Crafting Is My Endgame, And I'm An Elitist.

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"Maybe I Can Sleep Now..."
"Time to unlock Alexander!"
"1.2 Years My..."
"Crafting: Please Look Forward To It."

After 2 months of non-stop crafting I've finally done it! All 8 HQ i170 Crafting sets!

Sets: http://imgur.com/a/bRNl0

Melds -MH/OH: http://imgur.com/a/i1AVF

I will be taking my time melding all MH/OH with CP IV Command IV Command IV Command IV Command IV

I was able to craft all 8 sets through a variety of methods, including buying/farming BTN/MIN mats and Tokens, Tokens donated from good friends and earned through doing favors, as well as a second character for more Tokens/Favors.

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll pass out for a few hours....

Congrats!!!

That's some hardcore stuff there. :D

And when you say donate tokens, do you mean you gave em the gathering mats and they used their crafting tokens to get the mats to give back to you?

Woo that's amazing congrats!!! :)

I... I respect your dedication.
Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by Sollux

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll pass out for a few hours....

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GZ - ill catch up to you in 3.3 when new scrip are released ^.~

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Originally Posted by Someguy

That's some hardcore stuff there. :D

And when you say donate tokens, do you mean you gave em the gathering mats and they used their crafting tokens to get the mats to give back to you?

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Thank you! And yes, that's exactly what it means.

I don`t want to think on the gil sink of making all of em in such short ammount of time.

The completionist spirit is strong tho, and we all can admire that, congratulations!

Wow congrats!

Grats, that is bananas.

ahh good to see this is possible to do this in 3 months after heavensward launch, i just joined the game in july, and start doing red script in early august, so worried i cant finish all of them when 3.1 coming without doing the.. ahem.. RMT.

wow.... Dat effort... Congrats!!! you have my respect http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/p...igh-8b02bc.jpg

Congratz! You are super awesome and crazy dedicated!

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Originally Posted by Magistrella

GZ - ill catch up to you in 3.3 when new scrip are released ^.~

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This, your going to be crying in a month or so...oh and when they remove the red scrip cap also:)

Oh and your going to need some more melds on some of those to match my 180 gear:)

I don't think my heart could handle those neck, ear, wrist, and belt melds...

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Originally Posted by Sartori

This, your going to be crying in a month or so...oh and when they remove the red scrip cap also:)

Oh and your going to need some more melds on some of those to match my 180 gear:)

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Your 180 gear lacks the "master" title that goes along with master sets though lol

Thank you all!

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Originally Posted by Sartori

This, your going to be crying in a month or so...oh and when they remove the red scrip cap also:)

Oh and your going to need some more melds on some of those to match my 180 gear:)

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This was never just about the stats (Though I know for a fact i180 can't get as high as my current stats even without MH/OH fully melded) or being first (Pretty sure at least 1 or 2 people have already finished as well), or being the only one to have all the sets. It was a long term goal of mine that I finally completed and just really proud to have finished :3

congratz dam thats alot of dedication

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Originally Posted by Nomad-phx

Your 180 gear lacks the "master" title that goes along with master sets though lol

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Not into titles...

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Originally Posted by Sollux

Thank you all!



This was never just about the stats (Though I know for a fact i180 can't get as high as my current stats even without MH/OH fully melded) or being first (Pretty sure at least 1 or 2 people have already finished as well), or being the only one to have all the sets. It was a long term goal of mine that I finally completed and just really proud to have finished :3

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Well you sure have unloaded a ton of gil into melding for not caring about stats lol. Just out of curiosity how much gil have you went through?

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Originally Posted by Sartori

Well you sure have unloaded a ton of gil into melding for not caring about stats lol. Just out of curiosity how much gil have you went through?

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My guess would be somewhere in the 50-60m range.

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Originally Posted by Sartori

Well you sure have unloaded a ton of gil into melding for not caring about stats lol. Just out of curiosity how much gil have you went through?

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Call me a completionist, even after running a ton of simulations and knowing the minimum stats needed for my rotations I still wanted to max-meld my gear (Except for the pieces that require Tier V materia. I'd love capped melds but I'm not willing to pay 2m per 1 Craftsmanship).

As for how much gil I went through, I honestly couldn't tell you. I had 40-60 of each TIV materia already saved up and started the grind with ~18m, ending it with 2m left to my name but I also had a stable income of 500k-1m a day from crafting and gathered probably 75% of the materials myself. If I had to guess how much actual gil I ended up spending and not include materia I already had/mats I gathered myself I'd say it would be around 50-60m, a good portion of it being what I bought in mats to get started and materia I ended up using down the road.

To put that in perspective, Favor mats on my server (Tonberry) at the moment are about 25-30k for Ooids and 30-40k for BTN items, and materia is around 40k for Competence IV, 50k for Cunning IV, and 70k for Command IV.

Eeee on my server the command and cunning 4s are between 180-250k each. My poor melds. ;-;

I thought it was worth it to get the crafts V to max meld the neck, earrings, and bracelet (still waiting to get one last crafts V for the belt) for the extra craftsmanship to hit 853 and also because I have OCD knowing those pieces can be maxmelded

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Originally Posted by Hennessy

I thought it was worth it to get the crafts V to max meld the neck, earrings, and bracelet (still waiting to get one last crafts V for the belt) for the extra craftsmanship to hit 853 and also because I have OCD knowing those pieces can be maxmelded

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I may re-meld when/if Craftsmanship V drop in price/more are available, but I do not envy your OCD when it will come to the Chest/MH/OH D:

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Originally Posted by Sollux

I may re-meld when/if Craftsmanship V drop in price/more are available, but I do not envy your OCD when it will come to the Chest/MH/OH D:

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Haha because the caps on those pieces cant be reached, my OCD isn't as harsh on me there, thank god lol or I'd go broke otherwise. Will probably wait to see what the 3 star stat requirements are before I start melding those. Also grats, that's crazy that you finished all the sets already! I thought I was decently far along and even then I'm no where close to you =(

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Originally Posted by Sollux

I was able to craft all 8 sets through a variety of methods, including buying/farming BTN/MIN mats and Tokens, Tokens donated from good friends and earned through doing favors, as well as a second character for more Tokens/Favors.

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Hi, I was considering this bolded method myself, but I wasn't sure how it could work.

Is your alt on the same account or is it a dual box alt? How would you transfer the favors over to your main? I wouldn't think you could drop them into the FC chest (which is faik the only way to mule items across characters), how'd you get that to work?

and congrats~

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Originally Posted by Xenosan

Is your alt on the same account or is it a dual box alt?

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It's on a second account.

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Originally Posted by Xenosan

How would you transfer the favors over to your main? I wouldn't think you could drop them into the FC chest (which is faik the only way to mule items across characters), how'd you get that to work?

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Since it was a second account I could just directly trade or mail the Favor items, but if they're on the same account I would think you could either utilize the FC chest or have a trusted friend transfer the items for you.

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Originally Posted by Xenosan

and congrats~

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Thank you :D

I will be there before 3.1 hopefully :D

I haven't bought any mats but have bought aethersands...not many but grinding those on top of the favors...I just can't do it all! Just this morning I was contemplating buying mats but I have never had the money to blow. I also have 2 accounts so that has been extremely helpful.

Thrilled for you :cool: