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

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Hello Camie and others I hope you don't mind me popping in to ask for some help I have just finished melding my gear. Went from 6mil to 2mil ( brought some housing items in between) but yeah it was a lot of blood sweat and tears LOL my stats is looking around Craftmanship: 1524 Control:1436 and CP 470. Without food or medicine.

I've realized that I'm having a very hard time crafting the level 35 items. Do you know of any good macros based upon my stats I could use for that? If it means I'd have to switch out specialists every other day I'll do that as well! I've been trying non spec macros though ( I'm not good crafting manually unless it's following a layout) but perhaps that's where I'm going wrong?

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Hello Camie and others I hope you don't mind me popping in to ask for some help I have just finished melding my gear. Went from 6mil to 2mil ( brought some housing items in between) but yeah it was a lot of blood sweat and tears LOL my stats is looking around Craftmanship: 1524 Control:1436 and CP 470. Without food or medicine.

I've realized that I'm having a very hard time crafting the level 35 items. Do you know of any good macros based upon my stats I could use for that? If it means I'd have to switch out specialists every other day I'll do that as well! I've been trying non spec macros though ( I'm not good crafting manually unless it's following a layout) but perhaps that's where I'm going wrong?

I have recently added a new chapter in my crafting guide:
Ch68: Master Recipe Books VI and 3 Star Recipes in Stormblood

In that chapter, I have listed two macros - one for specialists (from VisuviusFire), one for non-specialists (from S'yahn Tias).
I tested your stats on the specialist macro using the simulator, and here's the result:


As you can see, it works really well... just shy of 2474 quality. So if you use 1 HQ mat, it'll be pretty close to 100%. Alternatively, even if you use pure NQ mats, 84% HQ rate isn't bad either. After all, you don't need all HQ mats to craft 3 star 70 durab final products. So you can totally afford to gamble at 80-ish % HQ rate without any problem. (oh, this is a rotation that uses specialist skills, so it assumes you have the soul stone, but I didn't add the extra 20 craft and 20 control to the stats before I ran this result.)

Btw, if you can add just 1 more CP to your gear, you can use an NQ cunning tea instead of HQ. Because you just need 535 CP for the above rotation.

I have not tried testing your stats on non-specialists rotation yet. But you can do it yourself easily. A wild guess from me would be that you may need 1 HQ mat to bring the final HQ rate from 30-ish to 70-ish % (<-- pure speculation).

[RayneLittlewinkle]

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Thank you so much for taking your time in doing this I will give it a shot and see how it turns out! I will see if i can squeeze out one more CP and yeah, I think im going to have to go the specialist route the non spec routes for some reason seem to need more CP than what is stated and i end up not having anything left for Byregots Blessing. Boy this expansion is really CP heavy! Thank you again!

[HaoA]

I have recently added a new chapter in my crafting guide:
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Nice update to your guide Caimie! . Probably add a chapter for HQ formulation for those who likes to crunch numbers like me XD.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Nice update to your guide Caimie! . Probably add a chapter for HQ formulation for those who likes to crunch numbers like me XD.

Thanks. The HQ mat initial quality calculation thingy is more of a basic crafting concept/mechanics... and would fit better in my original crafting guide for ARR. I'll try to fit it in there later.

Thank you so much for taking your time in doing this I will give it a shot and see how it turns out! I will see if i can squeeze out one more CP and yeah, I think im going to have to go the specialist route the non spec routes for some reason seem to need more CP than what is stated and i end up not having anything left for Byregots Blessing. Boy this expansion is really CP heavy! Thank you again!

You're welcome. Well, your spec has 20 extra craft, 20 extra control and access to some super skills like Reflect, right? Non-spec is supposedly weaker, so it makes perfect sense for non-spec to accomplish the same (or even less) by making use of more CP.