Goldsmithing gone to crap : FFXI General Discussions

Im a lvl 60+ goldsmither. Since there isnt anything reliable to desynth anymore im pretty ticked off at the fact that desynthing turns to crap if you are 10+ lvls from the cap. I have no way to make money anymore due to everyone undercutting platinum ingots and overpricing platinum ore and nuggets. HQ rings and earrings are worthless. check onyx earrings and energy earrings. 4k and 5k respectively, the hq rings? undercutted so much its not worth making 8nqs and 1 hq. ur left with massive rings that you cant even desynth since the ur so high above cap. so whats left. republic subligars. undercut. you need to craft maybe 15 to get about 3 or 4 to republic subligars to break even and they sell once in a blue moon. not to mention that at 64+ your gonna have to npc everything you synth for skill till ur 70+ and then at 70+ ur screwed because everything will cost about 15k per synth for full loss. hq3 gems arent even worth much so someone please tell me if goldsmithing is even worth getting up that high. i spent millions getting to this point over the last 2 years and to end up like this with undercutters and no way to make money at 63 goldsmithing is extremely discouraging. i have looked over guides, researched receipies, scoured over the ah day and night and nothing. gold orc masks drop like 1 every hour for me with TH1. and my thf is lv 12. any help would be nice. or at least say goldsmithing has gone to crap dont bother. btw im on bismarck server.

Well the only 2 things I can think of are:
1.) Farm your butt off without using goldsmithing to fund it... but if it's really not worth it at lv.100 then don't bother and try smithing. I don't know about your servers economy but it doesn't seem too horrible judging from ffxiah.com- Most goldsmithing100's are pretty rich. Maybe just go through somepage's craft list and look at anything possible to synth and disregard anything under 50k profit.

2.) Lv thief. I make a killing off gold orcmasks.. then again I have TH3.. probably getting 10 or so per hour.

Either way... crafting for gil isn't the easiest moneymaker.. you have to put a LOT into it in order to get out of it the amounts that you want. Gl...

everyone and their brother has lvl 60 craft it takes 2 days to get to 60 in any craft , that is not a profit area that is a holding point for those without drive to finish.

if you want an easy craft to lvl and make money cooking is for you

its not that. i know once i get to lv 90+ theres obviously tons of ways to make money. just that the money makers that existed once around lv 60 has turned to crap and now im stuck with no realiable means to make money off gs which used to be my primary source of income. i started to try gardening for ores and other things but not too sure. my thf is too low to even think of orc masks. althought i kno thats a great source of income.

desynth those rings and earing everyones undercutting. my server=
death earings = 10k, platnium ingot = 40k. Sun ring = 5k, gold ingot 25k.
just some examples, and youll need to desynth alot to make money.
Crafting is not a fast way to make gil, especially with a lower level craft skill ( 60 is low these days).
tbh honest youd probably make gil faster fishing bream then NPCing them right by the guiild in windy. ( especially if you use Xfish^^)