Woodworking Guide by Godofgods

Woodworking guide 1-100 by Godofgods 

The following guide is what worked best for me. Im currently 79 on Woodworking and planning to take it to 100. Ill update the later reciepies as i do them. Altho i hate farming meterials, most will be focused on easily farmable meterails or meterials bought from Npc's/Ah. All my research was done either on ffxiah.com or San d'oria Ah.

Woodworking Tips
1. Ctownwoody: This man is.. well, my synthing God lol. He has leveled an incedable amount of crafts, and has guides for most of them. They are ALWAYS worth checking. Check his Woodworking guide here

2. Logging. This can be a major waste of time for power crafters. Expecaily in the 1-60 range. While it might be usefull for some in the later levels to save gill, you should be staying away form this.

3. Lumberjack, is a must have if you intend to save gill. It's only 10k Guild Points, and allows you to synth 3 logs at once with only one crystal. And since youll need an unpresedented amount of lumber later, you either have to buy on AH for a marked up price, or make your own. (Making your own is very easy, but can be time consuming)

3. Norvallen. Norvallen can in handy for making lumber. Unlike the guild shops, norvallen regional vendors have no waiting time between purchases and a much higher supply. A great place to get your Arrowwood Logs and Ash Logs from.

4. Obviously, be sure to check all relevent AH's before buying meterials. Certian citys have certian item cheaper. Generaly the pattern will follow the guilds in the city or farmable mobs right outside the city. Most supplies will be bought at the woodworking guild ship in sandy or sandy/jeuno AH.

5. Conquest Be sure to watch the conquest tallys each week. The nation in first place will have the quiver NPC Nokkhi Jinjahl. She is invaluable to you woodworking success. NOTE: She does not appear during a tie for first place.

6. Gill. Woodworking will have long strecthes of being able to make gill back, and lose gill during your synthesis. Learn what items make you some gill back and use it to your advantage.

7. Arrows. That being said, arrows are a woodworkers best friend. I always use these when i can. Its a great power/multi synth. (Generally 99 synths of 33+ arrows each) And they usaly sell well, which means youll gain several levels while making gill back, if not profit. NOTE Each synth requires a peice of lumber. Hence the importence of lumberjack and norvallen. Use them to your advantage.

8 Basic FYI, if you havent realized yet, the more room in your gobbie bag the better.

9. Sub crafts - While i generally tried to do this with as few subcraft synths as possible, two of them become vital and will speed your crafting up emensly (as well as save your gill) And of course, the more sub crafts you have done the better, expecaly in the higher levels. The main two youll want are Smithing 14 (minamume) and Alchemy 29 if going to 60 : and 60 if going to ww100. I had 14 and 55 at the time i went through WW. The Alchemy is only use in one synth pre 60, but a good one so youll want it, plus its not that hard to level. Smithing 14 should be more then simple enough to get.

Guide
''Note: any synth that you can use to level, and then use the resulting item to level again is a great plan! This goes for most lumber.''

0-10

 * Arrowwood Lumber (2)-Wind Crystal, Arrowwood Log— Make them till your capped, and save them. This will probably be the single most used synth in leveling woodworking.


 * Maple Lumber (5)-Wind Crystal, Maple Log—Make up to cap, it’s cheap. And be sure to save them.


 * Ash Lumber (8)-Wind Crystal, Ash Log—Make these to cap and save

TEST ITEM-Workbench (8)-Earth Crystal, Lauan Lumber x4: Get lumber from the guild shop. Not a widy used lumber so should be cheap.

11-20

 * Holly Lumber (12)-Wind Crystal, Holly Log-- use these or Williow lumber below. What ever sells faster/more. These are realy just a bridge till you have enough skill to do bolts.


 * Willow Lumber (13)-Wind Crystal, Willow Log— use these or Holly lumber below. What ever sells faster/more. These are realy just a bridge till you have enough


 * Bolts (16)-Earth Crystal, Bolthead, Ash Lumber— Their are many types of bolt heads you can use. If you have a prefrence, by all means. The cheapest is probably Bronze Bolt Heads. Plus at a smithing skill of 14 you can always make your own. Or if you know a higher lvl smither you can have him HQ them for you cheaply. - Take to cap and sell.

TEST ITEM: Maple Table (18)-Earth Crystal, Maple Lumber x4— Now its tiem to use those Maple Lumbers youve made. These are supposedly great for gardeners, so if you no any be sure to ask if theyd like to buy them. Use all the maple lumber you made on this. Hopefully thatll be enough to take you to 17 or 18.

21-30

 * Maple Sugar (21)-Lightning Crystal, Maple Log—Usually profitable at AHs, you want to take this to 21. It is pretty profitable when Sandy is in last place (or else Raimbroy’s Grocery sells them) and even more so when no one controls Fauregandi, limiting the supply of maple logs.


 * Yew Lumber (22)-Wind Crystal, Yew Log— Make them to cap and save for next synth. The logs are around 300 each


 * Yew Wand (23)-Wind Crystal, Yew Lumber, Yagudo Feather-- Use that lumber up here. The Yagudo Feathers are about 40 gill each. So total is about 350gill per synth. Yew Wands AH for about 1k or Npc for about 270. So its well worth it. This combo is mainly a bridge for Shihei


 * Chestnut Lumber (28)-Wind Crystal, Chestnut Log— I debated adding these. But it can serve as an alternitive if shihei is to expencive. These are also very price sencitive tho, so check cost vs selling before starting. If its acceptable go ahead.


 * Shihei (29)-Wind Crystal, Black Ink, Bast Parchment x2--These are the ninja tools for Utsusemi, and the first real higher costing synth for its level. Black Ink is around 5k on AH and Bast Parchment is 6k, except you need two stack for each stack of Ink. So a full 12 synth runs about 17k. Asuming you dont fail any (use Adv. Syth Support to help, adds +3 to your ww skill temperaraly) you can make 4 stacks of shihei from 12 synth. On odin atleast they sell around 4-5k per stack. It can fluctuate with the market/server, but you can probably make your moeny back on these. They are in very high demand at all times however high crafters (80+) HQ these and flood the market.

TEST ITEM: Harp-Earth Crystal, Coeurl Whisker, Chestnut Lumber x2: Probably cheaper to simply buy one off the AH. They run about 3-4k.

Congratulations
Congrat's on makeing 30. This is the first step in your woodworking adventure. You can now trade items at the guild for Guild Points The guilds do one item per day. The item can change however if you advance in rank. Some synths can be expencive, and some may not be well worth it. It depends on your time and budget. But turn in all that you can for points. Youll defenitly be needing [lumberjack] soon. Plus youll want to start working towards getting the Carpenters Gloves and the Carpenters Apron. Both give +1 to your woodworking skill. Combined with Adv Synth Support you can have +5 right their. You have also reached the rank where you will be starting to get into Arrow territory. My personaly favorite all around synth. How far you want to be away form cap when u start these is entirly up to the crafter. But the faurther away the higher the risk of failing the synth. I have done them up to 10 levels short with Adv Sup. (Ex 49+3 Cap 59) Many fails however. The good thing is youll do arrows in groups of 99 synths at a time. So youll have a lot of them to do. Youll need to develop a feel for these. Arrows also sell well generaly. Ill include some bridges and various synths to help, but their completly optional depending on the crafter nature.

31-40

 * Book Holder (31)-Earth Crystal, Holly Lumber, Lauan Lumber-- May be worth the cost, may not be. Lauan Logs are around 40g and the book holders Npc around 200g. So it realy depeneds on the Holly cost. Remember you can always synth a log if lumber is to high.


 * Mizu-Deppo (34)-Earth Crystal, Chestnut Lumber, Bronze Sheet, Distilled Water--Another ninja tool. Ah about 7k or npc at 10g each (990 stack).Distilled water you can get at Raimbroy's Groceries in Southern San d'Oria for about 11g each. Bronze sheets at the smithing guild; usualy cheep. The chestnut lumber will be the determining factor here. Check its price, if profitable go for it. Note: each synth yeilds 33 Mizu-Deppo. 99 to a stack


 * Beetle Arrow (39)-Earth Crystal, Beetle Arrowheads, Arrowwood Lumber, Chocobo Fletchings— Congratulations on reaching Arrow synthesis!! Beleive me, youll get tired of em quick lol If you havnt accuired [lumberjack] yet, shame on you. Arrowheads are sold in stacks of 99, so that means u need a peice of arrowwood lumber for each and every one. - Each synth yeilds 33 arrows, so NHQ can yeild 33 stacks. Be sure to quiver them. Saves a lot of room when your done and helps sell faster. (To quiver, trade a [carnation] and 99 arrows to the quiver lady. Max 7 carnations and 7 stacks of arrows at once.) You can stack quivers up to 12 (12x99) To avoid confussion, A SINGLE quiver is the same as 99 arrows. Diffrence is quivers stack. The arrowheads can run around 9k for a stack, the Fletchings at about 4k a stack + lumber. so 13+k for 99 synths.. not bad at all. Arrowx99 sell for about 1-2k, A quiver for the same, A quiverx12 about 20k

TEST ITEM: Traversiere-Wind Crystal, Oak Lumber, Parchment: Simple enough. Check the AH price vs supplie cost. Gow ith what ever is cheaper.

41-50
Note: Their are many synths available to use as a bridge if needed. Tho several can cost a fair amount. So im only includeing one. However you can go straight from beetel arrows (39) to horn arrows (49) with Adv Synth Support. Their will most likly be several breaks due to gap which is why im includeing one bridge. Both ways can be benificial depending on your current needs. This is also the ONLY pre 60 synth id even mention the word loggin in. You can log these at gshelba which will make your synth total profit. However they are Very Rare. It will take a LONG time to log enough to skill up on. If your jsut leveling, id suggest buying if the price is right. Note: Bast Parchment is also used in many other synths including Shihei. If your leveling then its probably best to just sell the Bast. The shihei wll not lead to a much larger profit, but will take time, plus the cost of more black ink.
 * Bast Parchment (45)-Lightning Crystal, Elm Log, Distilled Water, Moko Grass-- Not a bad synth actuly. Requires Alchemy 29 as a sub skill. Distilled Water again at Raimbroy's Groceries in Southern San d'Oria 11g each. Moko Grass is i nport sandy right after you enter the airship dock. 15-22 gill. (plus price to enter dock) If you dont have an airship pass, as a friend or find someone else waiting inside and ask them to buy it and send it to you when they reach jeuno in exchange for the gill. The main item here is the Elm Log. AH's for about 4k. Bast sells for about 5k give or take 1k so it can be a break even synth if price is right.


 * Horn Arrow (49)-Earth Crystal, Arrowwood Lumber, Horn Arrowheads, Bird Fletchings- If you can find or know someone making Bird fletchings, they will probably be gratefull to sell them to u cheaper then AH. If not then AH it is at about 1-2k a stack, still not bad if available. May end up having to farm the bird feathers and shout for a clothcrafter to synth them into fletchings for you. Of course if u find one near but below cap, they may do it for you for free since their getting the free skill off it. Horn Arrow Heads are around 10-15k a stack depending on market and availabilty. And of course you get the privledge of making more arrowwood lumber again. Good news is you should be starting to HQ that lumber, making it cheaper and faster. So around 20kish total for meterials. Be sure to quiver. Horn Arrow x99 sells for around 2k - Horn Quiver x12 is about 20-25k And again a single stack of meterials can give 33 stacks or TWO quiverx12 plus extra. So cap these out and sell for profite.

TEST ITEM: Rose Wand: Wind Crystal, Rosewood Lumber, Black Chocobo Feather- Get lumber from AH or guild. The feather can be a pain tho. The citizens of the first-place Nation in Conquest Rankings will have these available at the Chocobo Stables, in case the AH doesn't have any singles.

51-60
Their are vert few good bridges in this range, so i have excluded them from this guide and went straight to the next Arrow. Again useing Adv Syn Support you should be ok.


 * Scorpion Arrow (59)-Earth Crystal, Scorpion Arrowheads, Arrowwood Lumber, Insect Fletchings— These are a great synth period. However may take up to 4 stacks of arrowheads. (See why lumberjack is so importent? Imagin doing them singly lol) Fletchings are aorund 3k a stack, Arrow heads around 10k, but generaly in a shorter supply. Quiver and go! Arrow x99 sell for around 2k again. Quiver x12 for 29-30k


 * Chest (61)-Earth Crystal, Rattan Lumber x3, Lauan Lumber x2- Pretty cheap for its level. Can be troublesome is the Elshmo regions are under beastman contorll however. Cap it out. If your only taking woodworking to 60 then its a great way to end it, and congratulations!

TEST ITEM: Kaman: Wind Crystal, Elm Lumber, Bamboo Stick, Silk Thread, Wool Cloth-As are many test items, check price on AH vs meterials and go with the cheaper of the two. ONLY turn one in if you are going beyond 60 to 100.

POST 60 GUIDE
This is only for those taking woodworking past 60. I can see taking it to 69 for the Demon Arrows but thats it. This section can also be very hard on the wallet, so proceed with care.

NOTE: If youv'e taken a look at Ctownwoody's guide you'll notice a distinted simmalarity up to this point. And I give him all the credit for his long work. But it was the post 60 guild that i strayed off course with which is why I wanted to make a seperate guide. A lot of synth's require massive sub-skills or fishing; neither of which i had, so i had to find a diffrent route.

61-70

 * Demon Arrow (69)-Earth Crystal, Demon Arrowheads, Black Chocobo Fletchings, Arrowwood Lumber Another arrow synth.. and probably your last major one. (See why i said you'd get tired of the quickly lol) And against, may take several stacks. Fletchings run about 30k and the Arrowheads around 45k. A bit expencive but you should make it all back easily. Demon arrow x99 sell for about 4-5k and Quiverx12 for 50-55k. Take to cap as always.

TEST ITEM: Ebony Wand-Wind Crystal, Ebony Lumber, Giant Bird Feather-Make or buy, whichever is cheaper.

71-80
-Warning- Now it can start getting expencive.


 * Hume Fishing Rod (72)-Light Crystal, Broken Hume Rod-- If you have a good fishing skill and are capable of breaking these, by all means. Its basicly a free syth with the exception of the crystals. But can be very hard to do.


 * Hume Fishing Rod (74)- Wind Crystal, Rosewood Lumber, Silver Thread-- This is an annoying synth to say the least but one i was forced to do since i cant stand fishing. Rosewood lumber on AH ran about 20k a stack, Silver Thread (NOT SILK THREAD) ran about 12k a stack. Totaling 32k for 12 rods. AH in sandy for 2k each. So it was a 8k loss per stack = 666g/synth loss. Not to bad in face of what came next. Problem with this is they dont stack, and may only sell 1 or 2 a day. So it can take a long itme to sell these off. Or you can NPC them for around 1100, which is even more of a loss so AH if you can.


 * Ebony Pole (79)- Wind Crystal, Ebony Lumber x2 -- I had spent a long time sifting through trying to find the best item to synth in terms of cost. Unfortionitly this was actuly the best at the time considering our market. The lumber was around 38k a stack in sandy AH : 38-40k jeuno, so i waiting till they were on sandy's mostly. The pole NPC for around 4400. You get 6 poles per stack of lumber. So its around an 11.k loss per stack = 2k/synth loss. Like i said, the later levels can get expencive. (Use adv syn support to minamise breaks.

--- Will update as i get their ---

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