Throughout my crafting guides, you will see a , , and tags for each of the target range. Since the new patch (As of Feb 7th the initial writing of this guide) it is always almost more advantageous to try higher synths than your level for incredible SP gains, where even failures net you the same about of a success. However, your available resources will dictate this more often than not so that’s where there is always more than one way to do things, crafting included. [R01 – R05] Total SP: 3,250 Use any of the following fish one at a time for the cost of 1 Wind Shard. Standard synth your way through the first several levels of this craft. There is nothing too difficult about this stage and the fish should be really easy to catch if you are leveling fishing along side as well. Tiger Cod Malm Kelp Maiden Carp Allagan Snail Black Eel Stripped Goby River Crab Bone Crayfish Brass Loach Honestly, with the new SP gains I’m sure you can do this for likely less than 24 fish. Don’t feel like fishing these, no problem, Holasfhis in Limsa sells Crayfish for 57 gil each. Buy yourself a stack of 99 for under 6k gil, 99 Wind Shards and your off to the races and likely very close to R10. [R05-R10] Total SP: 13,100 Tiger Cod Malm Kelp Maiden Carp Allagan Snail Black Eel Stripped Goby River Crab Bone Crayfish Brass Loach Box Turtle Pipira Rainbow Trout Razor Clams Sea Cucumber Saber Sardine Vongola Clams Dart Frogs Nether Newt Crimson Crayfish Black Sole Sunrise Tellin Haraldr Haddock Ocean Cloud By all means you can continue to use Crayfish to R10, its not as bad as it seems and with them being very cheap, they are in supply. Also available to purchase from NPC’s are: Maiden Carp, Pipira, scallop shells, coral butterfly, Al Mhing Fighting Fish, and Crimson Crayfish (although the later is about 18k each so rather pricy to purchase to level Cooking!) [R10-R20] Total SP: 94,800 Box Turtle Pipira Rainbow Trout Razor Clams Sea Cucumber Saber Sardine Vongola Clams Dart Frogs Nether Newt Crimson Crayfish Black Sole Sunrise Tellin Haraldr Haddock Ocean Cloud Black Ghost Sandfish Scallop Shell Rothlyt Oyster Tree Toad Sea Pickle There are a couple of ways to go here and our first most notable NON-Fish cooking synth. Scallop Shells can be purchased for 432 each, making them fairly easy to come buy and the last one you can buy from an NPC for leveling for a while. Likely 300 of these (130k gil) would be enough to go from 10 to 20 assuming good success early on. However, should you have Alchemy or an Alchemist friend you can also skill up on Maple Syrup. Early 20-25 level Alchemists who have botany like to make Maple Syrup as it’s a 2 shard synth and makes 12x of it from 1 Maple Sap. If you can get your hands on it in quantity, it makes for a good synth. Just don’t over purchasing it should it be more than the scallops route. [R20-R30] Total SP: 261,000 Dart Frogs Nether Newt Crimson Crayfish Black Sole Sunrise Tellin Haraldr Haddock Ocean Cloud Black Ghost Sandfish Scallop Shell Rothlyt Oyster Tree Toad Sea Pickle Helmet Crab Coral Butterfly Bianaq Bream Nautilus Lamp Marimo Hammerhead Shark Yugr’am Salmon You can continue with Scallops or purchase Coral Butterflies for just under 1700 each. Bianaq Bream and Nautilus are both fished from the same grade 3 waters off the coast of Bloodshore for easy gathering. For really good leveling/fishing combo’s you can fish Cassy Hallow for Lamp Marimo (and get Nether Newts + Crimson Crayfish, both heavy sought after fish for Alchemists! The Blindfish aren’t bad either.) 10 stacks of 99 averaging 250 SP a synth are required to move up to the next tier. Also, don’t forget to do your class quest at 20 and 30 to earn marks for the “Fishcleaning” book. [R30-R40] Total SP: 543,000 Scallop Shell Rothlyt Oyster Tree Toad Sea Pickle

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