Crafting Leves - no items?

[Asael]

How exactly would getting the materials for free make the tradecraft leves more challenging?

Let me share something with you: You get a +200% XP bonus for turning in an HQ item to a tradecraft leve. Plus you get a roughly +200% to +300% XP bonus for each item you attempt to make HQ. If you're just buying finished items off the vendor to turn in, you're seriously wasting your money and throwing away tens of thousands of free XP.

THIS is why you don't get the materials for free. You can go get a freaking pickaxe and hatchet, maybe spend an hour gathering, and have literally everything you need to make a huge batch of items for a tradecraft leve that will yield, alltotaled, at least six times as much XP between the HQ crafting XP bonuses and the HQ turn-in XP bonus.

Let me share something with you.

Welcome to FFXIV gil is everywhere and easy to come by. So they're not really wasting gil purchasing items for turn in for quick leveling (I'm sure RMT will love this feature). On top of that it's a buyer's market right now (will be for sometime to come too) and everything is dirt cheap given all the competition within the market. Also you do realize you can buy HQ items right?

As others have pointed out it doesn't make sense. If you do decide to do the leves legit without buying out of the market you essentially have to level other tradecrafts in order to complete a leve. Last I checked you don't have to level botanist in order to do mining leves, you don't have to level DoM classes in order to complete battle leves as a DoW, ect do you? The idea behind leves is for people to be able to gain a leve allowance, so they can get a steady and consistent feed of experience in order to level. The idea here and now is just bad.

[Shiyo]

Change is fine, crafting leves are the best leves to do and give insane amounts of exp.

[Crowley]

DoL kick butt too. Quite a huge chunk of xp compared to the horrid low xp hits you get when farming. Sure you sacrifice item gains, but compared to the xp I get from synthing ... its a no-brainer to me

(regular high Q -> HQ synth around your level nets a very sweet amount of xp) Far less time than same DoL rank... and the time you do grinding DoL, you are getting your DoH mats

[Jeuan]

Spent more than half an hour today working on 12 pcs of HQ items to complete a delivery... but I didn't know delivering HQ items to normal quests (i.e. not Tradecraft Leves) would NOT yield double EXP... >_<"

[Tirocupidus]

I don't have an issue with the way it is. If I'm going to do a tradecraft leve, I'm probably going to do at least 5 of the same one anyway, so I'll get the materials together and make them, then turn them in repeatedly. Finding the materials myself is the least I can do if I'm going to gain ~25% of a level for an HQ item.