Valefor.Mithano said:
Leather belt is the easiest way to get the iron. However, the amount of time you'll end up spending on it takes so damn long it's usually just more reasonable to hit the smithing guild when it's at lowest (2,700g/per). For steel, it's better to actually just make them. Since you're high enough up, I'd do 4x iron ore, where the hq = steel. You can desynth the gobbie parts too, but the break rate is so high that you'll end up spending too much doing it that way. If you are ok with both iron and steel, imo the best use of time & gil would be to do 4x iron ore synth, again buying from smithing guild. Unlimited supply, price never goes up.
Unlimited supply yes, but the price goes up the next business day depending on how much you bought the previous day. Then it drops if nothing was bought the previous day until back to the usual price of 675 gil. didn't know about the leather belt, though. thx for the info. I usually do orc helms and pauldrons, and mamool helms but not sure if 60+1 can do those since i am above that. hope that helps.