So the easiest way to level...

[Corkafish]

I'm in the same boat as you. I tried cooking first and was just overwhelmed by the amount of mats you need, so I switched to GSM, I'm up to lvl 10 but still feel lost lol

Up to 20 or so you can just fill out your crafting log and HQ the highest-level item that you can do reliably. Some guides recommend leveling up all professions to 15 before you focus on one, but I felt that only LTW (Waste Not), ALC (Tricks of the Trade), and CUL (Hasty Touch) were truly essential. These are abilities that you will use in every synthesis once you have access to them. GSM's Manipulation is also good but I've done fine without it.

After 20, tradecraft leves are the undisputed way to go.

[Hachiko]

Guess I'm trying to figure out the best way to level quickly, without making a ton of mistakes.

It's kind of stupid, but the fastest way to level is this:

Find a triple turnin leve.
Find a crafter ~lvl 50.
Buy a bunch of raw mats.
Give them to the crafter + gil + shards.
Have them craft them in to HQ turnin stuff.
Turn in all the required things for the repeatable levequest.
Repeat.

Ironically, this is the fastest way to level yet you do absolutely no crafting. I don't understand how SE thought this was a good idea but hey, whatever works.

Up to 20 or so you can just fill out your crafting log and HQ the highest-level item that you can do reliably. Some guides recommend leveling up all professions to 15 before you focus on one, but I felt that only LTW (Waste Not), ALC (Tricks of the Trade), and CUL (Hasty Touch) were truly essential. These are abilities that you will use in every synthesis once you have access to them. GSM's Manipulation is also good but I've done fine without it.

After 20, tradecraft leves are the undisputed way to go.

I dunno, IMO rumination and Rapid Synthesis are also between pretty good to godly.

[Corkafish]

It's kind of stupid, but the fastest way to level is this:

Find a triple turnin leve.
Find a crafter ~lvl 50.
Buy a bunch of raw mats.
Give them to the crafter + gil + shards.
Have them craft them in to HQ turnin stuff.
Turn in all the required things for the repeatable levequest.
Repeat.

Ironically, this is the fastest way to level yet you do absolutely no crafting. I don't understand how SE thought this was a good idea but hey, whatever works.



I dunno, IMO rumination and Rapid Synthesis are also between pretty good to godly.

Rumination is helpful after you get Standard Synthesis, so that you can squeeze out all the possible quality gains and use all your CP until you have 5 Dura left. Then Rumination, Steady Hands, Standard Synth and you're done. I'm leveling ARM myself, so I'm very familiar with how useful and infuriating Rapid Synthesis is. It's very efficient, but the 50% success rate will make you rage.

[Praqzis]

Up to 20 or so you can just fill out your crafting log and HQ the highest-level item that you can do reliably. Some guides recommend leveling up all professions to 15 before you focus on one, but I felt that only LTW (Waste Not), ALC (Tricks of the Trade), and CUL (Hasty Touch) were truly essential. These are abilities that you will use in every synthesis once you have access to them. GSM's Manipulation is also good but I've done fine without it.

After 20, tradecraft leves are the undisputed way to go.

I've been curious, is there any bonus/pay-off from completing a crafting log page? If I do all the recipes for a given level range at least once, does that get me anything? I thought I tried one time and nothing happened.

[mjk]

It's worth mentioning...

Don't forget your GC books. Buy one, use it and buy another for when the first one wears off (unique so you can only have 1 in your inv).

You can practically go from 1-50 from burning books with just hitting your crafting log with 0 repeats.

[Kyronex]

This is sort of true. One of the level 45 triple turn-ins for ARM requires turning in 3 chestpieces (three times of course), which use 4 Mythril Plates each. Each plate takes 2 ingots, and each ingot takes 2 ore, so 3*3*4*2*2 = 144 HQ Mythril Ore for one leve. That's a serious resource investment. But then there's another one which only requires 3 Cobalt Ingots.

Mythril Ingot takes 3 ore to make so you'll need 216 ore.

[Crawfishies]

It's worth mentioning...

Don't forget your GC books. Buy one, use it and buy another for when the first one wears off (unique so you can only have 1 in your inv).

You can practically go from 1-50 from burning books with just hitting your crafting log with 0 repeats.

Sorry to ask this,
but what are "GC Books"?

[Kyronex]

Sorry to ask this,
but what are "GC Books"?

You trade in Grand Company tokens for books that give you 50% more XP for 3 hours.

[Lemon8or]

Or until you get 40k extra bonus EXP. I burn through them in about 15 minutes and I'm only level 36.

[Elegance]

It's worth noting that with decent gear(just keep it up to date), and cross class skills, you should be able to reliably craft hq on 80 dura turn ins with all nq mats.
I never use hq mats unless I run out of nq.(While leveling a craft).
Gotten everything but alche and cul to 50 this way(they're both sitting around 35-40).