Crafting specific question thread. Moar undyed canvas.

[Elcura]

What's a good plan for LW 17 > 25? I get that Dodoskin Vamps are a popular choice, but what level is good to start whoring them out? Sinews might be good, but I'm unsure for how long or when I can move from antelope to hippogryph.

[CasualPlayer]

^Can make dodo leather at 17, just depends on your tolerance for breaks. Would make leather until 20 or 21 even and then make vamps until you can't stand them. The synths after vamps get shitty and vamps npc for a good bit of change.

I would never skill on sinew cords it resells for shit and uses up a bunch of lightning. Hippo cords were only a good choice for the first LWs who made them because they could charge an ass load for it. Now I'm seeing Hippo cords for 200gil each.

[zalasta]

As I've said elsewhere before, support seems to help mitigate the difficulty in recipes that require trainings. @25 alchemy I have like 95% success crafting buffalo leather dyes that are 5 ranks above me (the two breaks I had actually happened when I had support, no breaks without it). Yet without the support I break often on synthesis which require chemicking or poisoning that are on par or even below my current rank.

[Ratatapa]

Anyone know the recepe for Velveteen Doublet Back?

[Sephiroth]

Where is best to farm fire shards/crystals at rank 22? Tried the caves near Bloodshore but the beetles don't spawn fast enough.

[Cureslime]

For carpenter the best way to level 16-->the moon is by making Willow Half Masks. No other synth comes close in terms of sp per monies spent. Most people know this so you won't find Willow Logs in any bazaars and you'll have to farm them yourself. I had a sizable number of breaks at <15 but you can start making them earlier than 16 if you wish. If you have bazaar space you should be pumping out Ash Macuahuiasdaslds in large quantities as well, assuming they still sell for an acceptable price on your server.

You could probably take carpenter from 10-16 straight on Willow Log-->Lumber alone at 80sp/synth for all the lumber you're gonna need. If you have other crafts leveled you can make weapon/tool parts for those. If you have unlimited bazaar space or multiple accounts you can pump out an infinite number of wands.

[Ratatapa]

What do you skill up on at 33 Weaver : Undyed Canvas gives me like 180-200 XP

Undyed Velvet gives me 300+ XP but it's too unstable can do 5/5 win then 1/15 win and keep getting unstable

I could skill on Canvas Hat and NPC htm since no one buys them atm but out of wind shards

[Gadritan]

Any recommendations for ARM skilling @26+? Been doing Iron Buckles since it's good SP and requires more fire shards than earth/wind, which are easier to find and cheaper for me. Plus these things actually sell well if you post up in the TAN or WVR wards.

Is there something I'm overlooking that would be more efficient?

[TStupified]

Where is best to farm fire shards/crystals at rank 22? Tried the caves near Bloodshore but the beetles don't spawn fast enough.

One tip I can give regarding this is that you take some rank1 DoW/DoM and level it up to 10+ in the areas near Ul'dah.. pretty much everything there drops fire/earth shards and crystals and I've always got plenty of both during one leveling session of few hours.

Most likely isn't the best way, but it's an option.

[Sephiroth]

I've decided to just buy fire shards. I could farm and sell earth or wind to make that money back and more anyway. Not that I'd sell any wind but still.

What's bugging me right now is that the iron ornamental hammer has been around on some servers for about a week now and people are still being selfish about it. It's really crippling GSMs on every server because of the lack of a rank 32 tool. The people selling them are probably the first ones asking/looking for new recipes on YG too. I wouldn't care so much if we had a rank 32 tool, but people are using this to their advantage. Why should anyone contribute to sites like that when some people take but don't give?

[Ruin]

Blacksmith 28-30+ Anyone advice?

[bruiser]

Blacksmith 28-30+ Anyone advice?

Sorry if this sounds rude, but you can look at the recipe list on yg and sort by level. It's fairly obvious what the best skillup synths are going to be.

[Elcura]

Sorry if this sounds rude, but you can look at the recipe list on yg and sort by level. It's fairly obvious what the best skillup synths are going to be.

Not really, there are a lot of recipes that are exceedingly easy to make, good exp and unknown to people just browsing YG. Even YG isn't totally accurate. The best advice is always going to be from another person.

[Cureslime]

Blacksmith is the only craft that has a zillion options so it really depends on what is lacking on your server. I would suggest finding tools/weapons that you can acquire/make all the parts for and make 3-4 of each one at at time. Blacksmith really isn't suited for sitting and spamming 500 synths in one go like the rest of the crafts are. If you really want to zerg...which is a waste of money...make 50000 Iron Awls/Pliers.

[Meresgi]

I'll post this here since there wasnt really a definitive answer in the other thread. Do we know that certain crafting gear doesnt give full benefits(for +craftsmanship, +mag. Craftsmanship) if you are not listed as a favored class. Such as using a canvas robe as a CRP or TAN. The CRP on my server I spoke to wears velveteen hat and robe and told me he is only missing 3 points from craftsmanship off the gear, but he is also 5 ranks below the optimal rank.

It just seems like the robes would be a better bet for CRP then the vests, since vests have +gathering which is worthless to me.

[bruiser]

Not really, there are a lot of recipes that are exceedingly easy to make, good exp and unknown to people just browsing YG. Even YG isn't totally accurate. The best advice is always going to be from another person.

Uhh. All you do is sort by level and look at what uses the cheapest ingredients that you can spam. Preferably something that stacks for obvious reasons. Do this for Blacksmith, sort by level, then go to page 5. There's 2 different things that use only 1 Iron Ingot and is ~r30. But it uses Wind Shards, so might want to find something else. Iron Chaser Hammer Head only requires 4 Iron Nuggets and those are easily HQ'able, so that's a good choice also. Doesn't list what shard it uses, but none of the other Hammer Heads in the game use Wind Shards, so this probably doesn't either.

[Elcura]

Uhh. All you do is sort by level and look at what uses the cheapest ingredients that you can spam. Preferably something that stacks for obvious reasons. Do this for Blacksmith, sort by level, then go to page 5. There's 2 different things that use only 1 Iron Ingot and is ~r30. But it uses Wind Shards, so might want to find something else. Iron Chaser Hammer Head only requires 4 Iron Nuggets and those are easily HQ'able, so that's a good choice also. Doesn't list what shard it uses, but none of the other Hammer Heads in the game use Wind Shards, so this probably doesn't either.

How is this better than asking? Not only is asking easier, but could potentially give you much more information that could help. Researching YG or another site is a last resort or something you do if you have no one to ask or if you want to supplement the information with something else.

So instead of being weird about it, you could have just told him what to make.

[bruiser]

How is this better than asking? Not only is asking easier, but could potentially give you much more information that could help. Researching YG or another site is a last resort or something you do if you have no one to ask or if you want to supplement the information with something else.

So instead of being weird about it, you could have just told him what to make.

I got that information by looking at yg. The question was essentially "Can someone go look at yg and tell me what to make?". In less than the time it took him to come here and post on the forum, and certainly in less time than it took for me to reply with my first response, he could have been crafting away already.

[Elcura]

I got that information by looking at yg. The question was essentially "Can someone go look at yg and tell me what to make?".

In less than the time it took him to come here and post on the forum, and certainly in less time than it took for me to reply with my first response, he could have been crafting away already.

There's a lot that YG won't tell you. YG won't tell me that instead of spamming cotton cloth to get to 25, I could be making cotton shirt fronts with all the cloth I had made previously. YG wouldn't tell me that instead of spamming Dodoskin or Sinew, I could make vamps that NPC for a decent price.

Yeah, some stuff is obvious, but most isn't, and there usually is a better recipe, that's cheaper or easier to make that gives more skill than what is obvious. In order to find out the best, I would need to reference YG, try the craft and see, and if that fails, do everything again. Or if the craft is adequate, I might stop looking for a better answer or might not be making materials that I can use in the long run (either for another craft or in the future).

YG can tell you a lot, there's no denying that, but you have to put the work in. It's easier to ask, and someways faster, either immediately or in the long run. The only time I use YG is if someone can't answer my question.

[bruiser]

There's a lot that YG won't tell you. YG won't tell me that instead of spamming cotton cloth to get to 25, I could be making cotton shirt fronts with all the cloth I had made previously. YG wouldn't tell me that instead of spamming Dodoskin or Sinew, I could make vamps that NPC for a decent price.

It tells me all of the above. Recipes -> Weaver -> Sort by Level. Hey look, there's an item which only requires Cotton Yarn and Cotton Cloth. The Cloth isn't dyed. It's a higher level synth than Cotton Cloth. I have lots of Cotton Cloth because I just made it. Hmmm...

/em uses brain for a second

This really isn't rocket science. You can't always tell the exact recipe rank of a recipe on yg, but in both of the above cases you can. Cotton Shirt Front was listed as r21 and Cotton Cloth was listed as r20. That means that Shirt Front is necessarily a higher tier synth since one is in the 11-20 range and one is in the 21-30 range.

This is no different than posting questions which are easily answerable by searching the forum and then getting flamed about it. Spend 30 seconds looking at the recipe list and you woudl have known about both Cotton Shirt Front AND Dodoskin Vamps.