A Simple Beginner's Guide to Crafting an HQ Forgemaster's Hammer

[Galactimus]

Welcome to Clive's Crafting Corner!
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On today's episode we will discuss just how easy Crafting and Gathering has become in patch 3.05. Learn the in's and out's of Red Scrip. Master the incredibly simple steps required to finish a two star Masterbook product. From simple beginnings to world domination listen close to these easy pain-free instructions.


Level Up!
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Through the magic of splendors, leve quests, consumables, pseudo time-travel, and millions of gil this first step simply requires you to get every Crafting job to 60. And while you're at it take every Gathering job to 60 as well. Well now! That was quick and painless wasn't it? It may have cost you 20 times more to level than it did for me; but we kind of needed all of your leveling mats to cap our Red Scrip again... and again.. and again... don't worry you'll forgive me later little buddy!


Gear Up!
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718 Craftsmanship, Infinite Control, 400+ CP, 650 Gathering, 661 Perception, 650-700GP. It's quick, it's easy! Lot's of numbers. So many positive integers!! How could that not make you feel like a million bucks!


Study Up!
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Someone wasn't paying attention in Crafting school. Never fear! Through a series of quick and easy synths every Master Book can now be yours! We both know by now that price is no object for you; so go ahead and create a few hundred of your favorite Splendors. NOW trade them for MORE books. And if you are STILL bored try out the new and engaging Blue Gathering Scrip. In 40 - 55 hours of teary-eyed gathering (its from happiness I assure you) you can have a complete set of Folklore books of your very own! NICE! Now we just need a book to tell us what a Folklore is!


The Journey Begins
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Now you are finally ready to craft that mighty HQ Forgemaster's Hammer of Epic Sauce! You meet the level, knowledge, and statistical requirements! It was a long road but I heard you whimsically laughing through every minute of it! Don't worry it's all uphill from here! Let's take a quick look at the materials required for our fancy new toy!

3 Adamantite Ingot
- 3 Sun Mica
- 6 Adamantite Nuggets
- 3 Blue Quartz
- 15 Purified Coke

What's this?! Stuck already? You've never ever heard of Purified Coke before? That makes this fun!


Time to Cook!
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All you need to make Purified Coke is the right ingredients, a monocle on your left eye, a scientific montage that shows you nothing important, and then a few odds and ends. Now this is a pretty short process so please pay attention:

- First we're going to need 30 Red Ooid's and 30 Wyvern's Warts.
- In order to collect these you're going to want your 45 Gathering Favors.
- In order to obtain 45 you'll need to cap your Red Gathering Scrip to 450.
- In order to cap your Red Gathering Scrip you'll need to spend 4.5 - 10 hours a week Gathering collectables.
- I should also mention it takes 11 hours to use up your 45 Gathering Favors a week.
Don't try to hide that smile on your face. Even I was fist-pumping when I found out I'd get to use my Gathering classes for a glorious 15-25 hours every single week for life.


All done? Excellent work! However, in order to hand-in your 30 Red Ooid's and 30 Wyvern Warts for 15 Purified Coke you also have to provide 3 Red Rowena's Crafting Tokens. It'll only cost 150 Red Crafting Scrip so please cap your Red Crafting Scrip every week as well. A few mil here or there! In for a gil, in for a forever debt I always say.


The Moment of Truth
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You've leveled your classes to their ultimate peak of skill and power. You've donned your ultimate gear and penta melded it like a blind tongue surgeon. You've obtained the legendary knowledge of the Master Crafting Gods, gathered your Purified Coke, and are ready to make all of your gil back in one swift atomic curb-stomping synthesis.


Wait, you didn't HQ your Adamantite Ingots? Well... spend a few more weeks until it finally happens. We've got some spare time; just not a whole lot of spare Scrip. Also, I forgot to mention you'll also need an Astral Birch Lumber. It uses 5 Dryad Sap; so you know the deal - go and Gather for another 20 hours, buy some favors, make sure it HQ's, yada yada yada.



The HQ Forgemaster's Hammer (Version: For Real this Time)
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Your Blacksmith was waiting it's entire life for this moment. Through a series of memorized actions, billions of indebted gil, and hundreds of beautiful hours you have finally taken your first step towards owning a complete set of gear that you can't really put to any good use yet. The 79% chance you had to HQ your Hammer was pretty sexy I must admit. Anyone would have taken the risk. It's just a shame it NQ'd in the end.


On the bright side this Guide itself could be seen as reward enough for going through all of that effort. Your NQ Hammer has exactly the same stats as your old HQ Adamantite Cross-Pein, so feel free to sell it for a few thousand gil to cut your costs. Simply repeat the last few steps of this guide a couple times and eventually you'll have an HQ Forgemaster's Hammer of your very own!



Conclusion Sauce
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What's this?! That's not enough excitement for you? Don't worry! There's still 76 more HQ items to go before your Crafter's and Gatherer's are fully decked out. The fun is endless! See you in FFXIV 4.0! Enjoy! ♥