Catching up DoL/H in "current levels?"

[Illmaeran]

I'm going to have to look at beast tribes next because I spent a lot (too much) of today re-discovering why all my crafting jobs that I blitzed to 70 a couple years ago are all at their low 50's quests, and why I didn't use leves, and only the firmament from 50-70.

I refuse, reeee-heee fuuuse, to interact any more than I absolutely must, with time-gated materials. I can't craft knowing my supplies are "limited," it stresses me the hell out, and right now I'm looking at leveling absolutely every DoH through the custom deliveries where the materials are literally supplied by a vendor. The firmament/diadem loop is nice, but less time efficient than custom deliveries with their gatherless crafting. As someone literally only leveling crafting for repairs and just base participation, anything that tells me to wait a half hour for one node is just out. I tried levequests and right away I was limited in my access to materials with 80 gatherers, by time or gimmicks.

I'm going to take custom deliveries as far as I can and look at beast tribes tomorrow. I do not have time for materials that aren't there on my time.

I totally understand where you're coming from. I actually stopped playing near the end of HW because the timed-node thing bothered me so much. The good news is there are some really good guides for ShB timed-node circuits that are SUPER CHILL to do since the nodes persist a lot longer than they did in the original HW and SB content. The one I use is a website, not Garlond Tools/Bells, that tells the high-end ShB Yellow and White Scrip route. I don't recall it off-hand and I'm at work so I can't look it up. Try searching for White Scrip Gathering; you'll get a good list of sites that help out. Doing the circuit for 6-8 hours got me enough scrips to completely gear me and my two DoL retainers out with 80 (me) and 70 (retainers) gear.

***IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE MASTER III TOMES YET, GET THEM ASAP! THE LAST HEAVENSWARD TIER CLASS QUESTS REQUIRE THEM*** if you make your own stuff and/or can't find the items on the MB.

If you play a DPS class, running the gathering circuit is awesome while waiting for queues to pop.

Espresso con Panna is EASY yellow scrips, Lemonade is EASY white scrips, and Coffee Biscuits are EASY GIL (approx 18,000 per when using HQs) from leve turn-ins. You'll need to gather an f-load of materials, but again, that's easily done with relaxed gathering while waiting for queues.

[Ronduwil]

I refuse, reeee-heee fuuuse, to interact any more than I absolutely must, with time-gated materials...

I'm going to take custom deliveries as far as I can and look at beast tribes tomorrow. I do not have time for materials that aren't there on my time.

I haven't found the "time-gating" to be very restrictive. For one, the spawn timer cycles every hour, so every material is available for a 5-10 minute window every hour (often twice every hour). Secondly, as long as you're intelligently utilizing your scrips to upgrade your gear to the current expansion's level, you should be able to get quite a few collectables out of every node (sometimes as many as 5+). I was able to get my botany and mining from 70 to 80 in a few hours simply by having a clock from https://www.ffxiv-gathering.com/ open in one window, marking the nodes with the collectables, cycling from node to node as they spawned until my inventory filled up, at which point I popped into Eulmore to turn in the collectables and resume. There wasn't even much dead time. There were enough important nodes to keep me constantly busy.

[Omedon]

Surprised no one's mentioned it yet, but: for DoL from 70, the Qitari beast tribe in Rak'tikka, and for DoH, the Dwarf beast tribe starting in Kholusia. Should be most of a level each day, plus the other rewards for grinding them out.

Oh, and a quick tip for beast tribe and custom deliveries. You can do the actual crafting on any job, so if you brought one to 80 and got some white scrip gear for it you can use it for powerlevelling your other crafting jobs.

Again, many thanks to everyone mentioning beast tribes! I've only been subscribed for almost a year in total but I've never touched a single beast tribe, and I LOVE the dwarves! They were exactly what I was looking for in the way of reliable, "gatherless crafting." I have all my gatherers to 80, but I don't always feel like doing up a whole shopping list, some of it timegated, for a single leve when I can just wait for tomorrow to return to my little dwarven allies! And I love their music!

[TaleraRistain]

I'm going to have to look at beast tribes next because I spent a lot (too much) of today re-discovering why all my crafting jobs that I blitzed to 70 a couple years ago are all at their low 50's quests, and why I didn't use leves, and only the firmament from 50-70.

I refuse, reeee-heee fuuuse, to interact any more than I absolutely must, with time-gated materials. I can't craft knowing my supplies are "limited," it stresses me the hell out, and right now I'm looking at leveling absolutely every DoH through the custom deliveries where the materials are literally supplied by a vendor. The firmament/diadem loop is nice, but less time efficient than custom deliveries with their gatherless crafting. As someone literally only leveling crafting for repairs and just base participation, anything that tells me to wait a half hour for one node is just out. I tried levequests and right away I was limited in my access to materials with 80 gatherers, by time or gimmicks.

I'm going to take custom deliveries as far as I can and look at beast tribes tomorrow. I do not have time for materials that aren't there on my time.

Yeah I hate timed nodes, too.

Don't forget about fish collectibles. That's slower but a much more chill way to get DoL scrips. Not all of them are tied to weather or time limitations.