The Exarchic crafts are significantly too hard.

[LittleImp]

You should link your rotation you've built in teamcraft, kinda sounds like you're doing something wrong on that front tbh.

Also, high-end endgame crafts have.. high-end endgame requirements to complete. If anything, SE could make them harder to meet.

[Arkevorkhat]

When you set up a framework so perfectly you can hardly blame anyone from approaching the situation from that direction, now can you?

Weak disagree, I'll admit my opinions are controversial, and definitely from a place of inexperience, but if I wanted to be told to quit the game, I wouldn't be here, I'd be on twitter.

[Anacondo]

At this point I'm sure you're trolling, because no one would admit to speaking from a place of ignorance and still insist they're right against all evidence. Maybe consider going on twitter.

[Arkevorkhat]

You should link your rotation you've built in teamcraft, kinda sounds like you're doing something wrong on that front tbh.

Also, high-end endgame crafts have.. high-end endgame requirements to complete. If anything, SE could make them harder to meet.

Per your request, the best I have been able to puzzle out on my best melded job (BSM): https://ffxivteamcraft.com/simulator...,1&med=27959,1

[Arkevorkhat]

At this point I'm sure you're trolling, because no one would admit to speaking from a place of ignorance and still insist they're right against all evidence. Maybe consider going on twitter.

Trolling, no. A dumbass, Maybe.
Also, if you re-read my message, you'll see that I said *inexperience*, not ignorance.
I'm willing to learn, I'm not willing to be berated.

[Anacondo]

Sure, clearly.

[HyoMinPark]

"Things shouldn't be made easier because I did it the hard way" is a pretty piss-poor argument honestly.

Besides, I never said this game sucks, nor did I say I did the minimum expected, I've already gone above and beyond, I have overmelded some of my gear, spent over a million gil pumping materia into it, and still it's genuinely impossible for me to even manage HQ precrafts with food and potions because these crafts were balanced to be a challenge for pentamelded crafters, because the community complains constantly that crafting is too easy, and no matter how hard SE makes it, unless they make it literally impossible to use macros, people are still going to complain.

Then perhaps take a look at your rotation. If you are still struggling to HQ preliminary materials with overmelds, foot, and syrups, then the next place to look is at the way you’re going about the craft. There are myriads of tools out there to assist you will finding a rotation that will work around your current gear and stats. Utilize them instead of complaining about how things need to be made easier. Without decent overmelds, getting 100% HQ using little to no HQ pre-mats likely won’t be possible for you, but you could still come close. But that you’re saying you’re struggling just making preliminary materials tells me that you probably have a rotational issue that needs addressing.

If you think crafting is difficult now, you clearly weren’t around during Heavensward. Crafting was much harder back then than it is currently. Even with the current master crafts being more difficult than other ShB master crafts. Just because the prior tiers of gear were easier doesn’t mean this one necessarily needs to be.

[Goro-Yoshi]

Thought I'd chime in with my white scrip gear (0 melds) + specialist (2626/2474/522 before food), you can (albeit limited to 3 specialist classes) craft hq intermediaries with 4 hq materials and craft the gear itself with 1-2 nq intermediaries, no syrup required and with hq chili crab.

An example (BSM + GSM specialist):




And this is one of the most bare minimum sets you can have, melds are super important for crafter gear

[Vickii]

The problem is probably your rotation. This stuff can be made with a good hq percentage in lesser gear.

If you’re using a macro from online, these tend to be geared around a specific amount of stats and if you’re over on under a breakpoint it isn’t going to work for you.

If you’re not going to meld then the best thing to do is ditch the macros and learn what the skills do. This way you can take advantage of procs.

[Aronos]

Per your request, the best I have been able to puzzle out on my best melded job (BSM): https://ffxivteamcraft.com/simulator...,1&med=27959,1

Your issue is 110% your rotation.

Please do yourself a favor and join The Balance Discord for future endeavors. In the meantime, here are a couple of resources:

https://tinyurl.com/yynou9cd
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=837247865