Best use of Levequest Allowances?

[Alkar]

Why not, if I may ask? I mean, after getting everything to 15 for the assortment of skills. Isn't it better to have one craft at 50 rather than like, say, 3 to 4 at 20-30?

If you level multiple crafts at the same time you can get better gear which makes HQing much easier. Weaver can create most gear, Leatherworker covers the rest, Goldsmith for accessories and Blacksmith for Tools. If you really want add Carpenter for secondary tools for Weaver and Goldsmith but Blacksmith covers most tools anyway (including their own). It saves you a lot of money as well if you farm the materials yourself through gathering and you'll have the best gear all the time.
It is slower but it's a different approach to consider imo.

[Berabouman]

Oh, so you make your own gear for crafting too? That's a novel approach, I might have to consider that. Never really crafted a lot in any MMO to date.

So I should just get one of Goldsmith/Leatherworker/Blacksmith? Why not all?

[Ksandra]

Should also be noted that some of the lvl 15 abilities are nice in helping before you get some of the awesome later ones. (ie. hasty touch, waste not, etc.)

[Kachiko]

If you level multiple crafts at the same time you can get better gear which makes HQing much easier. Weaver can create most gear, Leatherworker covers the rest, Goldsmith for accessories and Blacksmith for Tools. If you really want add Carpenter for secondary tools for Weaver and Goldsmith but Blacksmith covers most tools anyway (including their own). It saves you a lot of money as well if you farm the materials yourself through gathering and you'll have the best gear all the time.
It is slower but it's a different approach to consider imo.

This is the approach I'm taking, as all but GSM are now 15, though leather and weaver were already 20, from 1.0. All of my DoL and DoH jobs now have HQ gear and I find it a lot more fun doing it this way. Managing gear isn't such the nightmare this way either.

[Chamaan]

I've been using them as a change of pace when fate grinding gets too boring. They get pretty boring too but it's the only way to break the monotony until they add dailies.

[Berabouman]

Hmm, so get everything to 15 first, then use levees...sounds like a plan!

How about making gil though? Shouldn't some of the stuff you make be worth money on the AH?

[Ksandra]

Hmm, so get everything to 15 first, then use levees...sounds like a plan!

How about making gil though? Shouldn't some of the stuff you make be worth money on the AH?

At least on my server, you can make a little gil turning base gathering items into mats (ie. ores into ingots, logs into lumber, etc.), but not so much on final products.

If you are smart, keep weaver a little ahead of the rest of your crafts so you can hq crafting gear. This increases the chances of hqing those mats, which will sell for a lot more.

[solidgryffin]

just out of curiosity (since my first craft to 50 was armour), why not armour?

[Seravi Edalborez]

Their cross-class skills are garbage. That's not to say they don't MAKE useful things. They just aren't nearly as helpful towards leveling other DoH.

[Waraji]

Ideally, the best craft to level first, hands down, is weaver. Second Leatherworker, as its already been explain, that they make all the gear that you would need. NQ gear should be well enough for getting to 1-50 I think. Also, I would suggest leveling all crafts together if you get the chance. Break it out in level increments (1-3-5 w/e) if you must, but the savings you will have in both inventory slots and gil from not having to repurchase/recraft lower level crafting gear, is pretty substantial. I tier my leveling based on gear progression, off tables I do with next gear piece upgrade.

This is what I plan to do with the rest of my crafts. Starting with the lowest one I have (CUL) and catching up to ALC(21), so on and so forth. This after getting MIN/BOT/FSH to 50 from doing leves, the actual gathering XP isn't so bad either tbh. The HQ xp is nice too, not to mention you can sell that stuff in market wards or save them for later crafting.

[Twilight Sky]

Trying to get this all organized.

I'm leveling them up in this order: Weaver → Blacksmithing → Leatherworks → Goldsmithing.

Because LTW needs BSM and WVR, and BSM needs WVR. Am not sure yet about GS.

Respectively, the levels are 15 9 12, and botanist is 15 too.

I intend to level them all to 15, and then focus on botanist and weaver.

Hate BSM only because I have to drop 200 to go to Limsa Lominsa. Otherwise, I choco everywhere. I'm patient like that.