White scrips?

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I like to have All The Things so I've already bought all the master recipe books and am now blowing the excess YS on materia and slithersand for future use.

Wow, I'm impressed. I suspect that Slithersand is not going to be that useful (I can't be 100% sure). But I'd recommend stocking up at least 3 to 5 Soul of the Crafter, and perhaps ~99 Crafter's Delineation. I actually stocked up 350 delineations myself, but there's no telling what will happen in Endwalker. You should stock up at least 100 piece of each kind of Tier 5 crafting materia though, especially important one is the CP one.

I am not sure if you're interested, but if you have a lv 80 CUL, you can potentially go ahead with the quest for acquiring the "relic tool" for CUL. Its i510 and its stats will become obsolete in Endwalker, but it's a wonderful glamour tool. If you intend to collect everything, I would think it's a must-have. I personally like it a lot. Anyway, if you want it, you will need to buy a good number of Oddly Specific Seeds, Oddly Specific Aloe, and Oddly Delicate Hammerhead Shark.

The Gatherer's white scrips are going to be a bit harder to come by, but I'll get there eventually...and eventually get all of the books for past expansions too.

You really do like to have all the things! This will in turn help you to get those achievements for MIN and BTN for Resplendent Tools, which are very beautiful.

The Gatherer's white scrips are going to be a bit harder to come by, but I'll get there eventually...and eventually get all of the books for past expansions too. Since I returned at a bad time in the cycle as far as making money goes, I'm not terribly concerned about profitability. I just want to enjoy the content and collect everything to check off the boxes. . The serious money making efforts will start with 6.0. I'm glad we're on different servers! LOL

Oh the opportunities will come for the prepared. This is not real life. This is final fantasy, so this sort of things are somewhat predictable. When the new game adds new gathered mats for new endgame battle gear, that's the time when you need to pick up that pickaxe and hatchet, and work hard for a few days. When everyone else is rushing to do MSQ and rushing to do the newest battle content, you go do gathering instead. Usually with just a few hours of play per day, I can still earn about 15 million on Day 1 of the patch, ~10 million on Day, ~5 million on Day 3, and total to about 35 million by Day 7. Then around Day 5 to 7, watch out for that OVERSUPPLY of mats. If the prices go below certain point (on Zalera, suitable buying price varies from around 600 gil a piece to 850 gil a piece of the newest unspoiled mats), you massively BUY instead of sell. Then the price will rebound again due to continuous demand (on Zalera, they usually go back to 1200-2000 a piece), and now you sell all that you bought.

After 1 to 2 weeks of effort, I go back to lazy mode again, and let those pickaxe/hatchet cover in dust in my inventory

[Illmaeran]

I've got two more Souls of the Crafter sitting around from HW but haven't used them yet. I've tried, but keep forgetting to look up how to use them. Either I've forgotten how, or the method changed to something other than just clicking.

That's good advice on the Delineations; I'll start getting them once I've got enough Slithersand to make my Aesthete's gear and have all the Materia I'll need.

I've got next week off and plan on playing as much as I can so working on relic gear may be in the cards. I'm trying to decide if it's better for me to use that time to get to the point where I can make Chili Crab to help with leveling my other DoH jobs or if I should just push through with them so I can make my own Aesthete's gear rather than buying it. I've spent a lot of Gil (for me) on leveling in ShB and it hurts my heart. I normally try to be self-sufficient, but have made the mistake of working on crafting before going to work so I get in a rush and buy things I could gather myself.

I do like to have all the things!

Oh the opportunities will come for the prepared. This is not real life. This is final fantasy, so this sort of things are somewhat predictable. When the new game adds new gathered mats for new endgame battle gear, that's the time when you need to pick up that pickaxe and hatchet, and work hard for a few days. When everyone else is rushing to do MSQ and rushing to do the newest battle content, you go do gathering instead. Usually with just a few hours of play per day, I can still earn about 15 million on Day 1 of the patch, ~10 million on Day, ~5 million on Day 3, and total to about 35 million by Day 7. Then around Day 5 to 7, watch out for that OVERSUPPLY of mats. If the prices go below certain point (on Zalera, suitable buying price varies from around 600 gil a piece to 850 gil a piece of the newest unspoiled mats), you massively BUY instead of sell. Then the price will rebound again due to continuous demand (on Zalera, they usually go back to 1200-2000 a piece), and now you sell all that you bought.

After 1 to 2 weeks of effort, I go back to lazy mode again, and let those pickaxe/hatchet cover in dust in my inventory

That's exactly what I did in Heavensward and made a lot of money relative to my server's economy at the time. Once I got to the point where timed nodes became the limiting factor I lost a lot of interest in crafting and pretty much stopped. I got really tired of teleporting all over the place on a set schedule just to get materials to make things I didn't need. At that point I used what money I had to buy a nice little house to decorate, called it good, and didn't get serious about gathering/crafting again until I came back for ShB. Now that materials are easier to get DoL/DoH are fun to play again.

[Jojoya]

I've got two more Souls of the Crafter sitting around from HW but haven't used them yet. I've tried, but keep forgetting to look up how to use them. Either I've forgotten how, or the method changed to something other than just clicking.

Talk to Alderan near the airship landing in Ishgard to exchange the "blank" Soul for the crafting Soul you want. Then you can equip it when you're on that crafting class.

We're limited to 3 Specialist at a time but can change our Specialist (one at a time) up to 3 times each week.