Confused SAM Main looking to start DoH

[Silverbane]

Yeah I meant that I wanted to take up DoL and DoH. Basically all crafting and gathering. I just want to know what's good for SAM. And To what end, like what will doing all the crafting gain me other than free repairs?

Armorer, Weaver, and Goldsmith seem to be the main classes that make Samurai gear. Garland tools has information under their leveling and end-game gear tools. http://www.garlandtools.org/ -- an essential for FFXIV crafting and gathering.

Other than repairs, the usual advantage of crafting, for a combat class, is "jump-start" gear that lets you bypass a level of tome-based/dungeon-drop gear, like the current iL320 gear that eliminates the need to grind Verity tombstones. It's not as good as the Creation or Deltascape gear, but it prevented people from having to grind Verity to qualify for the higher-difficulty dungeons and raids. If SE stays true to form, there will be new levels of crafted jump-start gear in the future.

Sometimes, for some classes, crafted gear can be over-melded to be better than tome or dungeon-drop gear, but I don't know if this is the case at present.

Other advantages can be monetizing your dungeon drops and excess tomestones, having something to do while you wait for a queue to pop, and just having a very different way to enjoy yourself. Fishing , for example, is very different from combat, and many people enjoy it. I do at times.