How do I start progressing my crafts past 50 without much gil/leves?

[Hitsuzen]

Also, do I really need to get GSM/ARM/BSM to 50? I have everything else up there and I can HQ things pretty easily at 50 or below.

The issue I'm having is I'm very very low on leves and trying to level at 50 is abysmal as my gear for each class blows.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

How do I start progressing my crafts past 50 without much gil/leves?

http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/ff14-ad...e-tsukino.156/
See Chapter 32.

And, what I haven't added in there is the Moogle Beast Quest, which is super fast with crafters' EXP gain:
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...e_Daily_Quests

Also, do I really need to get GSM/ARM/BSM to 50? I have everything else up there and I can HQ things pretty easily at 50 or below.

The issue I'm having is I'm very very low on leves and trying to level at 50 is abysmal as my gear for each class blows.

Depends what items you're trying to make. At level 60, you're gonna have a very, very rough time making Heavensward 3 or 4 star items without Piece by Piece (ARM 50). Similarly, Innovation (GSM 50) and Ingenuity II (BSM 50) are some of the most important cross class skills one would need post-level 50. Among all crafting classes, these level 50 cross class skills are actually of a higher priority than things like Waste Not II (LTW 50), Comfort Zone (ALC 50) or Reclaim (CUL 50).

There are many other ways to level apart from leves. Leves is probably the most gil-consuming method out of all, and it should not be done unless you have the money. And when you do use leves, make sure you hand in HQ items to double the EXP gain.

[Tsubaki75]

Depends what items you're trying to make. At level 60, you're gonna have a very, very rough time making Heavensward 3 or 4 star items without Piece by Piece (ARM 50). Similarly, Innovation (GSM 50) and Ingenuity II (BSM 50) are some of the most important cross class skills one would need post-level 50. Among all crafting classes, these level 50 cross class skills are actually of a higher priority than things like Waste Not II (LTW 50), Comfort Zone (ALC 50) or Reclaim (CUL 50).

There are some great tips in there, I would argue for comfort zone though and say that it has more use than Ingenuity II especially if you want to get away from needing hq matts for 2 star plus recipies. You would do best to have all cross class skills at hand they will all get used at some point.

[Frizze]

Moogle quests are great exp, and your GC turn in can be worth as much as half a level per class per day if you give them HQ on a starred day. You can always use a few extra beast tribe allowances a day for your lower level classes with the ixali to get them some cheap easy levels too.

[TaleraRistain]

- Moogle beast tribe dailies
- Ixali beast tribe dailies
- HQ GC turn ins
- Weekly Zhloe turn-ins

[ManuelBravo]

Simple way get materials, use retainers to help you gather them. Raise DoH DoL and FSH. If you have done so it should go by fast. Beast man quest every day, GC turn ins as well.

[Hitsuzen]

The moogle quests did give a surprising amount of exp and I had no trouble completing them at 50 with horrible gear.

Also I am not too concerned about 60 star recipes I am more concerned with zerg leveling everything to 60 before stormblood so I can participate in the economy.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

The moogle quests did give a surprising amount of exp and I had no trouble completing them at 50 with horrible gear.

Also I am not too concerned about 60 star recipes I am more concerned with zerg leveling everything to 60 before stormblood so I can participate in the economy.

My hardcore crafting friends and I think that the crafting in moogle quests can hardly be called crafting LOL! After all, you can randomly jam buttons and you can still get it done.
I do, however, find the names of the moogles there very entertaining...

[Shadygrove]

The moogle quests did give a surprising amount of exp and I had no trouble completing them at 50 with horrible gear.

Oh so this.

An LS mate got to 60 on the Moogle quests. I looked at her gear. It was horrid. I had no idea they were that easy. The Ixal ones were hard.

I was solid 60s when the Moogle quests came in but I did them.

[javid]

whelp everybody already said all the low gil/no gil things u can do... Grand Company and Ixal/Moogle quests.

As for the 3 classes you've not leveled you CAN with STRONG reliability get by 1-4 star lvl 60 crafts IFF you're a specialist and for sure have CUL to 54. Specialist gets a cheaper Innovation (innovative touch: it has RNG but it's a more inefficient iteration of the buff); Piece by Piece (ARM 50) is pretty useful......but if you just level ARM to 15 for RApid Synth;and BSM to 15 for ingenuity; you can get by on your Specialist.