Crafting specific question thread. Moar undyed canvas.

[Ratatapa]

25-26+

[zalasta]

Can someone give me an idea of when to reliably start doing undyed canvas? Im 22 weaver atm and its still way too difficult

From my experience I failed my first attempt at 23, only got as far as 50%. Tried twice at 24 and succeeded both times, didn't press my luck beyond that. All with master support. I find it ridiculous that under the same exact conditions I failed making dyed cotton cloth yet succeeded with canvas.

I too have had terrible luck with marks. This leve period has been good so far though, 2 turn in's gave weaving and 1 had leather marks. Unfortunately, with ~3900 I'm still quite far from my first book. Could be tomorrow, could be next week before I get enough.

[Elcura]

25 is good if you have decent equipment, 26 it becomes even easier, and at 27 breaking shouldn't be common at all. It only gets easier at that point. By that level, you should look into getting a silver needle, I suspect the stats will surpass iron by that time and you'll get even more stats each level with it on.

Dyed Canvas is another matter though, I wouldn't start till 28, because at 27 I'm still pretty terrible at it (though at 26, I had a horribly lucky streak, making 14 in a row).

[Alkar]

I've just accepted the rank 15 version of "Training in Emerald Moss" for Blacksmith but there is an issue now. The synth requires Guild Smith Forge support (level two basically) but the leve is in Gridania. Am I supposed to walk all the way to Limsa or is there another way other than trying and failing?
I should've looked the synth up before accepting but this is the very first time a leve in a city that doesn't have that guild requires more than Common support.

[Elcura]

Get used to it, there are lots of leves like that. Usually requiring you to get support to make hard shit in the middle of no where. I just avoid those leves like the plague, because they're stupid.

[zalasta]

I've just accepted the rank 15 version of "Training in Emerald Moss" for Blacksmith but there is an issue now. The synth requires Guild Smith Forge support (level two basically) but the leve is in Gridania. Am I supposed to walk all the way to Limsa or is there another way other than trying and failing?
I should've looked the synth up before accepting but this is the very first time a leve in a city that doesn't have that guild requires more than Common support.

I too usually avoid these. However, at 20+ each leve has a chance to give guild marks so I would hold on to them until I can get the appropriate support (you really should be traveling to all 3 cities every period anyway). There is no penalty in doing leves later (or even after the next reset), as long as you turn them in before you pick up the next set. Or you could just try your luck with common support, however, I think the potential skill ups is often worth it to wait.

[Telliani]

How I usually tend to do stuff like that is do the other leves for the area and move to that town with my guild in it next. Pick up the leves for THAT town, and do that while doing the previous town's one. And if you're doing cities in a circle, by the time leves reset, you can just hand that in and pick up the next batch.

[CasualPlayer]

^ This.

Also I'm pretty sure I heard that you needed to be within 10 levels of the optimal rank of an item to repair it? So I haven't been able to repair bronze celata but yesterday at 28 I tried and repaired it after 2 attempts. The helmet is optimal rank 38.

From the same bazaar there were a pair of bronze sabatons+1, these are also optimal rank 38. I was still not able to attempt these. I've been trying to nail down a factual lvl range where you can attempt to repair and this completely messed that up.

So either the boots break the 10 lvl range rule (meaning several other items probably do as well). Or +1 items add to the range. Have any 28 or lower ARMs repaired NQ bronze sabatons? Has anyone repaired an item who's optimal lvl was more than 10 lvls higher than your craft lvl?

[Corwin]

Or +1 items add to the range.

This. I had an Iron Chaser Hammer that my 14 blacksmith repaired several times. I got an Iron Chaser Hammer+1 and it won't even let me attempt to repair it, even though I'm 16 now.

[Sephiroth]

Can someone give me an idea of when I can start making Iron Nuggets from ore, limonite and sand? Are the ranks on YG correct? They seem low to me.

I was doing them fine at 14 with guild support, only one fail. I wouldn't suggest trying before then. I'm sure you'd get successes but the fails would be high.

[CasualPlayer]

This. I had an Iron Chaser Hammer that my 14 blacksmith repaired several times. I got an Iron Chaser Hammer+1 and it won't even let me attempt to repair it, even though I'm 16 now.

That answers that question then. I wonder if the range further increases for +2,3 items. Also when you are finally able to attempt your chaser hammer +1 repair please post what level so we can see how much a +1 adds.

[Alkar]

I too usually avoid these. However, at 20+ each leve has a chance to give guild marks so I would hold on to them until I can get the appropriate support (you really should be traveling to all 3 cities every period anyway). There is no penalty in doing leves later (or even after the next reset), as long as you turn them in before you pick up the next set. Or you could just try your luck with common support, however, I think the potential skill ups is often worth it to wait.

Yeah I'll just wait. I always travel to each city but Gridania is my last stop.

[Ruin]

25 is good if you have decent equipment, 26 it becomes even easier, and at 27 breaking shouldn't be common at all. It only gets easier at that point. By that level, you should look into getting a silver needle, I suspect the stats will surpass iron by that time and you'll get even more stats each level with it on.

Dyed Canvas is another matter though, I wouldn't start till 28, because at 27 I'm still pretty terrible at it (though at 26, I had a horribly lucky streak, making 14 in a row).

Ok thanks. So what are most people skilling on to take weaving 23-25/26? I have been undyed cotton and cotton turbans

[Elcura]

I did cotton cloth until 25. It was pretty painful at 24, but you aren't skilled enough at that level to justify throwing away all that yarn and all those shards at a chance for 300~, when for less you could get a good 200~

Cotton shirt fronts are really good skill as well, I think backs are similar skill too. Just the sleeves that suck if you plan to actually make shirts with them though.

[qpoiuwer]

Able to repair a lv25+2 item at rank 25. Gonna take a general guess here and say the repair formula is (item rank) - 10 + ((HQ level) * 5) where an NQ's HQ level is 0.

[Corwin]

Able to repair a lv25+2 item at rank 25. Gonna take a general guess here and say the repair formula is (item rank) - 10 + ((HQ level) * 5) where an NQ's HQ level is 0.

This fits with my iron chaser+1. I just hit 17 smith and it finally allowed me to attempt repairing. I've failed 6 attempts in a row, but it has at least allowed me to try.

[Ruin]

Any suggestions for an easy way alchemy 13-20?

[Sephiroth]

Able to repair a lv25+2 item at rank 25. Gonna take a general guess here and say the repair formula is (item rank) - 10 + ((HQ level) * 5) where an NQ's HQ level is 0.

Wouldn't that mean HQ3 items need item rank + 5 to repair them? How is someone going to repair HQ3 gear at rank 46+? It's unlikely someone will HQ3 such gear but surely not impossible. Maybe HQ3s require the same rank as HQ2s. I guess someone would have to test.

[Cureslime]

Any suggestions for an easy way alchemy 13-20?

I would take Bee Basket --> Beehive Chips --> Beeswax up until level 15 and then start breaking crystals into shards until 25. At and before level 15 I was failing crystal splits more than I'd like.

[TStupified]

I would take Bee Basket --> Beehive Chips --> Beeswax up until level 15 and then start breaking crystals into shards until 25. At and before level 15 I was failing crystal splits more than I'd like.

I started breaking crystals at R14 and didn't really seem to fail all that often, and a friend of mine started doing it at 12 and said there were fails, but not THAT many.