If you're crafting in Final Fantasy XIV and don't have all the time in the world each week to craft literally scores, if not hundreds, of items to do your leves to level your Disciples of the Hand crafts, here are some tips you may want to consider.
Choosing Quest Rewards
Once you start Heavensward, quest rewards start to give HQ (High Quality) gear. As you know, turning in HQ items for leves and Grand Company Supply and Provisioning Missions doubles the XP and gil rewards. This can literally give you multiple millions of XP -- and once you reach the level 60's for your crafting classes, it still won't even be a full level, so it's helpful to get them when you can, and easily.
Starting with Heavensward, crafting High Quality also becomes harder -- hard enough that they apparently have easy crafting missions through Moogle Beast Tribe quests and Custom Deliveries for Zhloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire to help you learn in a low-cost way. The new tutorial entry for Custom Deliveries gives you the basics of using the Byregot's skills as a finishing move for a burst of quality.
Furthermore, as you go further into Heavensward and all the way through Stormblood, most items require crafted items from other crafts, further making crafting a chore without already having a wide stock of materials.
So when you come across quest rewards you might not care about because you've already outlevelled them and bought normal quality gear or Tomestone of Poetics gear, you can check each item on Garland Tools Database to see if they are used for a levequest, and turn it in later, instead of trying to sell it on the market board or vendor.
You could also do this for A Realm Reborn, but the crafting there is comparatively easy and the materials easy to harvest to make multiple attempts if necessary.
Of course you need not choose quest rewards solely as crafting leve turn-ins. With all your gear that you are using, before you sell it or convert it into materia (frequently an inferior choice to selling it as it is unlikely you will get what materia you want, and the materia will sometimes vendor for less than the item) check to see if it can be turned in as a crafting leve instead.
Choosing Leves
If you are rich in gil you can of course buy your way through leves to save time. Getting HQ items for turn-ins on the marketboard is generally prohibitively expensive but if you have access to the appropriate vendors, NQ items are a way to basically exchange gil for experience points.
But if you are short on time and gil, here are some tips to consider:
Easily Obtained Materials
Example:
Furthermore, both items are potential turn-ins for Rowena's House of Splendors. The scrip payout is low, but the materials are easy and cheap to get and you don't have to aim for a very high score to maximize the payout because the higher tiers won't pay out much more than one additional red scrip anyway.
If you are short on time and have more leves than you can handle, then you may want to go with a macro for the crafting after gathering (and levelling your Botanist class) an obscene about of both materials.
There are three scenarios:
Example:
Cheap Turn-Ins
If you are very short on time to complete the weekly levemete challenges, you could look on the market board and buy Potions or Ether. Typically these can be purchased very cheaply, sometimes at less than the amount you would get selling to a vendor. You are unlikely to get a lot of HQ items but that will not be necessary as your aim is to complete the weekly challenge before the timer runs out.
For these challenges, remember that the XP awarded for the challenge goes to whichever class you have active currently. So even though these easy and cheap turn-ins would be for Alchemist leves, if you are currently an Astrologian, you'd get the challenge completion XP reward in Astrologian XP.
Once you are at maximum level for your crafters, you may find doing this a fast and cheap way to get the weekly Challenges done as well. Also, if you actually have more leves than you know what to do with them, this is a quick way to trim them down from the cap of 100, make a profit in gil, and get crafting crystals.
Choosing Quest Rewards
Once you start Heavensward, quest rewards start to give HQ (High Quality) gear. As you know, turning in HQ items for leves and Grand Company Supply and Provisioning Missions doubles the XP and gil rewards. This can literally give you multiple millions of XP -- and once you reach the level 60's for your crafting classes, it still won't even be a full level, so it's helpful to get them when you can, and easily.
Starting with Heavensward, crafting High Quality also becomes harder -- hard enough that they apparently have easy crafting missions through Moogle Beast Tribe quests and Custom Deliveries for Zhloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire to help you learn in a low-cost way. The new tutorial entry for Custom Deliveries gives you the basics of using the Byregot's skills as a finishing move for a burst of quality.
Furthermore, as you go further into Heavensward and all the way through Stormblood, most items require crafted items from other crafts, further making crafting a chore without already having a wide stock of materials.
So when you come across quest rewards you might not care about because you've already outlevelled them and bought normal quality gear or Tomestone of Poetics gear, you can check each item on Garland Tools Database to see if they are used for a levequest, and turn it in later, instead of trying to sell it on the market board or vendor.
You could also do this for A Realm Reborn, but the crafting there is comparatively easy and the materials easy to harvest to make multiple attempts if necessary.
Of course you need not choose quest rewards solely as crafting leve turn-ins. With all your gear that you are using, before you sell it or convert it into materia (frequently an inferior choice to selling it as it is unlikely you will get what materia you want, and the materia will sometimes vendor for less than the item) check to see if it can be turned in as a crafting leve instead.
Choosing Leves
If you are rich in gil you can of course buy your way through leves to save time. Getting HQ items for turn-ins on the marketboard is generally prohibitively expensive but if you have access to the appropriate vendors, NQ items are a way to basically exchange gil for experience points.
But if you are short on time and gil, here are some tips to consider:
Easily Obtained Materials
Example:
- CRP 48 "Birch, Please" in Foundation requires 3 Birch Lumber
- CUL 58 "Let's Not Get Sappy" in Foundation requires 7 Birch Syrup
Furthermore, both items are potential turn-ins for Rowena's House of Splendors. The scrip payout is low, but the materials are easy and cheap to get and you don't have to aim for a very high score to maximize the payout because the higher tiers won't pay out much more than one additional red scrip anyway.
If you are short on time and have more leves than you can handle, then you may want to go with a macro for the crafting after gathering (and levelling your Botanist class) an obscene about of both materials.
There are three scenarios:
- If you are unlikely to manage a HQ item, just run the macro and hope you luck out. You'll of course be turning in NQ items for the basic leve reward but saving time with the macro.
- If you can manage a good score for Rowena's House of Splendors, you might want to turn on Collectibles Crafting and make the decision once you are ready to complete the craft, assuming you are grinding Crafter's Scrips. Remember that at any time you can toggle Collectibles Crafting before you finish your craft.
- If you can consistently get a very high chance of HQ, then just run the macro and do your HQ turn-ins, maximizing your leve output.
Example:
- LTW 64 "Tiger in the Sack" in Kugane requires 1 x 3 Tiger Leather
Even before you have access to getting Tiger Skins in Yanxia or The Azim Steppe (level 64-67 areas) you can get Tiger Leather from the LTW 62 leve "Weathering Heights", which requires Gyuki Leather Highboots of Striking, which you can buy in Kugane or The Ruby Sea (and you can get one HQ from the level 62 main story quest Boys with Boats).
Once you turn in that leve and get your Tiger Leathers, you can turn in this leve and possibly get Tiger Skins with which to attempt to make your own HQ Tiger Leathers.
Cheap Turn-Ins
If you are very short on time to complete the weekly levemete challenges, you could look on the market board and buy Potions or Ether. Typically these can be purchased very cheaply, sometimes at less than the amount you would get selling to a vendor. You are unlikely to get a lot of HQ items but that will not be necessary as your aim is to complete the weekly challenge before the timer runs out.
For these challenges, remember that the XP awarded for the challenge goes to whichever class you have active currently. So even though these easy and cheap turn-ins would be for Alchemist leves, if you are currently an Astrologian, you'd get the challenge completion XP reward in Astrologian XP.
Once you are at maximum level for your crafters, you may find doing this a fast and cheap way to get the weekly Challenges done as well. Also, if you actually have more leves than you know what to do with them, this is a quick way to trim them down from the cap of 100, make a profit in gil, and get crafting crystals.
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