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This is advanced crafting theory. These ideas go beyond the basics topics and delve into ideas that are often relative perspectives. What I hope to contribute to this is giving a broader scope to those perspectives, pointing to specific information so you can make up your own mind about things like facing, moon-cycles, day and night, weekday, guild strength and more. Please feel free to add your perspective or arguement to the discussion page.
== Theory: Let's Face It ==
There is common accepted idea that you can face in a specific direction while crafting to enhance your crafting. There is a predominant theory and some other lesser theories. I will include them, providing the details as to how these theories are supported by details within the game itself. There are also external sites that will be pointed to.
=== Facing by the stars === 
The oldest system in use for crafting and facing is based on directions that are dictated according to the Stellar Map which is displayed by the Adventurer's Asistants: Adaunel, Kaela, and Lago-Charago. This chart shows constellations. Among these constellations are some of the Avatars and their related element. This does not include all the avatars. 
{|	Direction	Element 	Avatar
NW	Fire 	(Ifrit) 	
W 	Water 	(Leviathan)	
SW	Lightning	(Ramuh) 	
S 	Earth 	(Titan) 	
SE	Wind 	(Garuda) 	
E 	Ice 	(Shiva) 	
NE	Light 	(Alexander)	
N 	Dark 	(Odin) 	
== Skill-Up: Accelerated Crafting ==
For the beginning crafter it is important to know that you can synth recipes within about three levels of your current craft skill. Your success rate is gonna be real high. As you try recipes beyond three levels your fail rate increases significantly. Skilling up your craft depends on a number of factors. You will skill up more frequently with recipes beyond 3 levels of your craft skill, which means you are gonna fail more often. So the increased skill-up potential is countered with increased loss. You can address your loss by using furniture. The right furniture will give you mogenhancement for that particular element. That mogenhacement means you will lose your ingredients less often when you fail. To increase your success you can get synth support from a guild member. Your ability to skill stays the same while your success rate increases. Advanced support – the support that costs -gives you +3 and plain support – the supports that is free - gives you +1.
== Guaranteed Gil: NPC Sales ==
Everyone who crafts or farms dreams of making the big sale on AH. This venture could itself been seen as a game within the game. Determining the items and prices, catching the market as demand increases and supply goes down. Without crafting this can be a challenge. With crafting it can be your own personal hell. Especially starting out when you a relegated to making low level products that sell on AH for barely what it cost you to make them. At some point you have to suck it up and take the loss in order to level your craft skill. Everyone once in a while in each craft you will find an item that you can make where you can eaither buy the ingredients super cheap, there is some ridiculously generous mob drop rate or an NPC sells them affordably. Many of these type of recipes produces a large number: x4 x6 x8 x12 x33 ... and so on. The best case scenario is some npc will buy it from you and you will make a profit. Selling to a NPC has the wonderful benefit that there is now waiting for something to sell. Instant pay back. I hope, in the consequent pages to this guide point to some of the more obvious items that can be made affordably and sold at a profit. One I might mention would be Bug Broth. This item is my gil salvation. It can turn 1000 gil into 3000 gil, if all work in my favor - namely those favors begin that I farmed out the water crystals, AH sells stacks of Shell Bug for 1k or less (prefering 400gil) and the lugworm comes from some NPC at about 14g a piece. Depending on your fame this sale price can be around 105 for a bug broth. The Math: shellbug(41gil) + Lugworm(14gil) + Water Crystal(free) = 4 bug broth so each costs approximately 13.75 gil each - which in turn sells to NPC for 105 gil. No algebra needed to see that is one heck of a profit. Even if you pay for water crystals you are making money. This recipe and others like are guaranteed gil, albeit they do require the time of getting ingredients and making them and selling them. I have a mule in sandy that I usually send gil to and buy the shell bugs there. My cook taru in windy stays in waters, picking up deliveries and heading over to the general merchant NPC in waters that sells lugworm. I can stand in the shop making bug broth for hours. Turning gil into larger and larger piles. It isn't gratification like selling a big item on AH, but it is guaranteed income so you can buy other ingredients to feed your craftaholicism.
Another few tidbits come from fishing. Tiger Cods and Nosteau Herring are good skill up options for fishing from early 20's up to a cap of 39 on the Herring. The Tiger Cod, with a little cooking help, can turn one fish into 6 slices, each selling for ~60 gil. These fish are not hard to catch, and you can find an easy five or six stacks in your inventory by the time you hit your fatigue limit. With 60~70 fish, each fish making 6 slices, each slice selling for ~60 gil, you can see a return of 21.6k~25.2k for free. It's not mind blowing, but free.