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No, its not really free, but in the end you end up having more money than when you started. You should have a decent bankroll to start out with. 100K would be good but it could take you longer to skill up since the materials can get expensive later on.

This isn’t really a guide, but more of a journal of my experiences of woodworking to lvl 60 while still gaining a profit. There are good guides available to reference when you are trying to skill up. I recommend finding one you like and going with it.

I have a lvl 54 main job and rank 5 status. Not that you really need that, but it helps when you need to travel and stuff. As most of you have experienced, being a damage dealer at that lvl means that a good amount of time is spent searching for parties. Sometimes hours and even days can pass before you get an invite. So I used this time as efficiently as possible.

First of all, you start out by skilling up by making lumber. Arrowwood, ash, etc… I highly recommend going to La Theine Plateau and farming air elementals. I always checked the weather guy in town to see if it was going to be windy. When it is windy, you are good to go. One way to go is to sub RNG or BST for widescan; or THF for TH1. If you can go as higher lvl RNG/THF, THF/RNG, BST/THF…you are gold. I didn’t so it took a little longer. But I got the job done and saved lots of gil by not buying at the AH.

Once you get a good amount of wind clusters, go to San Doria and buy hatchets. I went to Carpenter’s Landing and bought about 3 stacks. Do you need 3 stacks…not at all. I just sold the other 2 on AH for double the cost and practically got my stack for free.

I cleared my inventory as much as possible and headed to Ghelsba Outpost to do some logging. Most people think this is a waste of time but I actually found it very helpful. It wasn’t nearly as overcamped as I thought and the logging points came very frequently.

Rinse and repeat the above process until you get no more skill ups. I recommend saving the lumber because you are going to need it…trust me. The AH prices on those lumbers are just rape considering the cost at the guild. But since the guild always sells out 2 nanoseconds when it opens, it is just worth the time to save.

Sidenote: while logging, keep the elm logs because they sell for mucho-gil. If you try to camp the guild, buy these fast because they sell for about 8k-10k on AH fairly quickly. (Server dependent) Also, if you have extra lightning crystals around, make Maple sugar from the maple logs and sell those at Windy AH. I have a mule there and I was able to sell for about 1.5k to 3k a stack easily. All this extra gil will become very valuable when you start buying those expensive materials later on.

Time to make arrows…I hope you saved your lumber. Also, get those Earth crystals ready because you will need them…and lots of them. One easy way to stock up on earth crystals is to start a new lvl 1 job and go hunting. Most of the worms and rabbits drop earth crystals so you can easily get plenty in no time…don’t forget Signet. I ended up buying more at the AH anyway because I got lazy. This doesn’t kill your profit but it doesn’t help either. As you skill up, sell your arrows at Jeuno AH. The tax kind of hurts but I found they sell 10 times faster there (10 times is just a figure of speach but you get the idea). Horn arrows, scorpion arrows, and Darksteel bolts are your best bets.

Now I am lvl 60 in woodworking and I still have around the same amount of gil when I started. It took me about a week or two of casual skilling. I would have lots more if I didn’t have to buy crystals and lumber at the AH. I was wrong to sell my lumber ahead of time and I ended up having to buy more. Laziness again. But if you stand firm and go for the low cost, heavy farm approach, you can get there with more money in your bank.

Also, get lumberjack as soon as you can. The profit will start to come even faster when you can lumberjack your own lumber. You use the lumber you need and sell the rest. You don’t even have to go logging much because you can buy the logs fairly cheap at the guild and Carpenter’s Landing.

I hope I was able to help out a bit.

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