Crafting is dead

[Chrolo]

Your lucky to have got mats to make 1 item a week! lol

I have had 450 red crafter scrips since 30 mins after the patch and not managed to get enough of the favor items to get any mats...

I don't gather and people will likely say "haha hard luck lvl gathers newb", but I am a crafter, I have no wish to gather.

yeah thats the sad thing about this system, getting red scrips on crafter is easy, but then youre forced to gather 11 hours a week.

[kenventa]

yeah thats the sad thing about this system, getting red scrips on crafter is easy, but then youre forced to gather 11 hours a week.

I have to correct you. Gather A LOT MORE than 11 hours a week since you would need to account the amount of time getting the red scrips. I had barely time to craft or to raid anymore.

And actually, what i think the saddest thing is with the changes is the lack of attention we are getting from Yoshida or the Dev Team.

[kaya_suzumiya]

I have to correct you. Gather A LOT MORE than 11 hours a week since you would need to account the amount of time getting the red scrips. I had barely time to craft or to raid anymore.

And actually, what i think the saddest thing is with the changes is the lack of attention we are getting from Yoshida or the Dev Team.

in between red scrip gathering nodes u can use a favor meaning its about 11hrs or slightly less all up. its quick to gather the red scrips for gathering seeing as u can get 2-4 items to hand in per node and if u hit the legendary nodes for botany and miner its even quicker to cap and also some of the fish which u can hand in for red scrips u can fish 24/7 so for gathering u can cap within 4 -5 hrs easy then use those to either buy favor for crafting gear or use it to buy gear.

[kenventa]

in between red scrip gathering nodes u can use a favor meaning its about 11hrs or slightly less all up.

Nah. I prefer to maximize the 15 min of Favor in one place and gathering the right nodes rather than teleporting around different maps trying to catch nodes.

Adamantite (11) - Sun Mica (5) - Chysal (9) - Adamantite (11) - Seventh (5), i don't think there is anywhere in between this that would let me maximize the Favor. Also, i prefer gathering for nodes which i require rather than just popping favor in Churnist Mist (since Seventh is near) then selling them to buy red ooids.

[Aeyis]

in between red scrip gathering nodes u can use a favor meaning its about 11hrs or slightly less all up. its quick to gather the red scrips for gathering seeing as u can get 2-4 items to hand in per node and if u hit the legendary nodes for botany and miner its even quicker to cap and also some of the fish which u can hand in for red scrips u can fish 24/7 so for gathering u can cap within 4 -5 hrs easy then use those to either buy favor for crafting gear or use it to buy gear.

That is not how it works. To begin with you cannot fit in favors between red scrip gathering for 11 hours, because you buy those favors with red scrips.
Let's say you first grind out 50 red scrips and buy a set of 5 favors. From this point on you can now use favors in between red scrip gathering.
However, you still cannot just fit in 11 hours just like that. You are not talking about 11 hours that can be divided, added, substracted randomly.


If you were to fit in more then two favors per Eorzean Hour you would lose out on either red scrip gathering time or favor gathering amount. Because of travelling time to each node, which takes up a few minutes each. (twice, since you also have to go back to the favor location)

In other words first you 50 red scrips would have to be grinded.
This would take about an hour. Lets assume access to the folklore node and one gathering class.
Then the remaining red scrips would have to be farmed with two favors in between. This would take about 8 hours.
Red scrips are now capped after 9 hours, and there are 29 favors left. Completing these require another 7 hours.

As such with the method you described (which you did not think through properly), it would take 16 hours to use up all favors. With a better rate of obtaining red scrips (multiple classes, or fishing), it will still take well over 11 hours just for the favors.