Did the Ixali Quests Pique Your Interest In DoH/DoL?

[aerolol]

I only really see people doing it that already have a DOH and level 50. I'd expect it would be absolutely ridiculous to HQ anything past rank 3 while at a lower level, meaning lower-leveled characters would either have a much longer grind to rank up or grind their DOH classes pretty quickly so they could keep up.

I have all DoH classes at 50 except Alchemist.
So I'm doing all Ixali crafting with ALC. I was level 18 when I started and now at rank 4 (roughly 50% of the reputation bar) I am level 36. So it provides very decent experience. It's like one level per day if not more just for doing the Ixali quests/delivery. (Its around 7k exp per rank 4 delivered item/set, so its 21k / 42k for HQ for the 3 rank 4 items required for the delivery quests. Other ranks the exp reward was much lower) PLUS the exp for the 5 other quests. roughly 200k exp per day.

So far there is only one beastman recipe that needs to be HQ and is kinda hard to get it to HQ due to reduced CP.
Btw my ALC still has lv15-20 gear that is almost spiritbound. When I can convert to materia I will upgrade its gear to lv35/40 gear and hopefully that will be enough for rank 5/6 quests.

[ruskie]

I've been doing rank 5 quests on my lvl(at the time 33 now 36 wvr and bsm). No issue whatsoever once you figure out that the most common rotation you will be using will be:
inner quiet
steady hand
great strides
depending on state/durability/progress(a lot need a singl synth often) needed synth or touch spam
and that's about it... I did that rotation the N times needed yesterday on all the rank 5 and 2 rank 4 quests and had 0 fails and all hq on first go.

[SendohJin]

never crafted in XI, never crafted in 1.0, only had a few levels from random leves.

after the Ixal quests, got Weaver to 50, 3 others to 40+ and everything else to 20+.

[Waffles]

It's almost kinda funny because if anything these quests have only shown players how complicated and demanding crafting is. What people really fail to understand is how important cross class abilities are. They are FAR more important to crafting than they are with battling. That's why you see so many top tier crafters with everything at 50. Crafting in this game is about chance. Your abilities help to turn that chance in your favor. That's why things like Steady Hands II and Careful Synthesis are so important.

I love crafting but not for most people at all trust me. It is however rewarding seeing players wear your creations or eating the food you made. Plus you can make serious gill on the AH with very little effort when you level up crafting jobs.

[Sartori]

I ask this because Yoshi said part of the reason they made these quests different was to give players who haven't tried those classes yet a reason to try them.

I do see loads of people new to crafting or gathering doing it. But is that just because you have to, to finish the quests? Or do you actually enjoy crafting/gathering now?

They are doing it for the easy mode xp

[BobbinT]

btw, just got into Honored. Looks like this (supposedly final) rank and previous one will only enable you to craft with limited skills, and no cross class. lol

[Fenseven]

It has not piqued my interest in them, i have cooking and mining at 50 and bot mid 40s with everything else sub 30. I keep trying to will myself to lvl them but sitting there and spending all that time crafting is really boring. i've been evenly lvling my sub 30 profs with the exp off of the quest turn in, and cooking up all the airship parts needed.

You know what they say to lvling crafting? Not today.

[Urielparadox]

Until I got to honored I always did the synth on my lowest lvl craft. The only issue I had was figuring out the rotation. Now I can do any of the trusted and under with even lvl 30 in about 6 skills and 40 durability loss max. If your having issues get the lvl 15 crossclass skills, at least ingunity. If you want a take battle class(bc), past lvl 30 you need at least 1 other bc at 15. That's just to unlock the job. But if you want to not be gimped you need one at 25 and one at 15 that isn't your main. Same goes with crafting if you only have 1 craft your gimp according to the rules of the game, so ungimp yourself. It takes less then 40 leves and 2 daily turn ins to get all crafts to 15.

[O-Deka-K]

Well 96% isnt still 100%. 20% can few time succeed and also 99% can few times fail. Only 0% and 100% are sure, but everything between that is uncertain. But if you took 1000 tries with 20% chance and 1000 tries with 96% chance, you would see that 96% would succeed much more times, so it is not random.

EDIT: Random would be if 20% and 96% had the same chance of success.

What?

You don't seem to understand what random means. Random doesn't mean that everything has a 50/50 chance.

[Gramul]

btw, just got into Honored. Looks like this (supposedly final) rank and previous one will only enable you to craft with limited skills, and no cross class. lol

That sounds like the equivalent of not being able to use status effects on bosses.
"Good job getting all those skills. Too bad they're basically useless for when you need it most."