Question for the Crafters

[Snootles]

I strongly advise you to level your gatherers as well. It saves you a ton of money if you are able to get your own materials. Plus, every piece of gear you spiritbond, convert and save the materia. You will need them later to meld yourself.

Also, don't forget that you can repair your own gear with Dark Matter. You can even overrepair it to 190ish% condition. I kept forgetting that lol. Saves a bit of a gil too

[CodeCass]

I strongly advise you to level your gatherers as well. It saves you a ton of money if you are able to get your own materials. Plus, every piece of gear you spiritbond, convert and save the materia. You will need them later to meld yourself.

Uh oh.....I haven't been saving any materia T_T....I've been selling it as soon as I convert my gear from my DoM/DoW classes to build up some gil. Have a hurt myself in the long run?

I have been saving 90% of the drops I get from mobs though...skins and whatnot because I figured having those might help later on.

[Snootles]

Uh oh.....I haven't been saving any materia T_T....I've been selling it as soon as I convert my gear from my DoM/DoW classes to build up some gil. Have a hurt myself in the long run?

I have been saving 90% of the drops I get from mobs though...skins and whatnot because I figured having those might help later on.

Spiritbond, my dear. Spiritbond! It's not as bad as it seems.

Drops always worth saving: Diremite webs (base product for velveteen cloth which is a glamour prisms ingredient), boarskins, Gigantoad skins (glamour prism ingredient), raptor skins. Don't forget the sinews either.

Setting yourself to quick synth with food + manual and afking is great lol.

[ChameleonMS]

Join a Free Company that has Material Supplier house merchant, if you haven't already. The Materials Supplier has 90% of all crafting mat you will need below level 20. The sales price from Material Supplier is a small fraction of the price on the MB. And, you do not need to spend time gathering.

You will, as other have mentioned, want to level your gatherers, as they will enable to you obtain mats above level 20 with only a small time investment.

[CodeCass]

Join a Free Company that has Material Supplier house merchant, if you haven't already. The Materials Supplier has 90% of all crafting mat you will need below level 20. The sales price from Material Supplier is a small fraction of the price on the MB. And, you do not need to spend time gathering.

My FC actually has this already. I was going to ask if buying from him would be better than buying from the MB or the Guild Merchants.

[Niwashi]

My FC actually has this already. I was going to ask if buying from him would be better than buying from the MB or the Guild Merchants.

The Materials Supplier has what the guild merchants do, but consolidated in one place rather than spread across eight different crafting guildhalls in three cities, so it's a significant convenience advantage (though no actual change in what is or isn't available). If you've built up reputation with the beast tribes, however, some of the crafting mats they sell are not available from other NPC merchants, not even your Materials Supplier, so as you start to out-level the supplies the Materials Supplier has, you'll need to consider when it's worth traveling around to the beast tribes to buy the next tier of mats.

The market board is more variable. Occasionally you can find items there that are actually cheaper than what an NPC would charge you for them, but more often it's more expensive there. People buy mats from the MB either for convenience when they don't want to travel around to find the NPC who sells an item, or when it's an item that isn't available from any NPCs.

XIVDB.com or the Libra Eorzea iOS/Android app can tell you which NPCs (if any) sell a given material (and for how much). Personally, I think the Libra Eorzea app has the better interface of the two for finding things.

[Shadygrove]

Without perusing the thread.

Everything to 15 is cheap, the guilds give you shards just for joining, and you can make every recipe through 15 buying ingredients from the guild vendor. Except for cooking, the guild doesn't stock fish but there is a fishmarket, the hayline (sp?) just off the aftcastle, that does.

You get your tools and much of your crafting gear from guild quests. And by leveling everything in parallel you get materia.

Save what you make because some of it will be used for levequests and / or GC delivery quest turnins.

You can start the ixal beast tribe quests as any crafter L 1 or better and that's another way to level up. Also they have a turnin quest, which you will probably have made stuff for.

My recommendations: Everything L 1 - L 5, do the L 5 guild quests, check the levemetes in each city for levequests, check your GC for GC turnins, get the Ixal beast tribe questline started, do their quests turning stuff in on your lowest level class.

All that is a bit over 2 hours mostly due to starting the Ixal questline.

Then all the L 5 - 10 recipes, do the quests, check for levequests, followed by all the L 10 - 15 and the L 15 quests and levequests.

If you do that last set over two days, with the GC turnins and the Ixal quests you should have everything to L20 or close to it.