Synergy,cooking, and fishing ???'sFollow

Synergy

That would be correct. I have a hunch that Furnace Repair will be useful in the far future, but presently, the three skills you mentioned are the only worthwhile ones.

The impurity ratio is directly related to the chance of your furnace exploding. The higher the ratio, the more likely it will try to explode. I found it's best to keep it under 30%. No one knows if the final impurity ratio affects the result of your synthesis. There is no specific recipe in which impurity ratio is important.

Cooking

Fort K-N is a higher level zone, but you should be relatively safe at level 75+. I would still recommend sneak/invis for higher levels though.

This is a difficult question to answer. My response is Direction, Day, Moon Phase, and the color of your boxers/panties does not affect the result of your synthesis. See long answer below.

Fishing

Fishing skill is nigh worthless. With the right fishing rod, it is possible for someone with level 0 skill to pull in a level 80 fish. The fisherman's stall gives a bonus beyond just a straight skill boost. Of course, fishing is easier at higher levels, but it's not so important that you should prioritize it over other special bonuses such as the stall.



Synthesis Theory
As seen in my sig, I have done a lot of crafting. Throughout every crafting attempt, I have never seen a significant difference based on the direction I face or the day I craft on. Others will tell you otherwise, making your question difficult to answer. The truth of the matter is that no one, and I mean no one, has been able to produce results that show a significant boost to their skill up rate or HQ results based on the day/direction/whatever. As I have given up on wasting time waiting for the theoretical "perfect" environment, I can no longer give you the current crafting theory. The only fact that has ever been proven is the presence of HQ tiers.

You can follow the guides if you wish. In theory, it can't hurt. It'll take you 3 seconds to turn your character before crafting out a huge batch of items. The day and moon phase ideas require waiting and only allow a short window, but that's it.

Edited, Jul 7th 2011 6:43pm by xypin

Fishing skill definitely makes a difference. Theoretically it's true, a level 0 fisherman can catch a level 80 fish, good luck with that in practice though unless you're running a fishing bot.

In my experience it means the difference between having to sit at my keyboard and frantically tap keys to reel in a fish, or being able to watch TV with a controller in hand and casually look at my computer monitor across the room every bite to reel in the same fish.

Wanted to give a small update on how things have worked so far.

I followed the plan listed and was able to reach 80 on synergy. I did sometimes 5 skillups a day or more depending on time so wouldn't get burned out. I used the furnaces outside of mog house in wind waters. I found it easier to run into mog house to heal until I needed whm for cure poison at lvl 70 making fisherman's stall. My whm is only lvl 21

Pinch, thank you for that excellent idea on cooking. The guides I had looked at must of been outdated didn't see that mentioned dawn muslum once. I'm now lvl 97 and will buy dragon meat as I can. It took me about 4 stacks to get the 2 skillups 95-97...

So counting at last 6 stacks of dragon meat the minimum cost to get to 100 is....... 72x 20,000 for a grand total of 1,444,000 so roughly 1.5 mill. This will take me awhile to raise, but like knowing what is needed.

Now just need to get to lvl 75, do cop for access to lufaise meadows so I can finish that side for ebisu. Been a good week. Love it when a plan comes together