Crafting

[Artismul]

I'm still only low-level but I've been crafting as an armorer since I started as a way of earning gil and also to make HQ gear supporting my tank. I figure this is what most people do, leveling a craft alongside their combat class.

Personally I really enjoy it as a change of pace from combat. It adds a dimension of interaction with the in-game economy too that I imagine is the intention.

[nuyu11]

I'm still only low-level but I've been crafting as an armorer since I started as a way of earning gil and also to make HQ gear supporting my tank. I figure this is what most people do, leveling a craft alongside their combat class.

Personally I really enjoy it as a change of pace from combat. It adds a dimension of interaction with the in-game economy too that I imagine is the intention.

Then I will lvlup my crafting too, my 2 Class tank both need upgrade

[Urthdigger]

Something I wish to point out: If you're looking to upgrade your own stuff, it may be a good idea to level all your crafters together. Cross-class abilities are vital, plus not everything you make will be armorer. Pants may be weaver, accessories are goldsmith, may need leatherworker to make ingredients, blacksmith for your weapon, culinarian for your food (Which you really should be using. As a leveling tank, do some simple math to find out what gives the most parry at your level)

[baopee]

To reach 4 star crafter (2.4 Bis) (8 jobs) I spent at least 50 mil gils, since I havent leveled Desyns on any of my crafters.

I rarely farm for mats too >_< which i should..

[nuyu11]

I heard from most of player saying that crafting cost lot of gil which is totally opposite from what I think at first.
Why it so costly? We craft our own stuff from our own collected mats.

[Werhusky]

Crafting is costy if you do not gather all your own mats and dont spiritbound for your materia melds. If you dont have enough GC seals to spend on the additional items for the 2 star HQs (pottash, animal fat,....).
In general if you have the time and patience to invest all this your costs are 0 gil. but if you dont, wanna go faster or you are just lazy in one of the steps it costs you loads of gil.

Also you can easily fuck up high tier crafts if you dont have the crossskills/rotation... for hints use

http://www.ffxivcrafter.com/

In general crafting in FFXIV is pretty complex with melding, overmelding, rotations, crossskills and obtaining mats...

Also before I forget is recent 3+ star crafting often based on so-called demimateria which you obtain with a pretty ugly RNG through desynthesis (when you get craft to 30 unlock in Ul'Dah at market). Especially if you want the Supra/Lucis Tools you need VERY rare Mastercraft demimateria which you obtain by desynthing the Artisans tools/glasses. Master demi is at market idk depending on day 500k-2m

[nuyu11]

Hmmm... just try it first lol

[Yumi_umi]

Ur going to have to spend something.
Time or gil
Gil ensures reliable statistics while time can vary depending on rng.
Both are costly and can leave u drained either of gil or the will to play cuz u'll get burnt out from rng fails ( 10 melds failed in a row etc or botching an expensive desynth at 90%+ 3 times in a row).

[nuyu11]

My motto "patience is a virtue"

[Lokisama]

Good luck with crafting it is very hard and expensive journey to get up to date with crafting gear at this point, my friend took couple of months break from the game and after he came back he used around 20-25 mil to get updated on he's gears from just 1 patch but once you do get the gears you will start generating the money back but just be ready for the hard competition, at this in the game I would personally suggest for you to get all crafting classes to lv 50 so you get all the cross skills and get ready for heavensward as you have to level all the crafters to 60 once it comes out and then see the new crafting gears at lv 60 as the current ilv 70 gear will be outdated in the expansion, so focus on leveling the gears and do little bit of spirit bonding with crafting gears to have materias ready for heavensward crafting sets