Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

I'm not sure why I like the crafting treadmill in this game, but it's legitimately my favorite part outside of the main story quest stuff. Just got all my crafters to 70 today (after being back for a couple of weeks) and now I'm trying to get them all decked in the latest gear. Going with the yellow scrip offhands and the rest will be HQ'd whatever when I get the ability to make it. Nightsteel and Onishi I guess. Trying to avoid having to meld heavily before the final released tier of gear for this xpac.

Still plowing through the MSQ, but a lot slower because I have spent zero time trying to gear up. Think I'm on the last fight of 4.3, but still need to get gear to actually enter it. Which is easy, I just haven't done it. Really mostly been working on getting my non-whm classes leveled, since I have been putting that off since ARR really. Only just yesterday got everyone out of the sub-50 gear, which cleaned out a chunk from my bank. Now it's the Heavensward grind, which from what I understand is basically Sohm Al runs with the command group or POTD.

Not to mention I haven't completed like 2/3 the actual sidequests in Stormblood; my 65 dragoon has been lapping those up just for the change of pace.

Just so much stuff to do hah. And it doesn't feel anywhere near as jank as current WoW.

Pyros said:

Current tier of crafting gear should be the last tier unless they pull out something different than other expansions, which is unlikely. That's why melding this is kinda worth it. They'll be adding new recipes, but mostly for cosmetics shit at this point. Melding can suck a dick though, it's always a fucking pain in the ass the % are way too fucking low, you have to meld several materias at 15% or under and that will fuck you in the ass with RNG fiesta shit constantly. First item I started melding, 3rd materia in it had a 34% chance to meld or something and it took me 18tries to get it. At 20k a pop. I had to tweak a bunch of melds compared to the usual recommended shit I found in a guide to minimize costs and did a pretty good job but still is annoying as shit. I kinda wish they'd just remove the system, or cap it at 4 materias instead of 5 or whatever.


Well in 3 weeks there's BLU being released, so that'll be something you can actually do if you want to. But yeah the rest might be a fair distance off especially if your 60s still have to go through HW 3.1+ story stuff.

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Yeah the melding stuff is dumb. I do guaranteed slots and then go "Well, what kind of cheap shit can I put in and hit cap" and go from there. If this is the last set, I'm still probably not going to go all overmeld jesus on it; I was able to make 3x HQ nightsteel crafting tools tonight with little effort and only 1-2 HQ mats in the process; don't think I need to go ham on the melds.

I had HQ Ironworks quality in all non-main/secondary slots before Stormblood dropped; mostly looking to be in a similar place and actually do my crafting shit when the next xpac goes live vs. waiting until they put in the ezmode beastribe stuff. It's cool and it made the process easier, but it means i missed out on all the good opportunities.

I was just curious about the tier as it is a "green" tier vs. a "blue" tier which was last Xpac. Granted I haven't seen anything in the dev notes to think that Onishi isn't real endgame, so hey, maybe I'm basically done hah.

It's really just getting my gatherers up to the same gear spec (spent 0 time on gearing them up at all) and then the standard getting as many classes as close to 70 as possible. I'm probably never going to be a hardcore static progression type guy (due to work and probably just sucking) so this is my kind of endgame experience. We'll see how it ends up as the xpac approaches.

I'm on Sargantas now, and it's pretty decent for most aspects except there is a shitload of high end crafter/gatherer types, so the cost of mats is stupid low compared to most non-Balmung/Gilg/Sarg servers. Would easily jump back to Gilg if the offer presented itself; only moved off because I had three co-workers who have since quit the game on Sarg hah.

Pyros said:

Current tier of crafting gear should be the last tier unless they pull out something different than other expansions, which is unlikely. That's why melding this is kinda worth it. They'll be adding new recipes, but mostly for cosmetics shit at this point. Melding can suck a dick though, it's always a fucking pain in the ass the % are way too fucking low, you have to meld several materias at 15% or under and that will fuck you in the ass with RNG fiesta shit constantly. First item I started melding, 3rd materia in it had a 34% chance to meld or something and it took me 18tries to get it. At 20k a pop. I had to tweak a bunch of melds compared to the usual recommended shit I found in a guide to minimize costs and did a pretty good job but still is annoying as shit. I kinda wish they'd just remove the system, or cap it at 4 materias instead of 5 or whatever.

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Been using retainers to build up my supply of 60-70 mats (the basic stuff, as you really don't need anything beyond moly/zelkova even for yellow script turn ins, most of the red script is 60-67 stuff) and just using macros to grind yellow and red scripts to get my materia. End up making a little cash from turn ins as well. Only real problem has been wind crystals from all the CRP/GSM quick synth combines, but they're only like 140 a pop on Gilg so bought quite a bit of those. Almost done overmelds for the full crafter set, not sure if I'll go that crazy on the individual tools for each class though, that shit is annoying. But can get IV materia to fill out MH/OH easy enough, they're only 20 red script a pop and can pump out a shit ton of those. Same for gathering although easier to get the actual items for scripts, just takes longer waiting on each timed node.

Valderen said:

Well I'm done for now, I know I'm not the best player...but fuck The Will of the Moon solo duty. Failed like 10 times, not even coming close to killing the girl in that fight with the meteor. I get to that phase easy, but I'm barely able to cast anything, always moving to avoid the AOE, trying killing the adds, tried focusing her, it's not even close.

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It was rough, but I recall it wasn't too bad once I knew what was coming. However, I play a melee DPS mainly. Do you have any geared/leveled melee DPS to try the solo event with?

If it's the ironworks gear, it used to be the BIS stuff for Heavensward. Otherwise, I didn't purchase anything for gathering at all while leveling from 60 to 70. Did you just hit 60 on them? If so, might be worth it to do a few red scrip runs with the Heavensward stuff to get the main/offhand to offset the gear discrepancy. Luckily it's a pretty easy and well mapped rotation for easy farming.

sleevedraw said:

I picture @a_skeleton_02 as the resident Lalafell creeper with the '70s porno glasses that is always trying to get under the skirts of Femroes.

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That's Kriptini no matter how much he pretends otherwise. Beer goggles make everyone look the same, so they're all female lalas to him!

(hohoho)

a_skeleton_03 said:

Why is the level 60 gathering gear so expensive?

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It's your punishment for being level 60 and not 60+. Anyway, what Pyros said about getting to 61; Grand Company daily submission in addition to collectibles will mean you can just ignore the L60 altogether. It would only last you until about L65, iirc, and at this point isn't really worth the effort imo.