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I've read many guides about cooking and they are well, hit or miss. Some are outdated, some are slow and some are just plain useless. As they say on them, "This article is a personal guide. Information expressed in this guide is one player's opinion and may be...blah blah blah". I don't know about you, but I need a guide that is reliable and from a player who has analyzed the prices and losses/profits of each recipe. Not one that has "possible options" because the author isn't sure what to make, but one that offers the best recipes to get you through the levels.
This guide is meant to get you to 100 as quickly as possible with spending as little as possible. It focuses on getting ingredients from an NPC or the Auction house and not wasting time farming. I don't screw around with recipes that take a week to get through just because it saves you 2k Gil unless there is nothing else to make. This guide consists of what gets you there the fastest and are not too expensive. Some recipes will cost you a bit of change but overall they are "power synths" designed to pound through the levels. Let's face it, nobody wants to waste away crafting all day getting nothing done. As an example I lent this guide to a friend of mine who power leveled it 0-60 on only 30,000 Gil. Trust me, it'll pay off at the end.
First of all I am aware of the layout of this and the content. It is all there for a reason. I give a picture for every synth and the product and ingredients. I know. I didn't give you the HQ items. They don't matter since this focuses on the actual synthesis product. If you HQ something then that is fine but I'm not focusing on them. If you want more info about the HQ's of a synthesis, go to the item's main page. I separate things based on rank. Check it all out on the Table of Contents to make it easier.
I wish to stress that the recipes here and mostly performed with the guild's help. Get Advanced Image Support. For the love of God you're leveling a craft and already spending money. Get the most out of it and fork over less than 300 gil and improve success and skillup rates. I should also mention that the entire formula of determining skillups is BS.
Common Belief:
Recipe Level - (Your level + Item support + Guild support) = Level gap. Most shoot for this to be 2-5 levels.
If your level + Image Support + Item Support is over the recipe level then you don't get skillups.
Sorry to tell you, but that above segment is completely useless. If you believe it and go along with it then just use whatever works. While leveling Smithing I was doing Steel Ingots. I had about 33-34 Smithing at the time and the recipe capped at 36.
33+3=36 so according to this I shouldn't get skillups since I am already at the cap. Basically my point is that there is a hard and soft cap. Your actual level (hard cap) is what determines skillups and your total skill (soft cap) determines successes. I first noticed this with Fishing. The gear gives +4 fishing and I was able to continue skilling up off of a fish even while my Soft Cap was past it's level. If it works with Fishing+ gear then it works with any other craft's gear. Yes, I said it. Fishing is a craft too.
As such, use image support when you can. I generally try to use it if I am 5-6 levels+ away (actual level). I am aware that some people don't agree with this. If you don't like it you can just write your own damn guide.
As for feedback, send me a message about it and I will fix it. There may have been something I missed or that needs to be fixed. If you are going to edit something, please put your signature next to it and let me know what you fixed. I'll double-check it and give you credit. I give you Wiegraf's Guide to Synthesis: Cooking.
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