Weaver Leveling without Leves?

[Zareth]

Don't quick synth if you can help it. I only do it if I plan to sell what I make and/or the HQ is not any different from the NQ (like lures and bait). Otherwise, I'll try to make it myself even if it takes a lot longer.

[Anders]

I din't do a single Leve, and yesterday I got my brand-new Weaver to 17 by making one of every item in the Crafting Log. You get an XP bonus the first time that you make an item.

Also, since we have to make a boatload of yarn/thread and cloth, I bumped up a level just grinding away on that stuff. One level for Undyed Hempen Cloth and another level for Undyed Cotton Cloth. Boring? Heck yeah! But you have to do it, so why not get it out of the way right away?

Aside: Because I don't have enough gil to buy materials, I trained as a Botanist and collected all of the Moko Grass and Cotton Boll needed to be able to grind thread and cloth. It looks to me like you need to have 400 Moko Grass and 400 Cotton Boll to be situated to craft each item in your Crafting Log that calls for those materials. To collect 400 items takes about two hours of steady harvesting, <heavy sigh>.

[Kraggy]

Aside: Because I don't have enough gil to buy materials, I trained as a Botanist and collected all of the Moko Grass and Cotton Boll needed to be able to grind thread and cloth.

Moko and Bolls cost 2 gil each at the vendors so I but those to do all my leveling till 20, and spend maybe 2K max, probably less once you factor in the small amount of gil you get vendoring the items you're making to level.

Your comment about bonus XP is spot on and it's amazing how well you can do with synths +3 or more levels above you, and by not using quick synthing and doing quality increases the XP per Moko or Boll used is even better.

This happy time ends at 20 of course when you start needing Diremite Webs .. and 30 when you need Fleece and have to compete with the RMT (and non-RMT) farmbots having a near monopoly on the few sheep that drop it: one server I play on a stack costs 40k+ due to RMT and player bots.