Race to 50

[Vortok]

LTW might've been more annoying if it hadn't given me all the skins I needed from leve rewards. I basically didn't really have to buy/farm skins past aldgoat all the way to 50.

GSM isn't too bad, but it takes awhile to craft all those ingots and gems before making the jewelry for the turnins. Even more time if you're mining up the several hundred raw gems/ore as well.

And yeah, Alch is really easy if you're a little intelligent about what you make. Hi Potions are easy to make (especially if you have Botany - mats are gathered next to the leve location) and Lanolin is super easy to make later because karakul skins are so cheap from everyone farming fleece.

[kukurumei]

LTW might've been more annoying if it hadn't given me all the skins I needed from leve rewards. I basically didn't really have to buy/farm skins past aldgoat all the way to 50.

GSM isn't too bad, but it takes awhile to craft all those ingots and gems before making the jewelry for the turnins. Even more time if you're mining up the several hundred raw gems/ore as well.

And yeah, Alch is really easy. Hi Potions are easy to make (especially if you have Botany - mats are gathered next to the leve location) and Lanolin is super easy to make later because karakul skins are so cheap from everyone farming fleece.

Even if you farm skins... 1 skin 1 leather... and have you probably skipped the all npc brought triple =)

GSM... brassssssss rrrriiiinnnggg tooooo mytrillllllll eearrrrrinnggggg.

[Simaril]

What in your sweet heaven makes you think Cul is anywhere near easy??

Every recipe for triple turn-ins is 6 materials, at least half of them will have 2 to 3 of those materials being processed, meaning they come from another 1 or 2 other materials themselves.

Culinary is VERY easy... I now think it's easier than Alc since the materials for the 40 tripler are cheap on my server.
25:Fever Pitch - Chamomile Tea - Buy water and honey from the vendor, buy or gather chamomile.
30:True Grits - Cornmeal – Buy or gather millicorn.
40: Made by Apple - Apple juice - buy or gather mirror apples.
---For all three, the final product is the only item you make, and none of the ingredients are terribly expensive or rare.

no way! Crp is way way easy.

The reason I consider CRP NOTsuper easy, is because CUL and ALC are so rediculously easy. If there was a quest to turn in lumber at 30 or 35, it would be just as easy, but the 30 leves require 4 or 5 steps (steel spears or halbeards), and the 40 leves require 4 or 7 steps (mahogony spinning wheel or myth lance) to make the final product. The 35 leve is only 2 steps, but HQ wyvern obsidium is expensive and it's hard to HQ Walnut Machualti without it. 45 is easy again with Mahogony lumber.

[MagusCreed]

Rather than starting a new thread, I figured I'd continue this one. I just dinged 50 on Goldsmith this weekend. I'm at a crossroads again of which DoH I should go for now. Here's what I have so far:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/4816863/

Should I delve into Blacksmith finally and get Ingenuity I?

Should I start maxing out Alchemist because it's so easy (from what I've heard of on this thread anyway) and to get Comfort Zone?

Or should I continue with a different craft I already have going?

I have 60 Leve allowances so Leves aren't an issue at all.

Any advice would be appreciated!

[Teykos]

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Should I delve into Blacksmith finally and get Ingenuity I?

Should I start maxing out Alchemist because it's so easy (from what I've heard of on this thread anyway) and to get Comfort Zone?

Or should I continue with a different craft I already have going?

I have 60 Leve allowances so Leves aren't an issue at all.

Any advice would be appreciated!

My recommendation:

Get Alchemist up. You are WHM/CNJ, so you want it 50 for your relic precursor item anyway, and you're getting close now.

After that, get Weaver up. Make HQ crafter gear for yourself first before burning mats on leves.

Both of those also give you an excuse to get Botanist up, especially considering that your relic precursor item can be completely made with harvestable items. Having your own supply of Flax also makes things FAR less painful.

[Simaril]

I've been leveling mine all together http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2289225/ I really like being in the best gear at all times - makes HQ on higher level items easy

Since you have GSM and CRP - you can easily make the tools for wvr. I liked BSM since it gives the tools for just about everything else. I'm also doing Min and Btn - so that's 4 more tools I wanted from BSM. Ltw is nice for DoL gear. I guess I'm justifying why I'm leveling them all :/ Maybe I'm giving up Arm.

[Githiun]

IMO, get 15 to all. and then maybe go weaver. I've found weaver's Careful Synth II to be EXTREMELY helpful. Not only for making end game items but also for leveling.

[Naberrie]

I've found the fastest way is usually to find the turn in that is easiest produced, which frequently means something that requires few mats, preferably easily acquired mats. Right now I'm leveling CRP which has a triple turn in that you can do in Gridania with the turn in also in Gridania, and all you have to do is turn in 5 Walnut Lumbers. And with BTN already leveled to 41, I can farm a stack of Walnut Logs in no time and churn out Walnut Lumber like nothing. I'm burning from 25-30 in record time just doing this one Leve.

Also, if you have BTN leveled you can easily farm Cotton and Flax, which make leveling WVR very easy. So far the only thing that slows me down on WVR is when I need to farm Diremite Webs.

[Cycloptichorn]

Armorer is easier than Goldsmith - you can just buy the ingots you need for leves and turn them in, HQ, at a profit. Every time.

GSM is great, though, Mythril Earrings all the way to 50, forget the triple-turn in leves once you get past the malachite bracelet one.

[Raminax]

Armorer is easier than Goldsmith - you can just buy the ingots you need for leves and turn them in, HQ, at a profit. Every time.

But waiting ages for Leve allowances to refresh is boooooring. ;_;