The Alternative Way of Leveling Weaver without Fleece

Okay, the fleece prices on my server is kinda bad. 1 Fleece can cost 5k Gil.
So, i tought: Is there a diffrent way?
And i´m going to tell you how.

First get a Miner Lvl 1+

Second get to Weaver Level 35.

Then get Botanist to 36.

Right, first get Lightning Shards. Not 100, not 500...just keep mining those shards till you get alot.And i mean ALOT.
The best place is Royal Allagan Starway in Central Thanalan.

Now head over to Camp Tranquil located at South Shroud.
Around the Camp are bushes you can harvest Flax.
Now for the fun part. Start at any bush, then go a circle around the rock going from one bush to another grabbing the Flax.

Continue below...

Keep doing this...around and around...when you get tired ,or say a stack head over Central Shroud, then East Vien.

You´ll now be hunting the trees around the water here for the Crow feathers. These need to be HQ as well.

Now we got 1 stack of Flax, 1 Stack of Crow Feathers. Head over to Ul'dah Steps of Nald and the Adventures guild leve. Grab the level 35 Leve Tradecraft that requires 3 Linen Hats.

Now for the final part. Craft first Linen Yarn HQ. Important that it´s HQ.
Then craft the Linen yarn into Undyed Linen HQ.
After that use the Crow Feather HQ, Undyed Linen HQ and the Linen Yarn HQ and make a Linen Hat HQ. Make 9 of these and turn them in.
If done correctly you should be getting 210k exp.

And that´s it. That´s the Alternative way. Unless someone else have a suggestion.

Nobody can touch your Botanist nodes, nobody can mine your node, thus nobody can steal your stuff.

Enjoy.

There's already bots farming the only spot to get fleece it seems, up by dragonhead, and so far , not seeing any tradecraft leves that are giving fleece as a reward, looks like nobody except the rich going to be able to level weaver up now..

seriously... only one group of enemies in the entire game drop these needed items? good job Squeenix lol

I had my eye on the linen hat leve. I think there's about five camps in Coerthas that I've seen that are fleece heavy, spaced enough apart that if you were camping one, you'll most likely be able to snag up three of them before a lv50 finishes their camp and hops over to yours.

Some of these high-demand material drops do seem... broken. One class can just run circles around some mining nodes and pull out stacks of material to mass-produce gear and another requires an item drop from a specific monster, of which there are 16 in the whole game.

I'm just glad Tradecraft leves are still so lucrative so we can push past these limiting-factor barriers.

To be clear, the monster-drop factor in making gear for yourself isn't miserable- but it makes grinding out a level miserable.

Referred a linkshell pal struggling to farm Fleece to your post. He thanks you for it.

Also, if you're interested I made a post asking them to add more Karakuls. Make sure you post in it to increase the chances of getting a Dev. reply:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/91193-Fleece

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Originally Posted by GabNorthwind

There's already bots farming the only spot to get fleece it seems, up by dragonhead

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Yeah it's really annoying why they haven't been banned yet??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ0TdrOfdOY <--- video of fleece bot farmer

Ill be happy once all the server side issues are for the most part cleared up. While I'm sure not all the resources are being devoted to fixing that stuff once its done I hope we see a larger series of ban hammerings for those annoying people using bots and using the Mineing hack.

fleece price is not an issue, 500g when the items u make sell for 3x the investment, why so much crying? grow up

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Originally Posted by Arbitrage

fleece price is not an issue, 500g when the items u make sell for 3x the investment, why so much crying? grow up

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The issue is that the way materials drop is broken. Having any tradeskill entirely dependent on a rare drop from one group of enemies essentially creates a controlled market that is perfect for botters to exploit for the purposes of supplying all those gil sales sites that everyone gets spammed with (people buy gil from site to buy materials farmed by site run bot). This has been the downfall of many MMOs.

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Originally Posted by Arbitrage

fleece price is not an issue, 500g when the items u make sell for 3x the investment, why so much crying? grow up

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Fleece is 5k per Fleece on Sargatanas.

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Originally Posted by Vagrant-0

This has been the downfall of many MMOs.

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This has been the downfall of exactly zero mmorpg's.

There is a point about the fleece availability. Don't be a kid and exaggerate the influence of this on the sub count.

With triple exper on an HQ Leve it's not about leveling Weaver. You could level the class with cotton if you wanted to force it.

It's the Guild quests. They want HQ everything for those quests. I got my Wedge cap, my pants and got 96% of the Jacket for the 50 quest. They decided 96% wasn't enough and handed me junk. So I bought the HQ Jacket on the market and got my needle anyway. There is no way I will complete the 3000 achievement with fleece the way it is right now and I will need to settle with non-HQ green gear for the immediate future.

I should also point out, all green gear and a blue needle and I don't anywhere near enough Craftsmanship to make Vanya anyway so until they fix fleece, do it for Careful Synthesis II and no other reason.

The 9x turn in quests are not worth it, i'd rather do the 1x turn in ones that require 1/9th the mats for 1/2 the reward. Yeah it costs more leves, but so what?

I prefer doing the Linen Deerstalkers leve (level 40). 300k exp if you turn in HQ and it only requires linen and undyed velveteen. Also on certain days of the week, this leve will reward you with fleece. 3 turn ins = 18 fleece.

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Originally Posted by KirbyPink

Unless someone else have a suggestion.

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Did say unless someone else have a suggestion. This is something you can do.

Also, yes you can do the 40 one, but it requires Diremite Web, which requires mob drop which 50´s are also farming.
This is a way so you do not have to fight against other players for the drops.
That´s the idea of the Alternative way, to avoid other players tagging your stuff.

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Originally Posted by SeleneVenizelos

Fleece is 5k per Fleece on Sargatanas.

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Really? It was 500 per last night with wool yarn at 1900 and wool cloth a bit under 4k. Still expensive for anyone trying to level weaver but not too bad otherwise. If it's really up to 5k I guess I'll be selling some of mine today!

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

I should also point out, all green gear and a blue needle and I don't anywhere near enough Craftsmanship to make Vanya anyway so until they fix fleece, do it for Careful Synthesis II and no other reason.

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Fleece doesn't need to be "fixed" to make Vanya.
1) Buy or make DoH accessories like electrum stuff (neck, rings, wrists), fang earrings, etc.
2) Hop on a level 50 DoM/DoW and do a few CM facerolls with that crafting gear equipped.
3) Convert into DoH materia. Meld onto your crafting gear.
4) Repeat step 1-3 until stats are high enough.
5) Craft all the things.

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Originally Posted by KirbyPink

Did say unless someone else have a suggestion. This is something you can do.

Also, yes you can do the 40 one, but it requires Diremite Web, which requires mob drop which 50´s are also farming.
This is a way so you do not have to fight against other players for the drops.
That´s the idea of the Alternative way, to avoid other players tagging your stuff.

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It's true that it requires mob drop, however there are many leves that reward diremite web (the level 20 cotton breeches of crafting in particular, 3x turn in to get 12 diremite web) so I think it's less of a problem compared to fleece.

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Originally Posted by Mishaela

Fleece doesn't need to be "fixed" to make Vanya.
1) Buy or make DoH accessories like electrum stuff (neck, rings, wrists), fang earrings, etc.
2) Hop on a level 50 DoM/DoW and do a few CM facerolls with that crafting gear equipped.
3) Convert into DoH materia. Meld onto your crafting gear.
4) Repeat step 1-3 until stats are high enough.
5) Craft all the things.

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First, you took what I said out of context. I was looking at Weaver in the grander scheme of things. Right now it isn't practical to level a Weaver because most of the 40+ content is off limits with the Fleece bottleneck.

Also, iLevel on crafted gear for crafting throttles Materia.

Crafting Materia IV and V are pointless in game right now. You will max out your materia caps with Materia III. I don't need to grind dungeons to cap my gear.

Careful Synth II is motive enough to 50 cap Weaver. It's a good thing too. It's the only motive.

300 Craftsmanship with no Materia. The only place I can get more from gear is an HQ spinning wheel. The other pieces are control bonus.

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2e87ab47.jpg

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Originally Posted by Bufkus

It's true that it requires mob drop, however there are many leves that reward diremite web (the level 20 cotton breeches of crafting in particular, 3x turn in to get 12 diremite web) so I think it's less of a problem compared to fleece.

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Actually there is a lvl 20 leve in Quarrymill that you can do making 3 cotton coifs of gathering for 10 diremite webs and you can do the bonus completions for a total of 30 webs per leve allowance.