Random Tips, Tricks, & Helpful Information

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Disciplines of Land/Hand:

• If you have multiple jobs, always change out to a DoL class in downtime in order to generate GP. This allows you to have full GP for rare nodes at the proper time. This applies to waiting on parties, Duty Finder, or browsing the market wards.
• If you build out job change macros, always add the "Truth" ability of said job so it pops up when you switch roles.
• Build a macro for all rare node locations and items. Example below.

Save your gil, most decent gear and weapons can be farmed in the dungeons (no matter how tedious it seems) and can usually carry you for 5+ levels
and one I wish I would have followed: Try and level a craft and gathering skill together. both will help you craft gear you may need later, or can sell to make gil, or spirit bond and convert to materia you can sell or use

Spirit Bonding through crafting is not related to level. It's tied to difficulty. A One star 50 like Rose Gold Nuggets or Twin Thread will get you less sprirt bonding per synthesis than a level 48, 80 Durability Synthesis.

A set of level 55 gear to 43% spirit bond in the Sylphlands and the loot drop count was at a solid 0. Good if you like to spiritbond with no inventory clutter. Bad if you like to get loot.

Having a chocobo out will increase your drop rates...something to do with the chocobo being counted as a party member thus you get 2 rolls for the same item instead of one.

• Leave the first row open in your retainer if you find you "split" inventory a fair amount due to crafting. It's easier to locate the items after, and saves your own personal inventory space so you can remove just what you need for a synth.

Added useful links for reference:

Materia Melding Chart for iLVL70 items
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4468/y0to.png

FFXIVDB - Reference for all you need to know on FFXIV
http://xivdb.com/

Rare Node Information (Technyze)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...GYk1TNHc#gid=0

Materia Setup for Crafters (Raldo Volca)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...p-for-crafters

Crafting Macro Builder
http://xiv-macro.appspot.com/

XIVPads - Character and FC Information (DB & Community)
http://xivpads.com/?Characters

All credit for links and resources goes to those whom created them.