Preorder Aetherite earring - DPS only :(

[Vahlnir]

Crafting is tedious and time consuming now, and it’ll remain that way. I honestly don’t understand why there are people who think economically valuable jobs should be a breeze to get into?

I don't really craft. I just level one crafter for beast tribe quests and I level my BTN for treasure maps. Yet I view my retainers and various items that new patches/expansions bring as way more economically valuable.

[RyuuSkyez]

Note I didn't do the preorder for the earring, and didn't even know what it was good for, but then I saw the 30% XP boost below 70, and looked more closely.
Unfortunately, it only works for DOW, DOM classes, which makes it useless for leveling my crafter / gatherer classes.
I wish they had made it usable for all jobs. If it did, I might actually have a chance of catching up in my craft leveling..

Yea I only realized myself after I got it that I couldn't use it to level my crafters T_T, oh well cant have everything.

[SamSmoot]

Crafting was never hard. It was only tedious and time consuming.

The quests are too hard. I couldn't complete the level 53 quest on my culinarian until I reached level 55, and bought nearly a full set of item level 100 gear from the moogle tribe vendor. It should be possible to complete the HQ crafting job quests with the gear you got from previous quests without 30 attempts at making the items with full HQ mats and finally getting one to go through at 20%.
Now, I just just ignore these quests until I level up enough to do them.

[Bonbori]

The quests are too hard. I couldn't complete the level 53 quest on my culinarian until I reached level 55, and bought nearly a full set of item level 100 gear from the moogle tribe vendor. It should be possible to complete the HQ crafting job quests with the gear you got from previous quests without 30 attempts at making the items with full HQ mats and finally getting one to go through at 20%.
Now, I just just ignore these quests until I level up enough to do them.

Um... this is just objectively, mathematically untrue.

You can usually guarantee 100% HQ chance of any craft required by your job quests even without melded HQ gear, but if you are struggling, it might help a little to craft a few pieces of level-appropriate HQ gear and meld some materia onto it. Materia IVs or even IIIs can be melded and pulled out with 100% chance so you can reuse them throughout your whole HW level range and even into early levels of Stormblood. On top of that, a full set of HQ materials literally does half the work for you. All Quality gains past that have increasing returns so quality points translate to increasingly higher percentages. But that shouldn't matter much because filling the remaining half takes very little effort, especially past level 50 when you have a huge variety of cross-class abilities at your disposal.
For example, have you tried doing Inner Quiet + Comfort Zone + Steady Hand II + Hasty Touch spam + Byregot's Brow/Miracle? It's relatively efficient and CP-cheap until you unlock Prudent Touch at 66, at which point you marry Prudent Touch and live happily ever after.

If the best you can get despite using HQ materials is 20%, you may be doing something wrong, or you may be slightly undergeared for your level. If it's the former, and you do not quite understand what to do, I recommend trying out this little utility. Provide it with your stats, tell it what you intend to craft and it will come up with a... usually somewhat reliable sequence that you can reproduce in your game step by step and maybe pick up a few tricks.

[SamSmoot]

For example, have you tried doing Inner Quiet + Comfort Zone + Steady Hand II + Hasty Touch spam + Byregot's Brow/Miracle? It's relatively efficient and CP-cheap until you unlock Prudent Touch at 66, at which point you marry Prudent Touch and live happily ever after.

Let's see, I usually do Waste Not, Steady Hand, Inner Quiet (and Advanced Touch if a good or excellent pops), then enough synths to bring progress within one careful synth II of complete, Then I go on with the touches, and try to fit in a Byregot's Blessing before the CP is gone.
If I have a 70 or 80 durability, I'll usually refresh SH with Steady Hand II so I can continue with Hasty Touch after the CP is gone.
(I most always run out of CP before durability.)
(I don't have Comfort Zone yet, my alch is only 36, but I'm leveling it in beast tribes now.)

I've tried the crafting simulator, on a level 58 recipe, it gave me about 18% max. On a level 54 (beet soup), 0% start quality, it got 100% in 17 steps, (I've never had anything take that many steps.) I need to make the soup for the next class quest, so I'll try it once I get the materials.

Edit: Tried the crafting simulator, with half HQ materials. Ran out of CP at around 20% each time, even though the sim said I should have 100% at the end. (Made it about 1/2 through the sequence) Tried several times, and finally got one to go HQ at 21%
One big problem with the simulator is that it completely ignores condition events.