Ixali Story Quests: WTH?

[Caoihmin]

I have started to lvl my Culinarian to 37. It is now at lvl 25. All my culinary crafting gear is at or a little below lvl. 25 and I have all the CS's from other crafting classes (up to lvl 20 each).

PLEASE tell me that the Ixali story quests (the ones that you do after reaching max reputation level or every 5 crafting levels maybe) are not directly tied into your current crafting level. I am doing the "lvl. 15" quest with a lvl 25 Culinarian and there is NO way I'm gonna be able to make these 4 HQ Helm Components.

Either I am doing something wrong or these quests are severely unbalanced. Hell, in the description it only says "Recommend level 15 crafting class..". Huh? There is NO way a lvl 15 could accomplish these HQ tasks!

P.S. Do the reputation points that you receive for completing the daily quests carry over if you have reached maximum for your level and still have not completed the story quest? Or are those lost?

[MeyrinPhantomhive]

The story quests are not tied to your current level, so the higher you are, the better. You are slightly throttled during the course of the craft, because of your forced usage of their gloves, and you may end up with a reduced CP, but thats about it.

I too have noticed that with the recommended level. No way can a L15 pull off the quest items, not without a LOT of luck. I am L36 Alc, and only now comfortably getting HQs for the quests that have a L16 and L17 requirement.

Rep points do NOT carry over to the next rank. If you hand in a quest when your rank is maxed, you will get a message "your reputation is at its maximum". The next storyline quest is made available as soon as you hit the max on your current reputation.

[chidarake]

sorry to say I was already a 3* crafter when these came around and although the majority was really easy to accomplish there was afew later on that takes a fair bit of knowledge in crafting to accomplish with minimal effort due to the reduced stats and conditions applied.

I think the overall design of the ixal quests was good because they force you to think about your crafts when they start needing hq turn ins.

having the best gear for your current level will make these crafts a fair bit easier, even throwing n a few low level melds for extra cp or control will help I guess even craft if it will reduce a step from the process. wouldn't spend too much on this though since you'll level out of range pretty quickly.

[Crystallin]

tbh, my highest crafter when I started this was 45. and I've been able to hq all the stuff easily.

my 'rotation' is as follows: Inner Quiet, Steady Hand, Great Strides, Standard touch, (repeat those last two if not 100%) then standard synth (15 cp for 150%) 1 or 2 times to finish.

This has worked for me every time. Now that I have two 50's (weaver, ltw) I substitute Careful Synth 2 for standard snyth.

[Shinzoku]

I was also near 3* when I started these and never had a problems with any of the quests, however, I remember a friend telling me he was having trouble making the quest items HQ. I'll tell you what I told him: these are free to make (minus the shard cost of course) so try to run the % as high as you can. If you can get it to 50% or a bit higher, take the gamble and just finish the craft. Of course this is RNG dependant, but eventually you will get the item. If you don't want to do this, only other option is to level and get better gear. Also if you don't have your other crafts to 15, level them, the cross-class skill will help you.

[Caoihmin]

tbh, my highest crafter when I started this was 45. and I've been able to hq all the stuff easily.

my 'rotation' is as follows: Inner Quiet, Steady Hand, Great Strides, Standard touch, (repeat those last two if not 100%) then standard synth (15 cp for 150%) 1 or 2 times to finish.

This has worked for me every time. Now that I have two 50's (weaver, ltw) I substitute Careful Synth 2 for standard snyth.

Maybe I'm a tad over my lvl 25 CUL ability to do the lvl 15 Helm Components. My Quality only goes up 2% using this rotation.

[Kael_Raiju]

I agree, 3* is needed to breeze through. It can be done with lower skill but you'll be repeating a lot of quests due to failures.

[Aeyis]

I agree, 3* is needed to breeze through. It can be done with lower skill but you'll be repeating a lot of quests due to failures.

Disagree with that. Did all (apart from the final story quest, havent unlocked it yet) as a new level 50 weaver. Only for a single item (forgot which one, think its one of components in mor dhona) did I have to use something other then some quick Great Strides+ random touches.

I can definately see it being a lot harder for lower levels, due to having fewer skills and CP. However people seem to forget that the recipe level is scaled down to your current level; as such your level of craftmanship/control wont effect much.

[Caoihmin]

I've noticed you don't always have to have 100% for it to become an HQ item. Is this just random or is there a way to tell so you can stop at a certain % and have HQ?

[Nyalia]

I've noticed you don't always have to have 100% for it to become an HQ item. Is this just random or is there a way to tell so you can stop at a certain % and have HQ?

The % is the chance that it will become HQ. So, if you have a 30% HQ chance, then there is a 30% chance the item will be HQ and a 70% chance that it will be NQ. That's why, in my post, I said you'd likely hit either 70% or 30% (looking at average Hasty Touch failure rates), and thus have to do about 8 synths to get 4 HQ items. It's really nice to get 100%, which means you have no chance of the item being NQ, but it's not required. Heck, I've (very, very occasionally) obtained HQ items with a Quality rating of 0 (the 1% chance it shows is not a lie).

For expensive crafts that you really need to be HQ, such as a Wootz weapon or a Artisan's Apron, you may not want any chance of getting an NQ item. For instance, you might consider Reclaiming the synth if you have an 70% HQ rate on one of those synths because that's a 30% chance you'll get garbage that no one will pay enough for to make up the material costs. Instead, the 90% chance of getting all your materials back from the Reclaim skill may be preferred, though you still have a 10% chance of losing everything.