FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide (Part 4 Stormblood) by Caimie Tsukino

[RojGardoth]

Still going through your guide (so much good info!). One thought: in the 70** MaMa rotation, during the PBP phase, I like to use a Precise Touch if I can proc a good and that way it will hit 100% while the SH2 is active. As long as the MaMa phase gets back most CP and at least 6000 progress, I'm usually good. I'm still usually stuck using a Patient Touch, but I like the certainty of Precise when I have the chance. It certainly can't be counted on though of course. Also I usually do not attempt a second Patient touch, thinking I need to be back at 70 durability after the MaMa phase. I'll have to play around with this some. Will just have to adjust to new durability

Scrolling through your newest guide takes me down memory lane of hours spent studying your old guides with all those pics of you HQing items for Lucis turn-ins and getting all the perfect melds, and everything else! It makes me feel like everything is right with the world again, lol

EDIT: was just replicating your MaMa rotation into the simulator to use my different planned stats, and it seems like you could fit in another CZ before the next-to-last SH2 and then sub out some HT with HT2

But this rotation you have is waaay better than what I was using (used Miracle in the middle and Blessing at the end). The added Quality from ~5 touches on a full IQ stack is so large. Then capped off with double Byregot's...mmmm!

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Can you do a section on the crafting gear transition from HW to SB assuming you didn't hit HW endgame?

A new chapter - Ch54: Bridging the Gap between Heavensward and Stormblood - has been added to the guide per your request.

In addition, Ch65: Custom Deliveries has been added as well.

Still going through your guide (so much good info!). One thought: in the 70** MaMa rotation, during the PBP phase, I like to use a Precise Touch if I can proc a good and that way it will hit 100% while the SH2 is active. As long as the MaMa phase gets back most CP and at least 6000 progress, I'm usually good. I'm still usually stuck using a Patient Touch, but I like the certainty of Precise when I have the chance. It certainly can't be counted on though of course. Also I usually do not attempt a second Patient touch, thinking I need to be back at 70 durability after the MaMa phase. I'll have to play around with this some. Will just have to adjust to new durability

Scrolling through your newest guide takes me down memory lane of hours spent studying your old guides with all those pics of you HQing items for Lucis turn-ins and getting all the perfect melds, and everything else! It makes me feel like everything is right with the world again, lol

Yeah, Precise Touch there is totally fine. I used to do that as well. But later decided that more CP is more important down the road, especially to support the 3rd round of touches.

It's great to hear that it brings back memories and make your world right again! It is because of people like you that gives me the "energy"/"fire" to continue to make more guides!

EDIT: was just replicating your MaMa rotation into the simulator to use my different planned stats, and it seems like you could fit in another CZ before the next-to-last SH2 and then sub out some HT with HT2

But this rotation you have is waaay better than what I was using (used Miracle in the middle and Blessing at the end). The added Quality from ~5 touches on a full IQ stack is so large. Then capped off with double Byregot's...mmmm!

Yep, someone else on this thread has already mentioned this. At that time, I intentionally left it out because I myself had a tendency to overspend my CP and not saving that critical 167. So leaving that last CZ out gave me the room to cut short it into a 128CP Blessing finisher in case of emergency. But after practicing enough, I could have certainly put in 1 more CZ there. I could add back a comment about it under that picture of the rotation simulation there.

[cgbspender]

Hey Caimie, do you have a discord by any chance ?

If yes, please add me : honinbo#1317

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Hey Caimie, do you have a discord by any chance ?

If yes, please add me : honinbo#1317

Nope, sorry. I don't use discord :P

[RNageo]

Thanks a lot for your hard work. Your guides have been helping me craft since the original ARR.

I know you have just added a chapter on Custom Deliveries, but you could also add a mention to them on the chapter on Levelling Methods. The crafting is easy and it's a decent boost you can use each week. I personnally mixed these with the other methods mentionned until I could get to the simpler leves that each trade has, and made enough scrips to buy all the Master V books by the time I maxed every class.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Thanks a lot for your hard work. Your guides have been helping me craft since the original ARR.

I know you have just added a chapter on Custom Deliveries, but you could also add a mention to them on the chapter on Levelling Methods. The crafting is easy and it's a decent boost you can use each week. I personnally mixed these with the other methods mentionned until I could get to the simpler leves that each trade has, and made enough scrips to buy all the Master V books by the time I maxed every class.

Ah that's a good call. By the time I unlocked M'naago, I already had all-70. So I never paid attention to how much exp they give. Sure, i'll include them into the leveling methods. Thanks!

[NoahG]

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I can confirm Custom Deliveries are amazing. Depending on how lucky you are (if you get bonus or not) you can jump from 60 to 61 just by doing both Khloe and M'naago in 1 week, not to mention that you get tons of red scrips.

I also wanted to share my gearing strategy for SB since I basically started crafting all the way from lvl 1 a couple months ago:
My first lvl60 crafter was CUL, when i dinged i started doing Khloe's for scrips using the Adept's set i bought with Moogle currency. Little by little i started buying the full 200 red scrip set for my CUL which allowed me to easily farm the Baklava collectible (which is super cheap to make) for more scrips that i used to gear WVR and LTW with the 200 set.

For my next classes i skipped the 200 set altogether as I had both LTW and WVR i crafted my own Bloodhempen HQ set and since I was skipping lvl 60-61 anyways by using Custom Deliveries i never needed to craft any of the HW lvl 60 sets.

[NoahG]

The above method is great as you spend almost no gil while providing your classes good gear. It is also worth noting that the red scrip MH, OH, Accesories and a HQ Ruby Cotton Set (which you can easily craft yourself in red scrip gear) will take any of your crafting classes all the way to 70 (I have done it with a couple already)

[Caimie_Tsukino]

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There, I have added in the recommendation of doing Custom Delivery for leveling.
And also added NoahG's strategy of how to level with minimal gil spent.
Thanks for your inputs!

[Shadygrove]

Can you do a section on the crafting gear transition from HW to SB assuming you didn't hit HW endgame?

I rode my fully melded ironworks all the way to 70. It was surprisingly easy to do.

Vendored NQs with a few melds should be good at the appropriate level.