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1. Mine for Khroma

2. Dynamis Bastok for Wootz

3. Farm Clusters

4. ???

5. Profit.

But really, as usual, if you don't at least come up with some of the ingredients yourself, it's less profit. And the less profit it is, the more risk it is to even synth it considering the potential critical fail completely eliminating your profit.

Anything that you synth that only has a singular NQ possibility, is going to cost pretty close to the value of the ingredients as crafters aren't rare at all and the ones that do it for profit have to compete for the ones that will synth for free.

As far as people making up to 100k a pop this is mostly supply and demand for the crafters themselves who also take into account the possibility of loss in synth fails.

In otherwords, if you try to have a crafter synth you 12 of these ingots, its possible that you could lose 1 or even 2 of the khorma ores in the process.

So... the margin isn't as high as you think. Crafters that get these ingredients on their own, who see a much higher profit margin because they didn't BUY the ores, will be able to synth them for closer to the actual value of the ingredients.

Of course, a crafter that's only going to sell the finished product for the same price as the ingredients, might as well just sell the ingredients. So, he's going to try to make a little profit over that to make it worth while for him to risk synthing in the first place.

Bleh. I think you get the point. But yeah there's loss and risk of loss in these synths and a critical fail can eliminate the profit of an entire stack of synths, depending on how the ingredients were acquired.