Grow Fire CrystalsFollow

Fire crystals are getting ridiculous. They are 4k in most cities and I've seen them get up to 4.1 to 4.5 in windy. So, I grow my own now.

Most people use: brass pot + herb seed + water crystal on a watersday to get fire cyrstals. BUT you will also get bay leaves. While you get more fire crystals I don't have any use for bay leaves.

I use: vegetable seeds + brass pot and water crystal on watersday. I get either +/- stack of fire, 1 or 2 saru. cotton, 2-4 la thiene cabbage. I craft so I use the cotton and stacks of cotton sell nice. The cabbage can be used for the old man quest in selbina for fame in bastok, sandy and selbina.

I hope more and more people begin to grow because 4 to 4.5k for a stack of fire crystals really sucks.

Soon I'll have 40 plants so I will not be buying fire crystals anymore. ;p

Take a low level job and kill saplings in S. Gusta.

Yeah good point. I was going to take my 4DRG out there soon. Dangruf Wadi is another good place for that too.

Eh, I like fighting orcs more than gobs... they just seem easier and more daft than gobbies. Gobbies kinda seem "organized" at times.

Uh oh... tunnel vision POV.

You're looking at time invested into it... I'm looking at gil per factor of time (IRL, not invested). It takes about 2 - 3 IRL days for a gardening project to be complete... in that 2 - 3 days, my lvl 8 can level to 10 or 12 and get 6-10 stacks of fire crystals. So I spent 3 days playing and getting exp as well as stacks of fire crystals. So not all is lost, I made progression in both gil and exp. Now after those 3 days of gardening, you got your main job up some and are solely relying on growing fire crystals. Let's say you have 10 pots... Unfortunately, not all will yield fire crystals... so out of the 10 pots, you might end up with 50-60 fire crystals, so we'll call it 5 stacks... 6 stacks to be generous.

Granted you got to level up your main job, but if I'm also muling and gardening with 10 pots, except I play my low level job while the plant grows... I get the 6-10 stacks from farming and the 5 or 6 from the gardening... Wasted time? Not really... made more money and got some exp by farming them... and I don't have to worry about getting bay leaves, la theine cabbage and/or blue peas from Orc's.

Now even if I didn't garden while my mule was out there... within the 2-3 days time, my mule farms in 30k whereas your gardening pulls in 20k. Granted 20k is nice for doing nothing but a few minutes of checking your plants a couple times each day IRL... and you can still have the freedom to continue leveling your main... but you might profit more from combining the two... 30k + 20k is 30k more than you had. This is even more recommended if you're in need of the gil to purchase gear/spells/food/equip to continue leveling your main job...

Personally, it comes down to the luck vs. drop factor. Orc's I know will drop low level armor drops, beastmen seals or fire crystals... however, brass pot + veggie seeds + water crystal can yield a wide variety of different things... from 2 thundermelons or rain lillies to blue peas to bay leaves to la theine cabbage to 9-20 fire crystals. Personally, I'm trying to get more into the tree cuttings and clippings... hopefully turn over some ores and start making a serious profit.

Side note, if I need the crystals for synthing, I find it quicker and easier to farm them than try and wait for them to grow... thus the reason I suggested the low level job/mule in the first place.

Can I see your source of information? Cause I know for a fact I've grown thundermelon's with brass pot + veggie + water... I am not entirely sure about the bay leaves tho... that may have been from grain or herb seeds. As for your intent on the post, I understand... and whether you choose to farm or grow, or both... it all ends up in gathering fire crystals thru alternative methods other than paying the gil on the AH for them.

Last time I did that I woke up with soil where it didn't belong. o.O. I keep telling myself it was a bad dream. -.-