Just how good is Byregot's Blessing?Follow

I've got the wvr to 50 for the careful synth II, the gsm to 50 for the innovation, and carp to 45... I use Inner Quiet > GS > Innovation > Advanced Synth x3 all day long. With 1 to 2 Careful Synthesis II added I can automate a macro that never fails, and HQs most to all 80 durability items. I had not even read about Byregots. Wow. I was just leveling crp to make crap for people's houses. This news is very promising...

Edited, Oct 17th 2013 9:51am by Valkayree

Hit CRP 50 last night, took about 8 attempts to HQ Rosewood Lumber for the final quest. BB rocks my socks, but it's still no guarantee as you really need to stack materia on HQ gear to get the kind of results in the video I posted earlier, I did manage to HQ the one star bow easily (it really shines on 80 durability items), but it's still tricky trying to reliably HQ materials, you absolutely need to stack about 7 or 8 Inner Quiet synths before using BB, and then you have to worry about having enough durability to finish the synth and CP is an issue after using waste not and manipulation a few times. It looks like Waste Not II may be needed next.... will it never end!?!

Congratulations on CRP 50!

I got sidetracked, just as I was about to start taking CRP from 15-50... I decided to open Botany since I was in Gridania, and started doing that thinking that the logs would help me with CRP...

Got to 10 BTN and then started mining and before you know it I need to get back to CRP again this weekend... ADD is a *****!

Yeah, i you have the leves to burn, single turn ins can be B I G xp.

I second that. I love it when they reward 60 shards for each turn in, so I get 180 shards on top of the leve. Someone put up about 25 HQ mahogany lumber last night for about 400 each so I snapped them up and went level 46-48 (with my own 10 hq and 50 regular lumber) in about 5 minutes.

I used to make one of everything, then I realized that it took so long to level up compared to just spamming Leves...

So now I skip to the Leves as soon as possible.

Maybe I'll try it on a couple this time around. But a lot of the triple turn ins at 30 are pretty high on ingredients too. Certainly the BSM and ARM ones. What would you suggest at my leve level? (30)

Random tips:

1) Aldgoat horns are easy to farm and not worth 500g (my server) each, and horn glue is a low level recipie and no reason it should be 1k+ gil each

2) With a few exceptions, i farmed all of my skins/sinews/items i needed etc for about 1 hr each to get enough to do 5 levels worth of leves. The only one that sticks out is the pudding flesh, that is just a stupid POS and i wasn't wasting time on it.

3) Check xivdb before you buy anything, if you can farm it, dont be lazy, save the money and farm it yourself, if your worried about repair costs either go naked or buy some gear you can convert to materia and sell for a profit.

Components i like to avoid:
Diremite thread (sinew is actually pretty cheap)
fleece (or wool/felt by products)
pudding flesh
shark oils (or anything that depends on fishing, red coral etc)



Edited, Oct 18th 2013 3:55pm by dustinfoley

My method for BSM and ARM was making the ingots on BSM then turning them in for the ARM leve. The final 5 levels of BSM was Mythril Files as I had a ton of ingots and leather.

Innovation + Great Strides is always a better boost to Quality than Great Strides alone. I'm not sure how the percentages play in but since hitting 50 I haven't need any HQ mats with this strategy.

OK now I am second guessing myself thinking about gear upgrades...

Edited, Oct 19th 2013 1:37pm by ErikHighwind

Had a laugh the other day when a friend randomly did a request meld on me with an 8% chance. 1/1. Will probably never happen again. Otherwise, I'd say anyone shooting for meld achievements should just grab a junk item to meld up and use the +1 resist materia and other things that sell for pennies. Blew like 300k the other morning getting my accessories and HQ AF hat melded up, but the price you pay for climbing toward reliable HQs, I guess.

How can you be upset about profitability in one thread and blow more money in a few minutes than I've made yet in another?

lol

Bit of that, but I could also point out a lot of my gil came from running WP with some friends before the recent patch as well as story gil prior. Selling the relic mats could be anywhere from 20-40k apiece. This isn't really viable now since the market is more saturated. The posts he's referencing also have me calling into question that the gil pay outs of dungeons are perhaps too high when you also consider the quality of gear you pick up relative to crafted goods and the harsh expense of materia for the top stuff. Some didn't like the fact I actually dared to do a gil per hour comparison, too. Basically, the craft economy's deflating and will continue to do so as more crafters level and more dungeon gear hits the servers. Profits are slim for NQ goods, maybe even losses for some. With a static pay out from dungeons, there is a point where even considering to craft is folly when you could just be doing them instead. Exceptions exist for 1-2 star gear for now, but they're also not so readily made and are presently only preserved by rarity. I have no doubt Crystal Tower will hurt their worth even if their potential is higher with top melds.

Basically we're looking at yet another MMO that's trivialized crafting compared to the dungeon game. What's worse is XIV has tried to make a bigger deal out of the crafts. Mind you, I have no qualms with dungeons paying out enough to cover repairs, but present is probably 5x more than you need per run assuming no deaths. Compare this, then, to NPC values being sh*t for pretty much everything and a crafter can't even hoover materials out of the economy to convert to vendor fodder and make a buck. Thank the RMT phantom for that, I guess. ****, he wants to get snarky at me for wanting more bang for my buck, but overall I'm not blind to the fact that more people will find blowing up monsters more fun than playing a bean counter. Even I have my limits there. Still doesn't change the fact crafting needs help, and not just in the gil generation aspect.

Edited, Oct 21st 2013 7:35pm by Seriha