What am i doing wrong in the Ixal quests?

[Cojika]

Question...

Can I craft the stuff as a culinarian, switch to a different craft class and get XP for it? My alchemist is hurting for XP

Yeah, I do the quests on CUL and switch to GSM when handing them in.

[Ultimatecalibur]

basic synth x2
inner quiet
waste not
stady hand
hasty touch (until 15 durability)
ruination (to regain cp)
(if enough cp to spare and not on good or excalant) observe
Standerd touch
basic synth (to complete)

Without knowing how much CP, Craftmanship and Control you have its tricky to tell you how to improve your rotation, but this might be a bit better for you:

Inner Quiet
Waste Not
Steady Hand
Hasty Touch x5
Rumination
Steady Hand

To Finish:

• If Good or Excellent:
  • Hasty Touch or Basic Touch if you have the CP
  • Basic Synth x3
• otherwise:
  • Basic Synth
  • then if now Good or Excellent:
    • Hasty Touch or Basic Touch
    • Basic Synth x2
  • otherwise:
    • Basic Synth
    • Hasty Touch or Basic Touch
    • Basic Synth

This should roughly double your HQ rate.

[Ronyx]

Well im super geared on all my craft so i had never failed any attempt on HQ so far for the ebast tribes and Im rank 6 at the moment. Still I think is a good idea of these buffs limitations and such so that the crafters learn how to use their abilities. I know we still have to deal with RNG but in most cases you can win vs the RNG on crafting except on 3 stars (or 3.5 stars Augmented i90 which seems the hardest of all so far). So follow some of the tips people had post on this thread to have a better chance.

[SarcasmMisser]

That should tell you something; get at least CRP to lv50 for Byregot's Blessing and CUL to 37 for Steady Hand II.

Sorry to say, but its pretty obvious some of these synths are not meant for fresh crafters. Byregot's is almost required for these really high quality synths, and Comfort Zone is a really good idea as well.

After all...you don't want to be a BRD or MNK without Blood for Blood, a mage without Swiftcast, or a BLM without Quelling Strikes, right?

I've had no trouble on these crafts just spamming touch skills with some buffs. 399 craft, 389 control and 355 CP.

People are just not investing in one DoH first and getting the gear, instead spreading out the exp which is a terrible idea. You can't do dailies with a level 15 dow/dom so you should expect that the high level quests will be similar. They make these crafts too easy imo.

[Rhas]

Question...

Can I craft the stuff as a culinarian, switch to a different craft class and get XP for it? My alchemist is hurting for XP

I found out yesterday, yes. Crafted them on my culinarian then got xp on a lower crafting class.

[Amnesia]

Hmmm...I never use Hasty Touch on these as a LTW 50.
I just use Steady Hand, then Inner Quiet (if normal), then Advanced Touch until 100% HQ, then Standard Touch.

[Ecks007]

Idk, ive been using my Alchemist which is at lvl 32/33 (i forgot which) and currently on the rank 5 crafting quests. Which, by the way, are waaaaaay easier to complete than the rank 4 quests, even now. That 40 durability, yeeeesh.

I guess I'll see what it's like. So far I've been lucky with Alchemist being my highest craft, second highest is GSM. at lvl uh.. 15-17 ..well, around there. It's thanks to the Ixali quests I finally decided to get into crafting tbh.

I am somewhat enjoying it more than I thought I would. So far at least.

Guess I need to lvl up my other ones for the cross class skills, but.. ugh. I am only leveling them up with the Ixali quests. Alchemist is slowing down to just barely making enough exp to almost level by turning in 3 rank 5 and 3 rank 4 quests.

I can't see grinding the rest of them up, it's terrible that way. The levequests aren't too bad, from the few I have done on my Alchemist, but they are still annoying and out of the way. I'd rather just use the Ixali quests turn ins as primary exp.

[RyuDragnier]

Just got the A High Wind in Ishgard quest about an hour ago, and I'm still doing it, with 0 successes at HQ. Every other one of the repeatable crafting quests I've been able to complete with no problems, but this is by far the most annoying and aggravating one. My CP is dropped to 112, there is 70 durability, the progress is 113, and the quality is 1558. I can get progress done easily with Steady Hands and 3 uses of Basic Synthesis (39 progress each, so the 3rd finishes it). The quality however is a different beast altogether. I'm getting anywhere from 8% to 11% odds of HQ AT THE HIGHEST. This is compared to the other ones where I can easily get a 70%+ chance of it, with no cross class enabled.

I'm not a fan of nerfing anything dealing with crafting, but this quest needs a serious one. Just disabling cross-class abilities would make this a doable challenge, but the CP dropped THAT much? I'm sorry, this quest isn't possible with a level 33 GSM (my highest crafter) who has 262CP (112 with that debuff on), not without some insane luck.

[Ecks007]

Just got the A High Wind in Ishgard quest about an hour ago, ...and stuff.

Which rank is that? So far the only rank where I had to go do stuff in Coerthas was rank 3 quests, while rank 4s take place back in North Shroud, and Rank 5 is done in Mor Dhona.

If it's the Rank 3 ones, they weren't too bad. But if it's something higher, like rank 6+ (I don't have any experience with those yet, still on Rank 5) then I guess I can understand, specially if you're only lvl 33.

[RyuDragnier]

Which rank is that? So far the only rank where I had to go do stuff in Coerthas was rank 3 quests, while rank 4s take place back in North Shroud, and Rank 5 is done in Mor Dhona.

If it's the Rank 3 ones, they weren't too bad. But if it's something higher, like rank 6+ (I don't have any experience with those yet, still on Rank 5) then I guess I can understand, specially if you're only lvl 33.

Rank 6. The problem is the other Rank 6 HQ quests they send at you are way easier than this, this feels more like a job for a level 50 crafter with the best gear than anything lower.