Making Militia & AF for the first time

[QuCont]

Hey Val!

You can make HQ AF gear without melded Patricians, using only NQ materials. Use this rotation. It's perfectly doable with either HQ 48 off hand tools or NQ 55 tools.

* Comfort zone
* Inner Quiet
* Steady Hands 2
* Touch x 5 (replace with hasty touch if not enough CP)
* Manipulation
* Steady Hands 1
* Ingenuity 2
* Innovation
* the-next-level-touch-whatever-it's-called
* greater strides
* byregots
* perfect synth x4

You'll need about 350-ish CP. I used HQ fish soup, easy to make with full patricians's set.

Also, skip the head gear. Not necessary.

I recommend starting with Tailor -> Leather -> Goldsmith -> blacksmith.
Tailor, so you can make the AF for all the other jobs.
Leather, so you can make the AF for all the other jobs.
Goldsmith, for the jewellery you'll eventually want.
Blacksmith, for all the offhand tools.

If you're having problems meeting the requirements, just make an NQ55 spinning wheel, that should get you started. Once you have your HQ AF, you can do fine with HQ48 tools. I may have used FC actions, I don't really remember.

Here are some simulator results.


* 295 craft
* 288 control
* 311 CP (+33 from HQ fish soup)

[Sadana]

* 295 craft
* 288 control
* 311 CP (+33 from HQ fish soup)

Wait a minute, how did you get those stats with this gear? I logged out on GSM last night. I think it's pretty average stat-wise for my DoH classes. I have:
281 Craft
273 Control
310 CP

There's a big difference...

I'm not keen on using the mats needed to make a NQ green tool I'll use once. Seems like a real waste.

So is it technically impossible (outside of getting really lucky) to make HQ green DoH items without already having the green gear?

[QuCont]

Wait a minute, how did you get those stats with this gear? I logged out on GSM last night. I think it's pretty average stat-wise for my DoH classes. I have:
281 Craft
273 Control
310 CP

There's a big difference...

I'm not keen on using the mats needed to make a NQ green tool I'll use once. Seems like a real waste.

So is it technically impossible (outside of getting really lucky) to make HQ green DoH items without already having the green gear?

That was probably with the militia tool. You're are still perfectly fine. Your HQ% goes down to 84%, but anything above 80% is usually HQ. You can raise your chances by using HQ materials too. It'll be a gamble with the one-star ones but you should be able to HQ the other stuff like cloth and threads fairly easily.

[SummerRider]

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Here are some simulator results.
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Anyone know of an English version of this GUI?

[Sadana]

Anyone know of an English version of this GUI?

Sadly, no. Someone came up with their own however. Here's the thread about it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ting-Optimizer
I'm trying my best to use the JP website, but I've found some bugs. For 80 stuff, it seems alright, but when I asked it to help with 40 durability items, it spit out a sequence that gave me a 19% HQ. I knew that was way off, did it my 'usual' way and got 100% more than once. So... I dunno. :/ It may just be the site's clunkiness mixed with my inability to read anything.