Crafting help! Please!

[ChameleonMS]

While I do not know your stats, I took a guess on the simulator with your level.

1 Name of the Elements 80 252 0 0 0 125 0 0 0 0 Normal 1
2 Brand of the Elements 70 246 0 111 0 125 0 111 0 0 Normal 1
3 Inner Quiet 70 228 0 111 0 125 0 0 0 0 Normal 1
4 Innovation 70 210 0 111 0 125 0 0 0 0 Normal 1
5 Basic Touch 60 192 118 111 1 125 118 0 118 0 Normal 1
6 Basic Touch 50 174 250 111 2 150 132 0 132 0 Good 1
7 Basic Touch 40 156 468 111 3 175 218 0 145 0 Normal 1
8 Basic Touch 30 138 627 111 4 200 159 0 159 0 Normal 1
9 Master's Mend 60 50 627 111 4 225 0 0 0 0 Normal 1
10 Innovation 60 32 627 111 4 225 0 0 0 0 Normal 1
11 Basic Touch 50 14 799 111 5 225 172 0 172 0 Normal 1
12 Hasty Touch 40 14 985 111 6 250 186 0 186 0 Normal 1
13 Hasty Touch 30 14 1184 111 7 275 199 0 199 0 Normal 1
14 Hasty Touch 20 14 1398 111 8 300 214 0 214 0 Normal 1
15 Hasty Touch 10 14 1550 111 9 325 152 0 152 0 Normal 1
16 Basic Synthesis 0 14 1550 155 9 350 0 44 0 0 Good 1

Crafting for Beginners: (longish)

With the release of Shadowbringers 5.2, the single crafter has become viable because it marked the death of the cross-class system
The single crafter success is limited by a few factors.
* CUL and ALC are generally independent and can be soloed with ease.
* All other DoH are heavily interdependent on each other for item completion. A weaver will usually need reagents from ALC, and component parts from LTW, CRP, and BSM to complete a craft.

Always attempt to achieve as much Quality as possible because your XP increases greatly for quality.
e.g. A craft done at 0% quality will earn 100xp, if you can increase the quality to 100%, 300xp will be granted. A 200% additional XP bonus. It is a non-linear sliding scale down for the XP.

Leveling all your DoH classes is expensive, you pay with time or GIL.
Lower Gil with higher time, if you gather your own materials.
Truckloads more Gil, with way less time, if you buy your materials from the market board.
You will need a lot of GIL at least until you have the skills to make items HQ that the population wants to buy from you.
DoW Gil Strategies. Nice recently updated GIL making strategy guide for DoW/DoM players.
DoW Gil Guide. A much older guide but several principles are still true today.

Maps are another great source of income:
Treasure Hunt maps. The high-end maps for Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers each can give you very valuable glamour products.
Map location site

Many, many base materials can be purchase from in-game vendors at significantly lower prices than the Market Board.
Do the Beast Tribes to unlock additional vendors and materials.
The following Beast tribe also off DoH / DoL XP quests
A Realm Reborn: Ixali
Heavensward: Moogles
Stormblood: Namazu
Shadowbringers: Dwarves
The Firmament in Foundation

References:
Caimie's Crafting Guide something every crafter should read at least once.
Crafting Simulator for practicing different rotations without burning your materials. This is a fan-generated site so the accuracy of the results can be a little suspect from time to time. It is generally pretty accurate.

End game gathering from timed nodes:
FFXIV Clock
Unspoiled Nodes
Fisher Reference.
Desynthesis Guide a source of rare materials for the very ambitious.

End game Gear setups:
Ariyala Toolkit


Crafting HQ follows some basic rules:
1. Turn on Inner Quiet very near the start
Each successful quality touch will increase your Inner Quiet stacks. Each increase makes your next quality touch stronger by 20%. Inner Quiet has no effect on completion.

2. Start your craft by getting your completion to within one Synthesis of 100%, then work on quality.
Using skills such as Muscle Memory or Brand+Name of Elements for very large completion gains at the start of a craft.

3. Use skills to restore/conserve your DUR.
Waste Not I & II
Manipulation
Master Mend I & II

4. Use Haste Touch to prolong your manual rotations when you have limited CP to work with