Ixali Beastmen - Best Leveling Path

[TomTom1968]

I also couldn't care less if it takes a day longer or not. I made a mistake in the first days anyways since I was thinking that I can only accept 4 missions from the Ixali..don't ask me why lol. But now I am doing 6 daily and I really like the extra option to get my crafting mats for Desynthesis thanks to the Ixali currency. This will ease the pain a bit and is worth to give up on the Myth/Strat tomes the other tribes offer.

[mayonnegg]

I'm at 877/990 before doing today's quests. How much do the next set of quests give? Just wanna work out best way to do things

[Nyalia]

The next set gives 35 each. Unfortunately, there's no way to finesse this tier. 29*3 = 87. 29*2+50 = 108. Therefore, you'll need to do all thre of the 29 rep quests and Deliverance, putting you 24 points over what you need. This will leave you 70 points into the next tier after you do two of the quests after ranking up.

[BobbinT]

The next set gives 35 each. Unfortunately, there's no way to finesse this tier. 29*3 = 87. 29*2+50 = 108. Therefore, you'll need to do all thre of the 29 rep quests and Deliverance, putting you 24 points over what you need. This will leave you 70 points into the next tier after you do two of the quests after ranking up.

Just got there myself, 70 points in Honored now. Final rank and rest of allied beast tribe should take exactly 6 days later, that's 3x35 + 2x29 + 50 from Deliverance.

[Magnesium02]

So from start to finish, only doing Ixali and being most efficicent, It should take you 24 days and 142 beastmen allowances to max reputation and depending on the variation of gil rweard fromt he selection of quests you got each day, you should have earned over 90,000 gil.

[BobbinT]

That's the plan.

Unfortunately, due to upcoming FFXI "Return to Vana'diel" event, which is a free login campaign, starts from Sept 10 - 17, I might have to take hiatus from XIV for awhile. This means I might have to resume max ranking Ixals after free login campaign. Want to catch up some of Adoulin stuff, new WotG aftermath missions, and others. ^^;

BTW, last night I just found a quest that's on par with difficulty close to 1* crafts, which needs to make 3 HQ airship part stuff. Only 1 out of 3 can get to 100% quality, but still manage to HQ all. This one might pose difficulty steep for crafters lacking better gears/melds. I would like to see this done in lacking gear though, out of curiosity.

[Nyalia]

The 50% CP penalty for the rank 6 quests is pretty brutal. No problem at all for a max melded crafter, but for non-50 crafters, I can see this being pretty difficult.

[BobbinT]

The 50% CP penalty for the rank 6 quests is pretty brutal. No problem at all for a max melded crafter, but for non-50 crafters, I can see this being pretty difficult.

Steady Hand & Hasty Touch are your best bud here. Land those CP touch when on Good/Excellent rating. lol

[TomTom1968]

Well you can try as often as you want and the only material you need are some shards. But I was also surprised that I had to actually use some skills lately to get a craft done. I don't wanna know how it is for people who have started their crafter career with the Ixali tribe lol.

[Nyalia]

Oh! Pro-tip that I just figured out (and everyone else probably already knew): The crafting facility status effects are technically buffs. This means you can cancel them by right-clicking on them! So, if you're doing the rank 6 quests, which can give three different status effects (-150 CP, 50% CP, and no cross-class skills), you can do them one at a time without waiting ~four minutes between each for the status effect to go away. Just present the items for one of them, and then cancel the status effect when you're done crafting, then pick up the next one. No more crafting without cross-class skills and with only 176 CP for me!