About to start JCing from 16.

[gathrintain]

dont enchant your bars anymore. they now sell back for less than unenchanted. speculation says macroers were abusing it and this nerf went a little too far. not expecting it to be changed back myself.

How does this effect the over all cost. clearly it cuts down on the time needed, but i need to get JC up without spending more than 10kish.

Can it still be done?

thanks

[splunge]

Well, you can ge to 54 with the freebie GoD quest. Start there.

[Nanndas]

I don't know how high you want to go, but I went from 20-181 on approxiamtely 2,500 pp. I only used non-enchanted metals and sold the product back for a slight loss.
It took 1,500pp from 20 - 154 and 1,000pp to get to 181. I stopped at 181 as the RNG wasn't on my side. From 179-181 I had a lot of failures, so I stopped until another day...

Nan

[Horanaf]

Well, I recently went from zero to 200. This was jsut before GoD launch, so no freebie points for me. I wasn't overly worried about price at the time, mainly because I allowed myself a budget of 10k and no more (I was bored one afternoon before a raid, and decided that since I had decided to do aid grimel, I would knock out some of the skilling up). The point is, I sometimes skipped steps of 2 or 3 points that would have been cheaper in order to buy in bulk, so I'm sure it can be done cheaper than I did.

I went from 10 to 179 for roughly 2kpp. By skilling with geerlok equipped, I figure I saved a few plat on failures. From 179=200, it cost me roughly 7kpp, mainly because of the massive number of combines per skill point it took after 179. Losing 2 failure's worth of supplies per stack is a LOT cheaper when it only takes you a stack to gain a point then it is when it takes 3 or 4 stacks per point.

YMMV though, as I wasn't particularly worried about getting maximum value for my plat.

[Llantius]

What is this freebie quest? I am also looking to start JC any info would be appreciated.