[CingOfCookies]

lv0-2 Bronze Ignots (fire crystal + copper oreX3 + tin ore)
These are easy enough to make. Buy the copper from guild ,and the tin can be farmed from worms or mined. Mining could be better due to the fact that you can get a head start on getting iron for latter lvs.

lv2-4 Bronze Sheets (fire crystal + bronze ignot)
Turn all of the ignots you have laying around into ignots by the use of fire crystals. You can make a huge profit of a stack of these 3-4k a stack if you farm your crystals. HOWEVER if you sell these you have to make more so you can do.......

lv4-10 Bronze Scales (wind crystal + bronze sheet)
Again use your materials to make them by using crystals. You lose money doing this because scales sell really low but i think it's worth it. It's worth it due to the fact that you also save money by not having to buy materials.

lv10-14 Bronze Bolt Heads (wind crystal + bronze ignot)
If you dont have any ignots left you can just buy them off the guil ,but be sure to get there when it opens or they will all be gone. You wont make much money on this at AH so i sold them to a npc vendor.

lv14-15 Tin Ignot (fire crystal + tin oreX4)
The tin ore is cheap at the guild. They dont sell well at AH and are mainly here to lv up on. that is why I only went to lv15 on them ,because I take losing money kinda hard.

lv15-20 Iron Ignots (fire crystal + iron oreX4)
I switvhed to iron due to the fact that I had a bunch of iron ore from mining. If you dont mine alot they can be bought at guild for pretty cheap (~350 i think).

lv20-22 Iron Sheets (fire crystal + iron ignot)
I made these like the bronze ones. I had to make a few extra after the skill cap for iron scales.

lv22-26 Iron Scales (wind crystal + iron sheet)
Same thing as the bronze ones. Also You can sell these at AH but they take forever to sell so i sold them to npc like the bronze ones.

lv26-27 Longswords (fire crystal + dhamel leather + iron ignotX3)
You can make even on these at the AH ,and they even sell fast because these swords are in fairly high demand. Even better if you mine your ore. I made 7k on these due to mines.^^

lv27-30 Iron Chains (earth crystal + iron ignotX2)
I know ,i know we're using iron ignots like mad but it's really not that bad because you can mine iron ore fairly easily in the mines which gives you a profit on most of these.

[Pringo]

how about past lvl 30?

[CingOfCookies]

working on it ,and i only did this to make my sticky easier to read.

[curseddestroyer]

Erm... why write all these guides? Its kind of pointless... everyone has already made a guide and you stole popsi's avatar... go get ur sub or something >

heres MY smithing guide (goes farther)

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?foru...08014018&num=15

[Leathlord]

this is a guide ive got from a lvl 70 black smith i can't remember it very well cause ive lost PS2 for a few days and its on a message in there.(PS this guide is about leveling the fastest)

0-2 Bronze Ignots
0-4 Bronze Sheets
4-10 Bronze Scales
10-15 Tin Ignots
15-20 Iron ignots
20-24 Iron sheets
24-30 Iron Visors
bah thats all i can remember for now

[Mentiroso]

i'm reading this now and it looks like it needs a good BUMP

[Mentiroso]

question, what mine are you talkign about?

zerhun?

[Shipon]

is it ignots or ingots? :dontgetit

[Daxx]

Mentiroso :
i'm reading this now and it looks like it needs a good BUMP

As its all listed in the Stickies, no it didn't.

And its ingots.

[xenobyte]

Shipon, only a taru could as that =o)