4.2 FF14 Crafting & Gathering Guide

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FF14 Crafting & Gathering Guide

by Sky Reckoner / Bro Jobs on Cactuar
v4.2
Last Updated: Patch 4.2
The aim of this guide is to be clear and informative while providing a strong
foundation for beginning crafters, while being relevant to any endgame crafter. This
guide is aimed towards people who are not approaching crafting casually, and
assumes that the end-goal is to be an omnicrafter who is able to develop their
own rotations. It will be hard to digest and be dense at times for total beginners, but
I promise you that if you fully understand the material contained herein, you’ll be a
pro at crafting and gathering and understand the fundamental theory behind the
system.
There will be some advanced information interspersed throughout the guide. They’ll
be marked with a red bolded line warning that the section is not intended for
beginners. With that in mind, please skip sections that you do not need.
This guide is currently in beta. There may be errors and inaccuracies. Please
leave a comment on this post if you have any suggestions or corrections.
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This guide is divided into several parts:
PART I - The Basics
Covers the basics, including best methods of leveling.
PART II - Basic Crafter Guide
Covers Lv 1 - 50 crafting, leves, and cross-class skills.
PART III - Intermediate Crafter Guide
Covers collectables, master books, red crafter scrips, and Lv 50 - 70.

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PART IV - Endgame Crafter Guide
Covers gil-making, 4.1 progression (including yellow crafter scrips),

preparation for 4.2, and advanced crafting rotation tips.
PART V - Basic Gatherer Guide
Covers Lv 1 - 50 gathering, leves.
PART VI - Intermediate Gatherer Guide
Covers collectables, folklore books, red gatherer scrips, and Lv 50 - 70.
PART VII - Endgame Gatherer Guide
Covers yellow gatherer scrips, melding priority and breakpoints
PART VIII - Crafter and Gatherer Gearing Guide
Provides a Lv1 - 70 guide to self-sufficiently / cheaply gear up to be able to

craft or gather. Includes rotations and macros for crafting at that level.
PLANNED FOR NEXT RELEASE:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
Changelog 14
Useful Resources 15
PART I: The Basics 18
The Basics of Crafting & Gathering 18
The 8 Crafter Classes 18
The 3 Gatherer Classes 27
Real Talk 30
Macros 30
The Basics of Synthesis 32
Progress, Quality, and CP 34
Durability 37
Condition 38
Quick Synthesis 39
Crafter Attributes 40
Craftsmanship 40
Control 42
CP (Crafting Points) 44
Food 44
What Should I Meld? 45
The Basics of MIN/BTN Node Collection 47
Node Collection 49
Gathering, Perception, and GP (Gathering Points) 51
The Basics of Fishing 52
Bait 52
Fishing Windows 53
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EXP 54
Recipe List 55
Crafting and Gathering Manuals 56
Daily GC turn-ins 59
Levequests 60
Collectables 63
Ixali and Moogle Quests 64
Custom Deliveries 67
PART II: Basic Crafter Guide 70
Crafter: Lv 1 - 14 70
Lv 1 - Basic Synthesis 70
Completing the Recipe List 72
Lv 5 - Basic Touch 73
Lv 7 - Master’s Mend 75
Lv 9 - Steady Hand 76
Lv 11 - Inner Quiet 76
Crafter: Lv 15 Cross-Class Skills 78
CRP - Rumination 79
BSM - Ingenuity 80
ARM - Rapid Synthesis 81
GSM - Manipulation 82
LTW - Waste Not 83
WVR - Careful Synthesis 84
ALC - Tricks of the Trade 84
CUL - Hasty Touch 86
A Note on Leveling Beyond Lv15 87
Crafter: Lv 16 - Lv 25 88
The Market Board 88

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Retainers 92
Gearing Yourself 96
Lv 18 - Standard Touch 98
Lv 21 - Great Strides 98
Lv 25 - Master’s Mend II 99
Crafter: Leves 100
Leve Guides 102
Crafter: Lv 26 - 37 Cross-Class Skills 105
Lv 31 - Standard Synthesis 105
GSM - Flawless Synthesis 105
CUL - Steady Hand II 106
Lv 37 - Brand of Elements 106
Crafter: Lv 38 - Lv 50 Cross-Class Skills 108
Lv 43 - Advanced Touch 108
CRP - Byregot’s Blessing 108
BSM - Ingenuity II 109
ARM - Piece by Piece 112
GSM - Innovation 113
LTW - Waste Not II 114
WVR - Careful Synthesis II 115
ALC - Comfort Zone 115
CUL - Reclaim 117
PART III: Intermediate Crafter Guide 119
Crafter: Creating a Rotation 119
Opener 119
Building Inner Quiet 121
Finisher 122
Crafter: Master Books 124

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Mastercraft I 124
Mastercraft II 126
Mastercraft III 128
Mastercraft IV 129
Mastercraft V 129
Crafter: Collectables 131
Lv50 - Collectable Synthesis 131
Rowena’s House of Splendors 132
Red Crafter Scrips 133
Yellow Crafter Scrips 134
Bridging the Lv 50 - Lv 51 Gap 136
Lv 51 - Byregot’s Brow 137
Lv 53 - Precise Touch 137
Lv 54 - Name of Elementals 138
GSM - Maker’s Mark 139
CUL - Muscle Memory 141
Specialization 143
Lv 55 - Whistle While You Work 145
Lv 55 - Satisfaction 146
Lv 56 - Innovative Touch 147
Lv 57 - Nymeia’s Wheel 148
Lv 58 - Byregot’s Miracle 149
Lv 59 - Trained Hand 151
Lv 60 - Heart of the Specialist 151
Bridging the Lv 60 - Lv 61 Gap 153

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Lv 61 - Hasty Touch II 155
Lv 62 - Careful Synthesis III 156
Lv 63 - Rapid Synthesis II 156
Lv 63 - Quality Assurance 156
Lv 64 - Patient Touch 157
Lv 65 - Manipulation II 158
Lv 66 - Prudent Touch 158
Crafter: Lv 67 - 70 160
Lv 13 - Observe 160
Lv 67 - Focused Synthesis 160
Lv 68 - Focused Touch 161
Lv 69 - Initial Preparations 162
Lv 70 - Stroke of Genius 164
PART IV: Endgame Crafter Guide 166
Crafter and Gatherer: 4.2 Progression Guide 166
Old 4.1 Progression Guide 166
Red and Yellow Scrips 166
Crafter Red Scrips: Unlock Mastercraft VI 166
Crafter Yellow Scrips: Augment Yellow Scrip Items 166
Crafter Yellow Scrips: Items 167
Crafter and Gatherer Yellow Scrips: Items 167
Gatherer Red Scrips 167
Gatherer Yellow Scrips 167
Melds 167
4.2 Specialists 170
Self-Sufficiently Crafting Your Own 4.2 Gear 171
4.1 Macros 174
New 2** / 2.5** Macros 174

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High-Stat Macros 174
Medium-Stat Macros 177
Low-Stat Macro 180
Old 2** Macros 182
High-Stat Macro 182
Medium-Stat Macro 183
Low-Stat Macro 184
1* Macros 185
Lv 70 Macros 186
Lv 68 40 durability Macros 188
4.2 Macros 189
35 DURABILITY SPECIALIST 190
Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (Brand of Elementals) 190
Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (w/o Brand, requires tea) 192
Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (w/o Brand, w/o tea) 193
35 DURABILITY NON-SPECIALIST 195
70 DURABILITY SPECIALIST 196
Highest Quality 70 Durability Macro 197
70 DURABILITY NON-SPECIALIST 199
Nixillis's Non-Spec 70 Durability Macro 199
Desynthesis 202
Basic Desynthesis Guide 202
Fieldcraft and Mastercraft Demimateria 204
Desynthesis Leveling Post d160 205
Crafter: Endgame Theory and Rotations 216
Crafter “Level” and Recipe Level 216
Ingenuity Modifier 222
Initial Preparations Rotation 225

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MaMa Whistle Rotation (4.18) 226
Crafter: Making Profits 232
Supply & Demand 232
Recognizing Inelastic Demand 233
Profit Efficiency 234
Spiritbonding 235
(Irrelevant) Crafter and Gatherer: Preparing for 4.2 237
New 3* Crafts 237
Gathering 239
i320 right side and belt 239
Increase in demand for old recipes 240
Desynthesis 241
Furniture 241
Raiding 242
PART V: Basic Gatherer Guide 243
MIN/BTN: Lv 1 - Lv 45 243
Lv 4 ~ 10 - Field Mastery I - III / Sharp Vision I - III 244
Gatherer Traits 246
Lv 12 - Preparation 248
Lv 15 ~ 35 - Leaf Turn I - II / Unearth I - II 249
Lv 20 ~ 25 - Intermediate Skills 250
Lv 30 ~ 40 - Blessed Harvest I - II / King’s Yield I - II 251
FSH: Lv 1 - Lv 50 253
Lv 25 - Mooch 253
Lv 36 - Snagging 254
MIN/BTN: Leves 255
Cordials 257
Evaluation Leves 257

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FSH: Leves 261
Gatherer: Unspoiled Nodes 263
Clocks 263
PART VI: Intermediate Gathering Guide 265
Gatherer: Collectables 265
The Basic Guide to Gatherer Collectables 265
Lv 50 - Methodical Appraisal 267
Lv 50 - Discerning Eye 268
Lv 51 - Instinctual Appraisal 270
Lv 51 - Utmost Caution 270
Lv 53 - Impulsive Appraisal 271
Lv 57 - Single Mind 272
Lv 60 Collectable Rotation 272
Ephemeral Nodes and Aetherial Reduction 275
FSH: Patience 278
Lv 51 - Patience 278
Lv 51 ~ 56 - Powerful & Precision Hookset 278
Lv 54 ~ 57 - Chum & Fish Eyes 279
Lv 60 - Patience II 280
Gatherer: Folklore Books 282
Red Gatherer Scrips 282
Legendary Nodes 283
MIN/BTN: Lv 61 - Lv 70 284
Lv 61 - Impulsive Appraisal II 284
Lv 63 - Leaf Turn III / Unearth III 284
Lv 68 - Bountiful Harvest II / Bountiful Yield II 285
FSH: Spearfishing 286
Lv 61 - Gig Heads 287

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Lv 63 - Veteran Trade 288
Lv 64 - Calm Waters 288
Lv 66 - Truth of Oceans 288
Lv 68 - Bountiful Catch 290
Lv 69 - Nature’s Bounty 291
PART VII: Endgame Gatherer Guide 292
Gatherer: Yellow Gatherer Scrips 292
Impulsive Collectable Rotation 292
Impulsive Ephemeral Rotation 293
Instinctual Ephemeral Rotations 294
Gatherer: Endgame Melds and Breakpoints 296
Breakpoints 296
Yield Rotation 296
HQ Yield Rotation 296
PART VIII: Crafter & Gatherer Gearing/Rotation Guide 297
Lv 1 - 17 300
CRAFTER 302
Lv 18 - 28 303
CRAFTER 303
Lv 29 - 50 305
CRAFTER 305
Jumping the Lv 50 - Lv 51 Gap 306
CRAFTER 306
GATHERER 306
Lv 51 306
CRAFTER 307
Lv 52 307
CRAFTER 308
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Lv 53 308
CRAFTER 309
Lv 54 ~ 60 309
CRAFTER 310
GATHERER 311
Jumping the Lv 60 - Lv 61 Gap 312
Lv 61 312
CRAFTER 312
Lv 62 313
CRAFTER 314
Lv 63 ~ 65 314
CRAFTER 314
Lv 66 ~ 67 314
CRAFTER 315
Lv 68 ~ 69 316
CRAFTER 317
Lv 70 318
CRAFTER 319
GATHERER 320
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Changelog
Beta Version Release | 01/16/2018
v4.18 | 01/26/2018
Changelog Added
Added more information about Condition
Added Quality Assurance
V4.2 | 02/02/2018
Added 4.2 Progression Guide
Added 4.2 Macros
Changed information on specialists for the most current tier

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Useful Resources
Before we get into the actual crafting guide, here are some valuable resources
related to crafting that you will find helpful. Be sure to bookmark them if you want to
seriously get into crafting as you’ll be using them a lot!
ff14 crafting as a service
This site allows you to create a shopping cart of items you want to craft and
automatically generates a list of items you need to procure in order to craft
everything in your shopping cart. It also has an automatic tool for compiling lists
from the in-game recipe lists.
http://www.ffxivcrafting.com/
teamcraft
This site boasts the ability to generate shareable lists and interfaces with another
site, xivdb.com (you can add items into teamcraft from xivdb). Players can work on
the same crafting list together. Similar to crafting as a service but provides more
functionalities, including area breakdowns.
https://ffxivteamcraft.com
garlandtools
This site also has a shopping list feature, but the gathering node alarm feature is
one of the best there is. It allows you to select items that spawn on timed nodes and
ring an alarm when the node is about to or has spawned. It also has a database
and a myriad other features, including a gearing tool.
https://www.garlandtools.org/
xivdb
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This site similarly has a shopping list feature, but one of its more useful features is
the ability to comment on specific items. Players can share special tips on an item,
such as where to find a specific ore, when the fishing window for a fish spawns, etc.
Furthermore you can sort items by patch to see if there are any patterns in previous
patches to predict what the next patch would look like. You can also stalk players
here and see if they name-changed and are planning to catfish everyone on your
server with a new faux identity ;)
https://www.xivdb.com
cat became hungry
A site where I am not 100% comfortable sharing because of its… interesting ad

policy. However, it remains one of the best fishing resources there is on the net (get
it?), featuring many useful information, such as bait requirements, catch
percentages, and spawn windows.
https://en.ff14angler.com
the Balance discord
One of the best discussion platforms for not only speedrunning (and people
discussing BiS for the thousandth time), but also DoH/DoL (disciples of
hand/disciples of land). To join, make sure to type ~rank crafter, and ~rank
gatherer in #kupo-bot-spam.
https://thebalanceffxiv.com/
fisher’s horizon
A discord server made just for fishing. As this guide will not go into the details of
rare fishing (known as big fishing), I encourage players to join this discord if they
want to get their hands dirty in rare fishing.
https://discord.gg/pYRUK6D
ermad’s fork of the crafting simulator

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Not originally created by ermad, this github fork of the crafting simulator is
currently the most accurate version there is. A must for high-level crafting.
https://ermad.github.io/ffxiv-craft-opt-web/app/#/simulator
other guides
This is obviously not the only crafting guide there is for FF14...there are many out
there, but some of these are good alternatives to this guide if you find this guide
lacking.
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/crafting-101.13/
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/ff14-advanced-crafting-guide-by-caimie-tsukino.39/
other sites
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/
(60% shitposts, 20% fanart, 20% meta discussions)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/662-Disciples-of-the-Hand
(80% useless questions, 20% good macros)
For real though, the Balance Discord is superior to these two.
These are the primary resources that every end-game crafter and gatherer should
use often. Other resources, such as leve guides, will be linked in appropriate
sections of this guide.
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PART I: The Basics

The Basics of Crafting & Gathering
Let’s cut to the chase, the answer to the question I see all the time in Novice
Network and in the Reddit daily questions megathread.
“I want to get into crafting, how?” Here’s my honest opinion: if you want to get into
crafting, you will need to get all crafters to Lv 50 ~ Lv 54 to be able to efficiently
craft in the endgame, and all crafters to Lv 70 to be able to craft profitably (by
eliminating the need to buy composite materials from other crafters).
The recommended route for leveling your crafters would be as follows:
1. Get all crafters to Lv 15

2. Get Culinarian to Lv 37 for Steady Hand II
3. Get Carpenter to Lv 50 for Byregot’s Blessing
4. Get Weaver to Lv 50 for Careful Synthesis II
5. Get Alchemist to Lv 50 for Comfort Zone
6. Get all crafters to Lv 50
7. Get Culinarian to Lv 54 for Muscle Memory
8. Get Goldsmith to Lv 54 for Maker’s Mark
You’re free to level your crafters in whatever order after this, but if you want to self-
sufficiently level them, I recommend leveling them simultaneously. Leveling
gatherers simultaneously with crafters is also strongly recommended so that you
can procure materials self-sufficiently.
On the other hand, if you want to get into gathering, then there is zero need for you
to level other classes; however, you’ll not be able to gear yourself to the
recommended stat breakpoints without crafting. So you would either have to settle
for less-than-ideal gear or buy gathering gear from the market board or commission
a crafter.
The 8 Crafter Classes

There are currently 8 crafting classes in this game. They are:
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Carpenter (CRP)
Carpenters specialize in the processing of

lumber and wooden materials. They are sort
of a jack-of-all-trades, being able to craft a
good amount of furniture, some weapons,
some accessories, and some crafter and
gatherer tools. Currently, in 4.2, the
specialist-locked recipes1 for CRP contains a
primal furniture.
Important Cross-class Skills (underlined

are ones that are used in current end-
game):
- Rumination (Lv15)
- Byregot’s Blessing (Lv50)
Current end-game Composite Mats:
- Lumbers
Current end-game specialty (bolded are ones that are new in 4.2):
- Byakko Sideboard
- Gatherer BiS for Fishing Rods (for fishers)
- Dragoon crafted weapon
- Bard crafted weapon
- Crafted wrist slot (for all DoW/DoM jobs)
- Crafted neck slot (for all DoW/DoM jobs)
- Crafter BiS (best-in-slot) for earring, neck, wrist, and rings slots (as of 4.2)
- Crafter BiS for off hands of GSM, WVR
1 Each character can have at most three specialists at any one time. Each specialist unlocks
specialist-exclusive recipes that can only be crafted by specialists of that type.
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Blacksmith (BSM)
Blacksmiths primarily specialize in the

crafting of most main-hand weapons
for DoW jobs and main-hand and off-
hand tools for most DoH/DoL classes.
Currently, in 4.2, there are no specialist-
locked BSM recipes.
Important Cross-class Skills:
- Ingenuity (Lv15)
- Ingenuity II (Lv50)
Current end-game Composite Mats:
- Metal Ingots
Current end-game specialty:
- Machinist crafted weapon
- Warrior crafted weapon
- Ninja crafted weapon
- Dark Knight crafted weapon
- Monk crafted weapon
- Paladin crafted weapon
- Samurai crafted weapon
- Crafter BiS for main hands of CRP, BSM, ARM, GSM, LTW
- Crafter BiS for off hands of CRP, BSM, ARM, LTW, ALC, CUL
- Gatherer BiS for main hands of MIN, BTN
- Gatherer BiS for off hands of MIN, BTN

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Armorer (ARM)
Armorers specialize in crafting the armor for

“heavy” jobs, which are usually tanks and
dragoon. They are also proficient in handling
metals, such as alembics, frypans, and
metallic bardings and miniatures. Currently,
in 4.2, the specialist-locked recipes for ARM
contain two metal aquariums.
- Rapid Synthesis (Lv15)
- Piece by Piece (Lv50)
Current End-game Composite Mats:
- Metal Ingots
Current End-game Specialty:
- Metal Aquarium
- Paladin crafted shield
- Tank left side crafted gear
- Dragoon left side crafted gear
- Crafter BiS for main hands of ALC, CUL

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Goldsmith (GSM)
Goldsmiths are adept at handling

metals at a micro-level, which gives rise
to their aptitude in creating jewelry and
weapons that require the channeling of
aether. Their sense of fine control also
enables them to craft needles for
weavers. Usually, they’ll craft a huge
portion of accessories, but in 4.1, the
specialist-locked recipes for GSM
contains the new primal barding.
- Manipulation (Lv15)
- Flawless Synthesis (Lv37)
- Innovation (Lv50)
- Maker’s Mark (Lv54)
- Metal Ingots
- Byakko Barding
- Astrologian crafted weapon
- Red Mage crafted weapon
- Black Mage crafted weapon
- Crafted head slot gear for SAM / MNK
- Crafted earring and ring slot (for all DoW/DoM)
- Crafter BiS for main hand of WVR

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Leatherworker (LTW)
Leatherworkers craft a huge chunk of left

side gear throughout the entire game,
along with weavers. They usually craft left
side armor for “lighter” jobs such as ninjas,
bards, and machinists. Some monk
weapons are crafted by leatherworkers (but
not in this tier). In 4.2, the specialist-locked
recipes for LTW contains a primal furniture.
- Waste Not (Lv15)
- Waste Not II (Lv50)
- Leathers
- Byakko Throne
- Physical Ranged left side crafted gear
- Left side crafted gear for DoW / DoM
- Crafter BiS for hands and feet slot
- Gatherer BiS for hands and feet slot
- Gatherer BiS for earring, neck, wrist, and rings slot (as of 4.2)
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Weaver (WVR)
Weavers are probably one of the most

important crafters out of the eight.
They craft most of the current “rich”
glamour (for 4.2 that is Adventurer
Sweater), a significant portion of left
side gear for all jobs, including
crafters and gatherers, and in
addition to that, craft several in-
demand minions. In Patch 4.2, there
are no specialist WVR recipes.
- Careful Synthesis (Lv15)
- Careful Synthesis II (Lv50)
- Cloths
- Crafted left side gear for DoW/DoM
- Crafter BiS for head, body, waist, and legs slot
- Gatherer BiS for head, body, waist, and legs slot

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Alchemist (ALC)
Alchemists don’t usually craft the end-

product. They are akin to a “support” class for
crafters, crafting many of the core composite
materials for each tier’s most relevant
recipes. In addition to that, they also craft
special furniture related to primals, such as
the Sephirot Tree and, in this tier, Shinryu’s
Wing. Currently, in 4.2, they provide the
composite material for 90% of other crafters’
endgame recipes. Its only specialist-locked
recipes are two orchestrion rolls.
- Tricks of the Trade (Lv15)
- Comfort Zone (Lv50)
- Grade 3 Reisui
- Grade 2 Infusion
- Grade 3 Reisui
- New Orchestrion Rolls
- Scholar Crafted Weapon
- Summoner Crafted Weapon

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Culinarian (CUL)
Culinarian as a crafter is nearly

completely independent of other
crafters, outside of cross-class skills.
It requires virtually no composite
materials from other classes, and
other crafters demand almost zero
composite materials from CUL
(exceptions include: Distilled Water,
Clove Oil, etc.) Unfortunately, in
patch 4.2, there are no specialist-
locked recipes for CUL.
- Hasty Touch (Lv15)
- Steady Hand II (Lv37)
- Reclaim (Lv50)
- Muscle Memory (Lv54)
(none)
- BiS Food for Crafter
- BiS Food for Gatherer
- BiS Food for all DoW/DoM
The 3 Gatherer Classes

There are 3 gatherer classes in this game at the moment, they are:
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Miner (MIN)
Miner primarily
supplies the
“hard” stuff for
crafters, such as
ores, gemstones
and sand. It also
supplies some
alchemy
materials,
especially water.
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Botanist (BTN)
Botanists, on the
other hand, supply
the “softer” stuff for
crafters, such as
cotton, logs, and
alchemical
ingredients as
flowers.
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Fisher (FSH)
Fishers don’t
generally supply a
lot of materials for
crafters except for
CULs. They have
their own mini-
game of catching
rare big fishes
(which are not
used in any
recipes). In this
tier, outside of
fishes used in
culinarian recipes,
their only
contribution to
crafting are
aethersands2 and
one fish (snailfish).
2 Aethersands are special reagents that are only obtained via aetherial reduction, which will
be expounded upon later in the guide.
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Real Talk
I want to talk about this again, because this is very important. You need to level all
crafters to Lv 50 / 54 at minimum for the cross-class skills to be able to craft
efficiently in the endgame. If you don’t have the time to level all crafters up but
still want to make gil, stop right here and consider these options:
1. Gathering: It’s easy to level up and it makes good, albeit not great, gil.
2. Not Crafting: There are actually many ways to make gil without crafting or
gathering, such as selling materias from Cracked Clusters.
3. Treasure Maps: This is actually pretty good gil and if you hit a jackpot that’s an
instant 4m/5m in 4.1.
4. Selling clears: I’m not kidding. If you don’t have the time to level crafters, this is
probably the best method of getting gil (assuming you can find a content
selling group).
With that out of the way, let’s move on to…
Macros
Ironically, learning about macros is more important than anything else in your crafter
kit, so let’s start with this. Most endgame crafters use macros to craft their recipes in
order to efficiently craft without human error. It also provides the ability to “AFK-
craft”, i.e. watch Netflix while pressing a
macro every 45 seconds.
To access your macros, go to System -> User

Macros:
Here is a sample edgy combat macro.
The first line indicates the picture the macro

should use. /micon is short for /macroicon.
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The second line tells the server that Sky Reckoner wants to /say “I don’t need armor…
the SHADOW is my wall.”
The third line tells the server that Sky Reckoner wants to execute the action called
Shadow Wall. /ac is short for /action.
Here’s a sample crafting macro that

you’d likely use a thousand times in
the endgame.
The first fourteen lines are various

actions the macro is ordered to
execute, in sequence. Note that the
quotes are necessary.
/ac Ingenuity II
would not work, for example.
After each of the fourteen lines,

there is a wait command.
<wait.2> orders the macro to pause

for 2 seconds before moving on to
the next action. This is because each
crafter action has an animation
delay. Note that non-integer values
are not accepted. For example,
<wait.1.5> is invalid and will be
rounded up to <wait.2>.
Some actions have a longer animation than others. Typically, synthesis, touch,
Observe, Master’s Mend I/II, Lv69 Specialty actions, and Tricks of the Trade
require <wait.3> to follow, while all other actions such as Ingenuity require <wait.2>
only. If your connection to the game is bad or you
have high ping, you need to change <wait.2> to
<wait.3>.
In order to use your macro, you simply need to drag

the macro from the User Macros interface onto a
spot on your hotbar, and click / press the corresponding key to execute the macro.
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The Basics of Synthesis

In order to craft anything, you need to open your Crafting Log, which can be
accessed with [N].
In Square [ 1 ], you can choose to view the recipes of the crafter you wish to look at.
The last button opens the recipe search menu. Note that you have to change to a
weaver gearset before you can craft weaver recipes, for example.
In Square [ 2 ], you can look at the basic parameters of the chosen recipe. Difficulty
indicates the amount of progress you need to synthesize before the craft is
complete. Durability indicates the amount of actions you can take before the craft
breaks apart. Quality indicates the amount of quality increase you need to touch
before the craft reaches max quality. At max quality, the chance of the item to
become High-Quality is 100%. We will go into each of these in more detail below.
In Square [ 3 ], you can select the recipe level of the recipe you wish to view and also
switch to the special recipes menu, shown on the left.
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In Square [ 4 ], you can see the

materials required in order to
craft a specific recipe, as well as
the amount of normal quality
(NQ), and high quality (HQ)
materials available in your
inventory.
Notice that selecting 2 HQ Raw

Rhodonites for crafting a
Rhodonite has increased the
Quality value from 0 to 3384.
This is what is called the initial
quality. When beginning a craft
with HQ materials, the initial
quality will increase by a set
amount, making it easier to max
out the quality gauge.
To begin crafting a specific

recipe, simply press
[ Synthesize ]
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Progress, Quality, and CP
Once we begin synthesizing, your crafting screen should look somewhat like this.
Notice that the middle of your parameters bar is not MP, but rather, CP. This is the
only important resource for crafters - HP and TP don’t matter.
A small window will pop out, showing Durability, Step, Condition, Progress, HQ%,
and Quality. We’ll go through each one by one, but let’s first start with [ Quit ].
You can abort a synthesis attempt at any time by pressing Quit. If you’re on Step 1,
then using Quit will not destroy any of your materials you’re using to craft.
Otherwise, there is a chance that your materials will be destroyed by prematurely
aborting the craft. Other than this, your Step count doesn’t really matter.
Progress is the amount of Synthesis attempts you need to complete the craft. An
action such as Basic Synthesis would increase the progress of the craft like so:
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Your goal for every craft is to max out the progress bar by the end of the synthesis
attempt. Because your final
action is always a Synthesis
action, you must increase as
much quality as you can
before completing the craft
with Synthesis actions.
There are many different types

of Synthesis actions. We’ll go
into more detail of each
Synthesis action as we go on. Only Synthesis actions (which include actions such as
Muscle Memory) are capable of increasing progress.
Max Quality is the amount of

Touch attempts that you need
plus your initial quality to
guarantee 100% HQ on a craft.
If you can’t max out the
quality gauge, you still have a
chance to synthesize a high-
quality item, based on this
chart:
The key here is that you need

to fill the quality bar by 75% in
order to have a roughly 50%
shot at HQing the item. Filling
the quality bar by 50% will
only give you a 15% chance to
HQ. Note that this graph is not
continuous, but is rather in intervals of 1%. 50.1% of the quality bar filled is exactly as
good as 50.9%.
In order to increase the quality bar of your craft, you need to use actions like Basic
Touch. Similar to progress, there are many different Touch actions, and only Touch
actions (including actions like Byregot’s Blessing and Trained Hand) are capable of
increasing the quality.
Notice that unlike Basic Synthesis, Basic Touch has a CP (crafting points) cost
associated with it. There are ways, later, to restore CP, but for now, think of it as a
fixed amount of mana you have to spend on actions.
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Crucially, you need to plan out your CP consumption carefully. You should always
save enough CP to execute a finisher in order to complete the craft. A finisher is
a series of actions that complete quality and progress.
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Durability
Besides CP, you also
need to watch out for
durability. If a synthesis
attempt is not
completed when
durability drops to 0 or
below, then the craft is
botched.
As such
you must
always
ensure that
you do not
make an
action that
will reduce
the durability of the item to 0 or below without completing the craft. Generally,
synthesis and touch actions reduce the durability of the item (there are exceptions),
while supportive actions that directly increases neither progress nor quality do not.
Most synthesis and touch actions reduce the durability of the item by 10 each time.
In addition, there are

several actions in this
game that help you
manage durability, by
either restoring durability
to the item, or halving any
durability costs. This
creates a caveat: if you
complete a craft with a 10
durability cost action
successfully from 5
remaining durability, the
craft will still complete.
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Condition
There are 4 possible conditions in this game: Normal, Good, Excellent, and Poor.
These conditions affect the rate at which quality increases on that step. They appear
randomly on each valid step, dependent on Recipe Level.
Recipe Level Normal Good Excellent
Lv 1 - Lv 54 73% 25% 2%
Lv 55 - Lv 59 83% 15% 2%
Lv 60 - Lv 60 **** 89% 10% 1%
Lv 61 - Lv 64 78% 20% 2%
Lv 65 - Lv 70 83% 15% 2%
Lv 70 * - Lv 70 ** 89% 10% 1%
These percentages exclude invalid steps, meaning any step that has a forced
condition, based on these rules:
1. The condition on Step 1 is always Normal.

2. The condition after a Good is always Normal.
3. The condition after an Excellent is always Poor.
4. The condition after a Poor is always Normal.
In addition, the condition of a synthesis only affects quality increases, and not
progress.
- Good Condition modifies any quality increase by an additional 50%, for a total
of 150%.
- Excellent Condition modifies any quality increase by an additional 300%, for a
total of 400%.
- Poor Condition halves any quality increase, for a total of 50%.
Conditions are still relevant even if you’re not manually crafting. A finisher touch
action landing on a Poor can ruin your entire macro, possibly causing the craft to
NQ. Ways around this include absorbing prior Excellent procs with a “throwaway”
conditional action, or breaking the macro before a finisher touch combo and
manually checking the condition.
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Quick Synthesis
Quick Synthesis is a tool for crafters to mass-produce a particular item without
actually manually synthesizing it. Each synthesis within quicksynth has a chance to
fail if the recipe’s level is close to your current level and/or you do not have sufficient
craftsmanship. In addition, CP also affects quicksynth success rate, as recently
discovered on the Balance Discord.
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Crafter Attributes
Crafters only have to concern themselves with 3 attributes, or stats, most of the time:
Craftsmanship, Control, and CP. Your crafter level is also important in very obfuscated
ways. To view your crafter stats, press [ C ] or enter the Character menu from
Character -> Character.
Craftsmanship
We have discussed progress and quality. Now we’ll discuss the relationship between
craftsmanship and progress. The amount of progress increase from a given
Synthesis action is roughly proportional to the crafter’s Craftsmanship stat3.
However, there are modifiers based on crafter and recipe levels that affect progress
too, meaning that, for the same amount of craftsmanship, you’ll get different
amounts of progress increase while crafting a Lv 53 recipe and a Lv 42 recipe.
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Generally, the bulk of your craftsmanship comes from the tools and your body piece
gear.
Control
Control is similarly related to Touch actions and quality increases just as
Craftsmanship is to Synthesis and progress increases. Generally, the bulk of your
control comes from your tools, and the rest of your left side gear.
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CP (Crafting Points)
If Craftsmanship affects progress strength, Control affects quality strength, then
we can say that CP affects your rotation strength. Because most actions require CP,
the amount of actions you can input into a synthesis attempt is directly correlated
with the amount of CP you have. As such, CP is an incredibly important attribute for
crafters. Reaching higher amounts of CP will allow you to unlock the ability to access
better and stronger rotations. And the stronger the rotation, the more likely you are
to HQ the craft.
Food
Consuming food will grant a buff that lasts for 30 ~ 45 minutes (depending on any
squadron manuals you may have used and your FC buffs (Meat & Mead)). There is
also a whole subset of crafter and gatherer food that grants bonus attributes. Of
particular note are CP-focused food. Typically, the BiS food for crafters in a given tier
is the food that gives the most increase in CP. For beginning crafters I would
recommend consuming Stone Soup. You can purchase Stone Soup at the following
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locations:
Once you reach Lv 35 or so, you can either continue on with Stone Soup, or purchase
cheap CP food on the market board. At Lv 60 and onwards, I would recommend
buying Tempura Platter from the Kugane food vendor. Food is invaluable to crafters,
so I definitely recommend eating at least Stone Soup when crafting to get the +3%
XP boost and some precious CP. Remember, increasing your CP allows you to use
more potent rotations!
What Should I Meld?

This is another question that is asked so often so I’ll get straight to the point:
- If you are below Lv 70 there is almost never a need to meld anything outside
of cheap CP melds.
- If you are at Lv 70, then…
- Figure out the minimum stats required for the macro or rotation that
you intend to use for the highest tier currently in the game.
- Meld to those minimum stats, ideally cap CP, then pour the remaining
melds into Control.
- If you do not know what macro or rotation you are going to use, or you’re
melding for the future in preparation, then:
- CP > Craftsmanship > Control
The reasoning for this is that having the highest CP possible gives you the best
chance at being able to utilize the most powerful macros or rotations theorycrafted
for that tier. These powerful macros and rotations will also often have a
Craftsmanship requirement in order to actually complete the synthesis without
botching it. The reason why Control is the least important only when you do not
know what macros to anticipate is that you can always choose to use HQ materials
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to increase the initial quality. You can’t do that with low Craftsmanship and low CP
outside of picking another macro. However, if you do know the macro you intend to
use, then once you meld to the minimum stats, Control is the only meld you should
meld in addition to the minimum stats, in order to lower the initial quality needed to
successfully 100% HQ the craft.
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The Basics of MIN/BTN Node Collection

Unlike crafting you’ll quickly find that this guide is light on the mechanics of
gathering... that’s because there isn’t much to gathering!
One of the more frequent questions asked in the Novice Network related to
gathering is: where do I find a node?
If you are a Miner, simply exit through any of Ul’Dah’s gates. If you’re a Botanist, exit
through any of Gridania’s gates. In this example we are a miner and exit through
Western Thanalan.
For Miners, Prospect should automatically be turned on when you equip a Miner
Main Hand tool.
For Botanists, that would be Triangulate:

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Once you exit through the gate though… you’ll see nothing. Don’t freak out, just keep
walking.
You will eventually see a yellow pickaxe or branch

symbol on your minimap. Simply keep walking
towards it.
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You’ll see a shiny light on a piece of rock or on a tree. Interact with it by right-clicking
on it or pressing whatever button you mapped to interact.
Node Collection
A screen somewhat like this should appear. Simply click on the item you need to
collect in order to collect the item.
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As you collect, notice that the “health” of the node has gone down. This means that
your strike has consumed 25% of the node’s overall resources, and 75% of the node’s
resources remain. Practically this simply means you have 4 gathering attempts in
total, and only 3 remain.
On the item itself, you will see four attributes.
The Gathering Rate is the success rate of each gathering attempt you make on that
item.
The HQ Rate is the rate at which you obtain high-quality versions of that item
provided a successful attempt at gathering.
The Gathering Level difference with your gatherer’s level affects the base Gathering
Rate. If you are at the same level as the gathering level, your base chance to gather
is capped at 95%.
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Gathering, Perception, and GP (Gathering Points)
Unlike the relationship between craftsmanship and progress, we do not know if

Gathering has a linear relationship with Gathering Rate, or if Perception has a
linear relationship with HQ Rate.
Suffice to say though, Gathering Rate on an item is dependent on your Gathering

attribute, and Perception affects the HQ Rate at which you gather the item.
Your GP affects the amount of abilities you are able to execute on a node, but we
have not obtained any yet. However, reaching crucial GP breakpoints, such as 600
GP at Lv60, and 730 GP at Lv70, is incredibly important as they allow you to use the
best rotations to maximize gathering efficiency.
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The Basics of Fishing

First, equip your Fishing Rod.
Next, obtain bait. The Fisher Lv1 quest will give you some bait to start off, but if you
ever need more bait or other types of bait, you can purchase them from vendors. In
Limsa Lominsa, that would be from the Fieldcraft Merchant.
Bait
In order to catch any fish, you’ll need a bait:
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Once you obtain bait, you can practically fish anywhere where there is water, but
your bait may not be suited for that location.
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Different baits catch different fishes, and different locations contain different fishes.
To determine where and with what bait to catch a fish, visit the cat became hungry
site listed under the Useful Resources section.
To fish, simply use the ability Cast. Once you hear and see your fishing rod tug, use
the ability Hook. That is all there is to the majority of your fishing experience.
Fishing Windows
Certain fishes only spawn during certain times or weathers. Simply look at the Time
Zone section for your fish to determine when it is fishable.
For example, here we can see that the fish can not be fished from 10 - 16 Eorzean
Time.
And we can see that this fish is better fished during a rain.
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EXP
For Lv 1 - 50 crafters, in terms of XP gain for the amount of effort you put in (these are
all personal opinions, not fact-based):
Starred Daily GC turn-in > Ixali Quests > Levequest > Daily GC turn-in >
Completing the Recipe List
For Lv 51 - 60 crafters:
Custom Deliveries (Lv55+) > Starred Daily GC turn-in > Moogle Quests >
Levequest > Daily GC turn-in > Collectables > Completing the Recipe List
For Lv 61 - 70 crafters:
Custom Deliveries > Starred Daily GC turn-in > Levequest > Daily GC turn-in >
Collectables > Completing the Recipe List
For Lv 1 - 50 gatherers:
Starred Daily GC turn-in > Levequest > Daily GC turn-in > Manual Grinding
Custom Deliveries (Lv55+) > Starred Daily GC turn-in > Levequest > Daily GC turn-
in > Collectables > Manual Grinding
Custom Deliveries > Starred Daily GC turn-in > Collectables > Levequest > Daily
GC turn-in > Manual Grinding
For details of each leveling method, please read below:

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Recipe List
Completing the Recipe List involves, basically, crafting every single entry in a given
section of the crafting log at least once. When you successfully synthesize an item in
the crafting log for the first time, a tick is shown on the recipe to indicate that you
have successfully crafted it. Crafting an item for the first time in the crafting log also
confers a first-time bonus that correlates with the recipe level. You do not gain
first-time bonuses for crafting anything falling under Special Recipes, other than
housing items (these do give first-time bonuses). Additionally, the more quality
you fill in the quality bar, the more bonus XP you’ll get for the synthesis of an
item. This high quality bonus is independent from the first-time bonus.
Although slower than all other methods, completing the Recipe List is the only
method that isn’t time-gated at all below Lv50. All other methods below Lv50 are
partially or fully time-gated. Furthermore, completing the recipe list allows you to
make gil while leveling crafters by selling items created on the market board, since
you don’t have to turn-in the items you have made.
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Crafting and Gathering Manuals
If you intend to gain XP by completing the recipe list, I recommend grabbing some
crafting manuals while you’re at it. There are three types of manuals: +50%, +150%,
and +20%. The +20% manual is stackable with the other two, but the +50% and
+150% manuals are mutually exclusive. Read the tooltip: it does not boost XP from
any source other than synthesis.
I recommend grabbing survival manuals no matter what activity you’re doing to

level gatherers, whether it be levequests or manual grinding. As with the crafter
manuals, there are three types of manuals: +50%, +150%, and +20%, which are
stackable for a total of +70%/+170% per strike on a node.
The first type of crafting manual, the +50% XP, contains the Company-issue
Engineering Manual I (req. GC Private First Class), which grants a maximum of
50,000 points, and the Company-Issue Engineering Manual II (req. GC Sergeant First
Class), which grants a maximum of 100,000 points. Similar requirements and
maximum XP apply for the Company-Issue Survival Manual I & II. The +50% crafting
manual can be purchased with grand company seals immediately as you start
crafting. These manuals can be purchased from your GC Quartermaster.
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The second type, the +150% manuals, is bought with red crafter / gatherer scrips
from any Scrip Exchange vendor.
Under the Red Crafters’ / Gatherers’ Scrip Exchange (Lv50) menu, you’ll see
Commercial Engineering / Survival Manual. These manuals provide a +150% boost
to experience from synthesis for a total of 300,000 points for a pretty cheap 30 red
scrips. The catch is that you’re unlikely to be able to obtain them until much later
when you have crafters or gatherers at Lv 55 or above, as you are otherwise unable to
obtain red scrips before then.
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The final type of

engineering / survival
manual, the +20%s, require
significant investment into
growing your GC squadron
to obtain. These give a +20%
boost to EXP earned from
crafting (does not include
leve or collectible rewards)
or gathering, but they do
not have a cap, meaning
that in the 120m duration
that you crafted or
gathered, you could gain as
much bonus XP as is
humanly possible. However,
as these manuals are locked
behind weekly squadron
missions (that you can only
do once per week), they are
hard to get and are
therefore a luxury more
than anything.
To reiterate, the +50%

manuals and the +150%
manuals are NOT
stackable. However, the
+50% manuals can stack
with the +20% manuals.
The +150% manuals can
stack with the +20%
manuals too.
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Daily GC turn-ins
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At your GC Personnel Officer, you can undertake Supply and Provisioning Missions
to enter this screen, which shows you a list of requested items that the GC wants for
that day. In return for turning in the requested items, you gain a significant chunk of
experience and grand company seals. If an item is starred on that day, you’ll get
double the experience and grand company seals. Turning in HQ items also grant a
stackable double XP modifier. This means that turning in an HQ starred item
grants you 4 times the XP as usual. This method of leveling is only repeatable once
per day. A list of requested items for today can be found under the Timers Menu
(Ctrl+U).
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Levequests
In order to unlock levequests, you need to first complete a trial leve for a given
levemete, which this guide will not go into.
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Leves are universally recognized as the go-to leveling method for crafters and for
pre-60 gatherers. To initiate Levequests, visit any Levemetes like this. Select
Fieldcraft Leves if you’re looking for gathering leves, and Tradecraft Leves if you’re
looking for crafter leves. Once you enter the levequests screen, you’ll see a selection
of leves that you can choose from. Selecting one by clicking Accept will use up 1
Leve Allowance. You only get 6 leve allowances every day, with 3 regenerating every
12 hours, so do use your leve allowances wisely. However, if you, like most players,
have been neglecting to check levequests, you’ll see that you start out with 100
allowances, which is the leve allowances cap. This is usually plenty for casual crafter
leveling. If you want to powerlevel multiple crafters in quick succession though, you’ll
find that you’ll soon run out of levequest allowances.
Once you accept a Tradecraft levequest, all you have to do is obtain, through any
means (this means you don’t necessarily have to craft it yourself), a copy of the
requested item, preferably HQ, and turn it in to the person indicated by the quest
text.
Delivery of an HQ item confers a +100% bonus XP, so where possible, it is highly

recommended to turn in HQ leve items.
This is a basic overview of crafter leves. For more information about crafter leves and
gatherer leves, please read the corresponding sections later in this guide.
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Collectables
In order to unlock Collectables, you need to complete the quest Inscrutable Tastes,
which this guide will not go in detail.
Collectables generally provide less XP than levequests, but they are not time-gated,
unlike levequests. You can do as many as you want. Simply look at today’s requested
collectibles and craft or gather them. You can also access a list of today’s requested
collectibles under the Timers Menu (Ctrl+U).
More info about collectables will be discussed in the relevant section later in the
guide, including rotations for gathering collectables.
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Ixali and Moogle Quests
To unlock Ixali quests, you have to do the quest A Bad Bladder. Ixali quests are
only useful for crafters from Lv 1 to Lv 49. Once you have reached Lv 50, Ixali
quests will give severely penalized XP.
To unlock Moogle quests, you have to do 19 torture exercises known as Moogle

sidequests, the details of which can be found in this thread. Moogle quests are only
useful for crafters from Lv 50 to Lv 59. Once you have reached Lv 60, Moogle
quests will give severely penalized XP.
The beauty of Ixali and Moogle quests is that all materials except shards and crystals
are provided to you, meaning you do not need to spend any money procuring
materials to do these quests. Furthermore, they grant a huge chunk of XP daily and
are incredibly easy to do. These should always be prioritized over other methods of
leveling.
In many Moogle quests you don’t even do any crafting, but go on silly little
adventures like this:
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There’s a catch to it though: Ixali and Moogle quests are time-gated. You could only
do a few of these quests every day.
You have a daily allowance of 12 quests for all beast tribes. This means that if you do
12 Ixali quests for a day, you will have no more allowances left to do any Moogle
quests. You can check your beast tribe allowances left for the day under the Timers
Menu (Ctrl+U).
The Ixalis also have a separate, daily delivery system, requesting specific items to
turn-in for that day. In order to turn-in items, players must accept the daily quest
Deliverance from the Ehcatl Nine Manciple, which uses up a beast tribe allowance
for that day. The aim of the quest Deliverance is to turn-in enough items such that
you get enough quota points, which can be viewed under the Ehactl Nine Delivery
Quests menu. Turning in items requested grants quota points and XP; the higher
the recipe level of the items turned in, the more quota points and XP are rewarded.
To view the items requested for the day, look under the Timers Menu (Ctrl+U). Similar
to the GC daily turn-ins, the Ixalis also have starred turn-ins. However, unlike GC turn-
ins, these do not provide double XP, but merely bonus XP, and no bonus quota
points. Additionally, turning in HQ items yield double the XP reward, but no bonus
quota points. As such, it is in your best interest to turn in HQ items, but don't fret if
you can't.
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Besides the delivery quests, the Ixali also have regular beast tribe missions. Initially, at
rank 1, you will only have one questgiver providing 3 quests for you to do per day.
Once you do those 3 quests, you’ll no longer be able to accept any more quests from
that particular questgiver for the day, even if you have extra beast tribe allowances
left. Each regular quest and the Deliverance quest will grant beast tribe reputation.
You can check your beast tribe reputation under the Character Menu:
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As you gain more reputation with the beast tribe, you will eventually accrue enough
reputation points to unlock a beast tribe quest that does not consume an
allowance. This special blue-signed quest will allow you to unlock the next rank of
the beast tribe. For the Ixali, ranking up will unlock a new questgiver. The new
questgiver offers harder, but more rewarding quests than the questgiver of the
previous rank. For Moogles, ranking up will grant you reset the questgiver for that
day, allowing you to do 3 more quests on the same day. However, unlike the Ixali,
ranking up in Moogles will not unlock more questgivers; it will, however, unlock more
quest varieties and boost the rewards from each quest permanently. Therefore, it is
eventually possible to do 12 Ixali quests every day but you can only do 3 Moogle
quests every day unless you rank up on that day.
In the later Ixali quests, you’ll sometimes get debuffs that decrease your CP, or lock
cross-class skills, like these:
You’ll need to work with these restrictions to successfully complete the quest but do
note that you can right-click off the debuff once you complete the craft, so that
your next synthesis attempt does not have two running debuffs, making it hard to
complete the craft. You only have to worry about this with Jezul Ahuatan’s quests.
Duzal Meyean and Jezul Ahuatan’s quests will also give you debuffs that lock cross-
class skills. If you have been following the recommended leveling guide for crafters,
then you should be able to use either a high level Culinarian or Weaver to craft
these items, as you will have access to Careful Synthesis, or Steady Hand II + Hasty
Touch, then turn it in with a lower level crafter, if you so wish.
The later quests are sometimes extremely difficult without a high level crafter. You’ll
have to constantly attempt to HQ with 15%~20% odds with a Lv30~40 crafter. There is
no way around it unfortunately.
Custom Deliveries
Custom Deliveries are a weekly-gated turn-in system featuring Zhloe and M’naago.
To unlock Zhloe, complete the quest Arms Wide Open.
To unlock M’naago, complete the quest Reach Long and Prosper.
Custom Deliveries require you to have a Lv60 crafter to unlock, so you’ll not be able to
use it for your first class to Lv60. Zhloe turn-ins require a Lv55+, and not a Lv60
class to turn-in, however.
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To access Custom Deliveries,

enter your Timers menu
(Ctrl+U) and open Custom
Deliveries. You’ll be able to
select the client and look at
what they’re requesting for the
week. You can turn in up to a
maximum of 6 items per client
per week. As you turn in items,
you gain satisfaction with the
client, eventually ranking up.
Each new rank unlocks
tougher, but more rewarding
turn-ins. These items need to
be collectables. For more
information on how to craft or
gather collectables, please visit
the corresponding sections
later in the guide. The
materials for crafting the
collectables requested can be
found at the Material Supplier
in Mor Dhona for M’naago, and
the Scrap Salvager in Idyllshire for Zhloe.
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PART II: Basic Crafter Guide

Crafter: Lv 1 - 14
So you just unlocked your first crafter and proceeded to read this guide and sifted
through 50 pages of “Basics”. Now let’s actually craft something instead of reading
about crafting!
First, equip the tool you just got from the unlock quest and create a new gear set for
it.
Second, open the crafting log. You can press [ N ] or click on Logs -> Crafting Log.
You’ll see recipes. Select the first Lv1 recipe for your crafter, and check the materials
required for the synthesis of that recipe.
Third, purchase the materials required from the guild’s vendor, which should be
located near the guild’s front desk (or outside the guild for BSM/ARM).
Fourth, open the crafting log again, select the recipe, and hit [ Synthesis ]. The
basics of Synthesis, including the meaning of Progress and Quality, have been
elaborated already in this guide. Please revisit the appropriate sections if you
have no idea what the following section is talking about. A guide on how to gear
up as you level is in a separate Part of the guide.
Lv 1 - Basic Synthesis
You should see a window similar to this. Notice that you require 9 Progress to
complete the synthesis. Do not worry about the quality for now, as you have no
Touch actions unlocked at Lv 1. Your only skill so far is Basic Synthesis.
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You’ll see a tool-tip for Basic Synthesis if you hover over the button for the skill. First,
you’ll notice that the skill has 0 CP Cost.
A brief description indicates that the skill increases progress, which is what we need
to complete the craft.
Its efficiency is 100%. Efficiency is the measure of an action’s strength relative to

the basic variant of the skill. The basic variant of Basic Synthesis is itself, so its
efficiency being at 100% means that it is the baseline action for progress-increasing
skills. All other Synthesis skills with Efficiency will give a progress increase based on a
multiplier of this skill.
The success rate is 90%. This means that each Basic Synthesis has a 10% chance to
fail.
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Now, simply use Basic Synthesis until the progress hits 9 out of 9. If you’re starting
out at Lv 1, this should mean that you have to use Basic Synthesis successfully twice
before completing the craft, as each should grant 6 Progress. A failed Basic Synthesis
action will not increase progress.
Once you complete the craft, you’ll obtain the item you have just crafted in your
inventory, and gain XP for the synthesis. If this is your first time crafting the item, you
will also get a first-time bonus for crafting the item.
Completing the Recipe List

The fastest way to level to Lv 15 is by simply completing the recipe list. This also
serves as practice for the very fundamentals of crafting. I recommend using the
shopping cart tool in one of the sites I linked under Useful Resources to compile a
list of materials to purchase from the guild vendor. The crafting as a service site is
fantastic for this purpose as it automatically generates a shopping list for you if you
input the level range of the recipes you want to craft:
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Lv 5 - Basic Touch
The next skill you obtain, at Lv 5, will be Basic Touch.
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Similar to Basic Synthesis, Basic Touch is the baseline for all Touch skills, as its
efficiency is 100%.
The affinity of a skill indicates whether it is a cross-class skill or otherwise. If it is a

cross-class skill, the affinity would be Disciples of the Hand instead of a specific
class.
From Lv 5 onwards, every synthesis attempt would be a game of balancing Touch

actions, Synthesis actions, CP, and durability.
Your goal is to increase the quality as much as possible while ensuring that you can
complete the synthesis by completing progress.
Let’s take a 60 durability recipe for instance. I would execute the following rotation:
[Basic Touch] -> [Basic Touch] -> [Basic Touch] -> [Basic Synthesis] -> [Basic Synthesis]
-> (Basic Synthesis)
Square bracketed actions indicate necessary actions. The last round-bracketed Basic
Synthesis is an optional failsafe in case one of the previous Basic Synthesis fails.
First, we want to figure out how many Synthesis actions I would need to complete
the craft. You can either test this by using a Synthesis action at the beginning of the
craft attempt, or use a crafting simulator (linked in Useful Resources).
In this example, I realize that I need 2 Synthesis actions to complete the craft.
Therefore, I decide to be able to perform at least 3 Synthesis actions, in case one of
them fails, because the success rate is not 100%. As each Synthesis action consumes
10 durability, this leaves us with 30 out of 60 durability left for other actions.
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Since we only have one other skill at this level, we will use them for Basic Touch in
order to increase the quality of the item and have a better chance at HQing the item.
If it isn’t already obvious, note that the above rotation is wrong. This is because once
you complete all progress on the craft, you can no longer add any quality to it.
Lv 7 - Master’s Mend
Master’s Mend is the first action you obtain that restores the durability during a craft.
Let’s create a sample rotation around it for a 60 durability recipe.
Master’s Mend allows us to perform more actions, as its practical effect is to add an
additional 30 durability to the recipe. Note that you cannot use Master’s Mend at 0
durability. Also note that Master’s Mend cannot restore durability more than the
maximum durability. So if you use Master’s Mend at 40 / 60 durability, you’ll not get
70 / 60, but rather, 60 / 60 durability. As such, try to always use it before the craft
reaches 0 durability. 10, 20, or 30 durability are good places for a 60 durability recipe.
Notice that Master’s Mend has a very high CP cost, however. So do be careful not to
reduce CP to below Master’s Mend’s required CP, 92, before using it. Otherwise you
may get stuck with low durability while being unable to use Master’s Mend, and thus
not have enough durability left for Synthesis action to complete the progress.
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Lv 9 - Steady Hand
Steady Hand is the first buffing action we come across. When you
activate it, you’ll see a buff on your HUD, indicating the number of
steps left that Steady Hand is active for.
Steady Hand affects all Synthesis and Touch actions. So for

example, while under the buff of Steady Hand, Basic Synthesis will
have a success rate of 100% (90% + 20% = 110%). Basic Touch will
have a success rate of 90% (70% + 20% = 90%).
Lv 11 - Inner Quiet
Inner Quiet is the second, but most important buffing action we come across. Every
time we perform a Touch action successfully (remember that not all Touch actions
contain the word “Touch” in its skill name), we gain an increase in quality. This
increase in quality triggers the Inner Quiet buff, and we gain a stack of it, which
grants us a bonus to control.
Suppose we normally have 176 Control. When we first

activate the Inner Quiet buff, we do not get any increase in
our Control attribute. However, once we perform a Touch
skill successfully, we gain a stack of Inner Quiet. As we can
see from the difference between these two pictures, a few stacks of Inner Quiet can
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make a massive difference. Remember that quality increases are proportional to

Control. As such, whenever we gain an increase in Inner Quiet stacks, our next
Touch actions will all increase in strength. Every stack of Inner Quiet provides a +20%
bonus to Control4. This +20%
bonus is based on your base
control; in other words, the
effect of Inner Quiet is
additive, not multiplicative.
Now, for a 60-durability

recipe, we can create a
rotation that looks like this:
Why is the Steady Hand staggered such that it takes place after the first Basic
Touch?
Is it better to have Inner Quiet and 4 touch actions or 5 touch actions?
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The answer to the two questions are:
1. This is so that the last Basic Synthesis is covered by Steady Hand, thus guaranteeing
the completion of the craft.
2. It is better to have 4 touch actions and Inner Quiet. Treat each stack of Inner Quiet as a
roughly 20% increase in quality increases.
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Crafter: Lv 15 Cross-Class Skills

As recommended at the start of the guide, you should level all crafters to Lv 15
initially. This will unlock 8 cross-class skills, some of which are still powerful even in
the end-game. The recommended path to level all crafters to Lv 15 is by simply
completing the recipe list up to Lv 15. The materials for all recipes under Lv 15 can be
bought from the guild vendor.
Setting cross-class skills for crafters is the same as setting role actions for combat
jobs.
Visit your Actions & Traits screen, and then press “Additional”. You can then select
skills from here by ticking the box next to the ability.
A sample macro for automatic cross-class skills setup is provided here:
/aaction clear
/aaction "Muscle Memory" on
/aaction "Innovation" on
/aaction "Ingenuity" on
/aaction "Ingenuity II" on
/aaction "Piece by Piece" on
/aaction "Byregot's Blessing" on
/aaction "Careful Synthesis II" on
/aaction "Comfort Zone" on
/aaction "Steady Hand II" on
/aaction "Tricks of the Trade" on
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/aaction "Reclaim" on
/echo <se.1><se.2>
You can use this macro as a model for your own cross-class setup macros. It works for
combat jobs too.
CRP - Rumination
A misleading tooltip, because it’s not proportional. The actual CP it restores is as

follows:
Current Inner Quiet Stacks CP Restored
2 15
3 24
4 32
5 39
6 45
7 50
8 54
9 57
10 59
11 60
Before you get stronger actions that consume Inner Quiet stacks, this is your only
“finisher”. A finisher is an action or a sequence of actions that follows an Inner Quiet
phase, generally circling around a key action (or two) that consumes Inner Quiet
stacks.
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Here is a sample rotation utilizing Rumination on a 60-durability recipe.
Suppose we have 220 maximum CP to spend. In this example, by the end of the
Inner Quiet phase, we’ll be left with 90 CP, and 10 durability. If we need 3 Synthesis
actions to complete progress, then it means we would fail the craft. By using
Rumination, we’ll lose our Inner Quiet stacks, but gain CP that will enable us to use
Master’s Mend, therefore restoring the item to 40 durability, enough for 3 Synthesis
actions.
Do note that because the Basic Touch does not have a 100% success rate even under
Steady Hand in that rotation, there is a chance that we will have 0 increase in
Inner Quiet stacks, meaning that Rumination will restore 0 CP. Although this
possibility is extremely remote, it serves as a warning not to rely on Rumination
restoring a huge amount of CP if we’re relying on non-100% Touch actions. Always
leave some room for RNG when using Rumination, unless you plan on using 100%
Touch actions.
Rumination is not that great once you gain access to better ways of consuming
Inner Quiet stacks. However in the early game it is very strong and allows you to
squeeze in an extra Touch action or two due to the CP it restores.
BSM - Ingenuity
A pretty vague and unhelpful tooltip. Feel free to ignore this skill for now, as it is not
useful while leveling. Most crafters don’t need to understand how it works either,
even in the end-game. Just know that this is the only cross-class skill at Lv15 that
is still used in current end-game.
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A detailed analysis and explanation of the theory behind Ingenuity is explained in

the Ingenuity II and Ingenuity Modifier section of this guide.
ARM - Rapid Synthesis
Rapid Synthesis is a useful tool as a later substitute, but its low success rate makes it
a difficult skill to work with. Remember that, in order to complete a synthesis, you
need to max out the progress. Having random chance thrown into progress
increasing can make it difficult to figure out how many touches you can do. And you
certainly cannot rely on Rapid Synthesis as your final closing action while you’re at 10
durability because there is a good chance that it will fail.
So how is Rapid Synthesis useful? As an opener, actually, to quickly increase the

progress gauge before moving into an Inner Quiet phase.
Suppose 330% efficiency worth of Synthesis is required to complete the progress,

then a Rapid Synthesis (250%) and a Basic Synthesis (100%) is enough to complete
the craft.
If the first Rapid Synthesis fails, we simply substitute a Basic Touch for a Rapid
Synthesis.
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When initially leveling, when crafts can be completed in two to three Basic Synthesis,
Rapid Synthesis isn’t very useful. Later on, however, it can be helpful as a substitute
for Piece by Piece (which we’ll discuss more).
GSM - Manipulation
Manipulation is practically a cheaper Master’s Mend that is more versatile… in most

situations. Before we jump into its versatility, let’s point out one of its flaws:
Suppose we have a 40 durability recipe. We use Manipulation when the item is at 10

durability, and use another Synthesis or Touch action. This will actually break the
synthesis because notice very carefully the wording on Manipulation: “Restores 10
points of durability after each step…” This means that the 10 durability restoration
takes place after any durability reduction is calculated. So when using Manipulation,
keep this in mind.
Manipulation otherwise is a pretty versatile Master’s Mend that can lead to creative
uses. Notice that it restores durability after any action, meaning that it will restore 10
durability if you use Steady Hand, for instance. Here’s a 40 durability rotation that still
uses Master’s Mend:
Notice that we’re forced to leave the last Basic Touch unbuffed with Steady Hand.
There is no way around this without using one more Steady Hand. The last action is
WVR’s Careful Synthesis which has a 100% success rate.
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With Manipulation, however, we can do this:
We were able to buff all Basic Touches with Steady Hand because of Manipulation’s
versatility!
LTW - Waste Not
Practically, Waste Not causes all actions to cost 5 durability. If an action does not cost
durability, then Waste Not does nothing, but you still lose one turn of Waste Not.
Here is a sample rotation for a 60 durability recipe utilizing Waste Not:
As we have discussed in a prior section of the guide, if a synthesis that normally costs
10 durability reduces the item’s durability from 5 to -5, it still completes the craft if
progress is completed.
Waste Not is powerful because it is by far the most CP-efficient durability restoring
skill you have at Level 15. It essentially restores 20 durability for the cost of 56, which is
2.8 CP per durability. Master’s Mend costs 3.07 CP per durability, and Manipulation
costs 2.93 CP per durability. Once we talk about Tricks of the Trade we’ll fully
compare the differences between Manipulation and Waste Not.
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WVR - Careful Synthesis
The primary benefit of Careful Synthesis is that it has a 100% success rate. Once you
get this skill, you should be able to substitute all Basic Synthesis with this, as the
efficiency difference is pretty minimal (90% from 100%).
ALC - Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade is the first conditional action that we meet. As such, we can
actually use it in macros as a mini conditional statement. If the material condition is
neither Good nor Excellent, then Tricks of the Trade will not execute. This can be
used in interesting ways. For example, we want to prevent a Poor condition from
appearing when we execute our last Touch action, as the last Touch is the strongest
Touch usually. We can create a macro like this:
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If the Condition is not Good or Excellent when Tricks of the Trade comes up, then the
macro will not execute it at all. No matter what, a Poor will not land on the last Touch
action:
Now, it’s time to compare Waste Not and Manipulation in context of Tricks of the
Trade.
In the following 40-durability rotation, Manipulation has effectively given us 30

durability each time.
Because Manipulation works on any action, Tricks of the Trade will not prevent
Manipulation from reaching its full potential. As such, Manipulation is more versatile
in this regard.
On the other hand, Waste Not usage is sometimes mutually exclusive with too many
Tricks of the Trade procs:
Each Waste Not effectively grants us 20 durability. In the above example, we have
only gained 15 durability in each Waste Not window, for a total of 30 durability across
2. We needed 35 or 40 durability to complete the craft.
Once again, remember that it is acceptable to use a ToT proc in a Waste Not window
once, and only once, because 5 durability is as good as 10 durability for the last
Synthesis action:
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CUL - Hasty Touch
The bread and butter Touch action from Lv 15 all the way to Lv 66; once you get this,
you’ll be using this all the time. This ability is also the primary reason why most
people recommend you leveling Culinarian to Lv 37 after getting all crafters to Lv 15,
because Steady Hand II, which provides a +30% success rate, buffs Hasty Touch to an
80% success rate skill, which is far more reliable than Steady Hand + Hasty Touch.
Although it has a low success rate, the fact that it costs 0 CP often means that, by
replacing all Basic Touches you have with Hasty Touches, you get to do one extra
Manipulation, or one extra Waste Not. That it costs 0 CP also allows you to fit in more
Hasty Touches within your rotation, thereby increasing your Inner Quiet stacks more
than if you stuck with Basic Touch.
Together with the other skills, here are some practical rotations you can use at Lv 15,
with 180 CP, so far:
40-durability rotation:
60-durability rotation:
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A Note on Leveling Beyond Lv15

Beyond Lv 15, there are a myriad ways to level. Check out the EXP section of this
guide for more information on the ways to level. A leve guide is a few sections away
below.
As you level all crafting classes to Lv 15, you now possess the skills necessary to level a
crafting class all the way to Lv 50 by yourself.
Most crafters would recommend getting CUL Lv37 on the way though, as Steady
Hand II makes your life easier when dealing with Hasty Touches.
A gearing guide on how to get level-relevant gear for yourself, either through
crafting or purchasing from vendors, is also in this guide in PART VIII.
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Crafter: Lv 16 - Lv 25
The Market Board
Beyond Lv 15, you’ll start to encounter recipes where there are materials no vendors
supply. As such, you will have to either trade with a gatherer to obtain those
materials, or simply visit the market board to purchase them. There are market
boards in each city-state and
plenty of them are strewn
across the housing areas.
Right-click to interact with

the Market Board. It’ll open
up a screen like this:
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There are two ways to search for an item. Regular Search and Category Search. You
can either type in the name of the item in the Search Bar, press Enter or click Search
for the result:
Partial Match simply enables you to search for an item with only part of the item’s
name. For example, searching “mythril ore” with Partial Match on will bring up the
result “Cloud Mythril Ore”. Searching without Partial Match will not yield that result:
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You can add items to a wishlist by right-clicking on the item and selecting “Add to
Wish List”.
Think of the Wish List as

a list of items you
regularly check on the
Market Board. No one
will actually buy you
anything on your wishlist
as there is no such
implemented function in the game. The
Wish List can be accessed through the
bottom left of the Market Board screen.
You can also use the Wish List function as

a very rough gauge of demand.
The numbers on the right of the heart icon indicates how much stock there is of a
particular item, NOT the demand of the item. To check the demand of an item, click
on the item, which will bring up the trading screen.
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On the top-right corner of the trading screen, you can see how many people have
put this item on their wishlist, roughly corresponding to the demand of an item.
However this can be misleading, so treat this number with a grain of salt.
In order to purchase an item, simply select a listing on the trading screen, and click
Yes.
Notice that there are city-state taxes at play here. When you access the trading
screen from Ul’Dah, and purchase an item from a Limsa Lominsan retainer, for
instance, you’ll incur an additional 5% tax on the item. To avoid this tax, simply
teleport to the retainer’s city to purchase the item. It is up to you to calculate if the
teleportation fees are lower than the additional tax you have to pay.
If you click on the History button near the top left of the trading screen, you can look
at the transaction history of a particular item. This is useful as a means to gauge the
demand and equilibrium price, and to see if current prices are simply a result of a
shock to the market.
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The market board is a tool you will use a lot as a crafter. We will go into details on
how to actually gauge the market’s demand in a later section.
Retainers
Retainers are NPCs that serve three primary purposes:
- They act as extra inventory slots, allowing you to retrieve or deposit items in
their inventory.
- You can list items on the market board for sale through a retainer.
- You can assign them on ventures. Retainers bring back items ranging from
Copper Ore to the prized minion Mameshiba through ventures.
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In order to unlock retainers,

progress far enough along the
MSQ then talk to a Retainer
Vocate. You can hire up to 2
retainers at any given time. To
hire more than 2, you need to
visit the MogStation. Each
additional retainer above 2 costs
an extra $2 per month.
Select Hire a Retainer in order to

hire one. You'll be asked to
customize their appearance and
name and voila! You have your
very own retainer now!
In order to unlock retainer

ventures, you'll need to complete
the quest An Ill-conceived
Venture from the Troubled Adventurer, who can be found in each of the three
starting cities.
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To access your retainers,

visit any Summoning Bell,
which can be found in any
city and in housing areas.
Select a retainer to manage
them. To manage and
utilize your retainer’s
inventory, select Entrust
and Withdraw items.
To sell items on the market

board, select Sell Items in
Your Inventory.
In order to send your

retainers out on ventures
you need to Assign A Class
for them first.
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Select View your Retainer’s Gear and Attributes in order to gear up your retainer.
To gear them, simply right click on a
piece of gear in your inventory and
select “Equip to Retainer”.
Alternatively, drag the gear from your
inventory onto the retainer’s gear slots.
Gearing is important as your retainer’s
attributes affect the quantity and
quality of goods they bring back. On
DoL retainers, Gathering increases the
yield of their venture; Perception
increases the likelihood of HQ yields.
GP doesn't affect anything. On
DoW/DoM retainers, iLvL affects both.
The higher your retainer’s stats, the
more items they unlock from quick
ventures too.
Select Assign a Venture to send your

retainers on retainer missions.
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As your retainer goes out on venture missions, they gain experience in addition to
the items they bring back. As your retainer levels up, they unlock more items that
they can bring back.
Quick Ventures, unlocked at Lv10, are the best method of leveling retainers while
you're playing the game. They bring back a huge variety of items, some trivial and
some worth millions. It's a lottery basically.
18-hour missions provide the most XP and are best used when you're about to log off.
The rewards they bring are most of the time inconsequential.
Retainers are hugely useful for crafter self-sufficiency, especially on materials that
cost a fortune on the market board. If you decide to get into hardcore crafting I
recommend:
8 Retainers
3x Combat Retainers
2x Miners
2x Botanists
1x Fisher or Miner or Botanist
6 Retainers
2x Combat Retainers
2x Miners
2x Botanists
4 Retainers
2x Combat Retainers
1x Miner
1x Botanist
Having only 2 retainers puts you at a serious disadvantage if you decide to get into
endgame crafting. I would not recommend it.
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Gearing Yourself
A full guide to gearing yourself can be found in Part VIII. I'm going to suggest some
basic cheap ways of gearing here first though. Go to the commercial hub of each
starting city and find the following vendors:
Fieldcraft Supplier (Evrardoux, Syneyhil, Yoyobasa)
- Supplies Main Hand Tools

- Supplies Off Hand Tools
Independent Jeweler (Ilorie, Sorcha, Lolonu)

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- Supplies Accessories
Battlecraft Supplier (Domitien, Iron Thunder, Gwalter)
- Supplies Left Side Body Gear
Purchase the NQ gear for each slot and voila, you have geared yourself! Though HQ
gear is better and allows you to HQ crafts more consistently, NQ gear is good enough
for leveling.
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Lv 18 - Standard Touch
Two things of note:
1. Standard Touch has a much higher CP cost but it has 25% more efficiency. If
you have CP to spare, it is typically better to use it as a finisher Touch action.
2. Standard Touch has a success rate of 80%, meaning it will always succeed
when under Steady Hands.
Here’s a sample 206 CP rotation on a 70-durability recipe utilizing Standard Touch

as a finisher:
Lv 21 - Great Strides
Great Strides basically doubles the quality increase of the next Touch. The tooltip
here is also why we very clearly state that not all Touch actions have the word
“Touch” in it. Great Strides buff any action that increases quality, including a skill
called Byregot’s Blessing. It is typically used to buff the finisher Touch, like so:
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Lv 25 - Master’s Mend II
Master’s Mend I efficiency: 3.07 CP / durability
Manipulation efficiency: 2.93 CP / durability
Waste Not efficiency: 2.8 CP / durability
Master’s Mend II efficiency: 2.67 CP / durability
Once you obtain Master’s Mend II, if you need to restore 60 durability, then this is
the skill to use. However this means that you need to be in a situation where you
would have used 2 Master’s Mend I / 2 Manipulations / 3 Waste Not’s for Master’s
Mend II to reach its full potential. If you only need to restore 50 durability, then
Manipulation + Waste Not (144 CP) is more efficient. Furthermore, Master's Mend II
is not suitable for 40-durability recipes.
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Crafter: Leves
The basics were already taught. Let’s jump right to how we can use leves to level up
our crafters quickly.
Every crafter leve has an origin point and a destination point. Your job is to deliver
the requested item from the origin point (the levemete) to the destination (someone
requesting the item). You must unlock leves at the destination point to be able to
accept leves with a destination point there.
There are three different types of leves. The first two are simply leves where you craft
an item, and deliver it to the destination. The first is called Constancy:
Ingenuity levequests have an icon as the below but they differ from Constancy
levequests in that the delivery destination is often very far from the origin, requiring
teleports. But these also yield greater XP rewards.
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Certain leves, starting from Lv 20, are repeatable in that they typically give
diminished XP per turn-in, but you can turn in the same request 3 times for triple
the XP for the cost of 1 allowance. Typically, you should use these leves only if
you’re speed-leveling your crafters and leve allowances is an issue. These are
called Charity levequests and they have an icon like so5:
To turn-in leves efficiently, I recommend using crafting as a service’s leve section.

You can add the leves you need into a shopping cart and self-sufficiently craft the
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items you need thereon (assuming you have the gatherers). This is the method I
recommend if you do not have enough gil to spend.
If you do have gil, then I recommend purchasing levekits. It saves you a lot of time
and get you to the endgame faster. You need to make sure that the time you save
getting to Lv70 crafting will have a bigger output in gil than the levekit’s price. If
you’re not going to try to make any profits at Lv70, then why bother buying it?
If you do not care about getting to Lv70 crafting quickly, then I recommend only
doing starred HQ GC turn-ins and Ixali and Moogle quests. The former grants you an
absurd amount of XP with a single turn-in, and the latter does not cost you any gil
other than teleportation.
To be as efficient as possible, prepare all the turn-ins you need to level to the next
tier in advance and then accept the quest, deliver it to the destination, rinse and
repeat.
Leve Guides
If I put a Leve Guide within this guide, it’ll bloat the already hundreds-page-long
document into a black hole of information.
Lv 1 - 60 Leves: [link] (Shade’s Leve Guide)
Lv 61 - 70 Leves: [link] (Mango7Roll’s Leve Guide)
A WORD OF WARNING:
It can be tempting to think that buying NQ items from vendors to turn in for leves is
a good way to cheaply level up.
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In fact, if we visit crafting as a service’s leve section, we will quickly see that you can
actually purchase a lot of the leve items straight from vendors.
Let’s say we are aiming to level our crafter from Lv 64 to Lv 66. In order to level from
Lv 64 to Lv 66 with NQ leve turn-ins, we will need around 15 turn-ins. Let’s say we use
the cheapest turn-in. That would be 21,403 x 15 = 321,045 gil! Now do this all the way
from Lv 15 to Lv 70 and for all 8 crafters and you’ll quickly rack up a bill in the tens of
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millions. At this point, you might as well just buy a levekit. A levekit is a collection of
pre-crafted leve turn-ins that someone else has crafted, usually sold for gil. You can
purchase a levekit directly and turn in the items to level up, but they're usually
expensive for a beginner. Spend big or spend nothing at all. If you want to save gil,
then you have to craft your own leve turn-ins.
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Crafter: Lv 26 - 37 Cross-Class Skills

Lv 31 - Standard Synthesis
A decent skill in the early game. Note the CP cost. Can be useful if your Steady Hand
has one or two turns of buffs remaining after the finisher.
GSM - Flawless Synthesis
This is only useful as a cross-class skill for your low level crafters if you leveled
Goldsmith first for some reason. Later on, at Lv54, another skill will make this skill
useful. For now you can ignore it.
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CUL - Steady Hand II
For the most part this is better than Steady Hand. Use it in conjunction with Hasty
Touch.
Lv 37 - Brand of Elements
Before Level 54, the Brand of Elemental Synthesis actions have very little use outside
of crafting elemental recipes, like the one shown below.
An elemental recipe halves all progress increases outside of percentage-based

increases or Flawless Synthesis. However, the corresponding Brand of Elemental
actions will have double the efficiency and thus double the progress on these
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recipes. Note that it doubles the halved progress meaning that it is basically 100%
efficiency overall.
Be sure to save some CP for Brand of Elementals actions as they do cost 6 CP and
require Steady Hand to have a 100% success rate.
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Crafter: Lv 38 - Lv 50 Cross-Class Skills

Lv 43 - Advanced Touch
This is good for HQing easy recipes that are way below your attributes. Otherwise
though it's not used much.
CRP - Byregot’s Blessing
Byregot's Blessing is a TOUCH action. Crucially, this means that Great Strides
doubles the efficiency of Byregot's. Note that Byregot's Blessing is mutually
exclusive with Rumination. Both actions end your Inner Quiet buff.
The ideal use of Byregot's Blessing is to use it in the finisher once sufficient Inner
Quiet stacks have been built. Because Byregot's Blessing’s efficiency scales based on
your Inner Quiet stacks, it is crucial to raise Inner Quiet as much as possible before
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using Byregot's Blessing. As it is your most potent Touch action, buffs should be used
on it where CP allows.
In the sample rotation above, note how we paired Great Strides together with
Byregot's Blessing.
BSM - Ingenuity II
This is the Lv50 skill that is the most important and most irreplaceable. Byregot's
Blessing can be replaced by Byregot's Brow and Miracle. Careful Synth II can be
replaced by Careful III. Piece by Piece can be replaced by Rapid III… There is nothing
to replace this immensely strong skill. It along with Ingenuity make current end-
game recipe reliably HQ-able.
A more in-depth explanation of Ingenuity’s effects is detailed in the Advanced

section of this guide, specifically under Ingenuity Modifier. For now, however, treat
Ingenuity as a buff that has 2 effects:
- Boosts Quality
- Boosts Progress
This is achieved by lowering the recipe’s level. We will discuss the effects of a
recipe’s level later in this guide under Crafter “Level” and Recipe Level. In short,
starred recipes like Lv50 **** recipes are actually dozens of levels above us. When the
recipe level is higher than our level, then we get massive reductions in progress and
quality increases. Ingenuity partially, but not completely, removes this penalty.
The difference between Ingenuity and Ingenuity II can be anywhere from 5% to

20%, dependent on recipe level. More info in the Advanced section.
The penalty reduction in quality and progress on starred recipes is so severe that
using Ingenuity can be a relative 60% - 100% boost to quality on starred recipes.
Notice the difference Ingenuity II has on progress:

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…and on quality:
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As a result of the mechanics surrounding quality and progress penalty on starred

recipes, treat Ingenuity II as a second Great Strides for your Byregot's Blessing.
You should almost always use Ingenuity II as the last action before Byregot's
Blessing so that it will have enough steps left to reduce the penalty to progress on
your remaining Synthesis steps.
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Note that Ingenuity’s usefulness is severely diminished for leveling recipes,

unless you are crafting recipes that are above your level.
ARM - Piece by Piece
Piece by Piece increases remaining progress. As such it has diminishing returns:
Piece by Piece Total Progress Increase
1 33%
2 55%
3 70%
4 80%
On a recipe with 586 progress, using the 1st PbP will give us 193 (586 x 0.33) progress.
The 2nd PbP will give us 129 (0.33 x (586-193)) progress. Note that it is always
rounded down to the nearest integer.
Piece by Piece is largely useful as an opener to quickly increase the progress in the
beginning. As it scales based on remaining progress, it is always best to use any
“static” Synthesis actions, such as Careful Synthesis, after Piece by Piece. Using it
before PbP will diminish the full potential of it.
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Finally, note that any progress boosting buffs does not affect Piece by Piece. This
means that Ingenuity does not affect it. Your craftsmanship also does not affect
Piece by Piece.
GSM - Innovation
Innovation boosts your base control by 50%. This means that it's additive on top of
Inner Quiet. Therefore you gain the same amount of control from Innovation
whether you are at Inner Quiet 3 or Inner Quiet 11. With this in mind it is useful to
see Innovation as roughly an additive ~50% boost to quality increase.
It is typically used in the finisher in conjunction with Byregot's Blessing. The trifecta
of buffs, Innovation, Great Strides, and Ingenuity II, are typically used in most
endgame rotations to buff Byregot's Blessing. While Innovation and Inner Quiet are
additive buffs, Great Strides and Ingenuity 2 are multiplicative buffs
I would not recommend using it outside of Byregot's Blessing as the boost is fairly
weak. For rotations that do not require Ingenuity 2 however (typically when leveling
since recipe levels match your crafter level), you can use it to buff both an Advanced
Touch and a final Byregot’s Blessing:
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LTW - Waste Not II
Waste Not II is the most potent durability buff at Lv50, yet it comes with high
inflexibility.
Master’s Mend: 3.07 CP / dura
Manipulation: 2.93 CP / dura
Waste Not: 2.8 CP / dura
Master’s Mend II: 2.67 CP / dura
Waste Not II: 2.45 CP / dura
With its inflexibility, you are forced to only use one action within its 8-step window
that is neither a Synthesis or a Touch action. In conjunction with Steady Hand II
this can make for a pretty tight requirement that practically disables the usage of
Tricks of the Trade within the WN2 window.
There are two ways to approach the combination of Waste Not 2 and Steady Hand 2.
One is to use a first SH2 before the WN2 and to fit in the next SH2 within the WN2
window. Note that doing so means you can't use any other buffs including Tricks of
the Trade within the WN2 window.
The other way is to use the first SH2 within the WN2 window, then use 100% success
rate actions for the last two steps within the WN2 buff window.
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In either situation you gain the most efficiency CP-wise in gaining durability, at the
cost of being unable to use Tricks of the Trade.
WVR - Careful Synthesis II
One of the more important Lv 50 cross-class skills. Simply a stronger Careful

Synthesis. Note that this renders Basic Synthesis completely useless (outside of as a
tool to gauge the progress increase at 100% efficiency) after you obtain this.
ALC - Comfort Zone
Practically, Comfort Zone is a gain of 14 CP. Note that it restores CP after the step,
meaning that if, for example, you have 20 CP left while Comfort Zone is active, you
are unable to execute Steady Hand II (25 CP). Similarly, using a second Comfort
Zone on the tenth step of the first Comfort Zone is ill-advised as the second Comfort
Zone’s buff will apply before the 8 CP gain is triggered, meaning you lose a turn of
your first Comfort Zone. As Comfort Zone only breaks even on the ninth step, you
need to make sure that you always use Comfort Zone as early as possible.
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With these 7 skills, we can finally create a proper-looking rotation! Let’s go through
each step of the rotation and fully dissect it.
1. Comfort Zone - Always use Comfort Zone as early as possible to maximize CP

gain. In this case, there is no reason to not use it before Inner Quiet.
2. Inner Quiet - Next, we use Inner Quiet to begin preparations for the Inner
Quiet phase.
3. Waste Not II - Here we decide to employ the second variant of a Waste Not II
rotation because we need a total durability of 150 (5 Synthesis, 10 Touches).
As the recipe has an innate durability of 80, this means we need a total of 70
durability restored through durability-restoring actions. We decide that Waste
Not II (+40) and Manipulation (+30) conserves the most CP.
4. Steady Hand II - By using the first SH2 after Waste Not II, we fully commit to
only using Synthesis and Touch actions after this. Remember that we only get
1 action within a WN2 window to be used for buffs or Tricks of the Trade.
5. Piece by Piece - Piece by Piece is most efficient when there is zero progress.
We use two as our initial Synthesis actions, covered by SH2 (remember that
PbP has a success rate of 90%, not 100%).
6. Piece by Piece - The second Piece by Piece is slightly weaker than the first.
7. Hasty Touch - Here we begin the Inner Quiet phase with Hasty Touch. The
aim of the Inner Quiet phase is simply to build as many Inner Quiet stacks as
possible. We use Hasty Touch as it costs 0 CP, which allows us to be able to use
more durability-restoring actions. We only ever use Hasty Touch under the
SH2 buff.
8. Hasty Touch
9. Hasty Touch
10. Careful Synthesis II - WN2’s buff is still active, and we no longer have SH2 to
use more Hasty Touches. Since we have to use Synthesis or Touch actions to
fully utilize WN2, the only option left to us is to use CS2.
11. Careful Synthesis II
12. Comfort Zone - The Comfort Zone buff lasted from Step 2 to Step 11. As WN2
has ended, we are free to use buffing actions again. Our first priority is always
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Comfort Zone as it takes many steps for it to break even and we want enough
CP for our finisher.
13. Manipulation - Manipulation works on any action, so using it before Steady
Hand II makes sense as it’ll still gain its full effect.
14. Steady Hand II - We begin our next series of Hasty Touches and continue
increasing our Inner Quiet stacks.
15. Hasty Touch
16. Hasty Touch
17. Hasty Touch
18. Hasty Touch
19. Hasty Touch
20. Steady Hand II
21. Hasty Touch
22. Innovation - To execute the Trifecta of buffs, we need a minimum of 4 steps
of SH2 for our finisher, because remember that Byregot’s Blessing has a
success rate of 90%, not 100%. Therefore, we use Innovation here.
23. Great Strides - The second of the Trifecta.
24.Ingenuity II - The third of the Trifecta, we always use Ingenuity II last so that
any remaining Synthesis actions after Byregot’s Blessing can still benefit from
Ing2.
25. Byregot’s Blessing - The final touch action, consuming all our Inner Quiet
stacks. This is buffed by Inner Quiet, Innovation, Great Strides, and Ingenuity II,
for a very high amount of quality increase.
26. Careful Synthesis II - Our final Synthesis action to complete the craft, this is
also buffed by Ingenuity II.
CUL - Reclaim
Reclaim should be used before you enter the finisher. If too many Hasty Touches
have failed and you think you’re unlikely to HQ the craft, and that the NQ variant is
completely useless, feel free to use Reclaim, then fail the craft without quitting. You
have a 90% chance to retain the materials you use. Quitting a craft does not trigger
Reclaim.
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PART III: Intermediate Crafter Guide

Crafter: Creating a Rotation
This section is irrelevant for new crafters.
Just like DoW/DoM jobs, crafters also have rotations. Now that we have reached Lv
50, we can start to create rotations that have all 3 phases: Opener, IQ-phase, and
Finisher. We will be using advanced rotations as examples, so don’t fret out if you
do not understand what some skills do.
The opener of a rotation typically increases the progress to a level where you can
complete synthesis within the last Ingenuity II window. If opener progress +
finisher progress is unable to complete progress, then typically one or two
additional Synthesis will be used within the Inner Quiet window, though this is not
recommended, and we avoid this as much as possible. The opener of a rotation also
typically starts setting out the longest buffs, such as Comfort Zone, Manipulation II,
Inner Quiet, Maker’s Mark, etc.
The Inner Quiet phase of a rotation focuses on increasing the amount of Inner Quiet
stacks. Some opener buffs such as Comfort Zone will typically fall off in the middle of
the Inner Quiet phase, and it is up to the rotation creator to reapply buffs in a way
that ensures maximum efficiency; typically, if things don’t align perfectly, Synthesis
steps will be used in order to ensure buffs realign.
The finisher of a rotation focuses on converting the vast amount of Inner Quiet
stacks generated into a strong series of actions that maximizes quality gain, and lead
into a final series of Synthesis actions that complete the synthesis.
Opener
Sample Opener 1
We will later quickly encounter actions that are Opening Actions. These actions
must be used on the first step, so any rotations utilizing them will start off with
them. In this case, it is a 6CP, 100% success rate PbP called Muscle Memory.
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Notice that immediately after the first action, we use Comfort Zone. This is typical
for most rotations: Comfort Zone is usually used as the second action immediately
after an Opening Action.
After buffs, we’ll use Inner Quiet, as there is no reason not to use it before we start to
use temporary buffs. We do not want to use Inner Quiet in the middle of a
temporary buff as Inner Quiet does not benefit from them, and thus wasting buffed
turns.
Sample Opener 2
This is a tad-bit more complicated than the previous opener, but you do not have to
know what these skills do for now.
Here we have an Opener Action called Maker’s Mark. As usual, we always use the
Opener Action on the first turn.
Next we have a priority buff called Whistle While You Work. Notice how we used it
before Comfort Zone? This is because there is more advantage to be gained by using
that skill earlier than Comfort Zone.
We then use Comfort Zone, which is also a priority buff. Simply put, priority buffs are
buffs that we want to use as much as possible and as early as possible.
After Inner Quiet and SH2, we use an Initial Progress Action. We chose Piece by
Piece. Initial Progress Actions are progress-increasing that gain the most benefit by
being used as close to the start as possible.
There are also actions that are considered Initial Quality Actions. Patient Touch is
one such skill. As with Piece by Piece, Patient Touch gains the most benefit when it is
used early in the rotation.
In more complex rotations, we can therefore follow this simple rule to create the
opener:
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Opener Action -> Priority Buffs -> Inner Quiet -> SH/SH2 (if needed) -> Initial
Progress Actions -> Initial Quality Actions
Sample Opener 3
With this opener, we see that the positioning of Initial Progress and Initial Quality
are interchangeable. Just make sure that any initial quality actions always take
place after Inner Quiet.
An opener could be as short as 2 actions or as long as 80 actions. Keep this in mind.
Building Inner Quiet

Immediately after the opener, our aim is to increase the amount of Inner Quiet
stacks.
In an Inner Quiet phase, typically we will use as many touch actions as possible.
Important priority buffs, such as Whistle, or Comfort Zone, are refreshed if we think
that we can gain the full benefit of those actions. This means that if you think we
will only have 7 actions left, then don’t refresh Comfort Zone.
In this Inner Quiet phase, note how Comfort Zone is refreshed.

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Also don’t be afraid to use buffs or durability restores within SH2. You typically
cannot avoid it anyways.
Finisher
Unlike openers, there is little variety in finishers.
Sample Finisher 1
Typically you would use the Trifecta, then use a Finisher Touch (which is almost
always Byregot’s Blessing), then use Synthesis actions to complete the craft, typically
all boosted by Ingenuity 2.
Sample Finisher 2
In this sample note that we used two finisher touches. Note that Finisher Touch #2
has a success rate of 100% under certain situations so it does not need Steady Hand
II.
Always calculate the CP required for your chosen Finisher, then ensure you
conserve enough CP to execute your finisher.
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Crafter: Master Books

I would strongly recommend getting these Master Books as early as it it’s
convenient. These master books unlock advanced starred recipes, and most of the
time, these starred recipes are the profitable crafts that you can do to make gil.
Additionally, plenty of end-game crafts still require materials from “irrelevant”, earlier
Mastercraft books. Master V is the current relevant book; all other books can be
delayed, but some will have relevant crafts.
As we have discussed in a prior section, starred recipes are typically much harder
than regular crafts, often necessitating Ingenuity / Ingenuity II. As such, your run-of-
the-mill leveling gear and rotation will not be able to craft these special recipes.
Additionally, most recipes within these books have a minimum craftsmanship and
control requirement for you to even attempt to craft them.
You do not necessarily need to obtain older Mastercraft books as early as they’re
available. You can gear up first so that it becomes much easier to obtain them.
Mastercraft I
To unlock Mastercraft I, you’ll need to do the quest Just Tooling Around and turn in
a special high-quality item.
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Recommended to Obtain at: Lv58
Recommended Attributes: 492 Crafts, 457 Control, 322 CP
For ways to hit the recommended attributes (it’s what you get with all NQ gear, so it
shouldn’t be hard), please visit the Gearing Guide.
You’ll need to trade in special 2* items to Talan in Mor Dhona in order to trade for a
Mastercraft book. To craft the 2* item, use this rotation:
Alternatively use this macro:
/ac "Comfort Zone" <wait.2>

/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation" <wait.2>
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/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/echo Macro #1 complete <se.1>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>

/ac "Careful Synthesis II" <wait.3>
Mastercraft II
To unlock Mastercraft II, you’ll need to trade in a special high-quality Lv50 *** item.
The recipe for this item is located within Mastercraft I.
Recommended to obtain at: Lv62
Recommended Attributes: 600 Crafts, 600 Control, 360 CP
Fieldcraft Demimateria III can be obtained via desynthesis, which we would talk
about in greater detail in later parts of the guide. For now, simply purchase it from
the market board.
To craft the item, use this rotation/macro:

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/ac "Master's Mend II" <wait.3>

/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>
Mastercraft III
In order to unlock Mastercraft III, you’ll need to trade 180 red crafters’ scrip with any
Scrip Exchange (Ul’Dah, Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, Idyllshire, Mor Dhona, Rhalgr’s
Reach). To obtain red crafters’ scrip, you’ll need to trade collectables with the
Collectables Appraiser. The master books are under the section “Red Crafters’ Scrip
Exchange (Lv58)”.
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Mastercraft IV
The method of obtaining Mastercraft IV is exactly the same as Mastercraft III, except
it’s doubly expensive (360 red scrips).
Mastercraft V
Mastercraft V costs 900 red scrips, and it falls under Red Crafters’ Scrip (Lv 61).
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Crafter: Collectables
Lv50 - Collectable Synthesis
A collectable is a special item that is untradeable and market-prohibited, meant

strictly for trading with NPCs for special rewards.
Once you turn on Collectable Synthesis, when you visit your crafting log, you should
see this:
Not all recipes can be crafted into collectables. Check the characteristics below to
see if it is indeed a collectable:
Once you enter the actual synthesis, you should see a screen somewhat like this:
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Note that HQ% has been replaced by Collectability. An item’s collectability is the
measure of how much an NPC values that collectable. An item with high
collectability will usually yield greater rewards when traded in with an NPC. Some
NPCs also demand a certain minimum collectability before they are willing to reward
you.
Collectability is simply quality filled divided by 10. So in order to maximize

collectability, we have to increase quality as much as possible.
Rowena’s House of Splendors
Rowena’s House of Splendors is a turn-in system that rewards you with scrips and
EXP. To unlock it, you need to do the quest Inscrutable Tastes. To access it, simply
visit your Timers menu (Ctrl+U). You’ll see a list of available items that you can turn-in
for that day. Turning them in as collectables will provide payment, dependent on the
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collectability. To turn in items, visit any Collectables Appraiser, who can be found in
every city-state, Mor Dhona, and Rhalgr’s Reach.
Rowena’s House of Splendors is a suboptimal way of leveling, as it provides far less

XP than leves. It should only be used as a leveling method if leve allowances are a
constraint.
However, it is also one of the only ways to obtain crafter scrips, which are necessary
for many end-game crafting activities.
Red Crafter Scrips

Red crafters’ scrips are a currency
used to exchange many goods. To
view your current amount of scrips,
visit the Currency tab (Ctrl+C), and
view it under “Other”.
There are a variety of ways to obtain

red scrips. You can obtain them
from squadron chemistry bonuses,
from Rowena’s House of Splendors
after Lv 50, and from Custom
Deliveries.
Red scrips can be traded for a

variety of items:
- I180 scrip gear, and

augmentation items for i180
-> i200 (not recommended)
- Commercial Engineering
Manual (+150% boost to
synthesis XP)
- Soul of the Crafter (used to obtain specialist soul stones)
- Grade IV and V crafter materia
- Crafting materials such as Carbon Fiber
- Mastercraft books III, IV, and V
- Lv 58 leveling gear (can be purchased from Moogle Vendor)
- NQ Lv 65 leveling gear (not recommended, can be purchased from vendor)
Yellow Crafter Scrips

Yellow scrips can only be obtained through Rowena’s House of Splendors after Lv 66,
and Custom Deliveries.
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Yellow scrips can be traded for a variety of items:
- I300 scrip gear (not recommended)

- Crafting materials
Good sources of yellow crafter scrips (opinion):
CRP:
Almandine Grinding Wheel
Zelkova Spinning Wheel
BSM:
Molybdenum Knuckles
Molybdenum Longblade (if you have combat retainers)
Molybdenum Creasing Knife
Molybdenum Pliers
ARM:
Molybdenum Alembic
Molybdenum Frypan
GSM:
Palladium Planisphere (check Raw Rhodonite prices; if you have Lv70 MIN)
Molybdenum Earring of XX
Imperial Jade Necklace of XX / Imperial Jade Earrings of XX (check Raw Imperial Jade
prices; if you have Lv70 MIN)
LTW:
(all of the options are pretty bad)
WVR:
Twinsilk Hood of Healing / Casting (if you have combat retainers)
Twinsilk Slops of Healing / Casting (if you have combat retainers)
Twinsilk Sash of Casting

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ALC:
CUL:

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At Lv50, your options for leveling start to diversify. You gain access to Moogle quests
and Rowena’s House of Splendors. At this point, levequests are not the only good
method for leveling. Note that Lv50 - 58 leves all start in Ishgard.
I recommend unlocking Moogle quests ASAP once you hit Lv50; be sure to do them
daily as it is extremely easy XP.
Check out the EXP section of this guide for more details on the various methods of
leveling.
Bridging the Lv 50 - Lv 51 Gap

Hitting Lv51 from Lv50 is a huge undertaking, because many options are blocked out
to you as soon as you hit Lv50. Lv45 and under levequests give severely reduced
XP when you are at Lv50. Ixali quests give severely reduced XP once you hit Lv50.
However, as you have just hit Lv50, you do not possess the gear to craft Lv51 recipes,
as they are rLvl 115/120, while you probably still only have ~i45 gear. The bridge is
meant for people who have done the Lv50 endgame back in ARR. For the purposes
of this guide, we’ll not go into it as it is outdated content, since it is very easy to skip it
entirely if you’re patient.
My recommendation is to simply wait it out. Do Moogle quests - they are easy even
if you have very low level gear. Besides that, you should continue doing your daily GC
turn-ins. You should not be attempting to craft Lv 51 recipes while you’re at Lv 50
because you’ll have a severe penalty (we’re talking -50% to progress and quality).
Just by doing these dailies you should be able to bridge the Lv50-51 gap within a few
days. If you’re impatient, you should either get someone to craft some leve items for
you, or purchase leve items from the market board. Alternatively, you can buy some
Artisan’s gear (which can be expensive) and with it craft your own leve items.
Once you hit Lv51, you’ll be able to purchase new leveling gear for your crafter in
Ishgard (The Jeweled Crozier). Note that you cannot purchase crafting
accessories anymore, as they’re no longer available post Lv39. You’ll need to either
craft it yourself, purchase it from the market board, or be stuck with low CP (not
recommended).
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Lv 51 - Byregot’s Brow
At IQ5 and below, Byregot’s Brow is better than Byregot’s Blessing. At IQ6 and
above, Byregot’s Blessing is better outside of the success rate and CP cost. If you
have Byregot’s Blessing already, feel free to leave this ability on the sideburner. It
won’t be useful until much later on.
Do note that it has a 100% success rate for specialists. We already have discussed a
rotation that benefits from this advantage, so this skill is not completely eclipsed by
Byregot’s Blessing.
Lv 53 - Precise Touch
Precise Touch is another conditional action, similar to Tricks of the Trade. It has the
same efficiency, success rate, and CP cost as Basic Touch, so only its additional effect
is of interest.
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When you land a Precise Touch, two things happen. The Touch action itself
increases quality. Therefore, the effect of Inner Quiet kicks in and we gain an Inner
Quiet stack. Precise Touch itself has another additional effect, on top of this. This
additional effect provides another Inner Quiet stack. Therefore, whenever we land a
Precise Touch, our Inner Quiet stack goes up by 2.
Precise Touch should always be used in place of Basic Touch. Therefore, any extra CP
you have that would have been spent on Basic Touch should be replaced by Precise
Touch where possible. This does require you to look at condition procs carefully.
Lv 54 - Name of Elementals
Name of Elementals transform the Brand of Elementals action into a powerful

Synthesis action. When under this buff, the lower the current progress, the higher
the efficiency of Brand of Elementals action is. You can use Name of Elementals
+ Brand of Elementals on non-elemental crafts.
Current Progress Name of Elementals + Brand

Efficiency
0% 300%
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25% 252%
50% 205%
100% 110%
A typical rotation using this skill would look like so:
Do note that you will still need Steady Hand or Steady Hand II for Brand of
Elementals because its success rate is 90%. Furthermore, note that any progress-
altering actions, such as Ingenuity II, will affect Brand+Name because it is still an
efficiency%-based Synthesis action, whereas Piece by Piece is based purely on
progress%.
GSM - Maker’s Mark
Early on, this is not such a powerful action. The effect duration is 1/100 of the
recipe’s difficulty, rounded up. For example, a recipe with 1247 difficulty (1247
progress required) will have a Maker’s Mark duration of 13 steps.
Furthermore, Maker’s Mark is an Opener Action, meaning that it is mutually

exclusive with other opener actions, such as Muscle Memory. It must be used on
the first step.
THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS IRRELEVANT TO NEW CRAFTERS.
Looking at how Maker’s Mark work in practice will help us develop a stronger
understanding of the ability. Let’s take a look at a full rotation based on Maker’s Mark
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called Rath’s Rotation (credits to Rath for the rotation, and /u/NahlaKahtehr for the
document):
The recipe we are using is Luminous Fiber. It is a Lv 60 3*** recipe with a difficulty of
1436. Rath’s Rotation has a total CP requirement of 437 CP. Let’s suppose we have
437 CP currently. Every Tricks of the Trade we take gives us 20 CP, and we can
convert those 20 CP into a Basic Touch, by replacing a Hasty Touch with Basic Touch.
Here’s where Precise Touch comes in. If we have an extra 20 CP, then we can turn
any Hasty Touch that lands on a Good or Excellent into a Precise Touch. If we have an
extra 40 CP, then we can turn two Hasty Touches into Basic/Precise Touch. With that
in mind, let’s look at the rotation proper.
OPENER
In the opener, our aim is to increase progress as much as possible. There are multiple
locations where we can use Tricks of the Trade.
INNER QUIET PHASE
In the first part of the Inner Quiet phase, notice how we cannot take any Tricks of the
Trade within the Waste Not 2 window, as there is already a SH2 buff within the
window, meaning any further buffs/durability restores will render 10 durability gone.
In the second part of the Inner Quiet phase, notice how we only need 7 actions to be
buffed by Steady Hand II. We are also locked into using 2 buff/durability restores
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within SH2. So that leaves us with 9 actions that we must use within SH2. This
actually leaves us an extra step left that we can use for Tricks of the Trade.
Suppose we have an extra 40 CP from two Tricks of the Trade that we used. The
rotation would then look something like this:
FINISHER
The finisher of Rath’s Rotation is incredibly simple: a Great Strides and Byregot’s
Blessing, followed by a finisher synthesis.
That’s all for Rath’s Rotation! If you’re curious about it and want to learn more, feel
free to visit the Google Docs for the rotation.
THE ABOVE SECTION IS IRRELEVANT TO NEW CRAFTERS.
CUL - Muscle Memory
In Heavensward, there was a dichotomy between Muscle Memory and Maker’s Mark:
the former was for macro crafting, usually reserved for people with high crafter
attributes, and the latter was for manual crafting, used by people with low crafter
attributes. Currently, there is a trichotomy between the three Starter Actions: Initial
Preparations is for specialist high stat macro crafting, Maker’s Mark is for low stat
macro crafting, and Muscle Memory is for high stat non-specialist crafting.
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In either case, Muscle Memory has been thought of being the opener action for high
stats. This is easy to see why: You lose at least one Comfort Zone by using Muscle
Memory over Maker’s Mark. With Maker’s Mark, you have a lot of free actions that
you can take that benefits from Comfort Zone’s effects. With Muscle Memory, you
don’t have such luxury. The benefit for Muscle Memory is thus usually for speed, as it
uses far less actions than Maker’s Mark.
Let’s look at a sample Muscle Memory macro (original creator here).
As we can see, we only get to use 2 Comfort Zone actions throughout the macro.
An interesting thing about this macro is the placement of PbP in the middle of the
Inner Quiet phase. By doing so, we saved 3 CP as we only need a Steady Hand for
PbP.
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The road from Lv55 to Lv60 is roughly the same as it was from Lv50 to Lv55. We gain
access to specialization, which alters gameplay by a bit if you dabble in the specialist
system. In addition to specialization, from Lv56 onwards, turn-ins will reward you
with red crafters’ scrips, which can be traded for important items later on.
Specialization
To unlock the specialist system, you need to do the quest Beloved of the Builder
with a Lv55 crafter, starting in Mor Dhona. You will be rewarded with 3 Souls of the
Crafter, which can be traded with Alderan in Ishgard to unlock specialization. You
can only have 3 specialist crafters at any one time. Additionally, you can change
your specialists up to 3 times per week.
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Specialization grants many bonuses, including:
- Unlocks the ability to craft specialist-only recipes
- Grants +20 Craftsmanship and +20 Control

- Grants a guaranteed +15 CP buff at Lv 70 (not guaranteed for non-specialists)
- Unlocks specialist-only actions, such as Innovative Touch, and Specialty:
Reflect
WHICH SPECIALIST SHOULD I PICK?

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This changes every patch as each patch changes the specialist-only recipes in the
very end-game.
For Patch 4.1,
- Carpenter is a mediocre specialist; it only crafts the fishing rod and furniture,
both of which are lower in demand compared to other options.
- Blacksmith is a good specialist; it crafts most of the BiS crafter primary tools.
- Armorer is a mediocre specialist; it crafts two tools and a barding.
- Goldsmith is a mediocre specialist; it only crafts the needle and a furniture.
- Leatherworker is a good specialist; it crafts four of the BiS crafter and
gatherer gear.
- Weaver is a stellar specialist; it crafts the current tier’s luxury glamour, a
minion, and six of the BiS crafter and gatherer gear.
- Alchemist is a stellar specialist; it crafts the first craftable mount in the game,
composite materials that all BiS crafter and gatherer gear need to use, and a
furniture piece.
- Culinarian is a horrible specialist; it crafts food that no one wants.
A lot of the following info will come from this reddit post.
Lv 55 - Whistle While You Work
We’ll quickly come to the realization that none, bar two, of the specialist skills are in
use in current endgame macros. This is because they are inherently extremely RNG-
dependent.
Whistle While You Work is one such skill. It is a base for many other specialist skills,
and the usage of many specialist skills requiring the consumption of Whistle stacks,
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not unlike Inner Quiet. Your primary goal is to deplete Whistle stacks and use
complementary skills on specific amounts of Whistle stacks to yield the greatest
result. The catch is that it is gated behind RNG, because material condition
automatically depletes it after the end of the step, and not any actions that you can
do. However, specialist skills are some of the strongest skills in the game, and barring
bad RNG, they allow low attribute crafters to craft the most difficult recipes in the
game with 0 initial quality. It is up to the reader to decide if they want to play with
these powerful, yet unreliable skills.
Note that:
- Activation of Whistle While You Work on Good/Excellent will immediately

deplete one stack, thus starting Whistle stacks at 10.
- Finishing Touches will consume durability and can accidentally complete
your craft early; it cannot be prevented if your stack falls to 0. Note that this is a
Synthesis action, despite its name.
- Synthesis actions gain an additive 50% efficiency when Whistle Stack is at
9/6/3.
Practically, we never want Finishing Touches to trigger, and we will usually not rely
on the 50% efficiency boost granted by 9/6/3 Whistle Stacks.
Lv 55 - Satisfaction
Practically, you will always want to use Satisfaction as soon as your Whistle stack size
reach 9/6/3, as the condition will always be Normal or Poor when the Whistle stack
first hits 9/6/3, and any next steps might have Good/Excellent, thus forcing you to
choose between Satisfaction and other conditional actions such as Tricks of the
Trade or Precise Touch. When Whistle stacks reach 9/6/3 you also have the option of
getting the boost to Synthesis efficiency. My recommendation is to not rely on this
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boost to Synthesis efficiency at all as there is no guarantee that you will even get
9/6/3 Whistle stacks during a phase where you can use Synthesis actions.
Note that Whistle goes down by one stack when you use Satisfaction.
Lv 56 - Innovative Touch
Innovative Touch is practically a slightly more unreliable Hasty Touch with a CP cost,
but with the added benefit that it can trigger Innovation. However, Innovation itself
is the weakest of the Trifecta buffs. Its effect on anything other than Byregot’s
Blessing is minimal at best. Thus, the best location to use an Innovative Touch would
be before the finisher to replace a Hasty Touch in a rotation that does not have
Innovation in the finisher, like so:
Innovative Touch is actually an incredibly powerful skill if it succeeds, and it is better

than Innovation because it potentially:
- Adds an Inner Quiet stack

- Increases Quality
- Triggers Innovation
The 70% success rate under SH2, however, means that these potent benefits are
wholly unreliable.
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Lv 57 - Nymeia’s Wheel
Nymeia’s Wheel restores durability:
- At 9~11 Whistle stacks, it restores 10 durability

This is typically the stack consumption action you should use for Whistle While You
Work, and not Finishing Touches. In current end-game, you can typically get Whistle
down to 1~3 Whistle stacks extremely consistently, so you will almost always get the
30 durability restore. Just remember that you should Satisfaction first at 3 Whistle
stacks, before considering using Nymeia’s Wheel.
When combined with the cost of Whistle While You Work, this action has an
extremely low CP per durability cost, making it the most efficient durability action in
this game.
Lv 58 - Byregot’s Miracle
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Inner Quiet stack is halved, rounded up. At 11 Inner Quiet stacks, using Byregot’s
Miracle will reduce the stack to 6. Typically, to make full use of this skill, you need to
follow it with another Inner Quiet phase, or another Inner Quiet consumption skill,
most commonly Byregot’s Brow. A typical finisher involving Byregot’s Miracle would
look like so:
This is a better finisher than the typical Trifecta-Byregot’s Blessing finisher. To see
why, let’s first compare Efficiency between all 3 Byregot’s skills.
Inner Quiet Byregot’s Brow Byregot’s Miracle Byregot’s Blessing
1 150% 100% 100%
2 160% 115% 120%
3 170% 130% 140%
4 180% 145% 160%
5 190% 160% 180%
6 200% 175% 200%
7 210% 190% 220%
8 220% 215% 240%
9 230% 230% 260%
10 240% 245% 280%
11 250% 260% 300%
Now a proper comparison can finally be done for these two finishers:
Trifecta + Byregot’s Blessing:

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(Ingenuity’s multiplier is dependent on recipe level; we’ll just use x1.9 for
convenience’s sake)
Trifecta + Byregot’s Miracle & Great Strides + Byregot’s Brow:
Why don’t we see the second finisher more often then, you may ask. Well, it’s far
more CP than the traditional finisher.
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Lv 59 - Trained Hand
You should always use this skill when possible. Note that it, unlike Satisfaction, does
not consume a Whistle stack. Practically, you will want to maintain Inner Quiet at
stacks that aren’t multiples of 3, so Trained Hand does not mutually exclude with
Satisfaction. The best-case scenario, where Inner Quiet 11 and Whistle Stack 11 meet,
is also almost never a reality. You should never start Whistle While You Work at
IQ11 just to use Trained Hand, as it is unlikely that you can consume the entire
Whistle stack by the time you’re at IQ11 in the rotation.
Lv 60 - Heart of the Specialist

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Delineations cost red crafters’ scrips. This skill can be used in conjunction with
Whistle While You Work to speed up the consumption of Whistle stacks. Note that
you will get back most of the CP spent through Tricks of the Trade, as you are
guaranteed two to three Goods. so the CP cost isn’t a huge concern, but the fact
that it costs red crafters’ scrips mean that, in a practical rotation you should never
rely on it. Do you want to use one of these every time you craft because you
developed a rotation that relies on this? Outside of it costing delineation, however, it
is actually secretly a very good and underrated skill, massively increasing the
chances of depleting two or even three Whistle stacks in a craft attempt at a very low
cost, primarily because in higher recipe level crafts, the chances of Good and
Excellent conditions appearing is dramatically reduced.
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Bridging the Lv 60 - Lv 61 Gap
Bridging the Lv60 -> Lv61 gap is even more daunting than the Lv50 -> Lv51 gap. As
usual, I recommend waiting it out: naturally level your crafters from Lv 60 to Lv 61
through GC turn-ins. Remember that Lv 58 levequests and Lv 58/59 collectables give
severely reduced XP once you hit Lv 60, as with Moogle quests. You can also buy a
few leve items to jump to Lv 61 if you’re impatient, but I would not recommend that if
you’re not in a rush to level your crafters to Lv 70.
Left side gear can be found in Kugane from Muto:
Once you hit Lv 61 you can buy left side NQ gear:

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You can purchase tools from Shichiho:
However, you do have to reach Lv 62 to use the lowest level vendor main hand tool,
and Lv 63 to use the lowest level vendor off hand tool.
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Alternatively, you can buy Ironworks gear, which will last you all the way to Lv 70.
Lv 61 - Hasty Touch II
This is simply a more reliable Hasty Touch with a CP cost. Not currently used in most
endgame rotations.
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Lv 62 - Careful Synthesis III
An absolute replacement for Standard Synthesis. Used in most rotations.
Lv 63 - Rapid Synthesis II
This is a better Rapid Synthesis with a CP cost. Not currently used in most rotations.
Lv 63 - Quality Assurance
The following information is obtained from a botting forum, and so I’ll not link it in
this document.
This trait only increases the chances of material condition becoming good, not
excellent.
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Recipe Level Good without QA Good With QA
1 - 54 25% 27%
55 - 59 15% 17%
60 - 60 **** 10% 11%
61 - 64 20% 22%
65 - 70 15% 17%
70 - 70 ** 10% 11%
Lv 64 - Patient Touch
Similar to Byregot’s Miracle, when halving stacks upon failure, it is rounded up to

the nearest integer. Similar to Precise Touch, each successful Patient Touch adds 2
Inner Quiet stacks in total. This skill is underrated in current endgame, as it can easily
increase your IQ stacks to 5 within 2 actions with a fairly high success rate (64%).
Used in RNG rotations mostly. I expect this skill to be useful when we get 3.5*** or
4.5**** recipes. As of right now, the RNG is not needed to craft any item in the game
with high efficiency.
We treat Patient Touch as an Initial Quality Action, meaning it is best used in the
opener of a rotation. Using it in the middle of the Inner Quiet phase is ill-advised.
Lv 65 - Manipulation II
THIS ACTION IS OBTAINED FROM A CLASS QUEST!
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A straight upgrade to Waste Not II, this is far more versatile than its predecessor as
the durability restore takes place on all steps. Used in nearly all endgame rotations.
Its CP per durability is 2.4.
Lv 66 - Prudent Touch
Prudent Touch is the most powerful Touch action in the end-game. Each Prudent
Touch only costs 5 durability, and when paired with Steady Hand II, it has a success
rate of 100%. There is no need to use fancy tables to see how powerful this is. The
most efficient durability-restoring action in this game, barring Nymeia’s Wheel, is
Manipulation II, which is 2.4 CP per durability. So each Prudent Touch is effectively 21
- 12 = 9 CP. Recall that Basic Touch is 18 CP. Thus, practically, Prudent Touch is a half-
cost Basic Touch. It is easy to see how this is insanely powerful.
However, it is still not a perfect replacement for Hasty Touch in RNG rotations, but it
is very close. It takes, on average, 12 ~ 13 Hasty Touches to reach Inner Quiet 11. This
means we need 130 durability, that is, 312 CP. With Prudent Touch, we’ll always only
need 10 Prudent Touches to reach Inner Quiet 11 and we will need 210 CP. We will also
need 50 durability, which is equivalent to 120 CP. This, in total, is 330 CP, which is still
more than Hasty Touch’s CP cost, but not by much.
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So once you get Prudent Touch, you can basically replace all Hasty Touches with
Prudent.
With Manipulation II and Prudent Touch, we can finally create an end-game rotation:
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Crafter: Lv 67 - 70
Lv 13 - Observe
Not very useful before Stormblood, this ability finally sees some use in current end-
game rotations because it combos into two skills.
Lv 67 - Focused Synthesis
You’ll almost always want to pair this Synthesis with Observe. This skill, when
combined with Observe, is less CP-efficient than Careful Synthesis III, but more
durability-efficient than CS3. In the endgame, progress in short non-MaMa rotations
becomes a game of juggling between Piece by Piece, CS2, CS3, and Focused
Synthesis to find a combination that uses the least durability given a certain amount
of CP.
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Lv 68 - Focused Touch
Unlike its brother, Focused Synthesis, Focused Touch is difficult to utilize because it
takes two steps. Compare the two following snippets:
Cost: 128 CP, 25 durability. Outcome: +3 Inner Quiet stacks, 400% Efficiency Touches
Cost: 141 CP, 20 durability. Outcome: +4 Inner Quiet stacks, 400% Efficiency Touches
The second snippet costs more CP, but it used less durability and granted more
Inner Quiet stacks than the former has.
Focused Touch’s advantage doesn’t lie in its efficiency or CP cost as compared to

Advanced Touch. It lies in its success rate.
In this rotation, we reach Inner Quiet 9 with Prudent Touches in the first line. In order
to reach Inner Quiet 11, we would need 2 Touches. If we chose to do so with Prudent
Touches, we would need 2 turns of Steady Hand II. Using 2 turns of SH2 will exclude
Innovation from the finisher because Trifecta + Byregot’s Blessing requires 4 turns
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of SH2. If we used Focused Touch however, we would not require 2 turns of SH2, we
would only need 1.
Focused Touch’s relatively high CP cost currently excludes it from many rotations,
but once we get more CP later in Stormblood, I expect to see it in many more
macros.
Lv 69 - Initial Preparations
The RNG nature of Initial Preparations means that it is almost never used outside of
specialist-only rotations. It combines with powerful Specialty actions that are
mutually exclusive with each other.
Note that you can only use these actions when you are a specialist. This action has a
CP per durability efficiency of 2.0, which makes it far superior to many other skills. It
can practically give you 30 durability too if you utilize the last 5 durability as if it were
10 durability. In most current Initial Preparations rotations utilizing Prudent Touch,
one Manipulation II is enough for all our durability needs. Therefore I suspect this
skill would be better suited for Hasty Touch macros as Hasty Touches consume far
more durability than Prudent Touch.
An example rotation:
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This could be useful later in Stormblood when recipes get increasingly more difficult
that we need to rely on RNG, but as of 4.1, it is not needed to use Hasty Touch at all to
guarantee 100% HQ, so Reinforce is currently an underutilized skill.
Refurbish practically grants you 15 CP. Ignoring Steady Hand II slots, it is better than
Muscle Memory, because the difference between Piece by Piece and Muscle Memory
is 9 CP. We can think of this as a 6 CP improvement over Muscle Memory.
Practically, you are trading 50 CP for 3 stacks of Inner Quiet. This is extremely
powerful. Other ways of increasing IQ stack by 3 cost far more than 50 CP:
Method 1 costs: 3 turns of Steady Hand II (equivalent to 15 CP), 15 durability

(equivalent to 36 CP), and 63 CP, for a total of 114 CP.
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Method 2 costs: 3 turns of Steady Hand II (equivalent to 15 CP), 30 durability

(equivalent to 72 CP), for a total of 87 CP with only a 51.2% guarantee.
The only thing that comes close is Patient Touch:
This costs: 2 turns of Steady Hand II (equivalent to 10 CP), 20 durability (equivalent

to 48 CP), for a total of 58 CP with only a 64% guarantee of increasing IQ by 4.
You will always want to use Reflect as early as possible to allow any initial touches to
benefit from Inner Quiet’s control boost. Increasing Inner Quiet by 3 is an additive
increase to quality increase of around 60%, which is on par with Innovation. As
such, Reflect is an Initial Quality Action.
A typical rotation featuring Reflect will look like such:
Lv 70 - Stroke of Genius
THIS TRAIT IS OBTAINED FROM A CLASS QUEST!
The CP increase is 15. Remember to do your Lv70 class quest!

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PART IV: Endgame Crafter Guide

Crafter and Gatherer: 4.2 Progression Guide
Old 4.1 Progression Guide
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/77zhye/crafter_gatherer_endgame_progres
sion_guide_41/
Red and Yellow Scrips
Crafter Red Scrips: Unlock Mastercraft VI

You'll need 1200 red crafter scrips per Mastercraft VI. Purchase them from Scrips
Exchange in any of the three Eorzean city-states and Rhalgr's Reach. 8 books are a
total of 9600 red scrips. I recommend turning in any starred collectable that does not
use any leathers or silk/yarn.
Crafter Yellow Scrips: Augment Yellow Scrip Items

You can now augment your yellow scrip i300 gear to i330 by trading with a Scrips
Exchange. Augmented Yellow Scrip gear is not BiS and is not recommended due to
the lack of melding slots (which precludes CP) and is expensive and time-consuming
in the first place to acquire (due to it being class-restricted).
You'll need:
● 750 yellow scrips to augment your i300 tool
● 550 yellow scrips to augment body piece
● 300 yellow scrips to augment head and hand pieces
● 250 yellow scrips to augment feet pieces
In addition, the cost of yellow scrip i300 items has been reduced.
Crafter Yellow Scrips: Items

As usual, Gyr Abanian Alchemic is one of the better mats to acquire with yellow
scrips, but an array of other yellow scrip mats are useful this tier as well, depending
on your server.
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● [Crimson Pepper] synths into [Crimson Cider] (crit primary, dh secondary),

which is likely the BiS food for most jobs this tier.
● [Secret Recipe Broth] and [Honeydew Honey] crafts some alternative food that
will likely not be as in demand as Crimson Cider.
Crafter and Gatherer Yellow Scrips: Items

● [Wool Top] is used for Cashmere glamour; Cashmere Poncho is one of the
more popular glamours in Heavensward and will likely continue to be so.
● [Flannel] is used for Flannel glamour, [New World Macrame] for New World
glamour, both of which aren't as popular.
● [Pellitory] is used for Survival glamour, which can be obtained in PotD;

therefore, it isn't worth crafting these.
Gatherer Red Scrips

There are no major new uses for gatherer red scrips this tier.
Gatherer Yellow Scrips

● [Chocobo Raincoat], 1650 yellow scrips, is a barding that can be purchased
with yellow scrips.
Melds
Minimum Melds:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YS1
[1520 / 1357 / 476] - Enough for most macros this tier. Note that we hit 1520
Craftsmanship because some macros require ~1520, and not 1500 Craftsmanship.
● Tier Vs on guaranteed slots
● Tier IVs on overmeld slots
Medium Craftsmanship
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YSD
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[1560 / 1418 / 476] - Enough for all macros this tier.
● Tier VIs on guaranteed slots
● Tier Vs and IVs on overmeld slots
Medium Control-Focus
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YSI
[1522 / 1442 / 476] - Enough for most macros this tier. Slightly improved control to
reduce the need of HQ materials.
● Tier Vs and IVs on overmeld slots
High Control-Focus
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YSQ
[1521 / 1476 / 476] - Enough for most macros this tier. High control to reduce the need
of HQ materials.
● Mostly Tier Vs on overmeld slots
Max Control-Focus
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YT8
[1511 / 1591 / 475] - Enough for most macros this tier. Maximized control to sharply
reduce the need of HQ materials (1~2 HQ Reisui is enough for all crafts).
● Tier VIs on first overmeld slots
Old Craftsmanship-Focus
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http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13L5H
[1607 / 1536 / 475] - Enough for all macros this tier, and special Ala Mhigan macros in
the previous tier. Maximized craftsmanship for special macros (no-tea 2.5**).
● Tier VIs on first overmeld slots
Gatherer Max Melds
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YTJ
[1452 / 1360 / 750] - Enough for all rotations this tier. 1450 is the breakpoint for 95%
gathering rate on new nodes. It is impossible to reach 1450 perception or the
breakpoint for +3 gathering yield on Bountiful II (expected to be at 1575 gathering)
currently.
Cheap Gatherer Melds
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YTY
[1350 / 1170 / 730] - Cheap and good melds for crafters who only need NQ mats. 730
GP is the breakpoint to use max-yield rotations.
4.2 Specialists
Specialist-only recipes
CRP
● Byakko Sideboard
BSM
None.
ARM
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● Tier 1 Metal Aquarium
● Tier 2 Metal Aquarium
GSM
● Byakko Barding
LTW
● Byakko Throne
WVR
None.
ALC
● Answer on High Orchestrion Roll
● Amatsu Kaze Orchestrion Roll
CUL
None.
For this tier, BSM, WVR, and CUL specialists are almost irrelevant. I would
recommend CRP, GSM, and ALC solely for access to specialist actions, as CRP and
GSM crafts have less potential sources of easy HQ-able items, and having an ALC
specialist allows for much easier crafting of HQ Reisuis.
Self-Sufficiently Crafting Your Own 4.2 Gear
First of all, think of OPPORTUNITY COST. If Ala Mhigan gear is cheap enough, it can
be an INCREASE in profit efficiency by purchasing Ala Mhigan gear and jumping
straight into end-game crafting to make gil. The weeks you save by doing so could
make you more gil than the cost of Ala Mhigan gear.
Gearing Up Gatherers
1. Meld to the following: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14YUY This will enable you to

gather HQ materials.
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Gearing Up Crafters to 1320 / 1220
1. Meld to the following: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13O74
2. Obtain ALC specialist.
3. Gather materials for enough Snailfish Oil and Ala Mhigan Fiber to craft a full
set of Ala Mhigan gear. All of them need to be HQ if there exists an HQ version
of the item.
4. Gather enough Gyr Abanian Alembics by trading yellow scrips.
1320 / 1220 / 500 Macro for 2.5** Recipes
/ac "Maker's Mark" <wait.3>

/ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2>
/ac "Piece by Piece" <wait.3>
/ac "Flawless Synthesis" <wait.3>
MAKE SURE TO REPEAT THE 2nd MACRO 4 TIMES!

/echo Repeat this 4 times!

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/ac "Manipulation II" <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>

/ac "Ingenuity II" <wait.2>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
Use the above macro to craft your Snailfish Oil and Ala Mhigan Fibers.
1. Obtain WVR specialist
2. Craft the Ala Mhigan pieces under WVR. Remember, you need ALL HQ mats.
Use the macro above.
3. Obtain LTW specialist
4. Craft the Ala Mhigan pieces under LTW.
5. Obtain BSM specialist
6. Craft the Ala Mhigan pieces under BSM.
7. Obtain GSM specialist
8. Craft the Ala Mhigan Needle.

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9. Obtain ARM specialist
10. Craft the Ala Mhigan Alembic and Frypan.
11. Obtain CRP specialist (optional)
12. Craft the Ala Mhigan Fishing Rod (optional)
After this, you can meld your Ala Mhigan gear to one of the melds linked above.
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4.1 Macros
Originally from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/7hyjph/optimized_highstat_41_crafting_ma
cros_collection/ (Sky)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/7b6bpl/crafting_a_collection_of_nonrng_en
dgame_macros/ (Whale Lip)
New 2** / 2.5** Macros

High-Stat Macros
[1] - Food + Tea InPr
Requires: 1525+ Craftsmanship, 475 base CP, Tempura HQ, Cunning Tea HQ
SPECIALIST
/ac "Initial Preparations" <wait.3>

/ac "Specialty: Reflect" <wait.3>

/ac "Ingenuity" <wait.2>
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/echo Check Condition! If it's not 'Excellent', use Macro [3]. If it

is, use Macro [4].

/ac "Observe" <wait.3>
/ac "Focused Synthesis" <wait.3>

[5100 initial quality] -- req: 1570 control
[2] - Food InPr
Requires: 1650+ Craftsmanship, 475 base CP, Tempura HQ
SPECIALIST

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is, use Macro [4].

/ac "Careful Synthesis III" <wait.3>


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Medium-Stat Macros
[3] - MaMa Double Byregot
Requires: 1320+ Craftsmanship, 475 base CP, Tempura HQ
SPECIALIST


/echo Macro #2 - 1 / 2 / 3 complete <se.14>

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/ac "Focused Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Byregot's Miracle" <wait.3>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <wait.3>
[4] - InPr Food
Requires: 1390+ Craftsmanship, 1385+ Control, 476 base CP, Tempura HQ
Or
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Requires: 1390+ Craftsmanship, 1385+ Control, 463 base CP, Tempura HQ,
Cunning Tea HQ
SPECIALIST


is, use Macro [4].


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Low-Stat Macro
[5] - MaMa Low CP
Requires: 1320+ Craftsmanship, 446 base CP, Tempura/Seafood HQ
SPECIALIST


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/echo Repeat this 4 times!


Requires: 11000+ Initial Quality

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Old 2** Macros

High-Stat Macro
[6] - MuMe Foodless
Requires: 1500+ Craftsmanship, 1540+ Control, 471 base CP
NON-SPECIALIST
/ac "Muscle Memory" <wait.3>


Medium-Stat Macro
[7] - MuMe Foodless
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NON-SPECIALIST


Low-Stat Macro
[8] - Evian’s MuMe Food
Or
Requires: 1320+ Craftsmanship, 1260+ Control, 455 base CP, Tempura HQ,
Cunning Tea HQ
NON-SPECIALIST

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1* Macros
[9] - Nixillis’ MuMe Foodless
Requires: 1400+ Craftsmanship, 1425+ Control, 470+ CP
NON-SPECIALIST

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[10] - Low Stat MuMe
Requires: 1155+ Craftsmanship, 1085+ Control, 472+ Base CP, Tempura HQ
NON-SPECIALIST


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Lv 70 Macros
[11] - Kitiara’s One-Step InPr
Requires: 1475+ Craftsmanship, 1455+ Control
SPECIALIST

/ac "Advanced Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <wait.3>
[12] - MuMe Foodless
Requires: 1520+ Craftsmanship, 1360+ Control
NON-SPECIALIST

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[13] - Low-Stat MuMe
NON-SPECIALIST


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Lv 68 40 durability Macros
[14] - One-Click Macro
NON-SPECIALIST

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4.2 Macros
35 DURABILITY SPECIALIST
Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (Brand of Elementals)
Minimum (base): 1551 Craftsmanship, 466 CP
Food: Tempura Platter HQ
Optional Food: Seafood Stew HQ (at 1605 base Craftsmanship / 470 base CP)
Medicine: Competent Crafter's Tea HQ (skippable at 1576 Craftsmanship)

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/ac "Name of Earth" <wait.2>


/ac "Brand of Earth" <wait.3>
/ac "Brand of Earth" <wait.3>
Synth Code:
["initialPreparations","comfortZone","innerQuiet","specialtyReflect","steadyHand2","pru
dentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","manipulat
ion2","nameOfEarth","comfortZone","steadyHand2","ingenuity2","brandOfEarth","brand
OfEarth","prudentTouch","steadyHand2","prudentTouch","innovation","greatStrides","in
genuity2","byregotsBlessing","observe","focusedSynthesis"]
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Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (w/o Brand, requires tea)
Food: Seafood Stew HQ
Optional Food: Tempura Platter HQ (if <1500 Craftsmanship)
Medicine: Cunning Tea HQ


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Synth Code:
["initialPreparations","comfortZone","innerQuiet","specialtyReflect","steadyHand2","ma
nipulation2","pieceByPiece","pieceByPiece","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","observe","f
ocusedSynthesis","comfortZone","greatStrides","ingenuity","steadyHand2","prudentTou
ch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","steadyHand","innovation","greatSt
rides","ingenuity2","byregotsBlessing","observe","focusedSynthesis"]
Highest Quality Specialist Rotation (w/o Brand, w/o tea)
Medicine: None
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Synth Code:
["initialPreparations","comfortZone","innerQuiet","specialtyReflect","steadyHand2","ma
nipulation2","pieceByPiece","pieceByPiece","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","observe","f
ocusedSynthesis","comfortZone","ingenuity","steadyHand2","innovation","prudentTouch
","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","steadyHand2","prudentTouch","ingenuity2","innovati
on","greatStrides","byregotsBlessing","observe","focusedSynthesis"]
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35 DURABILITY NON-SPECIALIST
S'yahn Tia's 35-durability non-spec
Refer to this post for additional information.

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Synth Code:
["muscleMemory","comfortZone","innerQuiet","manipulation2","steadyHand2","pieceBy
Piece","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","observe","focu
sedTouch","comfortZone","manipulation2","observe","focusedTouch","observe","focuse
dTouch","steadyHand2","basicTouch","greatStrides","innovation","ingenuity2","byregots
Blessing","carefulSynthesis2","carefulSynthesis2","carefulSynthesis2"]
70 DURABILITY SPECIALIST
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Highest Quality 70 Durability Macro


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/echo Check Condition! <se.4>
Use this macro if the condition is NOT EXCELLENT:

Use this macro if the condition is EXCELLENT:

Synth Code:
["initialPreparations","comfortZone","innerQuiet","specialtyReflect","steadyHand2","piec
eByPiece","pieceByPiece","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","carefulSynth
esis2","manipulation2","comfortZone","steadyHand2","prudentTouch","ingenuity","prud
entTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","observe","focusedTouch","steadyHand","inn
ovation","greatStrides","ingenuity2","byregotsBlessing","observe","focusedSynthesis","c
arefulSynthesis2","carefulSynthesis2"]
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70 DURABILITY NON-SPECIALIST
Nixillis's Non-Spec 70 Durability Macro
Food: Tempura Platter HQ
Optional Food: None.

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/echo Check Condition! <se.4>
Use this macro if the condition is NOT EXCELLENT:

Use this macro if the condition is EXCELLENT:

Synth Code:
["muscleMemory","comfortZone","innerQuiet","steadyHand2","prudentTouch","prudent
Touch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","ingenuity","steadyHand2","pru
dentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","prudentTouch","comfortZ
one","manipulation2","steadyHand","pieceByPiece","innovation","greatStrides","ingenuit
y","byregotsBlessing","observe","focusedSynthesis","observe","focusedSynthesis","care
fulSynthesis3"]
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Desynthesis
Many thanks to this guide for starting this section of my guide up. I’ll not go into too
many details of the best methods of leveling desynthesis before 160.
Basic Desynthesis Guide

Desynthesis is the breaking down of an item into its composite materials. You can
unlock desynthesis from this quest, which requires a Lv30 crafter. Each crafter class
has its own desynthesis branch.
The point of
desynthesis is to
obtain otherwise hard-
to-obtain or
impossible-to-obtain
materials that are
necessary for crafting.
Frequently, this will be
Demimaterias, which
only comes from
desynthesis.
Sometimes, materials
such as Glass Fiber
(obtained from Moogle
Quests) which are
locked behind dailies or
weeklies can also be
obtained from
desynthesis, making it useful to level
your desynthesis skills.
To level desynthesis, simply

desynthesize! The rate at which you
gain desynthesis skill points
correlates with the desynthesis level
of the item as compared to your
desynthesis skill level. Once your
desynthesis skill level is 20 above the
desynthesis level of the item, you will not gain greatly reduced desynthesis skill
points. As of Stormblood, you can view the desynthesis level of an item.
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Not all items are

desynthesizable. If you
hover over an item, you’ll
be able to see whether it
is desynthesizable, along
with its desynthesis level.
In order to desynthesize
an item, simply right-
click on it and select
“Desynthesis”.
Alternatively, you can use
/ac “Desynthesis” to
enter the Desynthesis
menu.
When you actually

desynthesize an item,
you’ll have a success
rate to actually
desynthesize the item.
The success rate is
based on your
desynthesis skill level
relative to the item’s
desynthesis level.
Desynthing an HQ item
makes zero difference.
To check your
desynthesis skill level,
go to your classes
screen, select DoH/DoL,
and click on your
crafters. A screen will
pop up showing your
desynthesis skill levels.
As of patch 4.18, there is

a cap of 980
desynthesis skill level
shared across all 8
desynthesis branches.
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Practically, this means you can only max out 3 desynthesis branches of your
choosing.
There are three ways to increase your success rate of desynthesizing an item:
- Melding materia (any) onto the item

- Bacon Broth (food)
- Tinker’s Calm (medicine)
Note that, when your desynthesis is botched, you will still lose the item you
originally intended to desynth.
You can reset your desynthesis skill by purchasing or crafting a for Beginners book,
found in Master Alchemist II:
Fieldcraft and Mastercraft Demimateria

FCs and MCs are valuable items that are commonly used in many endgame recipes.
The best ways to obtain them can be found in this post.

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The current recommended way to obtain FC3 and MC is to desynthesize Artisan’s

Spectacles. To do so, you’ll need to trade in special items, traded to Talan.
Desynthesis Leveling Post d160

Desynthesis Leveling is either cheap and slow or expensive and fast. There is no
in between.
Culinarians should buy fishes closest to their desynthesis level. This guide will
skip Culinarian leveling.
A guide for d1 - d160 leveling can be found in the desynthesis guide.
Remember to use Tinker’s Calm and Bacon’s Broth to increase your success rate!
d160 - d180
GC seals special items (purchase with GC seals or from market board) for
CRP/BSM/ARM:
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Thavnairian glamour (purchase from market board) for LTW/WVR:
i170/i180 green crafting gear (purchase from market board):
Sky Pirate gear (purchase from market board):

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Doman Gear with Yolaine in Ishgard Bar:
Obtain Centurio Seals by hunting.
i180 PvP gear in Wolves’ Den Pier:

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Obtain wolf marks through PvP.
d180 - d200
Artifact Gear with Yolaine in Ishgard Bar:
i205 PvP gear in Wolves’ Den Pier:

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d190 - d220
Replica Allagan gear (purchase from market board or craft yourself):

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Expeditioner’s glamour for LTW/WVR:

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d220 - d235
Double-melded (use trash materia) i255 gear
Poetics gear from Hismena in Idyllshire:

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d235 - d300
From d235 to d260, visit Independent Merchant in Rhalgr’s Reach:

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For d260 to d300, visit Independent Merchant in The Lochs:

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d300 - d320
Expert Roulette drops

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Crafter: Endgame Theory and Rotations

THIS SECTION IS IRRELEVANT TO NEW CRAFTERS.
Crafter “Level” and Recipe Level6

And finally, we reach the most exciting and most relevant attribute in the end-game:
the crafter level and the recipe level. Yet they are also the most obtuse. So let me
reinforce these straightaway:
RECIPE LEVEL =/= ITEM LEVEL.
CRAFTER “LEVEL” =/= THE LEVEL OF YOUR CRAFTER
The Recipe Level of a given recipe is a hidden attribute that you cannot view in-
game7. Yet it is also the most important attribute in the end-game, affecting
progress and quality far more than any point of craftsmanship and control, or even
CP, can ever hope to achieve.
Sometimes, the Recipe Level is the Item Level of the crafted product. In the picture
above, we see that the Hallowed Ramie Sash of Casting has an item level of i139 and
its Recipe Level is also r139.
6 https://github.com/Ermad/ffxiv-craft-opt-web/blob/master/app/js/ffxivcraftmodel.js
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/76winm/crafting_efficiency_in_stormblood/
7 You can view them here: https://github.com/Ermad/ffxiv-craft-opt-
web/tree/master/app/data/recipedb
Or on Garlandtools.
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The majority of the time during both leveling post-50 and in the end-game, this is
not the case. We see that this Expeditioner’s Kecks has an item level of i1; however,
its Recipe Level is indeed r180. This discrepancy can be confusing, but there is a solid
pattern you can follow. In the below table, the apparent recipe level refers to the
number (including stars) you see at the bottom of the recipe’s entry on the crafting
log:
Apparent Recipe Level Real Recipe Level (rlvl)
Lv51 115 / 120
Lv52 125
Lv53 130
Lv54 133
Lv55 136
Lv56 139
Lv57 142
Lv58 145
Lv59 148
Lv60 150
Lv60 * 160
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Lv60 ** 180
Lv60 *** 210
Lv60 **** 250
Lv 61 255 / 260
Lv 62 265
Lv 63 270
Lv 64 273
Lv 65 276
Lv 66 279
Lv 67 282
Lv 68 285
Lv 69 288
Lv 70 290
Lv 70 * 300
Lv 70 ** 320
The Crafter “Level” of a given crafter you have is not its level. It is the recipe level of
any given item at the level of your crafter, and it is independent from gear. This
means that, if you’re currently at Lv70, then your Crafter “Level” is 290, and it is
impossible for you to get to a higher Crafter “Level” currently. The implication is
that you’ll always be at a disadvantage when crafting starred recipes, because your
Crafter “Level” will be below the Recipe Level.
To calculate your base progress increase, use Basic Synthesis on a Lv 70 0-star recipe.
To calculate your base quality increase, use Prudent Touch / Basic Touch / Hasty
Touch on a Lv 1 recipe.
Let us get right away into dissecting how your Crafter “Level” and the Recipe Level
interact.
1. For every Crafter “Level” above the Recipe Level, you gain a boost to progress.
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Crafter “Level”s above Recipe Level Boost to Progress
1 +5%
2 +10%
3 +15%
4 +20%
5 +25%
10 +36%
15 +46%
20 +50%
80 +54%
100 +55%
EXAMPLES AT LV70
As a Lv 70 Crafter, your effective Crafter "Level" is 290.
● When crafting a Lv 70 item (Recipe Level = 290), your progress modifier is +0%.
● When crafting a Lv 69 item (Recipe Level = 288), your progress modifier is

+10%.

+25%.

+38%.
2. For every Crafter “Level” below the Recipe Level, you gain a NEGATIVE
MODIFIER to progress.
Crafter “Level”s below Recipe Level Reduction to Progress

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1 -3%
2 -6%
3 -9%
4 -11%
5 -13%
10 -25%
30 -26%
60 -27%
100 -28%
EXAMPLES AT LV70
● When crafting a Lv 70 * item (Recipe Level = 300), your progress modifier is

-25%.
● When crafting a Lv 70 ** item (Recipe Level = 320), your progress modifier is

-26%.
● When crafting a Lv 70 *** item (Recipe Level = 350), your progress modifier is
-27%.
● When crafting a Lv 70 **** item (Recipe Level = 390), your progress modifier is
-28%.
3. For every Crafter “Level” below the Recipe Level, you gain a NEGATIVE
MODIFIER to quality increases, which is capped at 50%. You do not gain any
boost to quality increases for being above the Recipe Level.
Crafter “Level”s Below Recipe Level Reduction to Quality Increase
1 -5%
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2 -10%
3 -15%
4 -20%
5 -25%
10 -50%
30 -50%
60 -50%
100 -50%
4. In addition to the penalty in [3], higher level recipes have an additional innate
penalty to quality increases EVEN IF YOUR CRAFTER “LEVEL” is ABOVE the
Recipe Level.
Recipe Level Innate Quality Increase Penalty
115 - 150 -4%
160 -5%
180 -6%
210 -7%
250 -8%
255 - 290 -8%
300 -9%
320 -10%
These two quality penalties are MULTIPLICATIVE.
EXAMPLES AT LV70

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● When crafting a Lv 70 item (Recipe Level = 290), your quality modifier is -8%.
● When crafting a Lv 70 * item (Recipe Level = 300), your quality modifier is 0.5 x
0.91 = 0.455x
● When crafting a Lv 70 ** item (Recipe Level = 320), your quality modifier is 0.5 x
0.9 = 0.45x
● When crafting a Lv 70 *** item (Recipe Level = 350), your quality modifier is 0.5
x 0.89 = 0.445x
● When crafting a Lv 70 **** item (Recipe Level = 390), your quality modifier is 0.5
x 0.88 = 0.44x
All this seems very frightening: you are getting around a whooping -55% quality
penalty when attempting to craft the current r320 recipes… which is why Ingenuity
is so important, which we would later discuss.
tl;dr
● When you’re above the recipe’s level, you gain bonus to progress.
● When you’re below the recipe’s level, you gain severe negative modifiers to
progress and quality.
● Ingenuity is essential in the current end-game.
Ingenuity Modifier
Ingenuity I and II reduces the recipe level of the craft temporarily. This reduction
does not have a formula but is, rather, based on a lookup table. Based on data from
this post, the reduction is as follows (italics are predicted values):
Recipe Level Ingenuity Reduction Ingenuity II Reduction
50 45 42
55 (50 1*) 50 47
70 (50 2**) 51 48
90 (50 3***) 58 56
110 (50 4****) 59 57
120 100 99
136 112 111

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150 140 139
160 (60 1*) 151 150
180 (60 2**) 152 151
210 (60 3***) 153 152
250 (60 4****) 154 153
260 240 239
276 252 251
290 280 279
300 (70 1*) 291 290
320 (70 2**) 292 291
350 (70 3***) 293 292
390 (70 4****) 294 293
Recall that quality increase is affected by recipe level itself, in addition to the
quality reductions from the difference between recipe level and crafter level…
INGENUITY I & II DOES NOT REDUCE THIS INNATE QUALITY PENALTY IN ANY
WAY.
Let’s convert that to something more meaningful (italics are predicted values):
Recipe Lv Progress Ingen 1 Ingen2 Quality Ingen 1 Ingen 2

Modifier Progress Progress Modifier Quality Quality
Lv 70 0* 100% 136% 138% 92% 92% 92%
Lv 70 1* 75% 97% 100% 45.5% 86.45% 91%
Lv 70 2** 74% 94% 97% 45% 81.0% 85.5%
Lv 70 3*** 73% 91% 94% 44.5% 75.65% 80.1%
Lv 70 72% 89% 91% 44% 70.4% 74.8%

4****
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We can then convert this further to determine Ingen’s relative boost to quality (these
are rough numbers):
Recipe Lv Ingen 1 Relative Quality Ingen 2 Relative Quality

Boost Boost
Lv 70 1* 90% 100%
Lv 70 2** 80% 90%
Lv 70 3*** 70% 80%
Lv 70 4**** 60% 70%
My theory is that quality increases as related to Ingenuity are calculated this way,
ignoring rounding:
Quality Increase = Difference Modifier * Innate Recipe Level Quality Modifier
where Difference Modifier is the quality penalty modifier based on the difference
between recipe level (including Ingenuity’s reduction) and crafter level.
Ingenuity only affects the first factor and not the second factor.
Let’s use current Lv 70 2** recipes as an example, then:
Quality increase modifier at Lv 70 2** without Ingenuity =
Difference Modifier * Innate Recipe Level Quality Modifier =
Modifier of (320 - 290) * Innate Quality Modifier of r320 recipes =
0.5 * 0.9 = 0.45
Quality increase modifier at Lv 70 2** with Ingenuity II =
Difference Modifier * Innate Recipe Level Quality Modifier =
Modifier of (291 - 290) * Innate Quality Modifier of r320 recipes =
0.95 * 0.9 = 0.855

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Initial Preparations Rotation

The new macro in town calling all the shots currently is InPr + Reflect. Its potency
has already been discussed prior, so let’s jump into dissecting the current 2.5** macro
(it is rather straightforward):
OPENER
One interesting thing of note is the use of 3 Piece by Piece’s. Here, we are basically
substituting Muscle Memory with Piece by Piece.
INNER QUIET PHASE
Note the Comfort Zone consumption actions. We use a Careful Synthesis II here even
though it is inefficient, unbuffed by Ingenuity, because we aim to deplete our
Comfort Zone. Basically, we are trading 8 CP for a small hit to progress increase here.
As for Manipulation II, due to its flexibility, we were able to fit it in as a CZ

consumption action.
FINISHER
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Here we have two finishers we can compare. Note that we only have 25 durability
to spare after Byregot’s Blessing, so we must only use 3 Synthesis actions in total.
The first finisher has higher overall progress efficiency but has a higher CP cost. The
second finisher has lower overall progress efficiency but has a lower CP cost. The first
finisher is used so that you can meld to a lower Craftsmanship to utilize the macro,
but the caveat is that you would need to drink Cunning Tea in order to use it. The
second finisher requires very high Craftsmanship, but it allows you to utilize it
without the use of tea. Both have their pros and cons.
MaMa Whistle Rotation (4.18)

This rotation is not developed by a human… I’ll stop here. It is heavily RNG-reliant, but
can produce stellar results with low stats.
Video demonstration here.
CROSS-CLASS:
OPENER:
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If you’re lucky you’ll get IQ5. This is the desired opener. If your first or second Patient
Touch fails, do a third Patient Touch. Otherwise, jump straight to Flawless Synthesis.
If you see a ToT proc, always take it no matter when you see it. If two ToTs proc in
the opener SH2 phase, then use only one Patient Touch. It’s fine.
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When your Whistle stack decreases to 9, always use Satisfaction.
After the opener, if you have Inner Quiet 1 or 2, then proceed to use Steady Hand II +
Patient Touch until you reach at least 4, using Master’s Mend II if needed.
FLAWLESS SYNTHESIS PHASE
Next would be the Flawless Synthesis phase:
During this phase, before Maker’s Mark wears off, prioritize the following:
1. If Condition is Good / Excellent -> Tricks of the Trade

2. If Whistle Stack is at 3, 6, or 9 -> Satisfaction
3. Refresh Comfort Zone
4. If durability is at 10 -> Master’s Mend II
5. If Whistle Stack is equal to Inner Quiet Stack -> Trained Hand
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6. If Whistle While you Work is at 2 stacks -> Nymeia’s Wheel

7. If Whistle While you Work depletes before Maker’s Mark is at 10 ~ 20 stacks
-> Whistle While you Work
If you overflow on CP, you have two options:
1. Ignore the CP overflow

2. Use Steady Hand II + Hasty Touches to deplete the CP at the cost of ~200
progress
I recommend the latter.
INNER QUIET PHASE:
Once we deplete our Maker’s Mark stacks, our focus would be to increase Inner Quiet
stacks.
Check your remaining progress first. If you need 2~3 Ingenuity-buffed CS2’s to
complete the craft, then be sure to use one to two during this phase. Otherwise, if
you only need 1, then you do not need to use any during this phase.
We lead on with Steady Hand 2, and proceed to use Hasty Touch.

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Once we hit 11 stacks of Inner Quiet, we proceed to use as many Ingenuity-buffed

Hasty Touches as possible, while making sure we use any needed Careful 2 / Careful
3 within the Ingenuity window.
Follow this priority list. This priority list is a rough guide and you can change as you
see fit, but make sure to always leave enough CP left for the finisher.
1. Ensure you have enough CP and durability for the finisher. This is 144 CP
and 20 durability.
2. If Condition is Good, use Tricks of the Trade. If Excellent, use Precise Touch
if SH2 is active.
3. Use Nymeia’s Wheel if Whistle reaches 2 stacks. If durability is above 40,
then continue using Hasty Touches until durability reaches 40. Use Nymeia’s
Wheel immediately if Condition is Good/Excellent and Whistle is at 1 stack
unless Finishing Touches will not complete the craft.
4. If Whistle Stack is at 3, 6, or 9 -> Satisfaction
5. If durability is at 10 and CP is above 320 -> Master’s Mend II
6. If durability is at 30 ~ 50 and CP is above 300 -> Manipulation II
7. If Inner Quiet is at 11 stacks -> Ingenuity I
8. Use one Careful Synthesis II during the Ingenuity window if you need to.
FINISHER
If you have extra CP, change Ingenuity to Ingenuity II.
If you accidentally used up too much CP, skip, in order of priority:

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1. Innovation
2. Prudent Touch
3. Byregot’s Blessing (use Byregot’s Miracle)
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Crafter: Making Profits

Supply & Demand
Let’s go through a very basic Economics 101 lesson. For more, check out this link.
Simply put, supply represents how much sellers can put on the market for a
particular item, and demand represents how much buyers desire that item. When
there is low supply, the price will go up. When there is high demand, the price will go
up. Increasing the cost of production will shift the supply curve to the left, increasing
the equilibrium price. In a healthy market, the equilibrium price will always correlate
with the cost of production.
Check an item’s minimum cost of production before entering the market! An item
could have a cost of production of 2 ventures because it drops from Quick Ventures,
drastically lowering its equilibrium price. As such you do not want to spend 300k
crafting the product then realizing that everyone else have been producing them
with a low cost of production.
Demand and supply naturally lower during a content drought simply because
there are less active players. You need to judge which has lowered more. If demand
has lowered more than supply, then the price will naturally decrease, and vice versa.
However, due to the nature of this game, the theories of basic supply and demand
do not work perfectly in this game. Markets can be highly irrational. For example, a
crafter could drastically lower the price simply out of spite, causing a shock. Market
shocks are common in this game, and it is in your best interest to judge supply and
demand carefully to determine where they meet and the “right price” for a product,
or rather, its equilibrium price is at. For all the market’s irrationality, most of the time
after a shock, it’ll still return to the equilibrium price.
What this practically means for the discerning crafter is to seek out a market of
high demand and low supply. Easier said than done! Don't be lazy; get to work and
research on the market board, or seek out alternative means of making gil, such as
commissions.
While supply is easy to judge (simply look at the amount of listings on the market
board), demand is far harder to determine. Looking at the history of transactions will
usually give a general idea of demand, by observing the rate of transactions.
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Recognizing Inelastic Demand
In a market with perfectly inelastic demand, price changes have no effect on

demand. In the real world, if for example, oxygen becomes a necessary commodity
that has only one supplier, and Earth runs out of oxygen, then oxgyen would very
likely become a market with perfectly inelastic demand. The sole supplier of oxygen
can raise or lower the price of oxygen as they see fit and people will have no choice
but to purchase the oxygen.
In the above transaction history we see a market with relatively inelastic demand
(but not perfectly). Notice that price changes do not affect the rate of transaction as
much. This is because, the product, an Ala Mhigan tool, is a specialist-locked recipe
that requires rather high crafter attributes to craft, and is pretty difficult to craft. This
creates a high barrier to entry. In order to obtain an Ala Mhigan tool, one would need
to go through numerous steps, including using a weekly-gated specialist change to
craft it. However, Ala Mhigan tools are also necessary for 4.2, and for utilizing efficient
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macros to craft current tier recipes. Therefore, consumers are left with little choice:
they need to either go through a rather difficult and annoying series of steps to craft
it themselves, or use gil to skip the process, either through commissioning or
through the market board. Because of the difficulty of obtaining the item, the
demand is relatively inelastic as consumers have relatively fewer choices, compared
to something like Iron Ore.
In a market with inelastic demand, the pricing will not affect demand as much.
When you figure out that a market has inelastic demand, it is in your best interest to
maintain the price as high as is reasonable and maximize supply, as total revenue
increases as the price goes up in a market with inelastic demand.
Rough ways to gauge whether a market has a relatively inelastic demand:
- See if sudden fluctuations in price do not affect demand as much

- Consider the amount of alternatives to that good. If there is no alternative
then it will be relatively inelastic
- Consider the barrier to entry to craft that good. If it is difficult to craft that
item, it will become less likely to commission crafters to craft that item
Profit Efficiency
Profit Efficiency is incredibly important if you want to maximize your profits. You
only have a certain amount of hours to play the game each week. Any action you do
that increases the amount of gil you generate per hour is an increase in your crafting
efficiency.
In some cases, NOT crafting or gathering something will be an increase in profit

efficiency:
- Purchasing items such as Rubber from vendors instead of crafting them

manually
- Undercutting on the market board and not crafting anything new can be an
increase in profit efficiency if competition is fierce
- Not gathering an item if it is very cheap on the market board can be an
increase in profit efficiency
Absolute self-sufficiency will usually lower your profit efficiency. But also watch out:
sometimes being lazy will decrease your profit efficiency:
- Purchasing raw materials during a price shock (solution: regularly check the
market board and purchase regular raw materials in bulk when they are
cheap)
- Purchasing materia rather than spiritbonding / transmutation (remember
that a penny saved is a penny earned)
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- Not undercutting
Spiritbonding
Currently, spiritbonding can be a good source of gil, dependent on server.
Spiritbonding refers to the action of increasing the spiritbond of a binding piece of

gear from 0% to 100%. You can convert the gear afterwards, which will transform the
gear into a piece of materia. Crafter gear converts into crafter materia, and
gatherer gear converts into gatherer materia.
Currently, the most efficient approach to spiritbonding crafter gear for crafter
materia is to:
1. Purchase a set of NQ left side crafter gear and tools from Kugane vendors
2. Manually craft right side crafter accessories. Crafting HQ is recommended as
HQ gear spiritbonds faster. An HQ gear with one meld spiritbonds as fast as
NQ gear with two melds.
3. Meld, but do not overmeld, the gear with Cunning IV (CP). This increases the
success rate of quick synthesis and you can retrieve the materia with 100%
success rate.
4. Purchase, or use retainers to gather, materials to craft Lv 68 40 dura recipes,
such as Zelkova Logs, Twincoon, Molybdenum Ore, Palladium Sand.
5. Consume:
a. (optional)
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b.
c.
6. Mass Quick Synthesis the Lv 68 recipe of your choice.
7. When a piece of gear is fully spiritbonded, retrieve the materia and convert it,
and replace it with fresh CP4-melded gear.
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(Irrelevant) Crafter and Gatherer: Preparing

for 4.2
Prepare early! Week 1 gil is not going to be easy if you're unprepared. With the
content drought starting to fully sink in and markets slowing to a crawl, now is the
best time to make preparations, stop playing the market board and focus on being
the first to sell, hopefully, many 20m pieces and rip world prog raiders off :^). (but it's
more likely they have their own crafters funding them)
This guide is aimed specifically at high-end omnicrafters, so don't complain if none

of the tips apply to you (ngl, this guide is purely to help the rich get richer).
Special thanks to the Balance discord's doh/dol channels.
New 3* Crafts
Meld your Ala Mhigan Gear
People are expecting anywhere from 1650/1550 to 1450/1320 as the new 3*

requirements. For those estimating the requirements at a higher range, it is
expected that the right side crafter gear and any new crafter food be utilized to hit
these requirements (which obviously imply that the new right side is 2*).
It is possible to hit 1650/1550 currently without the use of i320 right side pieces. Melds
here, which I'm using. This confers a significant advantage: you'll be able to target
raiders immediately right as 4.2 opens, and being the first to sell in a market of high
demand and extremely low supply puts you squarely in the advantage for a precious
few hours before other crafters catch up. Of course, if 3* requirements are lower,
melding that extremely will not give you too much advantage. Calculate the risks
and rewards very carefully (to meld to that level costs ~100m).
Regardless of what you're planning, at least meld your Ala Mhigan gear to a level
that allows you to craft 3* on day 1. Additionally, the higher stats you hit, the more
likely you'll be able to use a short InitPrep/MuMe macro over a MaMa macro on day 1,
which is significantly faster and allows you to churn out i350 crafted raid gear much
faster than other crafters and corner all corners of the i350 market.
Filter new recipes ASAP and pay close attention to datamining threads
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In the first few hours of day 1, none of the websites such as ffxivcrafting.com,
garlandtools.org, or xivdb.com will have updated their database to include new
recipes. You need to be prepared to manually record down new recipes and figure
out what is needed to craft the new i350. Be sure to use the in-game filter button on
the recipe menu on day 1, and pay close attention to datamining threads (if you are
able to, you can datamine the new patch by yourself too and figure out what mats
are used to craft the new recipes before the patch is even online).
Stock up on mats
It is likely that some current mats will be used in new crafts; stock a healthy amount
of them in case any of them would be used. But be clever; don't stock up on 1000
Blue Landtrap Leafs. Instead, Molybdenum Ingots may be a better choice (and you
can spiritbond while doing it), so that in case it isn't used, you can use them for older
recipes that will fetch a good price on the market board.
Personally I don't think current aethersands will be used in Grade 3 Reisui (if it'll even
exist), but I do expect current aethersands to be used in new 3* crafts. Stock a
healthy amount of aethersands while they're still cheap.
You should also be expecting Mastercrafts, FC3s and, maybe, BC3s to be used in new
recipes.
Finally, the reason why I want you to record down new recipes ASAP is because you
might miss out on some mats that will be used in new recipes, and the sooner you
find them, the faster you can buy them on the market board before everyone else
realizes that it's used in new recipes.
Specialists
It is unclear if new 3* recipes will be specialist-locked or not. Regardless, be smart

and be prepared. To maximize efficiency and gil you WILL be changing specialists on
week 1 (most probably on day 2 after you crafted 2 copies of every single new recipe
of your day 1 specialists), or have 1~2 alts that are capable of hitting 3* requirements
on day 1. So choose 3 good classes to start out in that will confer the biggest
advantage, making sure that you are the least limited by cross-class spec-locked
materials as possible. I personally recommend taking at least ALCbefore 4.2, with the
other two slots being anybody's guess. You can also take a gamble by taking CUL, as
it is likely there will be new crafter food / new BiS food for raiding.
Cap red and yellow scrips
For new mats. It is also advisable to keep an inventory of collectables that you can
turn-in in week 1, and good luck having your collectables starred on day 1! There is
also a remote possibility that new, weekly-locked scrips will come out.
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Cap creation and verity
I know capping creation to 2000/2000 seems like a huge stretch, but based on past
patches, there is the chance that new mats will be purchasable with creation (see:
Eikon Mythrite, Eikon Fiber etc.). I am also expecting verity to be converted to
creation.
Gathering
Meld your Ala Mhigan Gear
Once again, meld your Ala Mhigan gear, as it is very likely there will be a new tier of
stats to hit for the new mats. The higher you meld, the more efficient your day 1
gathering will be. Being able to trigger new node bonuses, having +2 or, unlikely,
even +3 gathering yield on Bountiful2, and having 95%/15% on new nodes instantly,
can accelerate your gathering. The less time you spend on gathering new mats, the
more time you have to craft new recipes. My melds here.
Stay tuned on the Balance discord, official forums, and Reddit
I am expecting there to be new nodes, and finding the new nodes will be a collective
group effort. Most people are nice and won't purposefully withhold information. Be
sure to constantly refresh and pay attention to these channels of communication on
day 1 to know where to gather new materials for crafting.
It is likely that there will be new mats appearing on regular nodes
Based on the pattern of patch 3.2, where whitefrost cotton boll, camphorwood
branch, and lumythrite sand are added onto regular nodes, it is reasonable to expect
that patch 4.2 will be the same.
i320 right side and belt
Stock up on materias
Materias have been dropping in price recently, and now is an excellent time to stock
up on materias. You'll want to pentameld the new crafter / gatherer gear ASAP to
unlock shorter macros and accelerate your crafting.
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It might be faster to purchase i320 right side and belt
I am personally expecting i320 right side and belt to be 2.5* recipes and will not be
specialist-locked to fit the pattern that i320 = 2-star. It is likely that many crafters will
be crafting these first if this were the case, as they can't really do 3* recipes yet. As
such supply might be high and it is likely that it'll simply be faster to purchase these
outright and focus on making 3* (=i350) recipes.
...or if you're stingy, prepare the mats to craft your i320 right side and belt
There is no past precedent of something like Ala Mhigan gear being released in a
staggered fashion (AFAIK), so it is also hard to say what mats will be used for i320
right side and belt. Regardless, I am expecting that Gyr Abanian Alchemic will still be
used with a ~50% certainty. Also stock up on many chromite ingots, zelkova lumbers,
torreya lumbers etc., preferrably HQ'd. It is extremely likely that the new right side
will be 2.5* recipes, and not 2* recipes, so be prepared to HQ composite mats in
advance. You will likely be able to use MuMe macros to craft these as they are
unlocked, and because MuMe macros are inherently weaker than InitPrep macros,
do be prepared to HQ more composite mats than usual. I would not advise crafting
Ala Mhigan Fiber, but I am expecting Snailfish Oil to be used, so HQing some of
these will be neat. I am expecting a new core composite mat made from Alchemics
for i320 accessories though.
Increase in demand for old recipes
Be smart, not everything will be relevant after 4.1
i320 crafted combat gear will be irrelevant a few weeks into patch 4.2. There will be
an initial surge in demand as players buy i320 gear to progress in the MSQ, but after
that it will quickly be irrelevant. As such, don't keep a backlog of these pieces,
cluttering precious inventory space that can be used for more relevant crafts. i290
crafter and gatherer right side will also quickly become irrelevant and the market will
slow down. Just like Ao Dai, Thavnairian Wool and Hannish Wool glamour will quickly
drop in price as it is no longer the rich show-off glamour in 4.2, so try to sell these as
quickly as possible and do not make new ones starting from NOW.
Some recipes will still be relevant in 4.2
i320 Ala Mhigan left side is a prime example. As people log back in and some want to
get into endgame crafting, these will increase in price and demand and sell much
better than in the current content drought. Keeping an inventory of these pieces to
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sell when patch 4.2 drops or a few days before patch 4.2 as returners purchase Ala
Mhigan gear to prepare for the next tier of crafting is a good idea.
Glamour is always relevant
Other than recipes, stuff like materias (Crit, crafter, gatherer) will increase in
price
It is expected that crit will be better in patch 4.2 as it does not scale linearly, meaning
that more people will be buying Crit materias to meld. Expect to see crit materias
increase heavily in demand and thus in price. Beyond that, expect at least a 50%
increase in price for gatherer and crafter materias as people meld to new 3* stats.
That's why you should MELD IN ADVANCE while it's relatively cheaper to do so.
Stocking up on these materias then reselling them when the patch drops is also a
good idea.
Desynthesis
This is inherently a risky venture
We might not get new desynthesizable mats at all, or we might get the new Glass
Fiber. Either way, do not expect desynthesis to be 100% worth leveling to 320.
Stock up on yellow scrip gear
Glass Fiber was desynthesizable from i180 blue scrip gear. Stocking up on cheap
yellow scrip gear (pants, probably) is not a bad idea.
Rabanastre drops may desynth into new mats
This is based on the Void Ark parallel. As such, only roll on loot that correspond to
your desynthesis class.
(it does not actually make sense for us to get a glass fiber equivalent in patch 4.2, as
glass fiber came out in 3.3, so treat this with a grain of salt)
Furniture
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Patch 4.2 will release with new plots added, but in staggered release. Shirogane walls
may sell well, as will other weeb furniture. Expect a small uptick in demand for
furniture; however I don't think it'll be as big as you think.
Raiding
Expect a new tier of infusions
I am expecting these to continue using Dusklight Aethersand, and Lv68-70 mats

such as Chickweed that are used currently for Grade 2 Reisui. It is probably advisable
to skip on stocking up on the Vitality-equivalent mat, Yanxian Parsley, as I don't think
anyone really would use a second-tier Infusion of Vitality.
Expect new BiS food
It is almost certain that new food will use Lv61-70 ingredients, such as Lotus Root, Gyr
Abanian Carrots. Stock up on some of these in advance to prepare.
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PART V: Basic Gatherer Guide

MIN/BTN: Lv 1 - Lv 45
The best way to level in this level range is to simply pop a gathering manual, and
gather. If you’re planning on leveling crafting, then gathering the raw materials for
your crafting is the best use of your time - you level gathering and self-sufficiently
get raw materials for crafting at the same time. If you’re only planning on leveling
gathering, then gather until Lv 15 and complete your gathering log, then do
levequests, which we would go into greater details later.
Gathering rate is always capped at 100%, and base high quality rate is always capped
at 15%, this means that, after a certain amount of perception, any extra perception
does not matter much since it won’t increase your base high quality rate (we will,
however, later see that this is not 100%
true). Each node has a base gathering
attempt amount of 4, while unspoiled
nodes have a base gathering attempt
amount of 6.
Once you deplete a node, it will

disappear. Gathering two any other
nodes will refresh the depleted node.
While in the overworld, you will also

automatically regenerate 5 GP per
tick. Each tick is 3 seconds.
Furthermore, hitting the node grants 5
GP every hit. This 5 GP is not
increasable.
Note that you can only see gathering

nodes within your level tier. Each level
tier starts at one plus a multiple of 5.
Every node in that tier is the maximum
level of that level tier. So in order to see Lv 47 materials on Lv 50 nodes, since Lv 47
and Lv 50 belongs in the level tier 46 ~ 50, you’ll need to be at Lv 46 or above to see
those materials.
Furthermore, after Lv 10, whenever you first gather an item, it will be Unknown and
have a capped base gathering rate of 25% before you uncover it. You’ll need to use
skills that increase gathering rate in order to unveil it!
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Lv 4 ~ 10 - Field Mastery I - III / Sharp Vision I - III
GP efficiency: 10 GP per 1% gathering rate
GP efficiency: 6.67 GP per 1% gathering rate
GP efficiency: 5 GP per 1% gathering rate
These three skills all have their uses:
- Use Sharp Vision I / Field Mastery I if current gathering rate is 90%+

- Use Sharp Vision II / Field Mastery II if current gathering rate is 90%-
- Use Sharp Vision III / Field Mastery III if current gathering rate is 62%-
In practice, you will only want to use SV3 / FM3 when you’re unveiling a
undiscovered node, or when you’re doing a levequest with a high difficulty.
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Note that these three skills are not stackable.
Once unveiled, the item will revert to its natural gathering rate:
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Gatherer Traits
This non-random bonus is gathering rate +10% on all attempts. Conditions refer to
random attributes of your gatherer, including irrelevant attributes such as
Intelligence, or Fire Resistance. By non-random, it means that the same node will
always give the same bonus.
The bonus is gathering attempts +1.
The bonus is HQ rate +10% on all attempts.

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This only triggers on specific nodes, primarily those with crystals and shards. It
increases yield by +1 on every gathering attempt.
This extends the yield bonus to crystals.
Primarily only useful for gathering shards, crystals, and clusters currently. Used to be
useful for carbonated matter (irrelevant now).
Extends yield bonus to clusters.
This trait unlocks powerful, but random bonuses, including Gathering Attempts +2,
Gathering Fortune (HQ rate) +30%, and Gathering Rate +25%.
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This trait will make sense when we get to unspoiled nodes.
Increases the base GP regeneration per tick to 6 per tick. This does not affect the GP
regenerated via hitting the node.
Lv 12 - Preparation
Preparation is a free action that indicates how much perception is needed to have a
minimum chance to HQ:
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Lv 15 ~ 35 - Leaf Turn I - II / Unearth I - II
GP efficiency: 10 GP per 0.01 HQ yield
GP efficiency: 10 GP per 0.01 HQ yield
Note that both skills have the same GP efficiency. Practically, where GP allows, it is
better to use Unearth II on nodes with bonus gathering attempts to maximize HQ
yield.
Lv 20 ~ 25 - Intermediate Skills
Useful for gathering shards, but useless elsewhere.

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Clear Vision and Flora Mastery are stackable with Sharp Vision / Field
Mastery. Clear Vision and Flora Mastery have lower efficiency on a node with 4
gathering attempts or above; therefore, its only use would be on nodes where your
gathering rate is below 50%. This skill is useful for unveiling Unknown materials.
Not GP-efficient as compared to later options.
Not GP-efficient as compared to later options.

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This is a very useful free skill for unspoiled and leve nodes. It requires you to
successfully gathering an item 5 times in a row. Therefore, it is virtually impossible to
use this skill on a regular node without Gathering Attempts +2. Always use it when it
is available since it’s free.
Lv 30 ~ 40 - Blessed Harvest I - II / King’s Yield I - II
On a regular node (4 attempts), using this will increase the number of items
obtained by a total of 4, assuming 100% gathering rate. On a node with Gathering
Attempts +1, using this will increase the number of items obtained by a total of 5.
Therefore, when gathering regular nodes, always use this skill on the node with the
gathering attempts bonus.
On a regular node, this will increase the number of items obtained by a total of 8. On
a node with Gathering Attempts +2, this will increase by 10. Therefore, this skill is far
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more GP-efficient than its Lv30 brother. Always use this skill over the base version if
you have enough maximum GP to use this ability.
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FSH: Lv 1 - Lv 50
The best way to level Fisher is to simply fish. Get enough bait, pop a gathering
manual, and start fishing!
Visit the below thread for good locations to level fishing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1mp5ze/speedrun_fishing_from_150_in_30_
hours/
Lv 25 - Mooch
To mooch, you will need to catch an HQ version of a fish. Once it is caught, you
must immediately use the ability Mooch. Doing so will use the HQ fish as the bait, in
order to catch rare fishes. Some fishes can only be obtained through mooching,
such as the Mazlaya Marlin:
To figure out whether you will need to use Mooch to obtain a fish, use the
http://ff14angler.com site as a resource.
Lv 36 - Snagging
Certain fishes and items can only be obtained when Snagging is activated. To figure
out whether you will need Snagging to obtain a fish, use either the ff14angler site, or
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xivdb.com site, search for the fish, and read the comments to see if anyone
commented that you need to use Snagging to catch the fish. You can also catch
treasure maps via snagging.
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MIN/BTN: Leves
Leves are the best method of leveling Miner and Botanist, but they aren’t strictly
needed. Manually grinding is not too much slower. Therefore, I recommend using
leves for Miner and Botanist leveling only when you have extra leve allowances to
spare.
There are four types of leves:
Munificence levequests require the miner or botanist to gather a set amount of

items within the time limit, with infinitely respawnable nodes.
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Candor levequests require the miner or botanist to gather a set amount of items
within the time limit, with a crucial difference: a maximum of 8 nodes will spawn,
and they will not respawn when depleted.
We will discuss the third and fourth types later.
To commence a levequest, go to the green destination, click on your journal, and

select Initiate on the levequest. You’ll also see a difficulty selection screen:
I recommend selecting the Recommended Level +2 always, if possible.
Once you start the levequest, you will see special nodes that have a levequest icon
above them. Simply gather from them and complete the mission.
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Completing a levequest quickly yields XP bonuses, so try to gather as fast as

possible!
For a list of levequest locations, see: https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/117778-DoL-

DoH-Levequest-Locations
Cordials
You can purchase Cordials from your GC Quartermaster, as rewards from

levequests, or from the market board. Cordials aren’t very necessary even in the
endgame. Use them when you need a lot of GP, fast. It has a recast time, meaning
you can’t use another cordial in that time period. Drag them onto your gatherer
hotbar for easy access.
There are three types of Cordials:
Watered Cordial NQ - 150 GP / 2 min 30s recast
Watered Cordial HQ - 200 GP / 2 min 6s recast
Cordial NQ - 300 GP / 4 min recast
Cordial HQ - 350 GP / 3 min 36s recast
Hi-Cordial - 400 GP / 3 min recast
Evaluation Leves
The third type of MIN/BTN levequest is Piety:
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These evaluation-style levequests reward bonus experience points based on

performance, as does Benevolence levequests. As such, you should ideally always
target Piety levequests by checking the icon of the levequest. Piety levequests have
8 nodes you need to gather from for evaluation.
Benevolence levequests have 4 nodes you need to gather from for evaluation.
Once you start an evaluation leve, you’ll see the duty requirement showing a
scoreboard:
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Successfully gathering each item, no matter NQ or HQ (it doesn’t make a difference)

will give you points. Once you hit a node you’ll see two items.
If the difficulty of the levequest is your gatherer level, then the lower level item
will give 7 points, while the higher level item will give 9 points. If your level is above
the levequest level, then you’ll get 7 points even on the higher level item. If your level
is 2 below the difficulty, then you’ll get 9 points on the lower level item. This is why I
recommend Recommended Level +2.
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Note that yield skills do not affect the points you get, so don’t bother using them.
As such, the optimal rotation is to simply use Field Mastery II / Sharp Vision II at the
start of every node, and hit the lower level item for 9 points. Then use Deep Vigor /
Brunt Force if you successfully gathered 5 items, so that the 6th gathering attempt
can be a free 100% shot on the high level item.
Return to collect your reward once you’re finished. You get a bonus for speed of
completion and for evaluation:
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FSH: Leves
There are 2 types of fisher leves:
Concord leves simply require you to turn-in a specific fish. HQ fishes will give you
double the experience points.
Sincerity leves require you to turn-in specific fishes, but are repeatable, as in, the
requester will request the same type of fish again without using a leve allowances.
HQ fishes will give you double the experience points.
For a list of levequest locations, see here:

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https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/117778-DoL-DoH-Levequest-Locations
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Gatherer: Unspoiled Nodes

Unspoiled, Ephemeral, and Legendary nodes are nodes that unlock at Lv 46 that
only appear during certain Eorzean Hours. Each Eorzean Hour is 3 minutes. These
nodes usually despawn after 2~6 Eorzean Hours. End-game recipes usually require
materials from these timed nodes.
To view Eorzean Time, change your clock type under Character Configuration:
Clocks
I recommend using garlandtools.org/bell to manage unspoiled nodes. To search for a
node, simply type in the name. Then click on the node, and select Favorites to add it
to your Favorites list.
Expanding the Favorites tab will show you the locations of where the timed node will
spawn:
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When gathering from unspoiled nodes, note that the moment you interact with it
and enter the gathering screen, exiting will be treated as abortion, and will
despawn the node. As such, make sure you have sufficient GP to execute a desire
rotation before interacting. We will discuss these rotations in later sections of the
guide.
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PART VI: Intermediate Gathering Guide

Gatherer: Collectables
The Basic Guide to Gatherer Collectables
Much like crafter collectables, gathering collectables are untradable, market-

prohibited items that are meant strictly for turn-in or aetherial reduction. In order
to collect gathering collectables, turn on Collector’s Glove.
Every gathering collectible has a collectability rating.
Under Rowena’s House of Splendors, you’ll see that, in order to receive any rewards
at all, you need to have a minimum amount of collectability on your collectables.
Once you turn on your Collector’s Gloves, when you enter a node screen, you’ll see
that you’re in Collectables mode. You can turn on your Collector’s Gloves at any time
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while you’re interacting with

the node.
Some items cannot be

gathered as collectables.
Typically, these items will be
greyed out when under
Collectables mode.
Furthermore, any node

bonuses apply while you’re in
collectables mode. For
example, if you have
Gathering Attempts +1, then
you’ll get an extra action
available during collectables
mode.
Now, let’s click on the

Molybdenum Ore to enter
the Collectability screen.
You’ll see a new interface. Rarity is equivalent to the item’s collectability. The wear
can be thought of as the collectable’s durability, in reverse. Once wear exceeds 30/30,
the item will have a severely diminished gathering rate (capped at 30% and not
increasable with actions).
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Once you have raised the item’s collectability, or rather, rarity to a desired level, click
on Collect to collect a collectable. Note that collecting uses one gathering attempt.
As such, it is possible to collect multiple collectables from the same node until the
node is depleted.
Lv 50 - Methodical Appraisal
The tool-tip is incredibly misleading. Methodical Appraisal’s strength does scale with
perception; however, it is not perception x1. Methodical Appraisal’s strength always
caps at 115. The required perception to reach 115 is based on the item’s level. For
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example, the perception required to hit MA 115 for Pyrite, a Lv51 item, is far lower than
the perception required to hit MA 115 for Molybdenum Ore, a Lv70 item. Gear thus
becomes very important for collectables. Your aim is to reach MA 115 and the only
way to do so is to increase the perception you have.
Methodical Appraisal’s strength also serves as a baseline for other rarity-increasing

actions. For now, with sufficient gear, you can treat MA as an action that increases
rarity, or rather, collectability, by 115, at the cost of 10 item wear and a gathering
attempt.
Lv 50 - Discerning Eye
Discerning Eye, DE, is the first ability we meet that consumes GP, but does not use
any gathering attempts or increase item wear. When used, a buff will appear, called
Discerning Eye. Using any rarity-increasing actions will consume this buff, and the
rarity-increasing action will be buffed by 50%.
On MA 115, this is 172. Note that 172 is rounded down from 115 x 1.5. Any modifier to
rarity increase is always rounded down.
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Now, with these two skills, we can create a 400 GP collectable rotation that will
guarantee 340+ collectability if we have MA 114+:
This is useful for the very first few collectables under Lv 53 which requires a
collectability of 240 and gives a second-tier bonus at 340 collectability. Try to always
use this rotation on nodes with Gathering Attempts +1/+2 in order to maximize the
amount of collectables you get.
While out of GP, you can use this rotation for more tier-1 (240 collectability)
collectables while waiting for GP to replenish, as it does not consume any GP:
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Lv 51 - Instinctual Appraisal
At MA 115, the increase is 92 ~ 172.
On average, Instinctual Appraisal is more efficient than MA; however, because its
increase is random, we do not rely on this skill a lot in collectables rotations (there are
exceptions).
Lv 51 - Utmost Caution
As stated, this ability basically allows the next rarity-increasing action to be free.
Lv 53 - Impulsive Appraisal
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At MA 115, Impuslive Appraisal’s strength is 103. Discerning Eye + Impulsive

Appraisal is 155, and not 154. This is because all modifiers are compiled together
before rounding down happens.
You’ll start to see collectables requiring 400~450 collectability at this level. Use this
400 GP rotation if you do not have 600 GP yet:
If you have extra GP, you can fit in an increase to gathering rate so that you can
guarantee the collect:
Lv 57 - Single Mind
As stated, this buff causes the next appraisal to not use a gathering attempt.
Lv 60 Collectable Rotation
Once you hit Lv 60, it is imperative that you get to 600 GP. Most collectable
rotations hereon will require a minimum of 600 GP.
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You will also want to start using an alarm to know when to gather collectables, as the
most efficient way to gather collectables is through gathering unspoiled/legendary
collectables. Look through your Rowena’s House of Splendors, select the top few
items, then put them on an alarm:
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You should know the drill, but here’s a step-by-step guide in case you’re confused:
1. When the alarm for a collectable rings, teleport to the location of the
collectable.
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2. At the unspoiled node, ensure you have enough GP to execute your desired
rotation.
3. Make sure Collector’s Gloves is on, then click on the item and start executing
your rotation.
4. At the end of the rotation, click Collect as much as you can.
5. Once you gather the collectables, optionally use a Cordial so you have
enough GP for the next node.
6. Once inventory is about to get full, visit a Collectable Appraiser NPC and
trade the collectables to them for XP and scrips.
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Ephemeral Nodes and Aetherial Reduction
Ephemeral Nodes are special, timed nodes, that, unlike their Unspoiled and
Legendary brothers, only have a base amount of 4 gathering attempts.
Furthermore, within the spawn window of the node, Ephemeral Nodes are
respawnable. Once you collect a collectable from an ephemeral node, you’ll need to
visit two other nodes. You do not need to collect anything from those two other
nodes, you merely need to interact with them, then immediately leave. Doing so will
respawn the Ephemeral Node.
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To unlock Aetherial Reduction, complete this quest. Ephemeral Nodes have special
collectables that are reducible. This means that you can right-click on it, or enter the
Aetherial Reduction screen (/ac “Aetherial Reduction”) to reduce the collectable.
You cannot trade in these special collectables; they are useless outside of
aetherial reduction.
Purity is correlated to the collectable’s collectability / rarity. The higher the purity,
the better the rewards.
Collectability Purity Crystals Clusters 4.0 Aethersands
1 - 300 1 Yes No No
301 - 350 2 Yes Yes No
351 - 400 3 Yes Yes No
401 - 450 4 Yes Yes No
451 - 500 5 Yes Yes Yes
501 - 525 6 Yes Yes Yes
526 - 550 7 Yes Yes Yes

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551 - 1000 8 Yes Yes Yes
The most important items you can obtain from Aetherial Reduction are
Aethersands. These Aethersands are used in most end-game recipes one way or
another, and are as such incredibly vital to crafters.
For rotations used for Ephemeral Nodes, visit the end-game gathering guide, as Lv
60 and below aethersands are no longer relevant.
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FSH: Patience
Lv 51 - Patience
Hook efficiency is the gathering rate for fishers. Patience acts as an ability to
increase HQ rate of the fishes you catch. It is also useful for big/rare fish hunting,
which is out of the scope of this guide.
Lv 51 ~ 56 - Powerful & Precision Hookset

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Powerful Hookset is used for strong / medium tugs. This means that “strong” fishes
caught while under Patience should be caught using this skill.
Precision Hookset is used for light / medium tugs. “Weak” fishes should be caught
using this skill when under Patience.
These two abilities should be paired with Patience / Patience II. You can use a
Cordial after using Patience so you have enough GP for Hooksets.
To determine which hookset you should use for a fish, visit xivdb.com or
ff14angler.com, and read the comments after you searched for that fish.
To differentiate between light, medium, and strong tugs, visit this video.
Lv 54 ~ 57 - Chum & Fish Eyes
Chum is primarily useful to catch NQ fish faster.
Some fishes can only be caught with Fish Eyes.
Fish Eyes will 'ping' the fishing hole you're at, and if there's additional fish catchable
only with Fish Eyes active, will place a ~2 minute buff on you during which time you'll
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be able to do so. If there aren't Eyes-unlocked fish at the hole, you'll consume GP, but
the game will let you know there aren't any relevant fish there8.
To determine which fishes require Fish Eyes, visit xivdb.com or ff14angler.com and
check the comments.
Lv 60 - Patience II
Patience II is of no use to big fishing. Use this as a replacement to Patience for

normal fishing if you have the GP to spare.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3bneu7/fish_eyes_why_youre_missing_fishing_hole
s_in_30/csnzown/
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Gatherer: Folklore Books

Red Gatherer Scrips
In order to obtain Red Gatherer Scrips, you’ll need to gather collectables, or do
Custom Deliveries. Red Scrips can be traded for a variety of items, the most
important of which are folklore books. These books cost a tremendous amount of
red scrips. For this reason, I recommend leveling your gatherers from Lv 60 to Lv 70
with collectables so you can get red scrips and EXP at the same time.
Unlike crafter books, folklore books are traded with red/yellow scrip tokens from
the Splendors Vendors in Idyllshire and in Rhalgr’s Reach.
To purchase these tokens, visit the Scrips Exchange anywhere:

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Legendary Nodes
Legendary nodes are simply end-game nodes that require high gathering attributes
to effectively gather from. Items from legendary nodes are used in end-game
recipes, and are, as such, especially important. These nodes have special bonuses,
ranging from Gathering Attempts + 2 to Gathering Fortune + 30% in the current end-
game. These bonuses require a certain minimum perception or gathering to
activate. Crucially, to see legendary nodes, you’ll need to unlock the folklore books
for the corresponding region.
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MIN/BTN: Lv 61 - Lv 70
Lv 61 - Impulsive Appraisal II
Pure replacement for Impulsive Appraisal. You can view the exact chance in your
combat logs:
Lv 63 - Leaf Turn III / Unearth III
Pure replacement for LT 3 / Unearth 3.

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Lv 68 - Bountiful Harvest II / Bountiful Yield II
Pure replacement for Bountiful 1.

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FSH: Spearfishing
To unlock spearfishing, complete this quest. You need to be a Lv 61 fisher.
To spearfish, simply visit a spearfishing node. You can find the location of these
nodes via Shark Eye, which is obtained once you unlock spearfishing.
Simply interact with the Teeming Waters.
When the spearfish node bubbles up, use Gig to catch a fish.
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Lv 61 - Gig Heads
You use different gig heads for different fishes. Visit xivdb.com / ff14angler.com to
determine which gig head you need for the fish.
Lv 63 - Veteran Trade
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Veteran Trade is incredibly useful as a means to limit what fish you catch from
spearfishing. If you’re aiming for a specific fish, use this skill after you see any
irrelevant fish.
Lv 64 - Calm Waters
Not especially useful because of its high GP cost. However it is a decent option if
you’re on an Swimming Shadows node.
Lv 66 - Truth of Oceans
Used to uncover Fisher’s version of Unspoiled Nodes. To uncover swimming

shadows, you need to catch 10 copies of a specific fish to spawn the swimming
shadows. Visit xivdb.com / ff14angler.com to determine which fish this is and what
gig head you need to use.
You’ll know you’re on the right track if you see such a message:
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Ideally, you will want to save enough GP to execute a high yield rotation before you
interact with the Swimming Shadows.
Lv 68 - Bountiful Catch
This is the best skill to use for yield. And yes, it does affect the 10-fish requirement
to spawn a Swimming Shadows. In 4.18, the highest yield rotation for spearfishing is
to simply spam this skill after using Veteran Trade on irrelevant fishes.
Lv 69 - Nature’s Bounty
This is the best skill to use for HQ yield. However, in practice, I have found that its
effect is very minimal.
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PART VII: Endgame Gatherer Guide

Gatherer: Yellow Gatherer Scrips
Impulsive Collectable Rotation
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Impulsive Ephemeral Rotation
(Credits to: Kiri Kotone)

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Instinctual Ephemeral Rotations
(credits to /u/Vuul)
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(credits to /u/laststandb)
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Gatherer: Endgame Melds and Breakpoints

Breakpoints
1250 Gathering - 95% gathering rate on 1* nodes
1250 Perception - 15% HQ% on 1* nodes
1375 Gathering - +3 on Bountiful2 on 1* nodes
Yield Rotation
Breakpoint for +3 on Bountiful2 on current 1* nodes is: 1375 Gathering.
Add an extra Bountiful2 if skipping +5% gathering rate and have 780+ GP.
HQ Yield Rotation
If gathering >1375:
+5% gathering -> +30%~+100% hq -> bountiful II x3~x4
If gathering 1250~1375 and 750+ GP:
+5% gathering -> +30%~+100% hq -> yield+1
If gathering <1375 and 750- GP:
+x% gathering -> +30%~+100% hq -> bountiful II x3

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PART VIII: Crafter & Gatherer

Gearing/Rotation Guide
This gearing guide will not go into detail on how to obtain NQ tools and left side
gear, as all of them can be purchased from vendors.
Here we will briefly go through all vendor gear suppliers though (for both DoH and
DoL):
NQ Lv 1 - 50 tools: Limsa Lominsa, Syneyhil (or Ul’Dah / Gridania)
NQ Lv 51 - 60 tools: Ishgard, Evrardoux (The Jeweled Crozier)

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NQ Lv 61 - 70 tools: Kugane, Shichiho

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NQ Lv 1 - 50 left side gear: Limsa Lominsa, Iron Thunder (or Ul’Dah / Gridania)
NQ Lv 51 - 60 left side gear: Ishgard, Norlaise (The Jeweled Crozier)
NQ Lv 61 - 70 left side gear: Kugane, Muto

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NQ Lv 1 - 35 accessories: Limsa Lominsa, Sorcha (or Ul’Dah / Gridania)
NQ Lv 45 - 49 accessories: Ishgard, Seghuie (The Jeweled Crozier)

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Lv 1 - 17
CRAFTER
Your goal for this level tier is to have: 180+ CP.
You can reach that immediately at Lv 1.
The food recommended here is Stone Soup, which you can buy from vendors. This
will give you 17 CP.
If you have the Ala Mhigan Earrings, you can equip them for a boost to XP for all
synthesis attempts.
Rotations you can use for 60-durability recipes with 180 + 17 CP:
If 2 synthesis needed:
If 3 synthesis needed:
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Lv 18 - 28
CRAFTER
You can reach that at Lv 18, with the following accessories (purchasable from
vendors):
- Brass Wristlets of Crafting

- Copper Choker
- Brass Ring of Crafting x2
- Fang Earrings (optional)
If 3 Synthesis needed:
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Lv 29 - 50
CRAFTER
vendors):
- Silver Wristlets of Crafting

- Silver Choker
- Silver Ring of Crafting x2
- Horn Earrings (optional)
(Substitute one Hasty Touch with Careful Synthesis if needed)
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Jumping the Lv 50 - Lv 51 Gap

CRAFTER
Your goal is to have: 283+ CP
Ishgard):
- Red Coral Earrings

- Electrum Choker
- Electrum Wristlets of Crafting
- Electrum Ring of Crafting x2
We recommend waiting it out by doing daily GC turn-ins and Moogle quests to hit
Lv 51, rather than attempting to jump into crafting Lv 51 items. If you do not want to
wait, the best option is to use Lv 50 leves to boost yourself to Lv 51 before attempting
any Lv 51 recipes, by either purchasing them on the market board or commissioning
a crafter to help you.
Once you reach Lv 51, immediately buy new left side gear and tools. At Lv 51, you
should have your left side gear ready. At Lv 52, you should be able to purchase your
main hand tool. The Lv 53 class quest gives you your NQ off-hand tool, which is
otherwise not purchasable from vendors, so be sure to do that!
GATHERER
Your goal is to have: 400+ GP
You can reach this by existing.

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Lv 51
CRAFTER
Your goal is to have: 246 Craftsmanship, 263 Control, 283 CP.
This can be achieved by:
- NQ Lv 51 left side gear (except belt)

- NQ Lv 48 main hand tool
- NQ Lv 43 off hand tool
- NQ Lv 48 belt
- NQ Lv 45 ~ 49 accessories
The food recommended now will be Tempura Platter, which is purchasable on the
market board or from vendors (if it is more than 2k on the market board, purchase
Tempura Platter from Kugane vendors instead).
Rotations you can use for 80-durability Lv 51 recipes with 283 + 33 CP:
(You’ll need all HQ mats for this rotation if at minimum recommended stats)
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Lv 52
CRAFTER

- NQ Lv 48 belt
Lv 53
CRAFTER

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- NQ Lv 51/53 left side gear (except belt)

- NQ Lv 53 off hand tool (through market board or class quest)
- NQ Lv 48 belt
(You’ll need mostly HQ mats for this rotation if at minimum recommended stats)
(You’ll need mostly HQ mats for this rotation if at minimum recommended stats)
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Lv 54 ~ 60
CRAFTER
Your goal is to have: 430+ Craftsmanship, 404+ Control, 324 CP.

- NQ Lv 53 off hand tool (through market board or class quest)
- NQ Lv 54 belt
- HQ Lv 52 ~ 54 accessories (market board or craft it yourself)
(You’ll need some HQ mats for this rotation if at minimum recommended stats)
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GATHERER
Your goal is to have: 600+ GP
You can reach this by purchasing, or crafting, the following accessories:
- HQ Hardsilver Earrings of Gathering

- HQ Dragonskin Choker
- HQ Dragonskin Wristbands
- HQ Dragonskin Ring x2
Then, do the following:
- Meld 1 Gatherer’s Grasp Materia IV onto any accessory (you can retrieve the
materia later)
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Jumping the Lv 60 - Lv 61 Gap

Your goal is to have: 383+ CP
You can reach that with the following accessories:
- HQ Dragon Fang Earrings + Cunning IV + Cunning IV (overmeld)

- HQ Hallowed Chestnut Necklace + Cunning IV + Cunning III (overmeld)
- HQ Hallowed Chestnut Armillae + Cunning IV + Cunning III (overmeld)
- HQ Hallowed Chestnut Ring + Cunning III x2
And do the following:
- Meld Cunning IV + Cunning II on shoes

- Meld Cunning IV + Cunning II on pants
We recommend waiting it out by doing daily GC turn-ins to hit Lv 61, rather than
attempting to jump into crafting Lv 61 items. If you do not want to wait, the best
option is to use Lv 60 leves to boost yourself to Lv 61 before attempting any Lv 61
recipes, by either purchasing them on the market board or commissioning a crafter
to help you.
Once you reach Lv 61, immediately buy new left side gear and tools. At Lv 61, you
should have your left side gear ready. At Lv 62, you should be able to purchase your
main hand tool. At Lv 63, you will be able to purchase your off hand tool.
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Lv 61
CRAFTER

- NQ Lv 54 belt
- HQ Lv 56 ~ 59 accessories (crafted and melded)
The food recommended now will be Tempura Platter HQ, which is purchasable on
the market board.
Rotations you can use for 70/80-durability recipes with 383 + 54 CP:
Rath’s Rotation
WARNING: You’ll likely have progress overflow; change any unneeded Careful
Synthesis II to unbuffed Hasty Touches.
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Lv 62
CRAFTER

- NQ Lv 54 belt
the market board.
Use Rath’s Rotation for this level.
Lv 63 ~ 65
CRAFTER

- NQ Lv 54 belt
the market board.
Use Rath’s Rotation for this level.
Lv 66 ~ 67
CRAFTER

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- Meld Cunning II on hat

- Meld Cunning I on robe
- Meld Cunning II on gloves
- Meld Cunning IV on waist
- Meld Cunning IV + III on legs
- Meld Cunning IV + III on feet
- NQ Lv 66 belt
- HQ Lv 63 accessories
- HQ Larch Earrings, melded with Cunning IV
- HQ Larch Necklace, melded with Cunning IV
- HQ Larch Bracelets, melded with Cunning IV
- HQ Larch Ring x2, melded with Cunning IV on each
Remember, you can always retrieve the materias later.
the market board.
Use this macro for Lv 66~67 80-durability recipes:


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Use this macro for Lv 66 40-durability recipes:


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Lv 68 ~ 69
CRAFTER

- NQ Lv 66 belt
the market board.
Use this macro for Lv 68 ~ 69 80-durability recipes:


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Lv 70
CRAFTER
- NQ Lv 70 left side gear

- NQ Lv 70 belt
the market board.


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GATHERER
Your goal is to have 1375 Gathering and 730 GP
Visit the 4.1 Endgame Progression Guide to find out how you can reach those stats.
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FF14 Crafting & Gathering Guide

Last Updated: Patch 4.2

Link to PDF file for local viewing: https://mega.nz/#!9tJyhYpI!i-

This guide is divided into several parts:

PART I - The Basics

Covers the basics, including best methods of leveling.

PART II - Basic Crafter Guide

Covers Lv 1 - 50 crafting, leves, and cross-class skills.

PART III - Intermediate Crafter Guide

Covers collectables, master books, red crafter scrips, and Lv 50 - 70.

PART IV - Endgame Crafter Guide

Covers gil-making, 4.1 progression (including yellow crafter scrips),

PART V - Basic Gatherer Guide

Covers Lv 1 - 50 gathering, leves.

PART VI - Intermediate Gatherer Guide

Covers collectables, folklore books, red gatherer scrips, and Lv 50 - 70.

PART VII - Endgame Gatherer Guide

Covers yellow gatherer scrips, melding priority and breakpoints

PART VIII - Crafter and Gatherer Gearing Guide

Provides a Lv1 - 70 guide to self-sufficiently / cheaply gear up to be able to

PLANNED FOR NEXT RELEASE:

PART I: The Basics 18

The Basics of Crafting & Gathering 18

The 8 Crafter Classes 18

The 3 Gatherer Classes 27

The Basics of Synthesis 32

Progress, Quality, and CP 34

What Should I Meld? 45

The Basics of MIN/BTN Node Collection 47

Gathering, Perception, and GP (Gathering Points) 51

The Basics of Fishing 52

Crafting and Gathering Manuals 56

Ixali and Moogle Quests 64

PART II: Basic Crafter Guide 70

Completing the Recipe List 72

Crafter: Lv 15 Cross-Class Skills 78

ARM - Rapid Synthesis 81

LTW - Waste Not 83

WVR - Careful Synthesis 84

ALC - Tricks of the Trade 84

CUL - Hasty Touch 86

A Note on Leveling Beyond Lv15 87

The Market Board 88

Crafter: Leves 100

Leve Guides 102

Crafter: Lv 26 - 37 Cross-Class Skills 105

Lv 31 - Standard Synthesis 105

GSM - Flawless Synthesis 105

CUL - Steady Hand II 106

Lv 37 - Brand of Elements 106

Crafter: Lv 38 - Lv 50 Cross-Class Skills 108

Lv 43 - Advanced Touch 108

CRP - Byregot’s Blessing 108

BSM - Ingenuity II 109

ARM - Piece by Piece 112

GSM - Innovation 113

LTW - Waste Not II 114

WVR - Careful Synthesis II 115

ALC - Comfort Zone 115

CUL - Reclaim 117

PART III: Intermediate Crafter Guide 119

Crafter: Creating a Rotation 119

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