Looking for Crafting Tips

[darrenhupke]

I am a level 18 Leatherworker and I was just wondering how some higher leveled crafters got to their levels. Do you focus on higher level recipes and leves, grind through a few over and over, any tips or suggestions. Also, some recipes require things like tanner mastery and extra things like that. At lower levels and having no way to get them from the guilds, do you just get synth support and thats enough?

Any tips and how you did it yourself would help. Thanks.

[SleepyTaru]

Keep up with your local leves there net you some good sp in the long run. Get some good crafting clothes. I usually just grab master support unless I really don't need it. If you can watch a movie while crafting that helps a lot.

This is where i got for my recipes but a lot of times the rank info can be off.

http://ffxiv.zam.com/en/recipelist.html

http://ffxiv.yg.com

[Raikki]

There's really not a lot to it. Simply find a recipe a bit above or at least near your rank that takes materials you can acquire in large volume and do it over and over and over again. Factor in shard usage and how valuable the result is as well. Early on you'll be very frustrated by not having the training you need, but you'll get it sooner or later as long as you keep up with your leves and class quests. Make sure you get all of your local leves done every cycle, even though it can be a chore sometimes. It's also very important to properly prioritize the order in which you buy the training. Tanning and Cobbling are priorities because the bread and butter of grinding Leatherworking is turning hides into leathers into vamps (the first part taking tanning, the second taking cobbling). Later on (by rank 36 at the latest) you'll want to get Tawing to do Sheepskin into Fleece. Don't bother with getting facilities support if the recipe doesn't call for it. Likewise, if something asks for Common Tannery, you won't really benefit from splurging on Master Tannery.

With leatherworking in particular there will be times where it'll be best for your sanity to bridge a gap between one good recipe and the next by using local leves alone and not grinding. These are good times to go farming for hides! If you don't have a high rank combat class already prepare to level one up, because it's essential to Leatherworking. You might have had no problem with sheep and dodo, but buffalo and toad start getting expensive if you try to buy your way through, and you need a high rank (at least mid 40s) to farm toads well by yourself.

[Gracious]

Look up Genine Asura blog on the Lodestone for some tips on low level crafting receipes.

[MyauNei]

If you do a lot of tanning recipes (going from Hides/Skins -> Leather), you'll want to use gear that boosts Magic Craftsmanship (as opposed to focusing on normal Craftsmanship), I've found. I only really noticed this starting with buffalo hides though, so I'm not entirely sure it holds for sheepskins/dodo skins.