Can you guys look at the Damn LeveQuests???

3 weeks I have been trying to level Goldsmith. Level 18. No 15's, no 20's. Every city, 1 Lv. 1 and 1 lv. 5.

It's getting a little old

yeah dont bother with leve quests for DOH. I proved last night its not only quicker but you also get more exp grinding on DOH. altho it does depend on level.

Just do normal crafting, GSM has easy dated recipes to grind exp on, for profit (dated rings/earrings, *hint hint*). Now cooking is another story...

You can get more EXP grinding recipes 8-10 levels above you but it can also get expensive. When you get to 45+ for some classes there are no viable grinding recipes and those that do have them, they are dated recipes. For those last few levels, leves are crucial so this should definitely be addressed.

Let's hope more high level grinding recipes are added in 2.0, particularly if the dated recipes go away.

Should stay away from leves until 35 and grind recipes 6 to 10 levels higher. Reference mooglebox or lodestone for target recipes. Go for 200 quality to get around 3 to 4k xp per synth it works and then do leves from there to get free mats and bonus xp. Check my sig it works I didn't start crafting until the revamp so doesn't take long.

Can you guys look at the Damn Recipes ???

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

3 weeks I have been trying to level Goldsmith. Level 18. No 15's, no 20's. Every city, 1 Lv. 1 and 1 lv. 5.

It's getting a little old

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You should do those, then the higher tiers should appear.

There seems to be something wrong with the Goldsmithing leves. I have done ARM and CRP with no problem what-so-ever just grinding leves, but as soon as I started doing GSM I ran smack into this same problem (current struggling to make it give me level 50s for my 47). At higher levels, try to turn in as many leves as possible - they will give you Electrum Ingots - which you can then turn into Electrum rings for 3-4k a pop. At lower levels... I don't really remember, but previous suggestions of dated recipes sound pretty reasonable.

get a pile of mats and craft. You don't need leves to level up.

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

3 weeks I have been trying to level Goldsmith. Level 18. No 15's, no 20's. Every city, 1 Lv. 1 and 1 lv. 5.

It's getting a little old

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It is 100x faster to level DoH outside of leves.

Twelve I hope they address this in 2.0. I've had a lot of luck with DOH leves and I'm lazy about grinding, so I haven't done much out-of-leve grinding, but... ugh, lol. I've been there, too; I think we all have,

Grinding 40-50 is break even or profit for every DoH currently.
Hamlet made it this way. Problem is your initial investment.
Only DoH I'd say can turn break even or profit outside of militia items is ALC & CUL
Mega-ethers, and buttons in a blanket are both money synths.
Don't know about other servers but Balmung's Economy is shit right now. Stacks of materials to sell and nobody's buying shit (cept for militia stuff)

For goldsmith I leve-whored after I'd pretty much capped on silver earrings (mine your ore in humblehearth, it rains silver there with a little mythril), then used what mythril I'd gathered during that time to make mythril earrings. After that, mine Halatali for electrum but once you hit the early 40's you can camp ul'dah for the gsm leves there and do the ones that only pop in town (While I grinded here it was very rare that I didn't get a town leve, on the odd occasion I would have to run to black brush).

You'll get a lot of 40 leves even at 45 plus, but given that you get a good 3k completion bonus for each one, it's pretty fast if you can keep to the town only leves though it can get pretty monotonous. D:

Wow just how fast is grinding DoH? I got from 20-33 in the last 2 days using only leves and I thought that was kind of fast after hearing about everyone talking about DoH being so slow. May have to grind if it's that much better.

What are you guys doing to target recipes so much higher? If I try anything much more than 2-3 higher I fail a lot.

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Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch

What are you guys doing to target recipes so much higher? If I try anything much more than 2-3 higher I fail a lot.

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Most crafters at this point have abilities that help them advance quickly in starting a new craft.

Folks use Greater Calling, Unerring Hand, Piece by Piece, Great Strides, those kinda things. Use abilities to get yourself to 50~% done, spam quality until it looks like you are in the danger zone, and finish out the synth.

For a newer crafter, make sure your craftsmanship and magic craftsmanship gear is up-to-date, and eat food to enhance either craft or m.craft, whichever is lower. (o.O ) Once you start getting some of the nifty quality enhancement and progress skills from the crafts you are leveling, you'll breeze through the leveling.

My personal XP record in one synth is 5,451 with rest/XP page/food up. It's pretty spiffy.

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Originally Posted by Hulan

There seems to be something wrong with the Goldsmithing leves. I have done ARM and CRP with no problem what-so-ever just grinding leves, but as soon as I started doing GSM I ran smack into this same problem (current struggling to make it give me level 50s for my 47). At higher levels, try to turn in as many leves as possible - they will give you Electrum Ingots - which you can then turn into Electrum rings for 3-4k a pop. At lower levels... I don't really remember, but previous suggestions of dated recipes sound pretty reasonable.

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Same. Armorer and Weaver I had to teleport some and manipulate all three cities at 40+ but it happened.

It's a Goldsmith thing by the looks of it. Once I figure out how to get stuff from 1 character to another, it won't be a problem. TY.

DoW/DoM classes too (if your playing solo) - say you are a lv 30 - you pick up a bunch of leves, head to Nanawa mines and pick the 2 star class so mobs are a couple of levels above you (ie level 33)...but what do you find? 6 mobs all bunched closely together that you reasonably dont have a chance of defeating cos they all link..the other option, pick the 1 star leve where the mobs are the same level but for the exp you get it really isnt worth the time... I hope this is fixed in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Undrentide

DoW/DoM classes too (if your playing solo) - say you are a lv 30 - you pick up a bunch of leves, head to Nanawa mines and pick the 2 star class so mobs are a couple of levels above you (ie level 33)...but what do you find? 6 mobs all bunched closely together that you reasonably dont have a chance of defeating cos they all link..the other option, pick the 1 star leve where the mobs are the same level but for the exp you get it really isnt worth the time... I hope this is fixed in 2.0.

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I hear everything is going to be a quest-based linear solo instance in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

It is 100x faster to level DoH outside of leves.

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I would think its the same depending on the dedication of the player. I'm sure its cheaper though but if you take your time with doing leves (like me) it'll def take you more than 1~3 hours to get from 15 ~20. Also making achievements is a plus when going to all three city states for leves.

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I was also working on my DoL so I can farm "Catalyst"(still not easy), I guess that's why I took so long.

Melding is the most interesting parts of crafting that motivated me to grind leves, eat food and sleep in my room when I logged(for the extra exp bonus). Good gear will help you grind those higher lvl leves if your still in your teens. I'm still not sure about 20~30+ but good luck to all you rookie crafters! (like me)

Took me a day to grind CRP from 30-40 only using leves.

All of the advice in this thread is good.

Have good gear, use crafting abilities, sleep, craft specific food (I didn't do this one). It's not that bad really.

I do both leves and regular recipe grinding. Either way, you get more experience the more difficult the recipe and the higher you can get the quality of your synth. Leves are still nice, IMO because they are free materials, plus you get EXP for turning them in (not just the synth itself) along with some useful materials that you can use later.

Rested Bonus (50% EXP bonus), Engineering Manuals (50% EXP bonus), and food (3% EXP bonus plus stats) really help.

Having multiple crafts leveled for different abilities also helps to control the synth condition, boost quality, or just get it finished.

Good luck with the leve availability situation. There are good days and bad days for availability, and the city with that craft's guild tends to offer more.