l love crafting!Follow

I spent a LOT of time on crafting, but then found out recently that Yoshi is purposely making the crafted gear not as good as dungeon drops... for this reason and this reason only I have put it on hold while I do end-game content and gear up.

I started crafting to make my own armor and weapons... and so the crafting jobs I leveled to 50 were Armorer, Goldsmith, Leatherworker, and Carpenter.

I wish they would make crafting a little more viable for end-game... as of right now it's basically just a mini-game, which is really sad since it's such a good crafting system. It's fun to level, fun to do, the mechanics of it are very engaging.... but all of that is for nothing if you can't even sell your items you crafted.

I will gladly jump back into it if Yoshi changes this to make crafting more useful...

Right now my 50 Miner is more useful then any of my 50 crafting jobs, because I can go find treasure maps in the level 50 nodes that I can sell or use...

I keep saying that the abjuration system used in XI would fix this right up, in which you need both a dungeon drop and a matching crafted item to actually get usable gear. (I think the premise was that the gear was cursed, and the abjuration was a specific prayer that a scholar in San d'Oria would say to un-curse it.)

Speaking of materia, is there a way to tell what the "stat cap" is for a certain piece of gear? Say I make an axe for my MRD when I decide to level it and the axe has 5 Vit and a couple of materia slots. Is there a way to tell if a Vit materia will be wasted in the item?

I was hoping there was a way to know without trial and error so I could avoid buying unneeded materia Oh well, maybe I'll start a database of stat caps for items and from ti we can derive some formula and I'll become an internet hero.

So what you're saying is, if I try, and it gives me an error (red message), then I'll know whether it will work or not. Ok, got it.

Edited, Jan 8th 2014 3:15pm by Bigdaddyjug

Yes, i understand how to tell if you're hitting the cap once you are attempting to do the meld. I was looking for a way to determine the stat cap before attempting the meld, to avoid buying the wrong materia.

This mainly came into play with some lower level gathering gear I was having melded yesterday. The item had +13 Gathering on it, so I assumed I should try and put +Perception materia. However, when I tried a +3 Perception materia, I was only getting +2 out of it. So I tried a +3 Gathering in the second slot and all +3 went through. I was figuring since Gathering is a primary stat for DoL classes, it would make sense to put one of the other primary gathering stats on the gear.

Low level materia is cheap and plentiful, so there's no reason not to.

Right. I leveled weaver first. After about 200 (quick)synths I am going to re-weave my own crafter gear to start spirit bonding over anyway. This is how I produce low leve Materia for both DoL and DoH.

I basically wear the gear for less than an hour before Converting it. I like selling more than buying!

- What DoH and DoL are you working on?
- What level?

May have some specific tips for progressing from where you are.

I feel you Hairspray, that is the main reason im takeing a break from FFXIV.

If the materia you want to meld is cheap and plentiful, then you shouldn't have an issue having materia on hand to test melding stat caps with.

Your Botany and Culinarian go very well together.

At 23 Culinarian you can start makings stacks of corn powder which is x3 Millioncorn.

From memory, you can gather Millioncorn from level 25 vegetation nodes just north of Drybone.

Here's my suggestion, take it for what it's worth. Gather Millioncorn for a half-hour or so. That will be around 6 stacks of 99. Then go to your Grand Company. Do you have some seals from Fate farming? Buy the Engineering Manual II for 2300 GC seals from the GC vendor, Rank II under Items. This will net you 40k, additional EXP (at 50% bonus per synth).

1.) Use your Engineering Manual II.
2.) Craft a single Corn Powder manually.
3.) Then select Quick Synthesis and select 70 Corn powder (this will take 210 of your Millioncorn)

The reason you do 70 is the base EXP is for the quicksynth is around 1400 EXP, with the Manual giving you a 700 EXP boost per synth. 70x700 will use up your entire 40k Manual Bonus.

4.) Buy and use a second Engineering Manual II.
5.) Quicksynth 70 more Millioncorn.
6.) Obtain another ~140k EXP.

The third round will use up your supply of 600 Millioncorn. You need 6900 GC seals to accomplish this, about one hour of time total, and you will be Level ~30 Culinarian and likely gain a level or two Botanist just from the gathering.

Geez, I must be slow. The most I've ever gotten in 30 minutes of botany farming is 3 stacks of NQ with another half stack of HQ.

sooo much flax