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Getting Started

Synthesis is simple to do. Farm a few crystals and if you have to, buy a few materials. Materials can usually be bought in guild salesrooms or on AH. Get a beginning level synthesis recipe for the skill you are going to train up and gopher it. Farming is basically grabbing signet from the guard at the gate (no signet, no crystals ack!) and go out and slaughter some hapless beasts to take their precise crystals. Fire crystals are easily farmed off of Orcs in Sandoria, wind are found on bees in Bastok and Windurst. Earth crystals are a pretty common drop allover. Just kill some worms. This is also a good way to tell each creatures strong element. So if a Orc drops fire crystals, they are weak to water beacause fire is their strong element.

Start Making Useless Crap that Isnt worth Anything on AH

Yeah, basically to start off, you arent going to make anything that's worth much money. If you're lucky, it might be helpful to you in someway i.e. arrows for training up ranged attack or bolts for markmanship. But more than likely you arent gonna need it. ::people in the backgound: THAT SUXOR!:: Most the time you can sell it back to NPC's (Non Player Characters) for maybe half to full cost. Or you can be really nice and send it to your friends that don't need it either. What are friends for right?

To start off:

Open your inventory. On computer this can be done quickly by hitting Ctrl i. I have no idea if there is a shortcut for PS2.

Select the crystal you need and use it. A pop up menu will appear. Select a box and scroll down the list and add all the materials called for in the recipe. Hit ok.

If you did this correctly you should be kneeling on the ground for a second, then you start synthing your amazing(ly) worthless item! ::COUGHbookholdersCOUGH::

You may suceed, or you may fail. Failure your means your crystal shatters into a million tiny pieces and you may or may not lose one if not all of your materials ::person in background: THAT SUXOR 2! /em throws shoe at <t> /blacklist add <t>

To gain skill ups in a craft, you need to sign up with the guild by talking to the guildmaster or you will synthesize a million things and gain no experience for it.Certain guilds are found in certain towns (see below for locations and guildmasters. If the guild is not in your town and you dont have your chocobo's license yet I suggest changing your craft.

After awhile you will gain skill ups and eventually a whole level. Once you hit level ten you have to talk to the guildmaster again and take a test to go further up in level. Tests can be taken as early as level 8 and the guildmaster will tell you what item he wants you to bring him. You can synthesize it yourself or do it the old fashioned way and cheat. (^@^) Some items can be bought right in the guild salesroom. If not go to AH.

To learn more about synthesis go back to main page and check out some of the other links and pick your poison. /ma "Poisona" <me> Soon you'll be hammering together those 100k+ beds or slaving away in the kitchen cooking pumpkin pie for mp loving mages

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Sandoria Guilds: Carpenter's Guild, North Sandoria, Guildmaster:
                          Blacksmith's Guild, North Sandoria, Guild Master:
                          Tanner's Guild, Southern Sandoria, Guild Master:
Bastok Guilds: Goldsmith's Guild, Bastok Markets, Guild Master:
                        Alchemist's Guild, Bastok Mines, Guildmaster:
Windurst Guilds: Boneworker's Guild, Windurst Woods, Guild Master:
                         Weaver's Guild, Windurst Woods, Guild Master:
                           Cooking Guild, Windurst Waters, Guild Master: