Catching up DoL/H in "current levels?"

[Omedon]

I'd like to thank everyone that contributed to answering this thread! I am now well acquainted with M'Naago and Qeshi-Rae and am well on my way! I'm very pleased with how generous the core experience of the turn-in systems are, there's basically no arduous grinding so far once I got my gear all caught up through scrips that were also generously doled out!

Also, the ex WoW player in me laughed to finally find the poo quest!

[kaynide]

Just to give you more options, there are also beast tribes and new delivery NPCs as you get higher. I never did the Ixal so I can’t comment, but you will have Moogles in HW, Namazu in SB and 2 different ones in ShB to help break up the grind (1 for DoH and 1 for DoL).

Of course there are also additional delivery people here and there!

For me, deliveries were always the best, even after their story was done to get scrips/unlock recipes etc.

[Sqwall]

Crafting is relatively easy to crank out levels if you focus on daily work:

1. Grand Company turn in. This is stupid easy if you have the gil to purchase the item on MB. Or attempt to craft it yourself. Either way works. Do it daily for a HUGE bump in the XP bar.

2. Custom Deliveries - These are amazing if your goal is crazy XP and LOT's of scrips. The crafting ones are simple and don't take very long. Been awhile since I cranked hard these, but I'm sure they are limited to weekly turn in's.

3. House of Splendors - This is you're bread and butter for scrips and steady XP. Grind out a crap load of items to craft up a storm. Scrips feed your crafting recipe books, your mats for high end crafting, your gear, materia purchasing, dust purchasing. You will earn so much by just doing this step that complements ALL your crafting.

4. Ishgard Restoration - Diadem is abysmal, but you can purchase ALL the mats on the MB. Either way your getting tons of XP, fill your punch card, and sell EVERYTHING on the MB. I made a mint on ishgard restoration.

5. Crystalline Mean - These are essentially the crafting "story job quests". The amount of XP they offer is RIDICULOUS. Sadly they are a ONE TIME turn in. Choose wisely as the crafting jobs are shared over 4-5 NPC's (goldsmith,amorsmith,blacksmith) all share the same NPC. I don't remember but it's every 3 levels to accept the quests? Can't remember.

6. XP bonus - I can't stress this enough, but USE YOUR MANUALS!!!! You will miss out on so much XP. Rested Bonus + engineering manuals are a must if you're trying to hit OMNIcraft.


Gathering: This imo is higher on the priority list then crafting. Gathering feeds your crafting and reduces your crafting costs greatly. OMNIgather + OMNIcrafter = print your own gil. You just sacrifice time to save Gil, but makes you more Gil in the long run.

Get your Folklore done ASAP! Once you have the tomes done your racking in the GIL as a gatherer. When brashgold came out I was making around 2,000 GIL per unit. And grabbing 24 units per node pop. Almost 50,000 for literally 1:30min of my time. (Travel+gather). Which leads me to....

Circuits.....If your SERIOUS about gathering....commit to a STAR mats circuits. I have devoted entire days to gathering just the STAR mats, and made literally millions of GIL. If you do it right and plan your GP accordingly, and decide if you want HQ vs. Normal, then you can rake it in every lap. The goal of gathering...is to ALWAYS be gathering, and you will just be making money non-stop. Crafting is more goal oriented, and requires some MB research.

Cordials/Hi-Cordials. I currently have over 3000 in my inventory. I sell them, I use them, I eat them like candy. Cordials increase the rate at how you gather exponentially. Once you get Pick Clean + Cordials + Circuits. you are trucking now.

[Jojoya]

Stormblood and Shadowbringers leve XP is extremely good when you turn in HQ (usually 2-3 times what you would get from a collectable). I recommend using up any available leve allowances before turning to other sources of XP since you don't any real interest in crafting beyond self-repair/melding. You'd be earning gil in place of scrip.

[Omedon]

Stormblood and Shadowbringers leve XP is extremely good when you turn in HQ (usually 2-3 times what you would get from a collectable). I recommend using up any available leve allowances before turning to other sources of XP since you don't any real interest in crafting beyond self-repair/melding. You'd be earning gil in place of scrip.

I actually have a full stack of allowances, so this is a great tip because once I'm all geared I was a little concerned about overcapping scrips!

[Shadotterdan]

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.

[TaleraRistain]

A note about the beast tribes

ARR - Ixali - DoH only
HW - Moogles - DoH only
SB - Namazu - DoH or DoL (but only one or the other so not like 3 or DoH and 3 for DoL)
ShB - Dwarves - DoH only
ShB - Qitari - DoL only

I was happy enough Namazu let us do DoL at all but then super happy when ShB finally gave us a DoL-specific tribe so we could progress both at the same time.

Also, I didn't read the entire thread to see if this was mentioned before, but you get a first-time experience bonus when you first craft an item. Sometimes I just gather a bunch of mats, turn on the option in my book to hide completed recipes, and go through just for the bonuses. Then I stick the items on the MB or desynth if they don't sell for a high price. This also helps both with the achievements (which lead to your glowy tools) and the challenge log which gives you a way to get even more passive experience.

Someone also mentioned manuals. Don't forget there are manuals for both DoH and DoL. And IIRC they changed sightseeing so it's not adventure-only now. So you could be tooling around on DoL and pick a point up for the small exp boost.

[TheMightyMollusk]

A note about the beast tribes

ARR - Ixali - DoH only

It should be noted that, while the quests only give experience for DoH jobs, some of them require using DoL jobs to gather materials in order to actually perform the crafting or other objectives. The Ixal quests are weird.

[TaleraRistain]

It should be noted that, while the quests only give experience for DoH jobs, some of them require using DoL jobs to gather materials in order to actually perform the crafting or other objectives. The Ixal quests are weird.

Yep, they do. It's only like level 5 though so thankfully nothing requiring same-level DoL at least.

[Omedon]

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.

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.