Well, since it’s Sunbreeze Festival, recently my Vana’diel Adventuring life has been full of chatting, frolicking, relaxing, and slacking off. However, in this couple of days I’ve done something considerably productive.

I’ve mined with Duckie and got Jan a bunch of Darksteel Ore for her Smithing. I’ve made as well as signed a few furnishings, cages and tables for examples, for myself and a few friends. So, now my Fafnir Statue does not seem like it’s going to flip off the table anymore. Moreover, I’ve received a Hammock from Jan and thus I rearranged my Mog House! In 2 days, I’ve gained over 5000 Guild Point from Culinarian’s Guild because Jan reminded me to turn in GP items. I’ve also leveled some of my crafting skills.

Short story : Today I got my Woodworking to level 40, and am ready for Guild Test. It requires a Traversiere (Bard’s instrument) and I bought one (how sneaky!) from Jeuno.

Long story : Today I went to mine in Gusgen with Duckie and then left her (she was leaving for bed as well) to join Cornelious in Kuftal. He was with his Japanese buddy named Kennchann. We fished for Devil Manta and ran around killing stuff, hoping for NMs to pop. We got 2 or 3 Mantas, I can’t remember, but non dropped the Angelskin. Also, my fishing kinda suck, I couldn’t hook the NM >.> All I got was Pugils. Lame!

Then after we killed a Pugil (other people got the Manta) Corny /heal to rest and we talked a little bit. He then went quiet and wouldn’t get up. Meanwhile, Kennchann went to check on Treasure Coffer for some money. After a long while, Corny still didn’t move, so we suspected he fell asleep already XD Poor thing! He’s been up all night and must be very tired.

So, after one more attempt to fish up the NM (which failed) Kennchann logged out. I asked a camper there (Twolipsrbetter) about aggro pop and he said sometimes Scorpion pops in the area. Therefore, I abductedCornelious to Altep with my Teleport spell and left him there. I went back to Bastok and started leveling up my Woodworking until it hit level 40.

Oh…and….

Trying to level up my Woodwork, I used Beetle Arrow recipe and then Fang Arrow Recipe, burning some of my junks as well as mule’s Crystals.

Well, during the production of Fang Arrow Heads, I also got my Bonecraft to level 36 from 35. Oh, and by mining as a team with Duckie, we got a few Silver Ores which I synthesized and gained a few skill points, bringing my Goldsmithing to level 16.

Other crafts, however, haven’t moved yet.

Tags: Aleczan, Bonecraft, Cornelious, crafting, Craftsmanship, Duckie, Goldsmithing, Kennchann, Woodworking

Lately I’ve been wanting to level up my crafts. But since my laziness still hasn’t worn off, I picked up my Woodworking in the late 20’s instead of Cooking at 90. I used the pile of Bronze Ingots that I’ve collected to make Bronze Sheets and then used Brunestud to make Chestnut Lumbers. Got decent skill points from Mizu-deppo recipe.

Way to go!

Well, after several years ofr training, my Cooking has finally reached the last leg of journey. Now I’m on the road of 90’s towards 100. Now I’m finally a Veteran Cook!

This month I’ve been trying to reach level 90 by using the Rolanberry Pie recipe. I think I made about 20 stacks of the pie, earning me 3500 – 5000 gil per stack from Jeuno Auction House. That is almost 100k gil. Sweet!

After Cooking, I had a minor problem about inventory slots. My mules were also full with items. So I tried to use up some crystals. I continued my Woodworking from level 24. The Recipe was Shihei. So, first, I had to make myself some Black Ink (I’m stingy person when it comes to ingredients.) Since my Alchemy was high enough to HQ so many jars of ink from the cheap Nebimonite in AH, I could happily spend money buying Bast Parchment.

From level 24 to 28, I made like 6-7 stacks of Shihei, refilling my Shihei supply. ^^ It really worthed the time and effort. Still, I can level on this recipe until 29.

Oh, hmmm this month I had also leveled up my Clothcraft from 40 to 46. But I can’t remember when or on what recipe…. I’ve been very busy with so many things in real life and some of my memory of moments in Vana’diel went blank….  I know it wasn’t Sanjaku because that’s capped at 41.

Gahhh….umm.

Oh….?

Well, ahhh!

Now I know.

After looking it up in ffrecipe I now recalled about what I used. It was Bird Fletching until level 42, then Insect Fletching until 46. Because Insect Wing was one type of the junks I had to burn away from my Mog House. I think I used about 10 stacks of Insect Wings. The first few level from 42 were tough because of the level gap. But using the Advanced Synthesis Image Support, I managed to pass through 44-45, then continued regularly with no support to 46. Then my Insect Wings stock became empty. I am now trying to camp AH for Insect Wings before I start leveling up again.