Crafting for yourself only viability

[tragic]

You all are crazy if you think crafting leves are not worth it. They are insane SP and no doubt the fastest way to rank up. Slowly the SP from local leves is shifted from the items being crafted to the reward upon completion. Getting from 48 to 50 on local leves is insanely fast. I did 150k sp on locals in a few hours. Back in the day when locals had no EXP reward at the end is when they were completely useless to skill up on. In those days you were happy if you got 15k-20k sp in a hour. Now you can do 10k sp in about 10 minutes or less on rank 40-50 leves. Now I must admit I have not done locals from 1-50 because for the majority of the games life they were utterly useless. So I am unsure how good they are before 45. However, there is no doubt in my mind 45-50 is quickest with locals. Especially now that you can save up to 99 locals. I would imagine you could easily do 45-50 in one sitting doing saved up locals. The only issue is transportation. Unless you have a mule that can freely teleport you I can see how locals start to decline in sp/hr.

Khaz the main issue I can see you running into while trying to progress with locals is that your previous locals will be giving you less sp and their reward at the end is not great yet. In this case you cant just grind locals for the completion reward at a decent rate because you do not have the proper rank to unlock the next tier of locals. If this is the case then you should probably look for a grind synth to unlock the next step of locals.

[Physic]

You all are crazy if you think crafting leves are not worth it. They are insane SP and no doubt the fastest way to rank up. Slowly the SP from local leves is shifted from the items being crafted to the reward upon completion. Getting from 48 to 50 on local leves is insanely fast. I did 150k sp on locals in a few hours. Back in the day when locals had no EXP reward at the end is when they were completely useless to skill up on. In those days you were happy if you got 15k-20k sp in a hour. Now you can do 10k sp in about 10 minutes or less on rank 40-50 leves. Now I must admit I have not done locals from 1-50 because for the majority of the games life they were utterly useless. So I am unsure how good they are before 45. However, there is no doubt in my mind 45-50 is quickest with locals. Especially now that you can save up to 99 locals. I would imagine you could easily do 45-50 in one sitting doing saved up locals. The only issue is transportation. Unless you have a mule that can freely teleport you I can see how locals start to decline in sp/hr.

Khaz the main issue I can see you running into while trying to progress with locals is that your previous locals will be giving you less sp and their reward at the end is not great yet. In this case you cant just grind locals for the completion reward at a decent rate because you do not have the proper rank to unlock the next tier of locals. If this is the case then you should probably look for a grind synth to unlock the next step of locals.

how much is the bonus on locals at 45? i only saw 3k bonus from the ones available at 35. does the quality report greatly effect the end result amount?

It really didnt seem that good to do it. At low levels its definitely weak though. Also didnt seem that there were many level 40 reccomended leves when you hit 35, usually 1 or 2 per town.