You can't really post a pricetag with AH stuff. On Shiva, it costs roughly 2600 to buy all the components to make the leggings, and it sells for about 4k depending on which country you sell it at. Then again, Pandemonium is notorious for excessive pricing...
Here's my 'from scratch' recipe: 1 Earth crystal <-- kill some lizards 2 Fire crystals <-- kill some gobs 1 Zinc ore <-- kill some worms or mine in Zerhun 3 Copper ore <-- buy from guild for 17 gil or more worms 1 Legionnare's Leggings <-- 2000 conquest points or AH
Cook the ores into an ingot, then again to a sheet, followed by throwing the rest together in the earth crystal.
This is a decent way to make some cash for gsmithers around lvl 18, since it seems not to fail often. I've made several friends by offering to craft up the Legionnare's gear they've been wearing, and this armor set's pretty nice for thieves.
As a level 21 goldsmith, I have crafted about 30 or 40 of these over the past few months and gotten no skill ups at all. I realize I'm close to the level cap, but no skill ups at all out of 30? I even made a HQ synth I crafted so many times. Is the level cap for this correct? Should only be crafting this on Darksday New Moon or something? Thanks for any help or advice
I made 2 HQs in 6 crafts at L21 goldsmithing, so I seriously doubt the cap is 25. If the guy who posted below said he got skillups with only 1 failure at L18 with synthesis then I'm guessing this is a L20 cap skill.
The recipes on this site are correct for Bastokan gear. The price to get skill level to make Bastokan gear if you are lazy and want to buy all compents is roughly 50K. (If you sell everything you make at AH price). It is about this point that GS will start to turn a profit. I made this gear when I hit GS skill level 18 at roughly a 1/15 failure rate with advanced synthesis support. If you want me to make if for you for a reasonable price I am on the Pandemonium server. E-mail me at Spytotheboy@excite.com. The exception result for all Bastokan gear is Republican gear. (Hence why they have the same recipe.) Had one exception result ever. After making 15 brass hairpins, I made a +1 hairpin on the 16th one. I made a Bastokan Subligar (GS skill 23) at GS 18. So it is possible to make gear that is 5 levels higher than your own at least. Only made one so don't know the failure rate. Any other questions?
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(The correct recipe says what you said badninja. Unless you made your post before it was updated)
I picked these up in the Bahamut auction house for about 6-7k. It is an OK item clearly not worth the detailed prive, but it does add minor HP and MP points and any little bit helps.
The recipe as stated above is wrong. The correct recipe is: Earth Crystal- Brass Sheet x1 Legionnaires Leggings x1 The level cap does seem to be correct though. Synthed this as a level 16 GS.