Fieldcraft 3 not so quik guide.....

[chidarake]

So you want to get fieldcraft demi-materia 3 without paying a fortune for them.

Then this guide is for you.

I'll warn you now this is not quick and it's quite a grind and you may actually get none of them at the end of this however unlikely
that is.

This guide is for a 3* gsm. you will need a 2* miner and botonist and an armourer who can make cobalt ingots/rivets. (best to be 50)

You are going to gather a lot of things and quick synth a lot too, then manual synth even more.

The recipe we are making is the carbuncle chronometer

recipe,

2 wind clusters
1 fire cluster
1 ruby
5 rose gold nuggets
5 mythril ingots
4 cobalt rivets

shopping list,

100 emery
100 raw rubies
800 cobalt ore
400 iron ore
1500 mythril ore
1500 gold ore
400 wind clusters
200 fire clusters
1500 wind crystals
2000 wind shards
4000 ice shards

Quite the list, and as you can see quite painful because of the gold ore and emery. This will take you a while to gather even if you focus your efforts. I prepared a gathering guide just below to help. There is a lot of optional steps in here to help make gil along the way and to fill in the time between nodes.

If you don't want to mine all those wind shards and mythril you can purchase mythril ingots from the amal'jaa vender upon starting there beast tribe quests. 500 would cost you about 250k gil.

You can use the gil earned to help speed up the emery getting process as getting all that myth yourself is going to take awhile even with hunting.

Gathering Guide.

1am clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, Field Mastery I/II)
1am darksteel ore slot 3, coerthas with miner (no skills)
1am crawler cacoon slot 4, east shroud with botonist (no skills)

2am Autumbral rock slot 7, east than with miner (no skills)(optional)

5am clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, Field Mastery I/II)
5am honey lemon seeds slot 1, costa del sol with botonist (no skills)
5am grade 3 than soil slot 8, water clusters slot 5, west than with miner (use thaliaks ward, sharp vision I/II)

6am redolant log slot 6, central shroud with botonist (no skills)(optional)

8am waterfowl feather slot 6, west la with botonist (no skills)

9am clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, Field Mastery I/II)
9am prickly pinapple seeds slot 1, costa del sol with botonist (no skills)
9am Gold Ore slot 6, east than with miner (use kings yield II, sharp vision I/II)

1pm clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, sharp vision I/II)

5pm clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, sharp vision I/II)
5pm volcani rock salt slot 1, east la noscea with miner (no skills)

6pm raw ruby slot 7, lower la nocsea with miner (use kings yield II, sharp vision I/II)

7pm grade 3 la noscea soil slot 8, fire clusters slot 3, middle la nosea with miner (no skills)

9pm clusters, mor dhona with botonist (fire slot 3, wind slot 4) (use wards, sharp vision I/II)


repeat this until you have the 400 wind clusters, 200 fire clusters, 100 raw rubies, 1500 gold ore,

Ok so you will be done with the rest way before gold is done. so just keep grabbing that as and when you can.
next step is to get that mythril. So head down to south thanalan's sagolii desert and suck it up and mine 1500.

Then head to north than to get the 800 cobalt ore. Iron just buy it from your local in house vender as its way quicker and quite cheap.

Wind crystals in my opinion are best gathered in east shroud with a miner using wards when possible on the crystal nodes and gathering shards from the others.

Now 4000 ice shards is a bitch to get. of course you can mine them all over but you may aswell gather them whilst grabbing crystals in west la or south shroud. benefit of this is you can sell the crystals. Or of course if you earned enough gil from selling the other things you can buy them from mb.

after all that you actually get to craft.

quick synth your mythril ingots, cobalt ingots then cobalt rivets.
synth your 500 rose gold nuggets and the 100 rubies.
Then the 100 carbuncle chronometers.

Yes I could tell you the rotation for them but I wont as there simple. Good news though you dont need anything hq.

Desynth the chronometers to try your luck at getting demi-materias.

At 100 skill in desynth you will only have a 70% chance on each desynth.

They can yield 2 fieldraft demi-materia a time and you will get mat's back for aditional tries. You'll also see a bunch dissintergrate into nothing.

I'll post my results when I'm done so you all can see what the possible return is as I'm doing another 100 now. Unfortunatly I didnt keep track on the first 60 I did.



Results

Fieldcraft 3 x2, 7
Fieldcraft 3 x1, 7
Clear 3, 6
Master, 0
Rubies, 12
Failures, 30


So the fail rate was quite high as expected, but it did return 12 rubies to me and so those additional tries could yield more fieldcraft 3's.
The other item return rate was not good and so I would have to do a bit more gathering to try those returned rubies.

However as it stands on 100 desynth's I received 21 Fieldcraft 3's and although this is random it was a pretty good haul as to buy those of the behemoth mb would be around 10.5mil.

I did end up buying a lot of materials on the mb and they cost me about 4mil to do. so in all this was a big win for me this time.

However no Mastercrafts means I will still either have to do artisans glasses or buy them of the mb. (ill probs buy them as they have gotten quite cheap)

The big question though is as a 3* crafter is this really worth the time to pursue as you may make more gil on the mb crafting sellable goods than save by doing this, especially considering how much time all the gathering takes. The answer is probably a no, you could earn much more gil on a active 3* market than save by doing this. unless this demi-materias are extremely expensive still on your server.


Update

so I ran this 2 more times in the spirit of better more accurate information. results as follows.

100 attempts


Fieldcraft 3 x2 1
Fieldcraft 3 x1 6
Clear 3 10
Master 0
Rubies 12
Failed 27


100 attempts


Fieldcraft 3 x2 3
Fieldcraft 3 x1 3
Clear 3 7
Master 0
Rubies 15
Failed 34

As you can see both these sets were very different than my first 100. The third set had a very bad fail rate and that obviously affected numbers badly, but in all this shows a sort of range of field 3's you may get. whether you consider it worthwhile time wise or gil wise to try is up to you but personally I would rather have 100 chances at getting a lot than just buying 10 of mb at the same price.

[Lyrinn]

Here's an easier method: level carpenter to 100, craft and desynth straight stepping stumps. 100% success so guaranteed mats back, respectable chance of getting 1 fieldcraft III, no frustration of seeing half of your items break.

[Kalandros]

Yeaaa I tried those Carbuncle Chronometers but barely got any FCIII out of 40 of them.
And out of 100 Summon bells (most broken though) I got only one FCIII

But both those h elped me reach 100 GSM And BSM desynth so thats fine

however FCIII = Artisan Spectacles.

And im not doing CRP yet probably so meh

[chidarake]

I'm not planning on doing crp desynth and so won't do that method. but thx for the suggestion.

Also agreed the artisans specs are a very valid method and also time consuming.

I just like to play around and see how things turn out. I did alright on the 60 I did before considering I was still levelling at the time. so I want to try a larger amount and see what my return is, see if there's potential to make my gil back and still yield f3's

[AttacKat]

While a valid approach, but this does seem to require a lot of time investment in gathering the material, especially when you need to rely on those time-sink mining nodes.

I am using Artisan specs approach, so far

% / qty / MD / FD3
<70% / 21 / 2 / 0
70<76% / 34 / 4 / 4
>76% / 17 / 0 / 4

So total of 72 specs, got 6 Mastercraft and 8 Fieldcraft IIIs. I am expecting the ratio will go up more as my desyn % increases.

[Ooshima]

Just craft 2 star furnitures and desync them

[chidarake]

agreed the gather time is really high, the thing is as stated I received 21 fc3's. I sold 10 on the mb and got 4.6mil gil for them and so now I can purchase all the mats I need instead of gathering them. which I'm currently doing.

so yeah this method may not be the best and definitely not the quickest but it was a fun thing to do and try out, but its biggest drawback is the lack of any mastercraft materia in all the desynths.

I'm currently doing another 100 and after these will probs switch to a more simpler method as it is quite a time investment, but as the title says its the ~not so quick~ method.

[Espritduo]

Just did 100 clocks myself. At 100 GSM desynth level, I got 29 Fieldcraft III's, and then one more when I desynthed my obsolete Artisan's Needle for a nice round 30. So the whole attempt start to finish got me 3 supra's worth of Fieldcraft III's. Not too shabby, I think. It did take me a week to gather up all the mats in a rather casual here and there sort of way, so while I don't think I'll be doing it a second time, I feel doing it once was worth my time. You know, a little variety never hurts, and I was so burnt out on spicy tomato relish....

[chidarake]

Espritduo -

I think you got very lucky on your conversion rate like I got lucky on the first 100 I did.

Personally I'd rather do this than doing the spicy tomato relish, over the course of a week or so of prep. but at least you have a chance at mastercraft with the relish unlike these clocks that after doing over 350 I've never seen one.

[Kalandros]

Mastercraft are only from artisan items.