Which master recipe books and master demimateria books are worth getting?

Currently I have the master book 1 for CUL, master demimateria for GSM

Hmm haven't really check the prices for all the raw mats but I think it's not to expensive, I did bought some gold ore to make rose gold nugget to craft accessories

Yeah that's what I notice on the demimateria book, it's mostly primal weapon, GSM one have accessories for crafting so I got that first, but the other doesn't seems as useful. My GSM desynth is at around 69 I think, desynth bunch of accessories for fieldcraft demi I, got like 70+ now haha, now gonna need some battle demi.

Haha true. Margin has been a concern since patch 2.5. Undercuting is nothing new to the crafter's world. But it has gone so intense lately that ppl are undercutting to below COGS. Example It cost 600k to make something. After all the undercut it sells for 680k. Minus 5% tax that's 646k only. Lot of work to prepare the premats for crafting those 4 star like Artisan Apron, Ebony bow, Platinum accessory just to earn 30-50k (situation depends on world) I believe its safe to say that market board is like a PVP arena everyday in all server.

The grind for ehcati sealant... that same turn in quest over and over again everyday.. I rather just drop the profit margin and buy straight from daily sellers. Assuming you don't have the spare time to run the 6 Ehcati quest everyday. Damn ehcati, lol.

Hmm maybe crafting HQ stuff for leve turn-ins would have better profit haha

It seems like those high level craft are profitable when they are new, after a while it get less profitable.

Can already see some active crafters here who are willing to share ideas and dilemma what to craft nowadays. lol. Nasib baik ARR tarak GST... Already so low margin. If not existing 5% + 6%.... how to survive

Just a joke brah. Although maybe the right way of saying it should be



Anyway lets not go there further. Got lots of angry mobs on this issue lately. lol

Tips for new crafter when buying DOH materials in MB: When buying from market board, check the city of the retainer. If you buy the item in the same city state, you wont get 5% tax. Only the seller. Example if the item seller's retainer is in Limsa, port to Limsa and buy it from there. This is crucial especially if you want to buy a crafting material which is 100k-200k ea in bulk to craft something etc.

Maybe a good time to go sapu all the cheap mats like cashmere, sauron, scheelite, raziqsand or petrified log. During launch it was like 150k each. now 20g, 18g for petrified log and 800 for cashmere.. 

Gamble. who know one day suddenly cashmere naik demand naik harge sell 80k. If cannot... then 800g x 100 = 80k gil use go make cashmere cloth donate to orphans in ARR.

Thanks, yeah I use it as a guide as I know players will always says their is better, so it's best to understand how it work and use it as a guideline. I will check it out after work.

I will try to meld my off-hand, I been slacking on the meld after I melded both my rings haha.

Basically the general advice is to just move to current end game artisan if possible. But if gil is a constrain (often for those who just started doh), use what you have and slowly unlock the crafter recipe. Depends on server, some crafting material has drop down to 4k per craftsmanship III material. Skip if can, if not just make use of whatever is available onhand, and get the funding for end game artisan.

The launch of artisan has allow new crafter to skip through many tier of grind. Some can even create a second alternate character and boost lvl 1 to 50 then straight to 4 star in 1 day. But all these depends on how many kaching $$ you have in your pocket. Do it at your prefer pace Valho 

Can bang on blacksmith masterbook if you wanna craft your own artisan off hand. Blacksmith can craft most artisan offhand in game followed by carpenter. Used to be a money making class during 2.5 release. 

Out of curiosity, how many gils did you guys manage to farm from DOH? 

Nice. Enough to buy yourself a large house already Kurogane. Can enjoy your own garden own bed room 

Cant remember when I started. Maybe 2.3. When started the time poor as hell. Want buy crystal also no money. lol.  Have to sell own body gear and any unused weapon to npc just to fund that lvling 1-50.  No one on my fc was crafting also last time. We are bunch of poor buggers. lol

Lucky you got kaki crafter. 

My side here solo crafter in a small fc. Some of the fellow crafter I tried to train all gave up coz of the grind.  Guess DOH really needs a lot of patience and some economy insight.

Note: No idea what to craft nowadays. Hope to see some input.