithkabob has brought popularity to these lower lvl synth items. So not only will more people turn to these option, but they will also bring a more solid return on your low lvl cooking skill. Putting more gil in your pocket to buy the meat mithkabobs.

For those of you with a high cooking skill that look to this item as a source of income you have no need to worry. The better stats are a good reason for people to pay more money for this item. Hell I've been paying 5k per stack of Fish Kabobs since I was lvl 10. Also if you have this high of a cooking skill I'm sure there are other money makers out there for you to try. Be adventurous try something new.

Edited, Fri Dec 10 17:18:31 2004

I guess the new synthesis results/price change for the meat mithkabobs have happened due to SE wanting people to try out new foods, they must have noticed the popularity of this item and wanted people to try out new things, all I can say is this upsets me because of the change guess I wont be making much money off these any more ; ;

I can confirm the x6 yield for the Mithkabob reciepe, a +1 Synth yeilds 12.

12 synths at lvl 79 cooking I got:

8 x 6 Mithkabob ( normal synth )
3 x 12 Mithkabob ( +1 synth )
1 x 12 Cheifkabob ( +2 synth )

The price at the AH for x12 Mithkabob have gone from about 2,800 x 12 to more than 5,000+ x 12.

This is bad news all around - since this is the most popular food item in the game.

(edit) The food stats are: +5 STR, +1 AGI, -2 INT, ATTK 26%.

(This food lasts for 12 hours 30 minutes game time.)

The selling rate of these will come to a screeching halt! What Ranger would buy 12 mithkabob when they could buy 5 x 99 arrows !?

Edited, Thu Dec 9 12:38:42 2004

After Dec. 9's update, Regular mithkabob synth is 6 yield but i got a +1 sound and end up having 12 mithkabob. Im guessing +2 will be 6 Chiefkabob.

I was wondering if it would accutaly be worth my time to farm meat and other rather expensive materials for this item. I would also like to know at what level it is safe to farm cockatraces. Thanks

it says there lvl is 38??!?! im lvl 30 and making them or is that what lvl they cap? if so why dont they show what lvl you can start making them?

The max yield for HQ is 12, not 9.

I saw two JP cooks making chiefkabobs this morning in bucnhes of 6, 9, AND 12 this morning when I logged on.

I just cooked up a batch. Each synth makes 12 of the regular meat bobs.

i hope this is a mis-lead info... it gonna suck now for ppl that use them like me that use them a lot and are poor. cause prices are gonna go higher if it is true ; ;

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I don't know why this was updated to yield only 6.....I have made just yesterday (Sept.29 / 04) and obtained a stack of kabobs each time on regular results. Why was it suggested that this recipe only yields 6? I have never seen that happen.

[b][/b]CARBUNCLE SERVER (Windrust Prices)
Meat=19k
Onions=4k
Peppers=600
Garlic=1500
Fire=1.9k

ingreadiants=27k
1 stack = 3.2k
3.2times12 = 38400
profit=11.400 :)

Alright, the entire point of crafting many items in this game is for the HQ (high quality) results that you can potentially get. HQ1 for meat mithkabob is 6 meat chiefkabobs; HQ2 is 8 meat chiefkabobs; HQ3 is 12 meat chiefkabobs. On Ifrit server meat chiefkabobs sell for roughly 8-9k a stack, do the math. Try getting to around lvl 50 or so and you should get HQ results nearly every time, yielding a great profit. Oh yeah, and for all the people that don't understand the "time is money" factor let me explain.

When you purchase all your ingredients from vendors, AH, bazaars, whatever, you can synthesize your product immediately. Kabobs sell very, very fast at AH or put up a bazaar near a zone to a popular leveling area. So you are making money right away. However, if you farm some of your ingredient, you are not making gil right away. You are only "saving" gil that you don't have to spend anymore. So in fact the two are equal because kabobs sell so damn fast. Either you sell a whole bunch right away for ok profit, or you wait while because you have to farm a stack of cockatrice meat, but make big profit for each stack... so buying your ingredients vs. farming them in this case for this synthesis item should not be a large deciding factor people, you make money just as fast farming as you do buying all your ingredients. Understand everyone? thankyou

By the way this can all change ifyou have TH1 and TH2 because it is highly probable that you would make gil faster farming cockatrice meat. When crafting, you always have to make a mental check on how long it will take me to farm the ingredients to make big profit, vs. how many I can craft and sell in the same amount of time. If it takes you, say, 1 hour to farm a stack of cockatrice meat (saving your 17-20k) and you can craft like 48 kabob stacks in the same amount of time (yielding like 28k profit if you get 7k profit per stack of ingredients bought) then you should buy all your ingredients cuz you make more profit buying everything than farming, in the same amount of time. This is a really rough estimate but I am just trying to get my point across, not calculate a whole bunch of stuff for you. When you factor in that the majority of those crafts can be HQ, ahhhh, now you make even more gil leaving farming as an option virtually unneccessary. Remember, buying ingredients would probably be better ONLY for this craft because they sell so very very fast. Other things take like 1-3 earth days to sell, so farming would be your better option there probably. And I'm done.

Edited, Tue Aug 10 11:48:58 2004

General ingredients price across Lakshmi.

Stack of...
Fire Crystals: 2400
Kazham pepper: 1000
Mhaura Garlic: 1500
Wild Onion: 4500
Cockatrice meat: 20000

Cost: 29400

Jeuno AH Price: 3200 {3200x12=38400)
Transaction fee 530 (530x12=6360)

38400-6360-29400=2640

Spending 29400 for 2640 profit?? No No.

The bast way to make 4k with only 12 itmes is to get yagudo necklees and wind crystals then use a yagudo neckles with a wind crystal then the itmes u get use all 3 of them with an earth crystal then u get another item make a bag of 12 on them and u can sell them for 4k at the auction house