newb crafter

[zaeli91]

hello,

Im having trouble finding rotations for level 50 leves, i have all crafters on 50 but that was awhile back before 3.0 and i've all but just forgotten about crafting.

I have 337 craft, 348 control and 322 cp.

I'm wondering if anyone could show me how i can get started from here, is it worth overmelding my gears at this point? or can i make do until i can buy/craft a higher level craft gear.

Thanks ^^

[Silverbane]

Make do, and level all your crafts together - the class quests reward all the gear you will need to get to L60. And remember that while leves pay double for HQ, they still do pay nicely for NQ. Class quests may require HQ, tho, and may require you to actually make it, not buy it.

As to rotations: L50 rotations they will work fine until you hit L53.
At L53 you get Precise Touch, which is a game-changer.
Check out Jade Nephrite's blog entries, there's a lot of good stuff.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Absolutely do NOT meld any Competence or Command Materia. You may meld some Cunning III on accessories if you have some good HQ accessories that you plan to use for awhile.
It looks like your stats a bit a low. What gear set are you sitting on at the moment? It'd help a lot to reach lvl 51, and the switch to the following set:

Before then, lvl 50 leves might be a bit rough for you.
I strongly suggest the use of cheap CP food.
Some viable rotations would begin with Comfort Zone, Inner Quiet,
Then Steady Hand II + Hasty Spam (while using Waste Not or not is your choice, depends on style or CP), recover with Master's Mend II, keep SH II + Hasty spam until finally finish up with a buffed Byregot phase, like Steady Hand, Great Strides, Innovation, Ingen2, Byregot. And lastly finish off with the right amount of CS II.
Everything comes down to how much CP you have, and how many CS II (with or without Ingen2) you need to complete the item.

To reach level 51 without doing lvl 50 leves, you can easily do some GC turn-ins, or just massively craft some level 49 items or ARR 1 star items.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I have added a new chapter to my crafting guide to accommodate crafters like yourself. Feel free to visit:
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/ff14-ad...e-tsukino.156/
Ch33: Tips for lvl 50 Crafters Who Do Not Have Best-In-Slot Gear from ARR
Hope it helps!

[Mikedizzy]

I suggest visiting Mithrie Menethils's site or Ashe10's site.
I used quest gear and just crafted the HQ level 55 set slightly melded only in the guaranteed slots (it was cheap because I already had them) and then made the level 60 HQ set and overmelded them to 2 star.
Definitely level them all together so that you can share gear and make mats that you will need for progressing.
One thing they really did in the expansion is make you dependent on all crafts to get buy...so you will need to level them all or spend a lot of gil. I also recommend that you level your gatherers at the same time or you will be spending even more gil.

[zaeli91]

Thanks for the input guys! This will help me transition easier for sure ^^