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  Frej's Crafting Direction Theory |
| As we all probably know crafting is affected by moon phase and the day of crafting these will influence the rate off success the rate of skill-ups and the rate of H.Q. but maybe about a week ago I read somewhere that the direction in witch you sit in also affect the out come. At first I thought that in no way could that be true, mainly because I hadn’t seen it anywhere else but the text referred to the star map that some NPCs will show you and I thought it couldn’t hurt to look at the map(I had seen the map before I just had know idea what to use it for). And as I looked at the map again surely enough there was a star colored for each element and these stars was in the 8 main directions. So since I have tried to work according to this and I believe that it actually does work, facing towards the crystal you use seems to make it more successful but less skills and facing the element that your crystal is weak to seem to give more skills. Maybe it is all superstition but as I see it doesn’t hurt or take too long to do so why not. N - DARK
NW - FIRE
W - WATER
SW - LIGHTNING
S - EARTH
SE - WIND
E - ICE
NE - LIGHT
As a side note after the update monday I went in to the bonecraft guild by a coincidence and noticed that their inventory had been completely cleared out by the update, they where only selling ingredients no crafting products at all, and since the price they offer is based on how much they have to sell I could sell my stuff to the guild with a profit, so if anyone else has problems with keeping crafted items in inventory keep an eye on your guild when there is an update and remember to sell your stock in one day the price will drop the next day.
NPC's with star-maps:
Windhurst http://ffxi.somepage.com/npcdb/display-npc.php?npc=1154
Bastok http://ffxi.somepage.com/npcdb/display-npc.php?npc=1544
San Doria ???.????.com
Since I wrote the first message several LS members have been using the direction as part of their crafting and from what I heard it does make a big difference. but to use the directions right it is not only important to know which direction represent which element you also need to know how each element affects your crafting I happened to run in to a good table that shows the effect of each day on each crystal so i will steal that and expand it with the directions:
Shamelessly stolen from http://forums2.warcry.com/read.phtml?f=208&id=399090 but he stole it from somewhere else so I am sure he doesn’t mind.
Crafting Direction Table
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|-----------|----NW----|-----S-----|-----W-----|----SE----|----E-----|------SW-------|----NE-----|----N-----|
|-Crystal---|-Firesday-|-Earthsday-|-Watersday-|-Windsday-|--Iceday--|-Lightningsday-|-Lightsday-|-Darksday-|
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|-Fire------|-S-G---HQ-|-----------|-S-G-M-HQ--|----------|-S-G------|---------------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Earth-----|---G---HQ-|-S-G---HQ--|-----------|-S-G-M-HQ-|----------|---S-G---------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Water-----|-S-G------|---G---HQ--|-S-G---HQ--|----------|----------|---S-G-M-HQ----|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Wind------|----------|-S-G-------|---G---HQ--|-S-G---HQ-|-S-G-M-HQ-|---------------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Ice-------|-S-G-M-HQ-|-----------|-----------|-S-G---HQ-|-S-G---HQ-|---------------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Lightning-|----------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-------|----------|---G---HQ-|---S-G---HQ----|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Light-----|----------|-----------|-----------|----------|----------|-----G---HQ----|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-Dark------|----------|-----------|-----------|----------|----------|---------------|-S-G-M-HQ--|-S-G-M-HQ-|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------S-=-Success----G-=-Skill-Gain---M-=-Reduced-Material-Loss---HQ-=-High-Quality-------------|
|-----------------Green-=-Highly-Increased---lack-=-Slightly-Increased---Red-=-Reduced---------------------|
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Star Map
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| Added on: |
12/08/2004 |
| Author/Source: |
Frej of Apocalypse |
| Author's email/website: |
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| Posted by: |
Anton |
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5 Comment(s) |
By Frej
12/08/2004
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This is awesome :)
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By Anton
12/08/2004
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I should rate you down, for rating yourself up >.<
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By Turan
06/30/2005
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very cool and useful nice frej
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By Cracolici
07/15/2005
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I heard there was more to it than just direction.. supossidly some stated they cracked the code and could HQ whenever they wanted to.. but they only told a few friends
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By NastyKitten
07/16/2005
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Good idea on taking this I will definitely use it.
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