Race to 50

[Raminax]

Armorer is easier than Goldsmith - you can just buy the ingots you need for leves and turn them in, HQ, at a profit. Every time.

But waiting ages for Leve allowances to refresh is boooooring. ;_;

[Githiun]

Weave can be extremely helpful and profitable if you do it right. Not only if you do it early will you be able to make all of your crafting and gathering armor, almost all.

[YanDere]

Flax (Hempen stuff) and Cotton (Cotton stuff) would like a word with you ... as those are gathered (though, admittedly, it might just be simpler to buy them)

Flax is Linen, and yes, I know these exceptions, but Diremite Webs and Fleece are really hard to get, especially if you need HQ mats.
I hate all Velveteen, Woolen and Felt recipes è__é

[YanDere]

Weave can be extremely helpful and profitable if you do it right. Not only if you do it early will you be able to make all of your crafting and gathering armor, almost all.

Totally agree, I always craft HQ crafting gear and sell it on the marketboard: this morning I found 25k gil on my retainer XD

[Ksenia]

pudding flesh is not hard once you know where to look.

This is based on a rough cost of leveling/difficulty of process/ number of cross class mats that must be needed
alchemy by far easy is even with pudding flesh class quest and usually show up on AH now.

Armorer is not hard, but since it is a 3-step, it's up there with bsm, just because you need tons and tons of iron but iron and steel is npc achievable and very cheap, and completely within class.

Pudding flesh is never available in the levels needed to do triple turn in leveling. It's used in the triple turn in for 45 though.

Armorer is a round about better than others craft. I'm left with Armorer, Bsm and Carpenter to get to 50 and of those three, I will need less Armorer turn ins. Between those three I will need over 300 Mythril ingots just to get them to 45 and if I do 45 Armorer turn in that number will be up in the 500 range. That's 1500 Mythril Ore for the three of them. They are used in all three crafts.

The thing is, with Bsm I use wood, leather and Ingots. With Crp I use Leather, Ingots and wood. In those cases I am not getting exper for the class in question on most of the parts. Armorer on the other hand I am making rivets and plates and the parts grind knocks 2 triple turn in or 18 items off my to do list to get out of the leve table.

Having said all that I don't mind doing it. Shard grind, I do mind. I madfe most of my Mythril Ingots using the Gsm recipe and I've burned through around 2000 wind shard between that and wind shard, Lumber.

[Simaril]

The problem I have with Wvr (and Arm) is the 8 steps it takes to make one item to turn in; make 5 linen yarns, make 2 linen cloths, make 1 linen hat or tights... Diremite, and Wool are annoying if you want to make yourself gear (kind of a major reason to craft in the first place).

Meanwhile several professions have triple turn in items that take ONE step (Cul, Alc, Ltw, Crp), sure, the materilas are sometimes hard to come by, but most have another tripler that requires just a few steps... not 8+.

Flax (Hempen stuff) and Cotton (Cotton stuff) would like a word with you ... as those are gathered (though, admittedly, it might just be simpler to buy them)

Do people take flax to 50? Do they autocraft piles of yarn and cloth, or try to HQ every material?? My eyes are burning just thinking about that. Quick math puts me at least at 2430 flax.

[Anayrie]

Hey guys, I was on the same opinion about culinary being harder but then reading through the thread and everyone's responses saying the ingredients are sold on the vendors. I do recall back when I was leveling CUL I found it to be more the difficult because of all the stuff needed and I don't want to know how much gil I spent buying fish only to find AFTER I had got Hasty Touch a NPC fish vendor

So I just want to know if there is some kind of guide that tells you where the ingredients can be purchased off NPCs? I know to level up with leves and any guide I see just seems to be saying that and which leves are repeatable and where they are, not necessarily easiest/mat cost effective.

I just got my Weaver to 50, not knowing how difficult it was and the first real crafting profession I did. So now starting to level others for their skills I want it to be as pain free as possible. Weaver nearly made me throw the towel on crafting on more than one occasion.

Do people take flax to 50? Do they autocraft piles of yarn and cloth, or try to HQ every material?? My eyes are burning just thinking about that. Quick math puts me at least at 2430 flax.

I didn't. But I did however use a lot Flax. I eventually did have to break down and farm diremite and still have to farm fleece too. The amounts leve quests give just isn't enough or I just wasn't doing them right.

[Legend_]

So I just want to know if there is some kind of guide that tells you where the ingredients can be purchased off NPCs?

xivdatabase shows the NPC's but maybe even better that I forgot about since it just came to Android, that new phone app Lorezean(sp?) has it also. The brief seconds I opened it, it had the NPC's locations and items they sell. It was even searchable.

But yeah, there is nothing to talk about its Weaver --> Everything Else

Even the EARLY stages, moko grass, to the yarn, to the cloth THEN finally to the ITEM....
oh wait I need 2 more cloths..which means I need 4 more yarns....but now I need 2 more yarns because the original yarns I WAS going to use I just used it to make the extra cloths.....but now I ran out of cotton balls

[Anayrie]

Thanks Legend! I completely forgot about that, I'll need to get that app for my phone.

And yeah.. Weaver made me want to give up quiet a few times. But I was just focusing on it and botanist, only got 3 or 4of the 15 skills to help. Hind sight I could of made it easier on myself, but I was a noob. Anyway hopefully now the worst is behind me lol.

[Teykos]

There are two vendors in Limsa that no one seems to realize are there.

One is the Fishmonger that you discovered, Anayrie.

The other is the vendor in the tower immediately north of the Drowning Wench/Airship/Bulwark Hall in Upper Limsa Lominsa.

People also never bother to check the guild vendors. For example, It's amazing how many people don't realize that the armorer guild vendor sells Iron Ore. Or that the Blacksmith Guild vendor sells Bronze Plates, Brass Ingots and Undyed Cotton Cloth.