Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Grats, I haven't touched fishing yet personally. Got 4/8 crafts at cap, the rest at 53(fucking armorer daillies)-56, got all the master books already and gathers are 57. I have a lot more combat stuff done though, I've gotten AST to 60, Monk to 60, PLD to 55 and SCH to 57 and then DRK/MCH to like 35-37. Also got full law on both healer and monk and cleared Bismark and Alexander, still have yet to give Ravanah a serious try though, need to find a good PF at some point so I can farm weapons.

I'll probably be done with crafting in a few days, not really rushing it and I'm low on leves anyway, and gathering I'm just doing GC daily and not touching them after that, I think I did collectables once then I was like fuck this. I don't think I'll bother getting gather scrips or any of that shit, I do need to farm some more crafting scripts and get a bunch of delineations and 2k in case of before savage alex. Luckily shit's easy as fuck, all I have to do is farm some dark chestnut for a few hours(ugh) since they're overpriced as shit, and then spam marron glaces with a 2button macros for easy scrips. It's like 1500scrips an hour doing semi afk shit.

Trying to convince myself to go do all these dungeons and their hard mode equivalents so I can progress.

It'll get done eventually, its just eh. Better than fate grinding to progress, but not by much.

colossalFISH_sl said:

Anyone got any of the master 3 books? Anyone know what the craft/control requirements are?

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I got all of them, not sure what reqs you mean, but they're not like the original master books at all. Now you need scrips for them, you get scrips by crafting items as collectable(it's a toggle lvl 50 skill), Rowena only accepts specific items every day, only 56+ items give scrips and there's like 3tiers between 56 and 60. But basically it means you can get scrips by crafting lvl 56 items, meaning you can get master books with lvl 56items. So there's literally no requirements. On top of that, the turn in don't require HQ. Collectables get a rating that's basically your quality number, and to turn them in you need like 30%ish of the full quality(which if you were crafting would give like 10% chance to HQ, it'd be awful). As long as you have at least that, you're getting scrips. You get a few more if you get more quality, but it's not much more, so it's pointless other than getting a good on byregot and getting it randomly.

I actually do the items for scrips with macros, that's how easy it is, and I'm using non melded 60 gear with NPC weapon/offhand. You do need a fair amount of turn ins to buy one book though, it's like 22scrips for the last tier, 26 when it's starred, and you need 360 per books, so you need about 16crafts(you'll probably get a few that hit the higher cap) to get one book. One of the cooking collectable is really easy to get mats for though, so you just grind that one when it's starred and get all your books in like an hour and a half, assuming you have the mats(but if you gather the mats it's still only like 2more hours or so).

misery_sl said:

Anyone else doing as bad at getting their alex drops for the week as I am? Got one out of four so far.

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It can be pretty awful, PF that farms is a good way to get drops, I got A1 and A4 like this, A2 and A3 I got on my first run through. I just roll on everything though, don't give a fuck about what I get, I have many different classes to gear and esoterics to fill in the other slots, so no reason to hold onto a specific drop imo.

Kriptini_sl said:

Only reason I'm holding out for specific drops is because my static group is going to be pushing for fast Savage clears. We're not going to go for world or server firsts, but we don't want gear to be the reason that holds us back from clearing.

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Yeah I guess but it's like such a minor ilvl bump, I don't think it'd have a large impact at all, especially since it's like 2pieces or so. If they had weapons that'd be another story but otherwise I wouldn't bother, or if it was like a static goal, I would think the static would do the runs together to get everyone what they need specifically.