Crafting

[nuyu11]

From what I know, end game gear are come from raid drops. May I know what is purpose for crafting in this game? if it not for end game gear then for what? Trying to find my reason here to spend my time on it.

[AskaRay]

Some endgame gear does come from crafting, actually.

Also a reason is gil. You can craft food for people to use endgame. Craft items for people to use when leveling to get materia. Craft custom HQ potions for people to use in raids... there are a lot of reasons to craft. (And of course those endgame gears too).

[nuyu11]

one of my FC friends said highest item lvl that can be made by crafting are ilvl70, is that true?
I saw most of player out there are wearing ilvl120-130.

[Werhusky]

Highest gear that is craftable is atm i110 and can be overmelded better than/equal to the i130 regular gear. Especially in Final coil people use the crafted accessoried to hit the HP needed and for sch dps the accuracy.
The crafts are 4 star and as it it costs lots of gil and time to get there the crafts are around 500k + so not affordable if you play too casual :P
Tho if you just started recently i recommend to gear first the regular way with BcoB/ScoB, Dungeon Drops, Tower drops and if you then feel like raiding in Final coil you always have the opportunity to create your own BiS with crafted parts ^^

[nuyu11]

I'm only understand half of it, not really familiar with the term yet.

[Werhusky]

Oh sorry my bad >.<
BcoB = Binding Coil of Bahamut
ScoB = Second Coil of Bahamut
Towers includes Labyrinth of the Ancients (CT), Syrcus Tower(ST), World of Darkness(WoD)
Please be aware that WoD has a weekly lockout means you can loot only 1 piece per week

and BiS is Best in Slot, you want certain stats more than others, avoid some. If you go into Coils/ EX Primals you also want to meet a certain accuracy (link below)

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...thing_coil_19/

If you rather want o go for the crafting itself be aware that endgame crafting takes a lot of gil and time.
You will want the crafted artisans gear and over meld it. You will want most crafting classes on level 50 for the cross abilities. Maybe you even want gathering classes to get your incredients.
For endgame crafting it is a certain item to craft in HQ hand in in a certain amout to get better tools / gear pieces and the so- called masterbooks.
Quests for that are located in MorDhona if im not mistaken.

Well hope that answers some questions :/

[nuyu11]

may I know where can I ge that black Bunny hat?
I want it for my lalafel.

[ruskie]

It's a drop frmo an unhidden leather treassure map or you can buy it off the marketboard for probably a ton of gil. It's a spriggan hat. Bunny outfit is coming with 2.51 as a reward in gold saucer.

[Werhusky]

The spriggan cap is from Unhidden Leather Map - Which drops from Boarskin and Peiste Maps.
To do Maps you need to do a level 40 quest in Wineport, i dont recall its name.

I got mine as a christmas gift :P
On our server some mil gil on market board :/ as it is double luck to get it at all (first the unhidden map then the cap).

GL on gettin it

[nuyu11]

I saw some lalafel wear it and it's so adorable.