Possible: Directly going from i55 to i75 tool

[Moonfyah]

I'm a bit confused in regards to some of the comments. I never once suggested "buying" mastercraft materia or fieldcraft demimateria III. If anything, I would suggest selling them at the moment because the prices are so high while cost of material is low (but the cost of time is high). I was able to pick up stacks of HQ tomatoes recently for around ~1K per tomato. Which put the cost of each pair of spectacles at around ~15K. Which turned into field craft III material that I've been selling for 822K each. 15K Gil for 800K+ Gil profit? Yes please. Also spirits of salt is another good option, requires 2x HQ volcanic rock salt but no additional synths (100% HQ cannot be guaranteed cuz vitriol cannot be HQed).

Also you do not need artisan tool to 100% HQ spicy tomato relish with no rng. The rotation I suggested only requires 352 craft/358 control/354 CP (with food) and HQ dzmael tomato/Hq dark vinegar (a joke to HQ). These stats are easily reachable with an i55 tool.

Do you want to craft the augmentations that are selling for 1mil Gil on my server? Don't have an artisan tool? Then yes, you can do that right after dinging with an i55 tool if you follow my suggested melding (cheap forbidden melding btw/CP does not matter for these crafts).

You can also craft the augmented chest pieces (3 mil on my server) and primal weapons that people are using for glamour (NQ is selling just as well as HQ, even though it's at a lower price of ~100-200k Gil). Also HQing these items is not even 100% guaranteed even if you start with all HQ mats/artisan tool/max stats because they start with such low quality and require an additional progress step.

I never once voiced skipping the i70 tool. I just wanted to let people know that it's possible. Do you have the Gil saved up from the day of vanyas? Return recently to the game? Then go ahead, buy 3x mastercraft demimateria and 10x fieldcraft material to enjoy your brand new i75 tool without sitting through a boring 150 times macro synths per artisan tool that are not as good as supra tools.

The original post was simply meant to disprove misinformation that was spread when 2.3 hit, that you ABSOLUTELY needed your artisan tool to get the supra tool. I just wanted to prove that you do not. And that you can enjoy in the profits of augmentations/3star furniture/and augmented gear with only a plebeian i55 tool.

Only concrete thing to take from the original post is that you do NOT need the i70 tool to get the i75 tool. And you can craft all the things a veteran crafter that has an artisan/supra tool, outside of reliable HQ 3-star gear with only an i55 tool. This is cold hard information. Your opinion and what you do with this information is entirely up to you.