Finally manage to get all my crafter to 50 and equip them with i70 artisan gear, melded rings, haven't meld bracelet, chocker and earring though. Only CUL have artisan main-hand, haven't get the artisan main-hand for the rest.

For anyone leveling crafter I would suggest that you level all of them at the same pace, due to the cross class skills you will need to make crafting so much easier at higher level.

I did mostly GC turn-ins and Ixal dailies to level my crafting, so it did take quite a while to level them up. It can be speed up by doing Leve turn-ins, there are guide on reddit for it but it's quite costly unless you craft those HQ turn-ins yourself.

When leveling crafters always be prepare to spend gil, quite a lot of it too lol.

Now working on getting demimateria books, and the other master recipe books, leveling desynth. It's seriously harder than end-game raid lol

Which master recipe books and master demimateria books are worth getting?

Currently I have the master book 1 for CUL, master demimateria for GSM

Hmm haven't really check the prices for all the raw mats but I think it's not to expensive, I did bought some gold ore to make rose gold nugget to craft accessories

Yeah that's what I notice on the demimateria book, it's mostly primal weapon, GSM one have accessories for crafting so I got that first, but the other doesn't seems as useful. My GSM desynth is at around 69 I think, desynth bunch of accessories for fieldcraft demi I, got like 70+ now haha, now gonna need some battle demi.

Hmm ok thanks will check that. Yeah I am actually looking for stuff I can craft and sell and since I am still leveling gatherers I have to buy most of the mats from MB. Need to make sure I can at least make some profit.

It's the same on Tonberry for certain things, the margin is pretty low, so I have to check carefully if not might end up losing gil instead.

Hmm maybe crafting HQ stuff for leve turn-ins would have better profit haha

It seems like those high level craft are profitable when they are new, after a while it get less profitable.

Yeah crafting always kinda go dead at end of patch cycle lol, ah well I just wanted to level them all and get gears, got a few more months before expansion so should be able to gear them all up.

I do Ixal dailies also and keeping all the oakknots that I get, use to exchange for sealants and sell but the market tank, it's less than half the price it use to sell now.

Yeah still can make gil maybe not as big and quick as before, just need to research and see what sell quick with good margins.

Since FCOB going to be on DF maybe food/pots will see decent sales as more people go into FCOB.

That's the reason I got all the i70 Artisan gear now, except all the main-hand, so that when 3.0 comes my crafters are decently gear for 3.0 crafting

As for the crafted Artisan yeah definitely will drop price, ehcati market already drop a lot.

Anyone have a good rotation to craft turn-ins for masterbook 1 and turn-ins for artisan gears?

This is the gear i have http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/6039017/

Only CUL have artisan main-hand.

Thanks, yeah I use it as a guide as I know players will always says their is better, so it's best to understand how it work and use it as a guideline. I will check it out after work.

I will try to meld my off-hand, I been slacking on the meld after I melded both my rings haha.

ok thanks for the advice, will work on getting masterbook 1 for those artisan off-hand, I been saving bunch of oakknots

I am still a poor lala, trying to make gil crafting some accessories but undercutter everwhere lol. Luckily it was made from left over that I had so I am still making a profit from it

My FC have 2 high level crafter but they don't login often nowadays, usually I get them to craft stuff for me hehe, but since they don't play as often, I have to start crafting it myself.

I think it was mention you can only specialized in 3 but no mention if that means stuff are easier to craft at high level or u get locked out of high level recipes on DOH that you are not specializing in.

Yeah SE never release all this info until it's very close to launch

5/8 on artisan main-hand, what I hate most is the turn-in for artisan main-hand are so hard to craft even if you have fully melded accessories and artisan gear, but once you get your artisan main-hand it becomes so easy to craft them. I seriously find crafting end game is so much harder than raiding lol

I didn't start with crafting this time around, I went for gathering instead. Got my Botanist to 60 and started to get collectables for blue and red scrips. It's nice to have a FC leader that can craft my gathering gear, so I got all crafted gear when I hit 60.

The gathering is kind a ok this patch it seems though I haven't touch those favor stuff yet. But I really hear quite a lot of complain on crafting and how it is gated by so much stuff till that I not even sure I wanted to level crafter.

Oh gathering makes decent Gils too, some of those materials sell for quite a bit

Well grinded 4950 blue scrips for folklore only to find that it's a waste of time, the folklore mats are cheap on MB, even gathering them for red scrip turns in they just give a little more than the none legendary node turn in. Not to mention you need high gathering and perception to even gather from legendary node.

I will just use my red scrip to get my main hand for either btn or min, and use remainder for favor. At least favor sells for a decent price if you get the rarer items to exchange for HQ mats.

I can already cap red scrip in a day without folklore so making it even more useless, not to mention the high requirement needed to gather from it, I don't have that kind of stats at the moment.
I sold 3 bitter foxglove for 570k total, sold some foxglove as well, but these items move slow though but then not much people are selling it at the moment. I mostly sell the more common mats that are needed for crafting like adamantide ore.

Don't really want to waste my red scrip to get those mats now, I will get my main hand first and see how.