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?
The recipes on this site are correct for Bastokan gear.
Yes, the recipes are correct, but I have yet to find one with the correct skill cap on this site. The cap for this item, as well as a few of the other low level ones is 25. This includes the subligar you said was 23. Note also that not all bastokan gear has the same skill cap (good luck making Bastokan Cuisses at your level.) Generally speaking if the item involves an upgrade with BRASS the cap is 25.
You talk to guards that would cast signet on you, they are found at the exits of town, use your CP to obtain Leggionaire's Knuckles a Rank 2 Bastok item (costs 2000 CP if you're from Bastok, 4000 if you're from Windurst or San'doria) You make Leggionaire's Knuckles into Bastokan Knuckles with the recipe shown at top: Fire Crystal Brass Ingot x1 Legionnaire's Knuckles x1 or you can buy the completed item from the AH.
I have a question, I'm a lvl 16 Galka Monk and I can't chose between the San d'Orian cesti and the Bastokan knuckles. Do you know which one is better for my character?
It'd be a nice to have a set of Bastokan Armor - the level requirement is so low and the boosts you get from them are great. As a newbie - I doubt I'll sell enough crystals to pay for the 20k Body Suit.
Might as well try though, this armor would last me for a while.
These Items are crafted. This is the only way I know of to obtain them. I've never seen them for sale anywhere other than the AH and a person's bazaar. I've not a clue what the crafting recipe is, but I have seen high levels synthesize them in Jeuno.