A Simple Beginner's Guide to Crafting an HQ Forgemaster's Hammer

[Archvile78]

This thread is just purely amazing.

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[Kiara]

Can we get a Dev Team response on this?

It's pretty sad that the team just faces one of the biggest issues / complaints by the crafting / gathering player base with silence.

[Felblood]

I just crafted my hammer today. The trick to making this pain-free is to cap your red scrips with Fishing and unlocking your blue scrip stuff with fishing.

ZERO gil investment and no collectible rotation. It took me just a few days to get the mats I needed. I only HQ'ed one Adamantite Ingot, HQ'ed the Astral Lumber. Favor mats were all NQ and the other mats were HQ. I started with 7% HQ progress on the hammer and 100% on my first attempt.

The HQ Hammer is better unmleded, than a fully melded Adamantite Hammer. Gonna work on my GSM tool next, then Weaver, and then the Forgemasters armor set.

I only started working on scrips shortly after they reduced the favors to 5 minutes instead of 15 each.

The trick is to not feel overwhelmed, but to set small goals to accomplish each day. The designed it this way so that people wouldn't be maxed so quickly with nothing left to do.

Not sure if you ever unlocked all the Lucis tools, but that was worse.

[Warlyx]

LOL best thread ever

but yeah SE is like that , crafting and gathering cant be just something u do for fun , gil or because u need some mats/items , like every other !$!% game .... u need to jump over 3000 fire hoops , with your hands tied and blindfolded.....because thats for sure will make it fun...

and i tho FFXI crafting was bad (losing mats , breaking crystals , 0.1 skill up or no skill up at all after 20 items ~~)

[Aniforani]

Another fun aspect to this system is that once you do make all this amazing crafter gear for yourself you then get to put it to use making equipment that no DoW or DoM would bother buying. So instead you get to make gear for other crafters working their way up to the top of the same pyramid scheme.

[fortuona]

this is why i'm sitting on a stack of red crafter's scrips that will stay unused until i see what happens to the system.

as it is now, it's simply insulting.

[Ayerinn]

this is why i'm sitting on a stack of red crafter's scrips that will stay unused until i see what happens to the system.

as it is now, it's simply insulting.

yep, just stockpiling scrips until something sane is done with the system - I see zero value in 2* so I'm saving my time and gil. I would like to thank SE for at least allowing us to stockpile tokens instead of forced to spend them like tomestones...