FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide by Caimie Tsukino - Being Re-vamped in 2021

[numbermania]

Just saw your reply! Thanks for noticing me senpai haha

I doubt I'll find another person who would use the word "simple" to describe my guide! LOL! I think many people tend to think I wrote too much... But yes, I do my best to explain things clearly with some occasional examples.

By no means was it a simple guide, I think you can tell just by the length and amount of content covered. I just meant that I think you did a great job with Chapter 8 specifically there. The skills are numerous and it's great how you explain each one with a blurb on how it should be used optimally. It's easily digested and understandable, but I think immensely helpful in identifying (for me at least) where some my leaks were.

Hmm, perhaps I need to revisit the parts about WN and WN2, and try to illustrate them in ways that are easier for readers to understand. Thanks for letting me know!

I think this was just one of things I had to figure out on my own. I've starting leveling all my crafters through Heavensward and I'm starting to see the "inflexibility" you alluded to. The jist is basically that when you use WN2, you are locked into using one one non-durab skill and 7 durab reducing actions (if you want to be optimal). This is similar to the lock on WN (except 1/3 for actions taken). I think I was taken in by the 14 CP savings on WN2 as compared to 2 WNs when it first appeared for me. It wasn't apparent to me until I had to do some HW crafts that needed a small progress rotation as well as the usual quality spam rotation. For crafts where you open with Muscle Memory and go into a short progress rotation before your quality opener, using WN2 is a massive waste. I've been doing some experimenting/math to see if there's an exact breakpoint how many non-durab skills you can use during a WN2 for it to be equal to WN, since it's not 1 because of the CP savings, but I'm not sure I've come up with anything that satisfies me right now. Which is to say... I can't wait until I get Manip for another tool around durab lol

[numbermania]

No, thank YOU for your kind words! I was a noob myself too! Remember what I mentioned in the guide about me leveling 4 classes without even knowing leves existed? I felt so stupid! XD

I actually loved that you leveled the OG way! Honestly, doing all that stuff probably made you learn your stuff better and actually made it fun. I'm pretty sure you can level easily with beast tribe quests and min collectability firmament stuff, power level your gear and just blow through shit. But that will do nothing for you in terms of actually learning.

I'm really not enjoying the diadem/firmament crafting spam atm but I really can't get myself to do it the crafting log way because it's just too damn easy in comparison (Gathering all the mats is murdering me and my cordial stockpile).

On the other hand, there was a massive jump in difficulty going into HW crafts (huge increases in Progress/Quality requirements) so that's been fun figuring out how to optimize more. Full disclosure, I did HW crafts up to 55 with my shitty level 50 gearset partially because I'm enjoy struggling but mostly because I'm an irrational cheapskate lmao

My biggest thank you to you so far in my journey: the finisher bomb of Ven+GS. Can you believe I used to ignore GS lol? One of my favorite mini games to play at the moment is guessing how many IQ stacks I need to finish an item, so I can pop Ven at 2 stacks remaining then Kamehameha. Maybe I'm just weird but there is something SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL when you pop GS and see that Bygergot's is within a couple hundred points of the remaining quality.

Cheers!

[Cordinarr]

Hey there! I've looked over this guide in the past and it was wonderful in helping me understand Expert Crafting and I was revisiting it to work on some relic weapons and I noticed that the website says that "Account Suspended". Is there another site where the information is being hosted that I can review the guide?

Thanks again for making this guide!

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Hey there! I've looked over this guide in the past and it was wonderful in helping me understand Expert Crafting and I was revisiting it to work on some relic weapons and I noticed that the website says that "Account Suspended". Is there another site where the information is being hosted that I can review the guide?

Thanks again for making this guide!

I noticed that the site is down too. However, I have no way to reach the admin. And, unfortunately, I don't have my most up-to-date version of the guide backed up.
I do have the version I made on 31/8/2021 though. So I converted it to a PDF, and put it on Dropbox. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wy37cpjqc5...02021.pdf?dl=0

[numbermania]

Hi, I wanted to start working on some Skybuilder's Tools and ran into the same problem as the previous poster. Is there any chance you still have a copy of your guide for Expert Recipes and Skybuilder Tools? I would really like to read it before I start.

Thanks!

[ICountFrom0]

I noticed that the site is down too. However, I have no way to reach the admin. And, unfortunately, I don't have my most up-to-date version of the guide backed up.
I do have the version I made on 31/8/2021 though. So I converted it to a PDF, and put it on Dropbox. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wy37cpjqc5...02021.pdf?dl=0

Shame when sites go poof like that. Specially because I was using that, (and the expert/skybuilder guide too, sadly)... goodluck.

[Yibejibe]

I noticed that the site is down too. However, I have no way to reach the admin. And, unfortunately, I don't have my most up-to-date version of the guide backed up.
I do have the version I made on 31/8/2021 though. So I converted it to a PDF, and put it on Dropbox. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wy37cpjqc5...02021.pdf?dl=0

Hey Caimie!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GUIDE... I don't know if this helps you at all, but I had a cached version of the most recent version I'm aware of that you had (revamped 9/21/21). I have had your guide open on my web browser for weeks/months now, so I have cached versions of the doc as updated in real time... lol). I went ahead and made a pdf version of the most recent guide and popped it in my Google Drive. Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ko...ew?usp=sharing

You can also try doing what I did to see the "most recent" version of the site.. basically just go to Google and type your name "Caimie Tsukino crafting guide", which of course will show the result of "FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide by Caimie Tsukino" and have the three dots right above the link a little to the right of it. Click on that, then in the bottom right of the screen that appears, click "Cached" and VOILA. It SHOULD pull the most recently stored cache version of the site.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/view-ca...n-of-a-website

That helped me a LOT.

[ICountFrom0]

oh, that's SO GOOD.
Cashed version wouldn't have the images, but that's at least something.

I'll be good and not swipe it right off your google drive and wait for an offical of each one.

[Yibejibe]

Actually mine has MOST of the images... from what I can see the only "broken" image link is the cover page. But yeah! I was happy I was able to get the info so maybe it can help out... but honestly, feel free to swipe it until the official one is released. I by no means am taking credit for any work Caimie has done! Just appreciative of the info and HOPE that I'm able to return the favor by helping retrieve lost work if possible.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Hey Caimie!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GUIDE... I don't know if this helps you at all, but I had a cached version of the most recent version I'm aware of that you had (revamped 9/21/21). I have had your guide open on my web browser for weeks/months now, so I have cached versions of the doc as updated in real time... lol). I went ahead and made a pdf version of the most recent guide and popped it in my Google Drive. Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ko...ew?usp=sharing

You can also try doing what I did to see the "most recent" version of the site.. basically just go to Google and type your name "Caimie Tsukino crafting guide", which of course will show the result of "FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide by Caimie Tsukino" and have the three dots right above the link a little to the right of it. Click on that, then in the bottom right of the screen that appears, click "Cached" and VOILA. It SHOULD pull the most recently stored cache version of the site.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/view-ca...n-of-a-website

That helped me a LOT.

YOU ARE A LIFE-SAVER!

I followed your info there about "cached version" from Google, and was able to recover a lot of things.

FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide by Caimie Tsukino (Re-vamped 2021)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bei4nb39w...ached.pdf?dl=0

Caimie Tsukino's Guide for Expert Recipes and Skybuilders' Tools
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzw37vl07f...ached.pdf?dl=0

Mining and Botany Guide for the Pteranodon mount by Caimie Tsukino
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wyoi7hawkx...ached.pdf?dl=0

With these, I can easily transfer them to any other websites if necessary.

Thank you so much!