Leveling Crafting and Gatherering Efficiently

As someone who has never crafted or gathered, I am following some efficient guides online. I've started leveling Botany and last night reached 15 quite quickly. What I am wondering is should I be leveling all crafters/gatherers together? Like try to get all to 50, then move on?

Didn't know if there was a benefit to leveling them across the board together or if I should focus on just one all the way.

Currently, my plan is to level Botany, Miner and Fisher together since they are the foundation for everything else.

Leveling together saves you a lot of inventory space both in terms of materials and gear.
Also you get access to the cross class skills faster.

Downside is that you will be starved for leve quest for a long time + it takes a ton of time to do all the GC turn ins every day.

I'd level them all together but I wouldn't rush it. You'll burn yourself out quickly because it is rather monotonous.

Level one above the others until you can get scrips. That's somewhere around level 54-60. Then you can use the survival/crafting manuals from scrip exchange.

I would say Alchemist and Fisher are probably the best options. Alchemist tends to have cheap leves and collectables and Fisher is incredibly fast to level, takes only a few hours.

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Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

Level one above the others until you can get scrips. That's somewhere around level 54-60. Then you can use the survival/crafting manuals from scrip exchange.

I would say Alchemist and Fisher are probably the best options. Alchemist tends to have cheap leves and collectables and Fisher is incredibly fast to level, takes only a few hours.

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Really? I for some reason thought Fisher was like the nightmare of the three from what I've read online. Good to know.

Fisher levels the easiest, but I found that min and bot are a lot more reliable if you want to farm scrips.

For low lvl crafters you should try to make everything once as it comes with exp bonus. Once you can increase quality try to increase it as much as possible even if you will not end up with HQ item since exp depends on quality increase and this will help you to save resources.

Do GC turn-ins every day. You get double exp for HQ items and exp is also doubled for starred items. It is quit ea bit of exp and you can level crafters (and gatherers) without much effort (that's what I did for ShB crafts).

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

Really? I for some reason thought Fisher was like the nightmare of the three from what I've read online. Good to know.

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Fisher is easy and quite relaxing to boot.

I would highly suggest leveling gathering first before your crafters. Once you get to 50 start looking into collectables.

Collectables make leveling field jobs so easy. Get both mining and botany to 52. Learn the location of the 3 unspoiled node locations for both and just gather collectables.

For crafting, Shade's Guide is still good for 1-70 on crafters. https://www.shadesguide.com/
It's got a breakdown of materials needed, how much, if you can buy them somewhere, for the most efficient leves 1-70.

https://ffxivcrafting.com/ contains information on every recipe and leve, allows you to make a 'shopping cart' of recipes which it then can present to you a break down of materials required to make everything in your cart so you can use it to chart out GC turnins, collectibles, or your own choice of leves.

Since you're leveling your crafters, you can probably glance through Shade's guide for a list of materials and try and gather those items as you level those to then turn around and level your crafters with later. It's a lot of stuff through.

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Originally Posted by Granyala

Fisher is easy and quite relaxing to boot.

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IF you like fishing, this is abundantly true. Some of us loath it, but have it leveled(or are working on it) anyway incase we need a specific fish for some new recipe. OP, the first 15 levels are easy for each crafting class too. Go to the guild, make friends with their supplier NPC. He sells the mats to make everything up to level 15. One of each recipe should get you there in a hurry(30ish mins per class is a safe estimate). After that you get to decide if you want to boost one class fast, do everything at once, or work in batches(5 levels of this, now 5 levels of that, etc). They can all share gear if theyre close, and you can make most of your own required parts(this armor needs some leather padding? i can do it!). Remember grand company turn ins, leve quests(arguably better for gatherers then for crafters), and unlock your crafting beast tribes if you havent already(ixali in north shroud for 1-50, moogles in churning mist for 51-60, namazu in azim steppe for 61-70). Eventually you can add collectables(custom delivery! do it!) to the mix.

Oh, and yes. Doing your gatherers first does help too. Carpenter needs some new cut of wood to work with? Your high level botanist can get as much as you need quickly and easily. It isnt required to level them first(some people keep all 11 classes close together), but the only downside is that at higher levels you might need help with gathering gear(at least until your crafters catch up and you can make your own).

BTN/MIN are pretty rough to level through the 1-50 range.

FSH is much easier to level by comparison, to the point where I think it might be fastest to do that first, then use gathering manuals that can obtained in the 50-60 range to help the other two classes go faster as most of their EXP is going to come from raw gathering rather then leves.

Personally I found that my gatherers leveled up at a good clip just gathering stuff to level my crafters. That only really got out of whack when I started being able to level my crafters with the Beast tribes since you can't do the same things with gatherers until you unlock the Namazu. Fisher has been the slowest to level for me just because it feels so slow compared to the others where I keep moving from node to node and the weather conditional things can be a pain in the tail, but it isn't that bad when you just hunker down and focus on it.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

Didn't know if there was a benefit to leveling them across the board together or if I should focus on just one all the way.

Currently, my plan is to level Botany, Miner and Fisher together since they are the foundation for everything else.

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Yes the main benefit is that your gatherers will be wearing all the same gear, saving a ton of inventory space and making it much easier to identity which pieces of gear that should be thrown away or converted to materia.

Buy gear with scripts and peotic tokens.

I'm new to the game and have been leveling them too, and the system that's worked for me is to do level all of them five at a time. Here's why:

1. I conserve armory space by having just one set of crafting and one set of gathering gear that is shared among all the DOH/DOL professions.

2. The mats and products generated by professions at a given level seem to feed into others at a similar level. There are some exceptions to this, but for the most part this seems to hold. In general, the exceptions are that some high level recipes still require low-level products. Quicksilver, a really low level Alchemy product, comes to mind as a common reagent.

There are some other things I wish I'd known sooner. First, the Grand Company supply and provisioning missions are really efficient for leveling your professions, especially at the higher levels. Just look for the items with the yellow stars next to them and make those. It's a different set each day, so check it daily. Second, the Ixtali quests are also very helpful in leveling your crafting. Definitely check those out when you hit your 30s. Beyond that, I can't help much right now. I'm really close to getting all of mine to 50 right now. They are all at least in the high 40s. Good luck!