Carpenter

[ehramm]

 Well I am an ogre and I would like to become a carpenter..i know i know, but is it fun? Is it rewarding both monetarily and for yourself? Thanks in advance!

[TheSpin]

I enjoy carpentry very much because I like being able to make my own furniture.  Carpentry has a few items that will sell on the broker, but they are not huge money makers.  Strongboxes and Salesman's crates are only available through carpenters so they will always have some demand, but there is a lot of competition on prices for these items.

[Ram]

When I start out on a new server the first crafter I always create is a Carpenter. Boxes are a neccessity and unless the market on your server is flooded with them you will have to pay a pretty penny to get them. I'd rather make them myself and cycle the old ones I can't use to the broker to make a little extra cash on the side.

[Didi]

<p>Of course it's fun!  In fact, it's so much fun I have a level 70 AND a level 79 carpenter.  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>If that's the kind of thing you enjoy then go for it!  It can be profitable, but does it really matter if you're enjoying it anyway?  Profit is easy to come by, personally I end up selling collectibles to fund my carpentry habit and just give stuff away more often than not.  But sure, you can make money at any tradeskill if you put your mind to it.</p>

[ehramm]

 Thanks all..sounds like I'm gonna go with it <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[IcterusGalbula]

<p>A STORY ABOUT MY CARPENTER </p><p>by </p><p>Icterus Galbula </p><p>I created a carpenter a while back just for the adornments, strong boxes, and salesman's crates.  I had no interest what-so-ever in decorating the homes of my toons.  And I'd read numerous complaints about carpenters here and in-game.</p><p>So I only used my carpenter when I absolutely had to, and did not pay him any attention.</p><p>Well, that is starting to change.</p><p>Recently I started leveling him from lvl 25 up now to lvl 30.9 in the hope of making adornments for a higher level toon.  Along the way, as always, I'd accumulate the standard handcrafted "junk" analogous to apprentice 4 spells or handcrafted armor.</p><p>In the past I'd sometimes forget to sell this junk back to the NPC and some of it would end up in my carpenter's home.  When that happened I figured it was no skin off my nose to put a piece of furnature in his house, if for no other reason than to free up space in his backpack.</p><p>Near the end of December, I decided to be silly and put some of this junk on the broker.  I even laughed a little when I did it.  Did not even bother to check what was already on the broker first or what prices people were charging.  I set the price of everything at 1 gold piece.</p><p>Well, the next time I checked his broker I was startled to discover that several of the pieces sold.</p><p>So everytime he created an item (which he was doing just to get the pristine bonus) I started putting it on the broker for 1 gold piece.  And it kept selling.  Not the chairs and tables.  Those are mundane.  But he was creating other stuff that people seemed to want.</p><p>Then he decided to make two copies of everything, so he could turn his home into a showroom.  People who visited could see how the actual item looked in a home before they bought it.  I noticed that some of this stuff actually looks really nice.  Now that he has reached tier 4 I've also noticed that the prices of these items on the broker is substantially higher than 1 gold piece.</p><p>It seems all the complaints about carpenters might be a little unfounded, at least in my mind.  There is always a need to strong boxes and salesman's crates.  You can indeed make money selling them.  I've also heard rumors that at higher levels carpenters make money selling field repair kits.  </p><p>But it turns out carpenters actually can make money off their handcrafted items too.  People really do buy those items... maybe for the status reduction they provide or maybe simply because they look nice.  I myself have started to enjoy my carpenter more than my other crafters because it is fun to see what he will be able to create next and I am having fun decorating his home.  He might even have to get a bigger house before too long just to hold all of his items.</p><p>And by the way, those new candles are really nice.</p><p>Having said all this I hope all the people complaining about how useless carpenters are will keep right on doing that.  There aren't that many of us relative to the other crafting classes, and I'm starting to like it that way!  Of course, having posted this information, a few new carpenters might start to pop up.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>An an aside I just need to figure out how to create lights that will illuminate his home.  I hate how dark it is in those acorns.  Somebody said to stack two lights on top of each other to get bright light.  I've not tried that yet, but will try it soon.</p>

[Webin]

<cite>IcterusGalbula wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>A STORY ABOUT MY CARPENTER </p><p>by </p><p>Icterus Galbula </p><p> ...</p></blockquote>You people are all very odd.  I, for one will not be writing essays or buying ogre-made furniture.I'll just make it myself, with MY carpenter.

[Xanzibar]

The biggest issue Carpenters have (which is mentioned on the forums, and you'll eventually notice it in-game) is the lack of consumable items to sell.  Sales Crates and Strongboxes are in demand, but they're still permanent items, and it's possible to have a glut on broker for any particular furniture type.  Once someone crafts or purchases a furniture item, they can later pass it to another character or sell it on the broker, themselves.I've noticed that my Sage and Provisioner both make much more money, and level up faster, than my Carpenter.  Still, I enjoy making an actual, visible item in-game, and it's enjoyable being self-sufficient for decorating your characters' houses.

[IcterusGalbula]

<cite>Xanzibar wrote:</cite><blockquote>The biggest issue Carpenters have (which is mentioned on the forums, and you'll eventually notice it in-game) is the lack of consumable items to sell.  Sales Crates and Strongboxes are in demand, but they're still permanent items, and it's possible to have a glut on broker for any particular furniture type.  Once someone crafts or purchases a furniture item, they can later pass it to another character or sell it on the broker, themselves.I've noticed that my Sage and Provisioner both make much more money, and level up faster, than my Carpenter.  Still, I enjoy making an actual, visible item in-game, and it's enjoyable being self-sufficient for decorating your characters' houses.</blockquote><p>Maybe I'm wrong about carpenters making field repair kits at higher levels.  Those are consumable items, and quite useful on a pvp server.  At least the one I received as a reward item from SONY was.</p><p>P.S.</p><p>I just searched the broker for "field repair kit" and variations thereof.  I found no crafted items, so maybe I am wrong about that.</p>

[Calthine]

<cite>IcterusGalbula wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Maybe I'm wrong about carpenters making field repair kits at higher levels.  Those are consumable items, and quite useful on a pvp server.  At least the one I received as a reward item from SONY was.</blockquote>Carpenters make the repair kits; Tinkerer's make the Tinkerer-only mender bot.

[IcterusGalbula]

<p>Thank you, Calthine, for clearing that up.  </p><p>My last remark is my first post in this thread was a complaint about how dark it is inside those acorn homes.  I've complained about that before and suspect others have as well.</p><p>Well, I just discovered that the new level 1 candelabra (the first item all new toons are asked to craft) gives off a surprising amount of light.  One will not light up the house, but one will light up an area.  I checked the broker and there are other, higher level, candelabras.  So my carpenter put several of the level 1 candelabras in his home and will start adding others when he gets to a higher level.  There is one somewhere in tier 4, so he should be able to craft it soon.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Fun? **** yeah! We make some of the best designed items in the game, even if they serve no purpose other than to look good in your house and reduce it's status rent.</p><p>Profitable? Thats where carpenters fall a little short. Yes, there are people out there looking for furniture, but the problem comes with stocking up your shelves. You don't know what items are in demand, or how many people are going to want.</p><p>There's always a market for strongboxes, but salesman crates are getting saturated on the market, so it can be hard to sell them sometimes unless it's from personal order.</p><p>Repair kits are always nice, but I tend to notice that players would just as well pay twice the price to repair to full with a mender bot on a raid, than use a repair kit.</p><p>If you ever make a Tender Growth's Flourette at level 70, your whole guild will thank you for giving them instant transportation to Kelethin.</p>

[ashen1973]

<p>Carpenter is a lot of fun to play, I enjoy making furniture to decorater my own and others homes.</p><p>And despite what a lot of people tell you, you can make a healthy amount of coin from it.</p><p>There are a few non-rare, small profit items you can make, Strong boxes (never waste a rare on a strongbox though, the tier above will always have a non-rare that is the same size) and repair kits (there are 2 different types of carpenter made repair kit rosewood and redwood) will sell quite regularly, but at a small profit.</p><p>With these low-profit items, the kley is to make lots of them. Lots of a small profit+a big profit <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Some of the nicer looking non-rare furniture also sells well, for a small profit, only experimentation with your servers broker will really tell which will sell for you though.</p><p>Rare items can make you a nice amount of coin, but can take longer to sell. You can maximise your profits here by harvesting your own materials or getting a good harvesting contact.</p><p>Rare furniture will sell slower, but make you a bigger profit when it does sell.</p><p>Salesmans crates sell steadily and can make a nice profit to.</p><p> Some Carpenter made adorns sell very well, the profit you can make from these is set by the cost of the materials. If you level a transmuter as well and supply your own, this maximises teh profit you can make here.</p><p>It al ldepends on the time you wish to spend crafting. You can craft a large quantity of the smaller profit items and watch the profit come in in small amounts on a very regular basis. </p><p>You can spend a small amount of time crafting the rarer items, and watch the profit come in a lot slower, but at a higher amount.</p><p> Or, and this is my preference, do both <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[ExtremeFaji]

<p>"If you ever make a Tender Growth's Flourette at level 70, your whole guild will thank you for giving them instant transportation to Kelethin."</p><p>Is this a joke or can Carpenters actually craft such an item? I can't find a mention of it anywhere else.</p>

[Obadiah]

<cite>ExtremeFajita wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"If you ever make a Tender Growth's Flourette at level 70, your whole guild will thank you for giving them instant transportation to Kelethin."</p><p>Is this a joke or can Carpenters actually craft such an item? I can't find a mention of it anywhere else.</p></blockquote>They can actually craft such an item. ( aITEM 1448979151 -1491026560:The Tender's Growth Floret/a ) It requires a recipe book (The Tender's Secrets volume . . . uh 4, I think?) and one Seed of the Tender. Both are drops from the first floor of the Emerald Halls (raid instance). Both the recipe book and seed can be purchased off the broker if anyone is still farming the instance for them. The item itself, however, is No Trade.