Collectables for scripts

I'm not even close to turning in a collectible worth some scripts.

I get my rotation from the wiki. Open with comfort zone, inner quest, steady hand2. Then hasty touch until i can fit a mend. renew steady hand2 when needed. Continue with hasty touch until 2 stacks, great strides, byregot's blessing then hope to have enough durability to finish the craft with careful synthesis2.

It gets me about 2000 rating and i need 2700-2900 for a turn in.

Help?

Sometimes hasty touch will fail enough times that the final shot with byregot's blessing isn't enough. I'd say you probably want at least 7 stacks of inner quiet.

If you are getting that many stacks of inner quiet and still not getting it high enough, there might be something else wrong. How is your gear? Your gear should be fairly updated, no more than a few levels below where you are. What level is the recipe, and what level are you? It is best if the recipe isn't any more than 1 level above your own.

CZ, IQ, SH2, WN2, HTx4, SH2, HTx5, Manipulation, SH1, PbP, GS, Pbp, Ing2, BB, Careful Synth 2 until finish. Using the Bouillabaisse (SP?).

i'm wearing 55 crafting gear. That's the best i can make without scripts, higher one is about 200k ea, i don't have that money.

Trying for the 57 weaver one atm with 59 weaver. it has the 57 main hand and 59 off hand.

Tried with control food but touch failed too much i didn't make 1000.

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Originally Posted by marewa

CZ, IQ, SH2, WN2, HTx4, SH2, HTx5, Manipulation, SH1, PbP, GS, Pbp, Ing2, BB, Careful Synth 2 until finish. Using the Bouillabaisse (SP?).

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I don't think i have enough cp for all that atm.

If you're short on cp, you're going to have to fall back to using tricks of the trade as much as possible. The extra cp can be used for additional durability restores/precise touch or to reduce rng if necessary. Use rapid synthesis if it can reduce the number of progress steps needed.

Using HQ bouillabaisse should also help.

I'm surprised no one asked what your stats are at. What's your craftsmanship/control/cp? is your level 55 gear HQ and is it melded?
I did all of my collectables grind with level 53 rainbow cloth HQ gear, with some very basic melding (even all of my blue crafter collectable grinding and getting everything to 60) and only upgrading tools along the way, but I also had the level 50 accessories max-melded from pre-HW. From what it sounds like, you might be needing either some HQ gear for better stats or more CP.

EDIT: I also sounds like you aren't getting more than 5-6 stacks. With the gear I was using I needed to hit at least 8-9 stacks. how much CP do you have left over after doing the rotation you described in OP?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/10274075/

Dunno if you can follow that link, it's my character on lodestone.

Acutally, i dunno if it's the right gear atm, i can't select it.

(i just logged out on weaver, give it 5 mins and it should update)

With a recipe two levels above your own, it is going to be significantly more difficult. Not impossible, but not something I'd advise a new crafter to take on.

Edit: Whoops, I misread, sounds like you are 59 and the recipe is 57!

Your stats should be fine if your gear is updated to the best available.

The beginning of your synthesis that you described looks good:

"...comfort zone, inner quest, steady hand2. Then hasty touch until i can fit a mend. renew steady hand2 when needed." Use tricks of the trade along the way to regain some CP.

Figure out how many careful synth II you will need to finish so you know how many durability you need to spare before you begin your final sequence. For the final sequence, use the following: Steady Hand → Great Strides → Innovation (if you have it) → Byregot's Blessing → Careful Synthesis II (as many as needed to finish). This last sequence will take 96 cp (or 78 without innovation).

This is a very effective general approach. You will have to get a bit lucky with this approach, both with your hasty touch and your condition:good. But it isn't unreasonable to think you'll still get above the minimum collectability most of the time.

Craftmanship: 507
Control: 476
CP: 308
lvl 59 weaver
Trying the 57 collectable.

Get some CP, it will do so much more than anything else. HQ bouillabaisse should be easy to make for you, use that over other food.

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Originally Posted by Train88

Craftmanship: 507
Control: 476
CP: 308
lvl 59 weaver
Trying the 57 collectable.

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Sorry about that! I adjusted my post with that in mind.

it looks like you're severly lacking in CP, so yea what people suggested with HQ Bouillabaisse. With the super-melds on ARR gear I had about 353, so that already might be a huge advantage over what you're working with now; the rest of the stats seem pretty in-line with what I had at the time. Might I suggest trying melding a bit of CP to your gear as well? even if it's just grade 3 cunning materia melded, it should be a huge boost to your crafts.

Alright, thanks all. I'll get some materia melded and make some cp food.

I was considering control food though, bad idea?

CP is your life's blood in crafting. Control helps, as does Craftsmanship, but when you run out of CP you are effectively done with that craft, regardless of your Craftsmanship or Control.

If you do not have enough CP, then you need the CP food/melds. If you have enough CP, and enough Craft/Control to meet the minimum required for the item you are crafting, then you have the choice of foods.

I upped my cp with some materia, managed to hq a 54 hat for my weaver quest. With cp food i should be able to do even more.

like Roth stated, CP is essentially your lifeblood. Getting those extra IQ stacks (where your control really starts to matter) is possible with more CP, but not so much with more control :)

I managed to get a 57 collectable in for scripts. i needed 2900, i got 4100+. I got materia in my accessories and a crafting facility in my house and some cp food.