The crafting grind

[Nyalia]

Thank you both for the confirmation! After it didn't work for me ~six times in a row, I gave up because it seemed like a waste of time. But, if that works, that's a great plan. Remember you can't do all six because the first two will reset when you hit the third pair. So, you can pre-deplete one pair, go to the next pair, pre-deplete them, pop your favor, deplete that pair, fly back to the first pair you pre-depleted, and go from there.



Aeyis: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLGQ

Those are the melds I used. And yes, it does use HQ Seafood Stew.

And this is the rotation I used: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Materials-Gear


EDIT: Also, if you're having trouble hitting the cap every week on red scrips, why are you doing favor item gathering? The only weekly stuff is the red scrips themselves. Using them isn't capped. You can just stockpile red scrip tokens until you have the time to spend them later. If you're having trouble keeping up and want to make up the time later, just do the red scrip stuff, which takes about 10 minutes a day for gathering, plus an hour a week for crafting. Capping Eso is just half an hour a day, six days a week, and capping Alex Normal is just an hour once a week. All told, that's not very much time. We're talking ~6.5 hours a week, so like, an hour a day. I'll bet you play significantly more than that....

[Aeyis]

Thank you both for the confirmation! After it didn't work for me ~six times in a row, I gave up because it seemed like a waste of time. But, if that works, that's a great plan. Remember you can't do all six because the first two will reset when you hit the third pair. So, you can pre-deplete one pair, go to the next pair, pre-deplete them, pop your favor, deplete that pair, fly back to the first pair you pre-depleted, and go from there.

Personally I only do it on certain node spawns (the ones that are particular far away). That said, I have the benefit of 50~ odd tokens left so I'm not very worried about being short on materials. It's definately a good idea to do this.

Aeyis: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLGQ

Those are the melds I used. And yes, it does use HQ Seafood Stew.

And this is the rotation I used: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Materials-Gear

Yeah I expected it would be easier to do now. So I suppose it's become somewhat easier to reach comfortable levels for crafting if you know the CP requirements.

EDIT: Also, if you're having trouble hitting the cap every week on red scrips, why are you doing favor item gathering? The only weekly stuff is the red scrips themselves.

I don't, as I have a lot of spare time. That said, I can see how people that also want to do battle content like raiding or leveling, and/or don't spend that much time on the game might have an issue with doing all that's required for 2* crafting.
That said, even for those with the time; if you are forced to do something on a daily or weekly basis it becomes a chore and as a result harder to do.

Using them isn't capped. You can just stockpile red scrip tokens until you have the time to spend them later.

It's possible to catch up on favors if you collected the red scrips, yes. Altho it's just transfering the time investment, but yes. Not using them this week just means you have to spend all that time later. The time adds up, untill round and round it goes and you got a wormhole.
I'm bit a special case with my 50 tokens. Since I won't be spending any of them on myself there's zero need for me to use them all.
And that's a good thing too. Even with the new favor duration 250 favors would still take about 20 hours to complete.



If you're having trouble keeping up and want to make up the time later, just do the red scrip stuff, which takes about 10 minutes a day for gathering, plus an hour a week for crafting. Capping Eso is just half an hour a day, six days a week, and capping Alex Normal is just an hour once a week. All told, that's not very much time. We're talking ~6.5 hours a week, so like, an hour a day. I'll bet you play significantly more than that....[/QUOTE]

I do. But then I also don't do esoterics, or Alex. Running all 4 parts of Alex is probably a bit longer then an hour (depending on drops and roll), but I can't say I'm that experienced with it. Red scrips gathering isnt as simple as ''x hours investment'' due to the time windows. As well as available classes.

But let's say it's indeed 6.5 hours per week.

If my experience in wow teaches me anything, it's that people really, really hate doing things daily/weekly. Would they do it less if they didnt have to? Perhaps. But they would also enjoy it more.


Lets say someone only has an hour to play on one day. But then they would have to do that hour of mandatory ''work''. I think most would rather do something fun instead, no?