Sometimes, you just want a good 'ol grind

[Deceptus]

I haven't upgraded my crafter/gathering tools and gear to i620 yet. While I could just buy it all outright for <10mil without breaking my bank, and upgrade in less than 5 minutes. I could also make this money back in less time it takes to gather all the materials needed and craft it all up. I figure why when I can make a big 'ol grindfest out of it, and draw it over the course of the next couple of weeks?

I know these kind of things aren't for everyone, but if you're not doing much other than hammering away at roulettes and cherry picking other content like an occasional Unreal Trial, treasure dungeons, relic steps, Alliance raid, hunts, PvP etc. then I figure why not give yourself something that will really eat up some time? There's just something about a grind that gives you such a euphoric sense of accomplishment when done that makes it worth it, so I decided to do it without spending any gil other than for things like teleportation costs. Even writing out everything I needed took me almost an hour xD.

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Items needed to craft all tools and gear:

Craftsman Alkahest x67
Rutilated Quartz x17
Ilmenite Ingot x85
Bayberry Cloth x28
Titanboa Leather x31
Zoisite x52
Paldao Lumber x41

This all breaks down to:
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Scrip items:
Gripgel x119 (59,500 white crafter scrips)
Immutable Solution x119 (14,875 purple crafter scrips)
Earthbreak Aethersand x138 (41,400 purple gatherer scrips)

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Tomestone items:

Hanish Varnish x82
Vanudinite x170
Thavnairian Almandine x34
Palebloom Kudzu Cloth x56
Titanboa Skin x 62

Total tomes of Astronomy = 8,080
*I actually already had all of this since I eventually ran out of things to spend these tomes on from the daily roulettes*

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Gatherable items:

Mornveil treebark x164
Paldao log x164
Ilmenite x425
Raw Zoisite x208
Raw Rutilated Quartz x85
Bayberry x140
Haritaki x155

All of this can be gathered in a day or two depending on how much time in game you want to spend towards it.
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The biggest time sink are the scrips, which requires countless hours of monotonous gathering and crafting. I didn't even include the gathering and crafting needed to make the food you require to meet the requirements. A grind wouldn't be a grind without these things though, now would it? You quickly figure out the most efficient methods to acquire the scrips. The hardest part is not giving into temptation on just buying, or partially buying some of the things you need.

Goal is to complete the grind, glamour and meld in two weeks while maintaining normal RL routine.

Since 6.35 is a mid-patch, I can wait for its content until the grind is done. 6.4 is still a ways off.

Oh, and thanks for reading

This is the kind of grind I'm ok with. A clearly achievable one that you can make daily or weekly progress to. While some of those gathering mats are on timers, they're on timers every single hour not once a day.

I got lucky and got a leg piece someone mis-inputted into the MB (like 20K instead of 200K) so that's one less piece.

For anyone wanting to attempt this as well, just a reminder: This will be the final crafted DoH/DoL gear for the expansion and it will take you into lvl 100 in the next expansion easily.