For TRUE beginners it would be great to see someone detail the levelling up process as they actually do it rather than as a retrospective. This video has a wealth of information but as a new player I constantly find that when I try to follow most of the steps here, it leads to a 50-100 hour detour of main quests & side quests in a labyrinth of distraction that EVENTUALLY leads back to being able to follow the step I originally intended...😅 The whole game (except for the Main Scenario Quests) feels like... I want to do A, but to do A, I must do B, but to do B, I must do C, D & E. C & E are fine, but in order to do D I have to do F!! Now I have completed F, I can do D which means I can do B - but that quest can't be completed until G has reached a certain level..... 60 hours later I complete G but by now I have completed forgotten about A, until I see random TH-cam video talking about A and I say aaaaaaahhh yes, I remember that. 🤯🤯🤯 So back I go to finally complete A, come back to this video to check the next step and I can't do that yet either.... Oh well, back again in another 50-100 hours I suppose...!
@@3mileisland516 this! And its also sad that alot of stuff in the game is hidden and isnt explained ingame. You need to use wikis, watch youtube video etc. How would a normal person find out about ishgardian restoration? Or the tribes? Cant remember if the game ever told me at lvl 50 that there are tribes and that i can do quests for them etc
@@orkman198 Glad you appreciated the comment! It's fine for players who have unlocked most content to turn their hand to something else like crafting or gathering, but for new players it's definitely not an option. Best advice I got was to just keep doing the main scenario and by the time that's completed a lot of the extra stuff will be (mostly) ready to try...
Nice video, however you’re missing a few things. You mention the Studium while skipping out on the fact the same exists for 70-80 in Shadowbringers in the Crystarium, basically free experience. You didn’t really look into Levequests which are an extremely easy and quick way to get XP, especially Temple leves. Even though they cost 10 allowances, they will basically let you skip from 50 to mid 60’s within a few minutes, just make sure to turn in HQ items for the temple leves. Oh and. Do. Your. Classquests! Not only do they give XP and gear, they also unlock very important skills you need for high-end crafting.
I didnt keep up with crafting quest from 15 to 50 cause i was just power levelling and then i spent a day doing them all it wasnt fun but the exp from the quests was nuts getting all my crafters to 53 from 50 with just the class quests
That exp is not free for crafters… all the recipes there use materials that require like 20x more gathering than the gathering ones and if you wanna buy them on the market board you’re gonna end up paying an arm and a leg…
Fair warning to anyone looking to get into making money + endgame crafting. Everything takes HOURS, so make sure you're caught up on MSQ and drop any other activities, because this is going to take up your entire day. If you want an easier way of making gil that takes less time, then max out your gatherers and check how much raw materials go for on the market board i.e cobalt ore, mythrite sand. Endgame crafting has a million steps to it and newcomers will definitely be overwhelmed. I highly recommend joining a helpful FC who can craft or gather stuff for you, (especially endgame gear) because you will struggle, and of course you need a lot of free time.
For those who want to craft one of everything, one of those websites, Teamcraft, I think?, will generate shopping lists for you. Just input starting and ending levels and the job, for instance level 11 to 20 goldsmith, and it will give you a list of what n how much of each material you need to make one of every item in your log, assuming no failures.
Ey you know what, this video is on you. I had it on my list and was just too lazy for the longest time to actually do it, because it's a big topic many people asked for. Your comment made me record the voice over the same day! So, thank you!
@@Jolsn omg that's so great to hear :D i'm super glad I commented hehe. You're the best! If they ever allow us to go to other data centres (well... *all* of them) come visit Oceania/Materia so I can thank you in game :D
I would also mention how important it is to keep up with each of your crafter questlines. Some abilities such as Manipulation can only be learned through the job quests.
I'm watching this video again after getting my "Disciples of the Land" to 90 last year. Now i'm returning to the game after a year and I forgot everything, so i'm rewatching this video to get my "Disciples of the Hand" to 90 after leaving them at 60-70. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this. I struggled with finding a reason to play FFXIV for years since I didn't like combat or running dungeons/raids over and over again. Memorizing fights and rotations felt like homework instead of being a fun, relaxing experience. Being able to craft and gather at my own pace while watching videos and taking breaks to do other things whenever I want made the experience more enjoyable. It's also a great game to have open on one screen while studying/WFH so you can jump on to complete a task when you're taking a break.
this will be a huge help, im trying to level all my crafters so i can repair my own gear for that juicy 200% condition, i knew about using ishgardian restoration but had no idea about everything else you talked about. im sure this will save me so much time, thank you!
I think the hands down best way to level crafters at level 60 is the largescale leves at the Temple Levemete in Ishgard. Each of these largescale leves cost 10 leve allownaces each, but you can easily take a level 60 to 80 in a couple hours, or much faster if you buy the materials you need to HQ craft the level 58 leves - these materials aren't even that expensive from what I've seen on the crafters I've used this method on. You're much better off waiting to use your leve allowances on this than using them on any other kind of leve, and if you aren't doing leves at all there's absolutely no reason to not use them on these largescale leves as they will drastically cut down the collectable grind once you get to like 80. Heck, even some of the level 50 large-scale leves give insane amounts of experience, for example "These Boots Are Made for Hawkin'" gives 1,837,480 exp (3,674,960 exp for HQ turn-in), which is easily enough to boost you to 60, from which you can easily boost to 70 or 80 assuming you start out capped in allowances. This way you don't need to spend weeks or a month grinding your crafters, you can wait for allowances to cap, then spend a day boosting one crafter from 50 to ~80, then grinding out the last 10 to 90. This is especially useful for crafters that you don't particularly enjoy leveling. The same can be done for gatherers too by the way. Even if you aren't waiting to cap out at 100 allowances and you wait for 10 to do one of these that's a massive chunk of xp. The exp drops to 1000 after you hit 80, but the fact that you can get essentially from 50 to 80 in just a couple hours or almost immediately if you buy up the materials, this is by far the fastest way to level up a crafter half of the way and skip a large chunk of grind every couple weeks. Especially so if you aren't playing every single day for hours and hours, it saves so much time.
@@maxibu4643 Unless they get rid of the largescale leves altogether I imagine it's going to be the best way forever. Like I said though, it can take you much further than 60, it's the best way to level all the way up to 80 in my opinion.
@@Hirome_Satou What level would you say to start using these per crafter? Like level 60-80? I'm about to start leveling all my crafters and stumbled upon this video.
@@mikrowaive1865 They unlock at 50 if I recall correctly, but I think starting them at 60 is the best use of the experience and your allowances. It is very fast leveling and skips the grueling collectible grind between 60-80.
Just do the crafting job quests which are actually pretty interesting, in between msq when you feel like it instead of this grinding nonsense and you level them naturaly. This is just asking for burnout to happen. Be mindfull of what gear you pick as reward, craft sth for your retainers to allow them to gather stuff you don't feel like getting. And you will save mountain of gill and your sanity. Oh and grand company deliveries as well. Turn in hq stuff and enjoy bunch of xp
For Lv70 to Lv80 I think it's nice to do collectables (in Eulmore), requires much less materials to gather compared to Ishgardian Restoration and you can use the crafting scrips to buy the ilvl500 Lv80 crafting gear. Before this I did ocean fishing for gathering scrips to buy the gathering gear which makes it much easier to gather everything you need and will also prepare you for lv80 to lv90 material gathering saving you a lot of gil.
I been doing collectibles from lvl 60 onwards. I also search for 2/3 ingrediënt crafts that are super cheesy to make. Nuggets, ingots, yarn, leather, cloth and the such. But also for example Rings that use 2 ingredients only. Or food that only uses 3 ingredients instead of 5. Swords or hammers that only use 2 materials instead of 4. Cheese items is what i call them. Works for EVERY expansion cuz all expansions have those items. Just spam craft them (Getting a full quality bar does Increase exp gain)
@@cherrydragon3120 Yep, just maxed mine last week. Just did Collectibles at lv70 and onwards using that method of crafting 2-3 mat crafts and watching anime.
Crafting in FFXIV is nearly impossible for someone with ADHD. My brain wants to just do one thing over and over to make levels. The all over the place nature of crafting, from all the ingredients and their locations, all the different scripts/daily + weekly deliveries and tribes/leves/quests, plus the full inventory? it’s a serious challenge.
That's why people sell the ingredients on market boards. Convenience is so important! And apparently people store their supplies in their retainers or something I dunno
thank you so much for your work, honestly, as good as the game is, it does a pisspoor job at explaining anything that is not related to the main core of the game which is msq and battling. especially as someone who is playing on an NA server as a non native english speaker this is worth so much as it can be absolutely overwhelming to look at the side content of the game and get all these different infos yeeted at your face and buttons and just completely different mechanics. i have avoided my crafters and gatherers for the longest time because of this
You act like it's some horrible thing that the game wasn't solved for you before it was even released. Where's the mystery or intrigue? Just put skyrim arrows onto everything, I guess.
@@providencebreaker1558 honestly I gotta agree with him getting into crafting is extremely overwhelming and the game dosent really prepare you very well for how deep it can gets. There's really no "mystery or intrigue" just inventory management hell and a ton of guide searching
I think the biggest thing is,while leveling my job..I always ignore my DoH/L stuff because I get so invested in my main job,not on purpose. By the time I remember my gathering and crafting jobs..it seems so daunting to catch up I just wave it off even longer lol
Thank you so much for this great video, That website is very useful! 👍 Levelling crafters is easy IMO. The biggest issue I had was inventory management. I decided to gather as many of the materials as possible to save gil, as such I needed as many free slots as possible, including in my retainers. Once I had both those things taken care of, I just needed to start crafting. I craft my own gear and tools as much as possible. The one thing I have never done however, is use macros. 😂 Even of you don’t feel like using macros, I recommend you follow the best rotations for your current level. But really, I now have no excuse to not use macros. 😅 Thank you so much! ❤️
Good video, but one thing I didn't hear mention of, is shards and crystals. In addition to the raw materials, shards and crystals are also necessary. Quick synthing large quantities of items in the lower levels is a good quick way to get xp, but also requires large quantities of the relevant elemental shards and crystals. You can get a good amount by leveling all crafters together up to level 10, and then completing the level 5 and 10 class quests for each. that should get you at least 2k shards of each element.
I'm watching this knowing damn well I'm already level 90 in all crafters. I ended up doing 1-90 on all crafters the week before last savage tier dropped LOL Great video! Will help people a ton, I'm sure!
Fantastic video for someone new to crafting. I've been playing this game for a couple years but have taken things very slow and do just a bit of everything (including crafting) and haven't even finished the MSQ yet! Just to add to your section about grand company turn ins, if you do the math, almost any turn in will be profitable, even if you buy it for 30k+ from the marketboard. This is because 1 venture costs only 200 seals, and 1 venture can equal over 4500-7000+ gil, at least on my server, depending on what kind of retainer you use (gathering or combat). 50x of a mid level material like logs, can sell for 7000+ gil. Now do the math. One GC turn in will give you around 1300-1500 seals. That will let you buy around 7 ventures. 7 x 4500 = 31,500 gil. So even on the low end, you should still at least break even on buying your turn ins from the marketboard. This method only works if you have plenty of gil to spend of course, and that you can continue banking the venture currency for the long term. In my case, I made millions of gil at the launch of endwalker just selling high level materia that I got from doing roulettes, so now I am able to use that to just buy GC turn ins from the marketboard, saving time crafting everything and still coming out ahead with more ventures that I can send my retainers out with. I have a lot of retainers though, 7, and that might be the key. Do lots of ventures!
Okay, so I have taken CUL to 90, WVR to 76, GSM to 67 and with the rest sitting at 63. A few thoughts and tips that may improve many people's experience: First, start doing your class quests at 60 at 60-63. This has two huge advantages - 1) You can essentially power through the class quests very easily using the 60 scripts gear. Leveling one crafter to max first will help collect you the white scrips using collectables will provide you with all white scrips you need 2) The quests, if you do them from 63, will take you to level 70+ easily. You have to do them anyways and while the quests from 1-60 are a bit of a slog (trust me they really are, you want to get them out of the way early, the 60-70 are really easy since they provide you all materials) Second, ignore the ishgardian restoration from 60-80. The 100 crafts for 60-80 require INSANE amounts of materials (e.g. some of them 1500 in number, and that's just one approved item, you'll need like 10 of each stack, plus other overworld items). You'll either be spending a metric ton of gil or time in the dietum. Not very time or money efficient. Aim for collectables. These can be crafted incredibly easy and the materials are far easier to gather than the dietum items. Third, the beast tribes give bad exp (about 2/3 of a level for 3 quests) but do them anyways. You get a mount if you keep at it, plus you will unlock items that people who don't have the beast tribes unlocked will overpay for on the marketboard, earning you a pretty penny. And last, since you'll still be doing ishgardian restoration anyways, DON'T sleep on the kupo vouchers you earn. Check the price of the second place items too! I got three verdant particions (second place housing item) that actually cost more than the best first place item! just taking 8 crafters from 20-60 there earned me 3 verdant partitions that sold for 350k gil each. I also got two casual attire coffers (one which I used myself) the other selling for 250k. That's an easy 1.3m gil earned, just fro 20-60. Do note however you don't earn stamps for lower level turn-ins (e.g. turning in the lv 20 recipe if you could turn in the lv 40 recipe). Once you hit that breakpoint, you won't be earning anymore stamps. So don't go crafting 100 level 20 skybuilder collectables at level 80 thinking you'll make an easy mil. And a final note: Take your breaks. If you try to power through it, you'll burn out. Don't neglect your combat jobs. Do some actual crafting and learn your skills (I hit 90 on my CUL and had no idea what the 70+ skills did LOL. Turns out there's some really good ones - Don't be like me). That's all I have to say. Just some efficiency tips that I had to learn the hard way through trial and error while wasting time on the side. Happy crafting! PS: I usually don't read my yt notifications, so don't ask questions with the expectation that I'll elaborate. I may check back in in the future though, so I will probably still read any replies.
Thank you so much!! This was an incredibly helpful overview! And the resources (especially the gearsite) were something I was looking for for ages! Amazing video. Thanks!
I loved leveling crafting (and gathering, though with less love) in Ishgard, but I stopped by 70 because it starts requiring too many diadem materials. From 70-90, I used the crystalline mean/studium, plus the other options you mention: Leves, GC deliveries, custom deliveries, and collectables. The biggest benefit IMO to leaning into custom deliveries and collectables from 60+ is the scrips since the scrip gear is good a solid 10 levels, and you'll need even more scrips later for folklore, mats, etc.
Don’t forget that for the items you can turn in for the grand company, you can right click on the item and click on search by crafting method! Takes ya right to it so you know what ya need!!! Saved me a ton of time as well and doing that at the market board from the timers. So you can have the screen up WHILE SEARCHING THE MARKET! :D hope this helps some people! Awesome guide can’t wait to get my other crafters up since I’ve only done alchemist for the moogle dance haha.
thanks so much for these videos :) I have been -slowly- levelling my crafters and getting a little overwhelmed, though i do like manually crafting i need to learn the macros because i wanna be more efficient and didnt know where to start lol, so this should help a lot, much appreciated :)
Thank you for this video! Just started leveling a crafter and this video gave me a look behind the curtain and i feel like i understand the entire universe. Another video i watched, recommended to craft every item once to get the bonus xp etc. Needless to say that it was a pain to just look up materials for every single craft, buy them, craft and continue. I wasted a few hours only to get from 1-21. Now the quicksynth method with a basic item is a true blessing. I think i will start all crafters now and do the daily grand company on all of them so i make 1 lvl on each of them per day and be max lvl on all of them after 2-3months or so.
bro you rock, week ago I saw your gatherer guide and now all 3 are 80, no need for now to speed 80-90 so crafter time on going. for everyone, dol and doh have also shb quests that made my doh 71-80 in one day :]
ok, i think the best thing in this video is how to generate your own macros. had no clue teamcraft even did this (bc its kinda overwhelming to a new crafter) but this is super helpful
I've been wondering if I should level my gatherers first and now I have the answer! Thank you for this guide, I will come back after leveling my miner, fisher and botanist :)
Do keep in mind that with the daily turn in items. They can be gear that you get for your combat classes from missions. Once you are done using it for combat jobs you can turn it in even if it is spirit bonded to you. It is a good way, beside desynthe to get rid of these no longer needed items. And they are already HQ.
I take back everything, this is a great guide it took a bit to really get into it but around the midway point it’s really informative and useful. Thank you for this guide.
Funny how you’re apologetic for it being such a long video, but I find more often than not, that people say SOO much TOO fast and even if you go back and watch it multiple times, you are still left in the dark to some extent. Great job and video, keep up the great work.
Oh my hydaelyn. The macros! Of course! I synth hundreds of lumber manually to get to lvl 50 that I thought leveling the crafters would be such a pain. Thank you soo much.
Tribal quests are great for levelling crafters. I got all of my crafters and gatherers to at least 70 without spending gil on materials or equipment through regular turn ins. Super quick if you have crafters in different level ranges and can use all 12 daily allowances between 4 tribes.
Very helpful video. I've been doing some of these things, but others I'm going to try like MACROS! I'd add that if you have trained your retainers in gathering, you can save some effort and time by sending them out to collect some of the ingredients for a crafting recipe. It's pretty handy when you need to gather several different types of items.
As a relatively new player (a few months) and crafter just getting started (averaging lvl 15ish) I was totally overwhelmed and intimidated watching this. It seems like there is so much to learn to be good at it I don't know if I could ever get there.
Simply the most informative channel. Accuracy, delivery, thoroughness, clarity, demonstration, complete with references. If this guide were a crafted item it would be HQ. ❤
I just came back to FFXIV and my crafts/gathers are all at 70 and this guide will definitely help. And you break down the steps so well, and I love that you show how to use the sites
If you're not just focused on getting to 90, starting with the goal of 'craft every item' really gets a lot of XP, but you should use something like teamcraft (or honestly I have my own python scripts which allow me to adjust what I want to craft next on the fly without losing details of what I've already obtained) to see what items you'll need and tick them off. Having HQ crafting gear (which you should be doing if you are crafting everything) will easily work for 10-20 levels above current, at least up to level 50. Doing that crafting yourself also lets you understand the basics of the crafting abilities and why you'd use each. I didn't find Ishgardian restoration until level 55-ish and I only used it to level until 60 or so (I think I also unlocked the moogles for 3 quests XD). It's just so tedious compared to anything else. GC, first time craft bonuses, and custom deliveries got me through quite happily. I think I also did like 10 or so collectibles at the end but I found 'non-Ishgard' collectibles easier than Ishgard stuff XD One problem I had with GC was that I would gather all the things, craft all the things, and then hand in, but I played with about 3 hours to reset and sometimes it would tick over before hand in, and often change. Super annoying! For collectables, the crafting materials are always at a nearby trader, if you just go to the nearest one there's a high chance they'll sell it. Also, once you're 5/5, you can sometimes get particular crafts/gathers marked as special, which definitely gives you more scrips and might also give more XP. Also also! You can craft on one crafter (which is a decent chunk of the xp) and hand in on another, to balance the XP gains. I'm currently levelling an alt on a new server and my crafter/gatherers are at level 30 whilst my msq is at 17. I'm also only up to level 20-25 recipes by the 'craft everything' rule. It's pretty satisfying! Also!!! Always make sure to do your quests. There's an incredibly important action at level 60, plus they're a decent chunk of XP (and they're interesting!). Shadowbringers has a system like endwalker (the facets) for the quests.
Good to mention too that a lot of important crafter abilities are locked behind job quests, so you need to be staying on top of those every five levels as well
To think I would be taught FF14 by the Terminator himself... Hahhaa... Jokes aside tho, amazing and very helpful video! Thank you very much and you earned yourself one more subscriber!
I just spent the weekend getting WVR to level 50 by creating items one at a time. All so I could desynth the clutter in my armory chest. Never really considered the simple synth method, so I'll keep that in mind for next time. The good news is that between weaving and leatherworking, I can make most of my own DOH gear now.
Forgive me, I really enjoyed the video and also agreed with a lot of what you said, but I'm a little cross because you didn't mention large-scale levequests in Ishgard that literally gives you millions of exp and doubles if you turn in high quality items. It can get you from 50-80 fairly quickly if you're consistent with it. Sure, it's time consuming if you gather all your materials like I do or very expensive if you go the market route but I still believe it deserves an honorable mention.
it should be noted that you get extra exp from completing recipes you haven't done yet, which could make the early levels super fast when a lot of the early levels use the materials you can buy from the guild suppliers
I started the trial and I’m in love with the crafting “vortex” I’ve fallen into. I’m actually a better weaver and goldsmith than I am a black mage. There’s something special about making your own crafting gear to make *more* crafting and gathering gear. My main problem was that I burned through my starting wind and lightning crystals rather fast making too many ingots and bolts of thread I didn’t need and had to shard gathering, but I guess that’s part of it.
Unironically had a friend help me along the way for Blacksmith. Started yesterday ending at level 30(?), ended today at level 70. Only thing holding me back currently is gil so I'll likely be farming up my gil to a reasonable amount and hopefully I'll be able to finish it up
I haven't tested this with the beast tribes from the expansions, but at least with the Ixal you can turn in all of the quests with any crafter no matter the level. So if you've already gotten up to the level 50 ixal quests and have other crafters below 50, you can use that higher leveled crafter to do the quest and turn it in on the lower leveled crafter to boost it a lot
Best guide I've seen yet. Doing a craft/gather everything with limited buying (until i lose my patience 😂) playstyle and this'll be a huge help. Might be wrong, but do crafting/gatherings jobs level account wide or is it only on on charcter
Thank you very much for the useful information in this video, I had no idea there was a website to generate crafting macros, before this I didn’t even know how to make a macro. Thank you. Btw I am also making a lot of imitation square windows😂💯
Just getting back into ff14.. I was an early early player and had a maxed out crafter (lv 50 in each craft and gathering) I had a lot of fun with it and I love that they have steam lined it.. we’ll see how long it takes once I have a new level 60
I spent almost 6 millions to level up all of my crafting jobs from 1-80 I didn’t knew Ishgard restoration and custom deliveries exist. I purely level up my crafters from crafting each recipes and selling them on market board
I personally also utilized grinding 80-90 using leve quests in old sharlayan. I did only lvl 80 crafts and they took very minimal effort and a single food buff to complete. I earned the 10 levels to lvl 90, decent amount of Gil, crafting crystals, and other materials back. Took about roughly 40/100 of my leve allotments though.
You already need a lvl 50 DoH/DoL job to even unlock collectables... for a beginner that hasn't levelled any Doh/DoL job, this is a very important piece of information that you failed to mention here.
Would personally recommend only quicksynthing to level 5 and then buying a buncha mats and making everything on your crafting list at least once for the big exp bonus, just to save on crystals cuz they're super boring to gather. Takes some attention, but it's not bad
As a very new player to FF14 ( less than 10 hours and still free trial) this game has BY FAR the MOST complicated crafted crafting system I've ever seen. I'm not sure why the game was made with such intricacies when it comes to crafting.
Better way. Get to where you can do Leves. And then buy already crafted stuff cheaper than leve reward and then continuously turn in leves. Do that till about 45 and then do the quests for your job and you will level up quicker. Then when you get into 60s, do the same thing but in Ishgarde.
There's also a macro simulator and solver, you input your job, level, stats and your desired recipe and it will do up to 1000 simulation and find the best solution based on your level I have an almost 100% quality for Ishgardian Restoration (it's not 100 cuz of the occasional poor status)
Tried the macro system for crafting using the website to make macros for me. It failed so many crafting attempts I had to stop it and just ended up crafting everything manually.
spent a few weeks getting all my crafters to level 70+. mostly because crystarium seemed interesting so I thought let's get this out of the way. what I figured out is that crafting is complete bullcrap. at least, if your goal is to make gear for your own characters to wear. reason for that is because super powerful gear is just so stupidly easy to get. you can get a full set of OP blue gear every 10 levels for both gatherers and crafters with just white scrips, which really aren't hard to get. similarly, tomestones can easily buy you full sets of blue gear for every combat job also every 10 levels. you really never ever need anything other than that. for example: my main is now level 82. tomestone gear isn't unlocked quite yet so there's actually some really nice craftable gear that I'd like to be able to wear. but! that gear requires materials from endwalker zones, which is in zones I won't have access to for a looooooooong time. so wtf was ever the point of leveling my crafters and gatherers? so that finally, at level 90 I can make some gear that I might actually want to use? hah! in reality, crafters have only one real job: making furniture.
I'm pretty new to the game, i dont really get what you mean by level all your crafters together, how would you do that, are you un-equipping the job, then selecting another and so on, or can you actually level them all at once? Also does the macro you've posted in the desc work for every crafter?
The crafter job abilities are all identical. By leveling all crafters together, I mean keeping them all in the same level range by leveling them up separately. You don't have to equip/unequip weapons/tools each time to change job by the way, you can save gear sets inside your character screen and and equip entire sets on demand, and also drag them to your hotbar to change them faster!
@@Jolsn Thank you man appreciate it. And so the macro's you've posted in the description work for each crafter job? Cause when I looked it was just skills for woodworking but do the woodworking skills also work to level up weaver and culinary as well? Sorry for the all the questions just started 3 days ago learning as much I can lmao.
What I did was level gatherers first with job leve quests, job quests and just general gathering. Then I would get a bunch of mats for an easy recipe and just made hundreds of those. The when I was lv 50 I started doing the Moogle quests (changing to the higher level tribal quests) and gathering a bunch of mats used for collectibles, so I made a bunch of those and traded them for EXP and scrips I used to buy gear. Then I repeated that until all my crafters where level 90. It took about a month of this, but I could probably do it a lot faster now that I know how to.
Oof here i am almost all crafters to lvl 80+ and just now learned about ishgard restoration, delivery service and no macros just a lot of tense moments to get hq lmao
Excellent video. I found i cannot unlock collections. In the video it says is a lvl 50 quest, but it is a specifically lvl 50 for crafting/gathering jobs, not just any 50 (which makes perfect sense). but this means you cannot just start doing ishgardian restoration for leveling DoH jobs past lvl 21. You will have have leveled at least one DoH or DoL to 50 before you can push the other jobs through ishgardian restoration. Maybe I'm missing something (it is very likely)
For true beginners he also forgot to mention that you do have to be level 10 with one of your crafters to use quick synthesis
To be honest, that is so long ago that I probably just completely forgot that was a thing!
ty was lookin everywhere on how to do it
For TRUE beginners it would be great to see someone detail the levelling up process as they actually do it rather than as a retrospective.
This video has a wealth of information but as a new player I constantly find that when I try to follow most of the steps here, it leads to a 50-100 hour detour of main quests & side quests in a labyrinth of distraction that EVENTUALLY leads back to being able to follow the step I originally intended...😅
The whole game (except for the Main Scenario Quests) feels like... I want to do A, but to do A, I must do B, but to do B, I must do C, D & E. C & E are fine, but in order to do D I have to do F!! Now I have completed F, I can do D which means I can do B - but that quest can't be completed until G has reached a certain level..... 60 hours later I complete G but by now I have completed forgotten about A, until I see random TH-cam video talking about A and I say aaaaaaahhh yes, I remember that. 🤯🤯🤯 So back I go to finally complete A, come back to this video to check the next step and I can't do that yet either.... Oh well, back again in another 50-100 hours I suppose...!
@@3mileisland516 this! And its also sad that alot of stuff in the game is hidden and isnt explained ingame. You need to use wikis, watch youtube video etc. How would a normal person find out about ishgardian restoration? Or the tribes? Cant remember if the game ever told me at lvl 50 that there are tribes and that i can do quests for them etc
@@orkman198 Glad you appreciated the comment! It's fine for players who have unlocked most content to turn their hand to something else like crafting or gathering, but for new players it's definitely not an option. Best advice I got was to just keep doing the main scenario and by the time that's completed a lot of the extra stuff will be (mostly) ready to try...
Nice video, however you’re missing a few things. You mention the Studium while skipping out on the fact the same exists for 70-80 in Shadowbringers in the Crystarium, basically free experience. You didn’t really look into Levequests which are an extremely easy and quick way to get XP, especially Temple leves. Even though they cost 10 allowances, they will basically let you skip from 50 to mid 60’s within a few minutes, just make sure to turn in HQ items for the temple leves.
Oh and. Do. Your. Classquests! Not only do they give XP and gear, they also unlock very important skills you need for high-end crafting.
I didnt keep up with crafting quest from 15 to 50 cause i was just power levelling and then i spent a day doing them all it wasnt fun but the exp from the quests was nuts getting all my crafters to 53 from 50 with just the class quests
That exp is not free for crafters… all the recipes there use materials that require like 20x more gathering than the gathering ones and if you wanna buy them on the market board you’re gonna end up paying an arm and a leg…
Gearing website was an eye opener, thank you. Enjoy your guides, very clear and well illustrated. You've got yourself a new sub!
Fair warning to anyone looking to get into making money + endgame crafting. Everything takes HOURS, so make sure you're caught up on MSQ and drop any other activities, because this is going to take up your entire day. If you want an easier way of making gil that takes less time, then max out your gatherers and check how much raw materials go for on the market board i.e cobalt ore, mythrite sand. Endgame crafting has a million steps to it and newcomers will definitely be overwhelmed. I highly recommend joining a helpful FC who can craft or gather stuff for you, (especially endgame gear) because you will struggle, and of course you need a lot of free time.
For those who want to craft one of everything, one of those websites, Teamcraft, I think?, will generate shopping lists for you. Just input starting and ending levels and the job, for instance level 11 to 20 goldsmith, and it will give you a list of what n how much of each material you need to make one of every item in your log, assuming no failures.
oh my GOD you are a dang legend - just got all my DoL to 90 thanks to your gatherer guide and now it's time for DoH baybeeee
Ey you know what, this video is on you. I had it on my list and was just too lazy for the longest time to actually do it, because it's a big topic many people asked for. Your comment made me record the voice over the same day! So, thank you!
@@Jolsn omg that's so great to hear :D i'm super glad I commented hehe. You're the best! If they ever allow us to go to other data centres (well... *all* of them) come visit Oceania/Materia so I can thank you in game :D
I would also mention how important it is to keep up with each of your crafter questlines. Some abilities such as Manipulation can only be learned through the job quests.
I'm watching this video again after getting my "Disciples of the Land" to 90 last year. Now i'm returning to the game after a year and I forgot everything, so i'm rewatching this video to get my "Disciples of the Hand" to 90 after leaving them at 60-70. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this.
I struggled with finding a reason to play FFXIV for years since I didn't like combat or running dungeons/raids over and over again. Memorizing fights and rotations felt like homework instead of being a fun, relaxing experience. Being able to craft and gather at my own pace while watching videos and taking breaks to do other things whenever I want made the experience more enjoyable. It's also a great game to have open on one screen while studying/WFH so you can jump on to complete a task when you're taking a break.
this will be a huge help, im trying to level all my crafters so i can repair my own gear for that juicy 200% condition, i knew about using ishgardian restoration but had no idea about everything else you talked about. im sure this will save me so much time, thank you!
I think the hands down best way to level crafters at level 60 is the largescale leves at the Temple Levemete in Ishgard. Each of these largescale leves cost 10 leve allownaces each, but you can easily take a level 60 to 80 in a couple hours, or much faster if you buy the materials you need to HQ craft the level 58 leves - these materials aren't even that expensive from what I've seen on the crafters I've used this method on. You're much better off waiting to use your leve allowances on this than using them on any other kind of leve, and if you aren't doing leves at all there's absolutely no reason to not use them on these largescale leves as they will drastically cut down the collectable grind once you get to like 80. Heck, even some of the level 50 large-scale leves give insane amounts of experience, for example "These Boots Are Made for Hawkin'" gives 1,837,480 exp (3,674,960 exp for HQ turn-in), which is easily enough to boost you to 60, from which you can easily boost to 70 or 80 assuming you start out capped in allowances. This way you don't need to spend weeks or a month grinding your crafters, you can wait for allowances to cap, then spend a day boosting one crafter from 50 to ~80, then grinding out the last 10 to 90. This is especially useful for crafters that you don't particularly enjoy leveling. The same can be done for gatherers too by the way. Even if you aren't waiting to cap out at 100 allowances and you wait for 10 to do one of these that's a massive chunk of xp. The exp drops to 1000 after you hit 80, but the fact that you can get essentially from 50 to 80 in just a couple hours or almost immediately if you buy up the materials, this is by far the fastest way to level up a crafter half of the way and skip a large chunk of grind every couple weeks. Especially so if you aren't playing every single day for hours and hours, it saves so much time.
Is this still a good way to level up crafters at 60?
@@maxibu4643 Unless they get rid of the largescale leves altogether I imagine it's going to be the best way forever. Like I said though, it can take you much further than 60, it's the best way to level all the way up to 80 in my opinion.
@@Hirome_Satou What level would you say to start using these per crafter? Like level 60-80?
I'm about to start leveling all my crafters and stumbled upon this video.
@@mikrowaive1865 They unlock at 50 if I recall correctly, but I think starting them at 60 is the best use of the experience and your allowances. It is very fast leveling and skips the grueling collectible grind between 60-80.
Just do the crafting job quests which are actually pretty interesting, in between msq when you feel like it instead of this grinding nonsense and you level them naturaly. This is just asking for burnout to happen. Be mindfull of what gear you pick as reward, craft sth for your retainers to allow them to gather stuff you don't feel like getting. And you will save mountain of gill and your sanity.
Oh and grand company deliveries as well. Turn in hq stuff and enjoy bunch of xp
For Lv70 to Lv80 I think it's nice to do collectables (in Eulmore), requires much less materials to gather compared to Ishgardian Restoration and you can use the crafting scrips to buy the ilvl500 Lv80 crafting gear. Before this I did ocean fishing for gathering scrips to buy the gathering gear which makes it much easier to gather everything you need and will also prepare you for lv80 to lv90 material gathering saving you a lot of gil.
This. Ishgardian Restoration is self contained and easy to get into the groove on, but it's terribly inefficient
From the collectible appraiser? Isn't that the same items in Radzathan?
I been doing collectibles from lvl 60 onwards. I also search for 2/3 ingrediënt crafts that are super cheesy to make.
Nuggets, ingots, yarn, leather, cloth and the such.
But also for example Rings that use 2 ingredients only. Or food that only uses 3 ingredients instead of 5.
Swords or hammers that only use 2 materials instead of 4.
Cheese items is what i call them. Works for EVERY expansion cuz all expansions have those items. Just spam craft them
(Getting a full quality bar does Increase exp gain)
@@cherrydragon3120 Yep, just maxed mine last week. Just did Collectibles at lv70 and onwards using that method of crafting 2-3 mat crafts and watching anime.
turning in collectables for white scrips are same everywhere. They are not specific to Eulmore.
Crafting in FFXIV is nearly impossible for someone with ADHD. My brain wants to just do one thing over and over to make levels. The all over the place nature of crafting, from all the ingredients and their locations, all the different scripts/daily + weekly deliveries and tribes/leves/quests, plus the full inventory? it’s a serious challenge.
im a year later, just started playing, but you describe my experience more perfectly than even i could. love this game tho
That's my exact problem too. I can't keep all the items and steps in my head and it stresses me out something fierce.
That's why people sell the ingredients on market boards. Convenience is so important! And apparently people store their supplies in their retainers or something I dunno
That's what I love. The way it's absolutely everywhere scratches an itch in my brain. Lets me get ridiculously invested.
I'm the opposite I want to do all the things and can't focus on one thing lol
thank you so much for your work, honestly, as good as the game is, it does a pisspoor job at explaining anything that is not related to the main core of the game which is msq and battling. especially as someone who is playing on an NA server as a non native english speaker this is worth so much as it can be absolutely overwhelming to look at the side content of the game and get all these different infos yeeted at your face and buttons and just completely different mechanics. i have avoided my crafters and gatherers for the longest time because of this
You act like it's some horrible thing that the game wasn't solved for you before it was even released. Where's the mystery or intrigue? Just put skyrim arrows onto everything, I guess.
@@providencebreaker1558 honestly I gotta agree with him getting into crafting is extremely overwhelming and the game dosent really prepare you very well for how deep it can gets.
There's really no "mystery or intrigue" just inventory management hell and a ton of guide searching
I think the biggest thing is,while leveling my job..I always ignore my DoH/L stuff because I get so invested in my main job,not on purpose. By the time I remember my gathering and crafting jobs..it seems so daunting to catch up I just wave it off even longer lol
Crafting is a piramide scheme level them if you raid. Or gather everything yourself.
Perfect timing! I'm doing this right now, and my crafters are all in the 60s! Thank you for the clear and concise guide.
Thank you so much for this great video, That website is very useful! 👍 Levelling crafters is easy IMO. The biggest issue I had was inventory management. I decided to gather as many of the materials as possible to save gil, as such I needed as many free slots as possible, including in my retainers. Once I had both those things taken care of, I just needed to start crafting. I craft my own gear and tools as much as possible. The one thing I have never done however, is use macros. 😂 Even of you don’t feel like using macros, I recommend you follow the best rotations for your current level. But really, I now have no excuse to not use macros. 😅 Thank you so much! ❤️
Good video, but one thing I didn't hear mention of, is shards and crystals. In addition to the raw materials, shards and crystals are also necessary. Quick synthing large quantities of items in the lower levels is a good quick way to get xp, but also requires large quantities of the relevant elemental shards and crystals. You can get a good amount by leveling all crafters together up to level 10, and then completing the level 5 and 10 class quests for each. that should get you at least 2k shards of each element.
I'm watching this knowing damn well I'm already level 90 in all crafters. I ended up doing 1-90 on all crafters the week before last savage tier dropped LOL
Great video! Will help people a ton, I'm sure!
Fantastic video for someone new to crafting. I've been playing this game for a couple years but have taken things very slow and do just a bit of everything (including crafting) and haven't even finished the MSQ yet! Just to add to your section about grand company turn ins, if you do the math, almost any turn in will be profitable, even if you buy it for 30k+ from the marketboard. This is because 1 venture costs only 200 seals, and 1 venture can equal over 4500-7000+ gil, at least on my server, depending on what kind of retainer you use (gathering or combat). 50x of a mid level material like logs, can sell for 7000+ gil. Now do the math. One GC turn in will give you around 1300-1500 seals. That will let you buy around 7 ventures. 7 x 4500 = 31,500 gil. So even on the low end, you should still at least break even on buying your turn ins from the marketboard.
This method only works if you have plenty of gil to spend of course, and that you can continue banking the venture currency for the long term. In my case, I made millions of gil at the launch of endwalker just selling high level materia that I got from doing roulettes, so now I am able to use that to just buy GC turn ins from the marketboard, saving time crafting everything and still coming out ahead with more ventures that I can send my retainers out with. I have a lot of retainers though, 7, and that might be the key. Do lots of ventures!
Thanks!
Thanks for the support!
Okay, so I have taken CUL to 90, WVR to 76, GSM to 67 and with the rest sitting at 63. A few thoughts and tips that may improve many people's experience:
First, start doing your class quests at 60 at 60-63. This has two huge advantages -
1) You can essentially power through the class quests very easily using the 60 scripts gear. Leveling one crafter to max first will help collect you the white scrips using collectables will provide you with all white scrips you need
2) The quests, if you do them from 63, will take you to level 70+ easily. You have to do them anyways and while the quests from 1-60 are a bit of a slog (trust me they really are, you want to get them out of the way early, the 60-70 are really easy since they provide you all materials)
Second, ignore the ishgardian restoration from 60-80. The 100 crafts for 60-80 require INSANE amounts of materials (e.g. some of them 1500 in number, and that's just one approved item, you'll need like 10 of each stack, plus other overworld items). You'll either be spending a metric ton of gil or time in the dietum. Not very time or money efficient. Aim for collectables. These can be crafted incredibly easy and the materials are far easier to gather than the dietum items.
Third, the beast tribes give bad exp (about 2/3 of a level for 3 quests) but do them anyways. You get a mount if you keep at it, plus you will unlock items that people who don't have the beast tribes unlocked will overpay for on the marketboard, earning you a pretty penny.
And last, since you'll still be doing ishgardian restoration anyways, DON'T sleep on the kupo vouchers you earn. Check the price of the second place items too! I got three verdant particions (second place housing item) that actually cost more than the best first place item! just taking 8 crafters from 20-60 there earned me 3 verdant partitions that sold for 350k gil each. I also got two casual attire coffers (one which I used myself) the other selling for 250k. That's an easy 1.3m gil earned, just fro 20-60. Do note however you don't earn stamps for lower level turn-ins (e.g. turning in the lv 20 recipe if you could turn in the lv 40 recipe). Once you hit that breakpoint, you won't be earning anymore stamps. So don't go crafting 100 level 20 skybuilder collectables at level 80 thinking you'll make an easy mil.
And a final note: Take your breaks. If you try to power through it, you'll burn out. Don't neglect your combat jobs. Do some actual crafting and learn your skills (I hit 90 on my CUL and had no idea what the 70+ skills did LOL. Turns out there's some really good ones - Don't be like me).
That's all I have to say. Just some efficiency tips that I had to learn the hard way through trial and error while wasting time on the side. Happy crafting!
PS: I usually don't read my yt notifications, so don't ask questions with the expectation that I'll elaborate. I may check back in in the future though, so I will probably still read any replies.
I'm in the 60s now and just realizing I might have trapped myself getting all these mats then spending hours crafting and no time actually playing.
@@ShoryukenPizza Godspeed my friend. Embrace the materialo'calypse
By far THE best crafting guide I've come across.
Well done 🎉
You explain this so well bro, every ffxiv guide I've used is usually use by coincidence/preference. It's time I subbed.
Yes! I've been waiting for you to do a crafting guide. Your gatherer guide was extremely helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much!! This was an incredibly helpful overview! And the resources (especially the gearsite) were something I was looking for for ages! Amazing video. Thanks!
I loved leveling crafting (and gathering, though with less love) in Ishgard, but I stopped by 70 because it starts requiring too many diadem materials. From 70-90, I used the crystalline mean/studium, plus the other options you mention: Leves, GC deliveries, custom deliveries, and collectables. The biggest benefit IMO to leaning into custom deliveries and collectables from 60+ is the scrips since the scrip gear is good a solid 10 levels, and you'll need even more scrips later for folklore, mats, etc.
Don’t forget that for the items you can turn in for the grand company, you can right click on the item and click on search by crafting method! Takes ya right to it so you know what ya need!!! Saved me a ton of time as well and doing that at the market board from the timers. So you can have the screen up WHILE SEARCHING THE MARKET! :D hope this helps some people! Awesome guide can’t wait to get my other crafters up since I’ve only done alchemist for the moogle dance haha.
you can use the same method for gathering items
actually showing how to make macros was incredibly helpful, thank you and i love you
thanks so much for these videos :) I have been -slowly- levelling my crafters and getting a little overwhelmed, though i do like manually crafting i need to learn the macros because i wanna be more efficient and didnt know where to start lol, so this should help a lot, much appreciated :)
Thank you for this video! Just started leveling a crafter and this video gave me a look behind the curtain and i feel like i understand the entire universe. Another video i watched, recommended to craft every item once to get the bonus xp etc. Needless to say that it was a pain to just look up materials for every single craft, buy them, craft and continue. I wasted a few hours only to get from 1-21. Now the quicksynth method with a basic item is a true blessing.
I think i will start all crafters now and do the daily grand company on all of them so i make 1 lvl on each of them per day and be max lvl on all of them after 2-3months or so.
Hats off to you sir. By far the best and most complete crafter leveling guide I have seen so far. Very well done!
Thanks so much, I was so confused on where to start with my crafters. This guide helped me a lot with making sense of where to begin.
bro you rock, week ago I saw your gatherer guide and now all 3 are 80, no need for now to speed 80-90 so crafter time on going. for everyone, dol and doh have also shb quests that made my doh 71-80 in one day :]
ok, i think the best thing in this video is how to generate your own macros. had no clue teamcraft even did this (bc its kinda overwhelming to a new crafter) but this is super helpful
Thank you so much! You and my bro have helped me greatly. Time to hit 90 on everything! Cheers
This is such a helpful video holyyy, literally answers all my questions thank you so much! Now I’m so confident getting into this side of the game!
I've been wondering if I should level my gatherers first and now I have the answer! Thank you for this guide, I will come back after leveling my miner, fisher and botanist :)
Thank you so much for these amazing videos !! I don't know what i would do otherwise ! ^^ Everything worked perfectly, You are the best !
Do keep in mind that with the daily turn in items. They can be gear that you get for your combat classes from missions. Once you are done using it for combat jobs you can turn it in even if it is spirit bonded to you. It is a good way, beside desynthe to get rid of these no longer needed items. And they are already HQ.
I take back everything, this is a great guide it took a bit to really get into it but around the midway point it’s really informative and useful. Thank you for this guide.
Thanks so much for this video, I am returning after a couple of years and loved the crafting, so this is going to help me so much!
Literally exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
resources from this video have been immeasurably helpful!!!
Funny how you’re apologetic for it being such a long video, but I find more often than not, that people say SOO much TOO fast and even if you go back and watch it multiple times, you are still left in the dark to some extent. Great job and video, keep up the great work.
Oh my hydaelyn. The macros! Of course! I synth hundreds of lumber manually to get to lvl 50 that I thought leveling the crafters would be such a pain. Thank you soo much.
Thank you so much for all the info in this video ❤ love watching your videos as a new player!
Tribal quests are great for levelling crafters. I got all of my crafters and gatherers to at least 70 without spending gil on materials or equipment through regular turn ins. Super quick if you have crafters in different level ranges and can use all 12 daily allowances between 4 tribes.
I couldn't have asked for a better guide from a true Nord of Skyrim
Very helpful video. I've been doing some of these things, but others I'm going to try like MACROS! I'd add that if you have trained your retainers in gathering, you can save some effort and time by sending them out to collect some of the ingredients for a crafting recipe. It's pretty handy when you need to gather several different types of items.
As a relatively new player (a few months) and crafter just getting started (averaging lvl 15ish) I was totally overwhelmed and intimidated watching this. It seems like there is so much to learn to be good at it I don't know if I could ever get there.
Simply the most informative channel. Accuracy, delivery, thoroughness, clarity, demonstration, complete with references. If this guide were a crafted item it would be HQ. ❤
I am completely new to crafting! Thanks
thanks for the helpful tips ! Universalis saved me tons of gils !
2 min in and im already liking the video. Damn i really needed all these tips, thank you!
I just came back to FFXIV and my crafts/gathers are all at 70 and this guide will definitely help. And you break down the steps so well, and I love that you show how to use the sites
I totally forgot about the Company experience manuals. There can be so much to this game, it's easy to forget.
This is fantastic! Thanks for the info, I never knew there was a site for making these macros
Such an amazing guide! Even though I'm maxed out, I always recommend new players to this guide :)
If you're not just focused on getting to 90, starting with the goal of 'craft every item' really gets a lot of XP, but you should use something like teamcraft (or honestly I have my own python scripts which allow me to adjust what I want to craft next on the fly without losing details of what I've already obtained) to see what items you'll need and tick them off. Having HQ crafting gear (which you should be doing if you are crafting everything) will easily work for 10-20 levels above current, at least up to level 50.
Doing that crafting yourself also lets you understand the basics of the crafting abilities and why you'd use each.
I didn't find Ishgardian restoration until level 55-ish and I only used it to level until 60 or so (I think I also unlocked the moogles for 3 quests XD). It's just so tedious compared to anything else. GC, first time craft bonuses, and custom deliveries got me through quite happily. I think I also did like 10 or so collectibles at the end but I found 'non-Ishgard' collectibles easier than Ishgard stuff XD
One problem I had with GC was that I would gather all the things, craft all the things, and then hand in, but I played with about 3 hours to reset and sometimes it would tick over before hand in, and often change. Super annoying!
For collectables, the crafting materials are always at a nearby trader, if you just go to the nearest one there's a high chance they'll sell it. Also, once you're 5/5, you can sometimes get particular crafts/gathers marked as special, which definitely gives you more scrips and might also give more XP. Also also! You can craft on one crafter (which is a decent chunk of the xp) and hand in on another, to balance the XP gains.
I'm currently levelling an alt on a new server and my crafter/gatherers are at level 30 whilst my msq is at 17. I'm also only up to level 20-25 recipes by the 'craft everything' rule. It's pretty satisfying!
Also!!! Always make sure to do your quests. There's an incredibly important action at level 60, plus they're a decent chunk of XP (and they're interesting!). Shadowbringers has a system like endwalker (the facets) for the quests.
There are also achievement rewards for crafting one of everything; Idr what they are, tho.
Did you also craft all master recipes?
@@doomoftheend XD Nah, I think I gave up around level 30 and just crafted stuff I wanted at that point, plus GC hand ins.
For newbies, don't go too hard on crafting from the beginning...focus on MSQ to unlock ishgard and zones after heavensward.
Good to mention too that a lot of important crafter abilities are locked behind job quests, so you need to be staying on top of those every five levels as well
Thanks for the new vid! All of my crafters are ony lvl 80+. I will be looking forward on the next crafting related vid. ^^,
To think I would be taught FF14 by the Terminator himself... Hahhaa... Jokes aside tho, amazing and very helpful video!
Thank you very much and you earned yourself one more subscriber!
Your videos are SO helpful. Thanks! 😸
I just spent the weekend getting WVR to level 50 by creating items one at a time. All so I could desynth the clutter in my armory chest.
Never really considered the simple synth method, so I'll keep that in mind for next time. The good news is that between weaving and leatherworking, I can make most of my own DOH gear now.
Forgive me, I really enjoyed the video and also agreed with a lot of what you said, but I'm a little cross because you didn't mention large-scale levequests in Ishgard that literally gives you millions of exp and doubles if you turn in high quality items. It can get you from 50-80 fairly quickly if you're consistent with it. Sure, it's time consuming if you gather all your materials like I do or very expensive if you go the market route but I still believe it deserves an honorable mention.
it should be noted that you get extra exp from completing recipes you haven't done yet, which could make the early levels super fast when a lot of the early levels use the materials you can buy from the guild suppliers
I started the trial and I’m in love with the crafting “vortex” I’ve fallen into. I’m actually a better weaver and goldsmith than I am a black mage. There’s something special about making your own crafting gear to make *more* crafting and gathering gear. My main problem was that I burned through my starting wind and lightning crystals rather fast making too many ingots and bolts of thread I didn’t need and had to shard gathering, but I guess that’s part of it.
Unironically had a friend help me along the way for Blacksmith. Started yesterday ending at level 30(?), ended today at level 70. Only thing holding me back currently is gil so I'll likely be farming up my gil to a reasonable amount and hopefully I'll be able to finish it up
Brilliant video thank you!
Thanks!
This is a great video. Thank you so much for your work
Thank you so much for this!!
I haven't tested this with the beast tribes from the expansions, but at least with the Ixal you can turn in all of the quests with any crafter no matter the level. So if you've already gotten up to the level 50 ixal quests and have other crafters below 50, you can use that higher leveled crafter to do the quest and turn it in on the lower leveled crafter to boost it a lot
Best guide I've seen yet. Doing a craft/gather everything with limited buying (until i lose my patience 😂) playstyle and this'll be a huge help. Might be wrong, but do crafting/gatherings jobs level account wide or is it only on on charcter
Thank you very much for the useful information in this video, I had no idea there was a website to generate crafting macros, before this I didn’t even know how to make a macro. Thank you. Btw I am also making a lot of imitation square windows😂💯
Thanks the best video i found for crafting fast
Just getting back into ff14.. I was an early early player and had a maxed out crafter (lv 50 in each craft and gathering)
I had a lot of fun with it and I love that they have steam lined it.. we’ll see how long it takes once I have a new level 60
And from the Dwarves you can get a tank mount, which was my motivation to level up my crafting.
I spent almost 6 millions to level up all of my crafting jobs from 1-80 I didn’t knew Ishgard restoration and custom deliveries exist. I purely level up my crafters from crafting each recipes and selling them on market board
thank you for the great video, very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
This is the most helpful video ever omg
I always did 1-21 quick synth, 22-70 firmament, 70-80 leves, custom deliveries, beast tribes then 80-90 studium/leves
I personally also utilized grinding 80-90 using leve quests in old sharlayan. I did only lvl 80 crafts and they took very minimal effort and a single food buff to complete. I earned the 10 levels to lvl 90, decent amount of Gil, crafting crystals, and other materials back. Took about roughly 40/100 of my leve allotments though.
You already need a lvl 50 DoH/DoL job to even unlock collectables... for a beginner that hasn't levelled any Doh/DoL job, this is a very important piece of information that you failed to mention here.
Man I wish I found this video this morning
I feel like this should be pointed out that doing quick synthesis gives you less exp per crafted item as opposed to crafting them all manually.
But it gives vastly more XP per focused time - that is, you just have to set it going and leave.
Would personally recommend only quicksynthing to level 5 and then buying a buncha mats and making everything on your crafting list at least once for the big exp bonus, just to save on crystals cuz they're super boring to gather. Takes some attention, but it's not bad
Perfect Crafter Guide!
As a very new player to FF14 ( less than 10 hours and still free trial) this game has BY FAR the MOST complicated crafted crafting system I've ever seen.
I'm not sure why the game was made with such intricacies when it comes to crafting.
I would add keeping your crafting levels even and doing the job quests for each can help keeping your gear upto to scratch
Better way. Get to where you can do Leves. And then buy already crafted stuff cheaper than leve reward and then continuously turn in leves. Do that till about 45 and then do the quests for your job and you will level up quicker. Then when you get into 60s, do the same thing but in Ishgarde.
There's also a macro simulator and solver, you input your job, level, stats and your desired recipe and it will do up to 1000 simulation and find the best solution based on your level I have an almost 100% quality for Ishgardian Restoration (it's not 100 cuz of the occasional poor status)
Which one do you use? The one I had been using wasn’t updated for Endwalker
Tried the macro system for crafting using the website to make macros for me. It failed so many crafting attempts I had to stop it and just ended up crafting everything manually.
spent a few weeks getting all my crafters to level 70+. mostly because crystarium seemed interesting so I thought let's get this out of the way.
what I figured out is that crafting is complete bullcrap. at least, if your goal is to make gear for your own characters to wear.
reason for that is because super powerful gear is just so stupidly easy to get. you can get a full set of OP blue gear every 10 levels for both gatherers and crafters with just white scrips, which really aren't hard to get.
similarly, tomestones can easily buy you full sets of blue gear for every combat job also every 10 levels. you really never ever need anything other than that.
for example: my main is now level 82. tomestone gear isn't unlocked quite yet so there's actually some really nice craftable gear that I'd like to be able to wear. but! that gear requires materials from endwalker zones, which is in zones I won't have access to for a looooooooong time. so wtf was ever the point of leveling my crafters and gatherers? so that finally, at level 90 I can make some gear that I might actually want to use? hah!
in reality, crafters have only one real job: making furniture.
@Jolsn FFXIV, hay there I really like your HUD layout and i was wondering if you could share your HUD layout ?
this is crafting 101
very good vid
I'm pretty new to the game, i dont really get what you mean by level all your crafters together, how would you do that, are you un-equipping the job, then selecting another and so on, or can you actually level them all at once? Also does the macro you've posted in the desc work for every crafter?
The crafter job abilities are all identical. By leveling all crafters together, I mean keeping them all in the same level range by leveling them up separately. You don't have to equip/unequip weapons/tools each time to change job by the way, you can save gear sets inside your character screen and and equip entire sets on demand, and also drag them to your hotbar to change them faster!
@@Jolsn Thank you man appreciate it. And so the macro's you've posted in the description work for each crafter job? Cause when I looked it was just skills for woodworking but do the woodworking skills also work to level up weaver and culinary as well? Sorry for the all the questions just started 3 days ago learning as much I can lmao.
@@ashaelx all the crafting skills are the same for every job.
What I did was level gatherers first with job leve quests, job quests and just general gathering. Then I would get a bunch of mats for an easy recipe and just made hundreds of those. The when I was lv 50 I started doing the Moogle quests (changing to the higher level tribal quests) and gathering a bunch of mats used for collectibles, so I made a bunch of those and traded them for EXP and scrips I used to buy gear. Then I repeated that until all my crafters where level 90. It took about a month of this, but I could probably do it a lot faster now that I know how to.
Oof here i am almost all crafters to lvl 80+ and just now learned about ishgard restoration, delivery service and no macros just a lot of tense moments to get hq lmao
I level my crafter with just doing every recipe at least once and craft what I can
up to lvl 50 it works quite good xD
Excellent video. I found i cannot unlock collections. In the video it says is a lvl 50 quest, but it is a specifically lvl 50 for crafting/gathering jobs, not just any 50 (which makes perfect sense). but this means you cannot just start doing ishgardian restoration for leveling DoH jobs past lvl 21. You will have have leveled at least one DoH or DoL to 50 before you can push the other jobs through ishgardian restoration. Maybe I'm missing something (it is very likely)