New player question

[Kalise]

I'll probably do the cross-craft skills thing in order to enhance the experience. The only downside I see is having to maintain so many different gear sets!

Interestingly enough, if you keep crafters/gatherers at an equal level, then you only need 1 gear set for each. The only part that can clog up your inventory is main hand tools (As they share space with weapons used by all the combat jobs)

There's very little class specific gear for DoL/DoH and much of what exists is easily outclassed by more generic stuff.

Any idea what they were talking about, and is this a consensus view?

EDIT: I found the post. The comment was that Fishing for "red scrips" is ridiculously slow and boring and much easier to do with MIN and BOT. Does this make sense?

Does it make sense? Well, Scrips do. The talk about leveling up MIN and BOT before FSH doesn't...

Personally, I find it easier to get scrips from FSH than MIN/BOT >.>

That and a vast majority of my Scrips comes from Custom Deliveries which you can do after reaching level 55 with a DoH/DoL class and gives you up to 12 turn ins per week (With a further cap of 6 per NPC per week...) and can easily net you a TON of scrips and really isn't particularly difficult to do with ANY class.

But anyway, Scrips are a thing for when you're level 55+ and even further than that, they're even less relevant until you're at max level (Which will soon be level 80) because the primary use for Scrips is to unlock the ability to gather the highest tier items for the expansion. Which, obviously, is less lucrative or practical outside of the current expansion's stuff.

So don't worry about it, Mine, Harvest and Fish to your heart's content

Also, try and do the daily turn ins for your Grand Company too, they give some nice experience and are relatively easy to do (It's like, 10 of a particular ore/stone/plant/log and 3 fish (1 if it's Mooched)) and especially if you turn in HQ items for extra bonus.

This also works for DoH classes too, you can actually level them up by just crafting 1 item a day and handing it in to the Grand Company for a bunch of experience! (Though, doing the turn ins for ALL the classes can be time consuming for gathering the materials... But doing them on occasion, such as when they're on bonus will slowly level them up over time)

[Wanderlust]

Wow, great response, Kalise, many thanks.

From what I can understand of the upcoming expansion, Red Scrips are going away anyway, so I guess it's a moot point. That's part of the problem with researching this game, there's so much out-of-date information. Fortunately, the great community makes up for it.

>> "Also, try and do the daily turn ins for your Grand Company too ...".

We both joined the Serpents in New Gridania, but we don't see an option for a daily turn in. We go to the Twin Adders and every NPC there wants seals. We can't get any of the Supply missions, the message says a new one will be available in X hours, but there's never anything there. How do we get this started?

Thanks again!

[Shadygrove]

The supply and delivery missions unlock at Sgt, rank IIRC.

Every expansion the lowest level scrips, currently blue, go away. The middle level, currently red, become the lowest and also become useless except for trading for the former highest level scrips, currently yellow. The yellow scrips become the middle level and a new color becomes the highest level.

Once you get to L55 gathering you will will be going for the yellow scrips, but nothing else about the process changes.

[MistakeNot]

The supply and delivery missions unlock at Sgt, rank IIRC.

No, Supply and Provision missions should be available as soon as you have joined a Grand Company and have at least one level in some DoH/DoL class.
It is Expert deliveries that do not become available until you have reached the Sergeant Second Class rank.

[Frizze]

From what I can understand of the upcoming expansion, Red Scrips are going away anyway, so I guess it's a moot point. That's part of the problem with researching this game, there's so much out-of-date information. Fortunately, the great community makes up for it.

The red scrip itself will go away, but its function will live on. Currently red scrips are a currency you can get for turning in collectables at medium-high levels(from 55ish-69), and you can spend them for a variety of things(some gear, bait, materia, and a variety of other options). Currently yellow scrips are the currency available for turning in collectables at max level(68?-70), and you can spend them for a variety of "better" things(more powerful gear, better materia, exclusive materials, etc). In a month when ShB goes live red will be retired, and yellow will take over the medium-high slot(roughly 55-79) while a new color(green? orange? purple?) will take on the max slot. So the information is still useful in understanding how things generally work(as well as how they specifically do for the next 30 days), but we need to update our color guides pretty soon.