Sub-Craft Lvling 60-70

What does everyone nowadays make to lvl subs (Gold,Smithing,Leather,Cloth) to 70? Help would be appreciated ; ;.

bump ; ;, would love to get some help on smithing/goldsmithing 60-70

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Goldsmithing_Guide_by_Gatsby

This is what I used for Goldsmithing to 95 so I'm sure you could use it for 60-70.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Smithing_Guide_By_Grodark_Part_2

And there is one for smithing. The one I used / am using I think was from killingifrit... I don't know, I printed it out like 6 years ago lol.

For Gold I did
Platinum Sheets to 64 - I still have these
Mythril Gauntlets to 66 - NPCed
Golden Bangles to 70 - I desynthed every one

For Smithing I did
Nodowa to 66 - NPCed
Zunari Kabuto to 67-68 - Saved and used for Woodworking.
Only did these to bridge between Darksteel Picks.
Darksteel Picks to 70 - NPCed

Gold:

Platinum Sheet to 64, NPCs for a slight loss.
Girandola to 66, requires Alchemy Sub, sells very slowly for extreme profit.
Platinum Arrowheads to 70

I skill at losses, usually, preferring ease of recipe and/or stackable ingredients / results.

Desynthesis can kiss my ***.

Girandola were great though, if you can sell just like ... a couple of them, pays for the stage entirely. Well, at least it did on my server. YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY.

First off, I would recommend two things:
1) Kitron Macarons lower break rates and loss rates and last for half an hour. I would personally always use these when skilling with a 5+ level gap, because they are cheap relative to the price of almost any 60-70 ingredients (or even just the price of crystals).

2) Don't be afraid to synth with a huge gap. Using Macarons and Advanced Support, being 8-10 levels below the synth really isn't a problem.



Clothcraft: (Loss, but fast)
Green Ribbon -> 62
Black Chocobo Fletchings (72) -> 70

Smithing: (Break even/Profit, fast)
Negoroshiki (66) -> 62~64 :: NPC at one of the three Tenshodo merchants with max fame for 18k each
Darksteel Pick (72) -> 70 :: NPC for ~12.5k each

Cooking: (Loss, but fast)
Colored Egg (68) -> 68
San d'Orian Tea (70) -> 70

Goldsmithing: (Loss and slow, relies on doing bone as well)
Hydro Patas (67) -> 67
Mobluminum Sheet (69) -> 69 :: Farm the ingots
Shrimp Lantern (73) -> 70

Bonecrafting: (Loss, but used for other crafts, don't sell)
Demon Arrowhead (63) -> 63
Bone Patas (67) -> 67
I don't really know how to get to 70 easily here.

I'll fill in the rest when I can.

Drop rate on Moblumin Ingots is just too low, the mobs are spread out, and have 15 minute respawns.

I can't in good faith recommend that at this stage in the game. At that point, the opportunity cost just becomes too high compared to littering Bastok Markets with broken pieces of gold ingots.

63/64 plat ingot/sheet sell on ah
67 hydro pata (make bone patas for skill and use for gold skill) npc
69 mlbd sheet can try to ah
69 shotel can try to ah
70 (preferred) plat arrowheads can try to ah or make some arrows or npc

this is mostly a loss path but it should be rather quick with the availability and economy of plat ore/ingots from worm parties. the only things are bone/hydra patas and mldb/shotel ingredients.