Catching up DoL/H in "current levels?"

[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.