A word to lvl 60 crafters who don't quite understand crafting yet

[Kallera]

I want to get into high end crafting always have a problem with gearing and getting the materials, espwcially when HQ is sought after, I don't know what to do without blowojg a lot of money or spending weeks trying to gather scrips.

[MN_14]

I want to get into high end crafting always have a problem with gearing and getting the materials, espwcially when HQ is sought after, I don't know what to do without blowojg a lot of money or spending weeks trying to gather scrips.

I don't think there's any easy solution to this. In order to get into high end crafting, you either have to spend the time to gather/earn scrips or spend time earning the gil to buy your materials (and maybe startup gear). I got into crafting back in the day by first farming shards for over a week and then starting a small lowish level (30-45) weaver crafted gear business. It actually earned enough for me to upgrade to level 50 3* (single class glamour) crafting and then eventually to 4* once I leveled my other classes.

Fortunately, in terms of materials, if you have all of the level 50 cross class skills and half decent starting crafting gear, you won't ever have to spend gil on any HQ materials from level 50 crafts all the way to level 60 non star (or even 1*) crafts. The only time I found some HQ materials to be really worthwhile in HW was when crafting 2* scrip materials at the minimum 2* requirements and that was only because I didn't want to risk NQing my crafted materials due to their scarcity at the time. Once I upgraded my CP and offhand, I switched to all NQ.

I'd recommend starting a small business selling lower level crafts (if there are still markets left) or maybe selling some gathered materials if you can get them. Then spend time practicing level 60 crafts to work out effective crafting strategies. It will save you gil and time in the long run if you don't have to buy HQ materials or craft HQ intermediate materials.

[Laerune]

At Caimie Tsukino, Minerva Nakts and Alya Mizar, thank you for responding. I have decided for now not use any macro's, gonna focus on leveling my crafters and gearing them up, when I am geared and experienced with endgame crafting, that is when I will start using macro's.