Craft grinding now impossible without self mutilation?

[Hachiko]

Whut? 4 Electrum Ore = 12 Nugget. I've been making tons of Electrum and Tier 2 Gem Ring ever since 1.19 because they are the fastest to spiritbond >_>

If you don't mind me asking, do they produce Rank 4 materia? And do they produce good ones?

I unfortunately chose CRP for my craft, which doesn't give me very many options for spiritbond items (main hand... yay) but am sort of also leveling GSM and it would be nice to be able to craft something I could turn into materia IV's.

[Medura]

the recipe levewls was changed, cotton is 10 recipes lower, so is linen. Try wollen and felt instead of those. Btw, 7 levels higher recipes = 500 exp, 3 levels higher recipe = 300 exp, same level = 200 exp.

[Aleczan]

A funny (it's only funny to me because I wasn't the one who got this problem LOL) thing that happened with my LS friend last night was that he came back after a long break and he still had old Weaver LQ and Alchemist LQ. When he tried to finish the LQ, the existing LQ material allowed him to make only 5 Cotton Yarns from 5 attempts, resulting in the total success of 5/36 items from requirement. Same thing happened with something he made for ALC LQ. LOL.

[Sephrick]

The biggest problem with the materia system right now aside from bond rate is item prices. Crafters want big profits from single sales, so no one is willing to risk losing their stuff when it costs 300-500k per slot to gear yourself before you ever meld a single materia.

As to the original point, I think leveling crafts will be much more tolerable if SE follows through on the concept of an instant option for crafting that just makes the item with no chance of HQ. To me, the biggest pain is the time one synth takes when little to know player skill is involved.

Instant synths for leveling, minigame for HQing is the way to go on SE's part.

[HoolieWho]

Instant synths for leveling, minigame for HQing is the way to go on SE's part.

I am fine with an instant synth option, like an improved version of Hasty Hand that reflects the chance of failure if you were actually mashing standard synthesis for the synth. But I'd also like to see the exp reward vary more with Quality as another option for people.

[Winterclaw]

Wasn't there hints that crafters will soon start leveling up mostly via quest or some such thing?

[MANTASTIC]

Wasn't there hints that crafters will soon start leveling up mostly via quest or some such thing?

Would love to hear something like this, but I don't recall reading that anywhere. Do you have a source on that?

[HoolieWho]

Wasn't there hints that crafters will soon start leveling up mostly via quest or some such thing?

Your source is talking about "Jobs to progress by clearing quests rather than gaining EXP." Doesn't refer to crafting that I noticed.

[Winterclaw]

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[tymora]

Any gear (dated or not) will have a chance of producing T4 materia.
Rings appear to give random single-stat materias. My best so far is a +17 MND.

Add: Also Magic Potency and Parry