Final Fantasy XIV - Best Ways to Farm Grade XI & XII Crafter & Gatherer Materia Patch 7.0 

I forgot to mention that 960 GP can give you +2 Gathering Attempt/Integrity, if you're not crafting in between Legendary Nodes use GP food or Meld more GP! 00:00 - Crafter Spiritbond 12:20 - Gatherer Spiritbond

i would say that if you want to go the way of having hq ingredients for the orange scrip grind, go for the culinarian collectable. the only hq-able ingridient is dark rye flour, which as a level 81 material you can get the rye in bulk from a botanist retainer, and then use trained eye for free hq.

Excellent content always Ashe

I just love your videos XD you are amazing!!

If you have lots of Hi-Cordial you can alternate between legendary nodes and orange scrip collectables. As far as I could see collectables give you the same rate of spiritbonding, but usually you will have slightly less swings of course.1-2% per swing - same as for the legendary nodes.

very good video !

Really helpful thanks

Thanks!

Thanks :)

So, as was mentioned by another commentator, when you have a Gatherer's Boon activation, you gain higher spiritbond. That was true back when you got the HQ items from nodes, and never changed. Another thing you haven't mentioned, in your recent videos that I could see is the change to how spiritbonding works for crafting and gathering professions. Which is huge, because it makes it easier for us to spiritbond now. That change is that it is base level of the item, versus base level of the craft/node. This is a change from what it used to be, which was ilvl of the item of gear, and the ilvl of the node/craft.

"Spiritbond is based on how many times you hit the node, not how many items you gather." I might be wrong but I believe hitting the chance to get an extra item (the smaller % number) it does double your spiritbond gain.

another GOAT video from the GOAT.

Think is better to do with Claro Walnut since it only needs 1 ingredient?

I might try this out because bicolor gems are too annoying and tedious for me to grind so i can make the collectaables

is there a particular crafting collectable that you'd recommend for farming orange scrips? anything that you've found to be easier than others? thank you so much for the info in this video, this has been really helpful for me as this is my first expansion release im playing for!

Hey Ashe, thanks for the videos! I have a question, how do you recommend to gear up our gatherer retainers? I'm unsure about how much effort to put into their gear.

as usual - the legend delivers. thanks my man!

Should I make a separate set to farm spiritbond? Or what is a comfortable number of materia to farm to set aside?

Question, what does one do with their old Penta-melded gear? I've always wondered... Last expansion was my first ever penta meld set, so I've never experienced it before.

Is there a set for gatherers that don't have 12's like the crafting set you showed? I don't have any 12s

thanks for the great guide! can you confrim that the spirit bond manual and pot do actually stack? where did u get this information from?

Sorry silly question. I was unsure about this crafter's 690ilvl overmeld. Do this would work when new master books come out? I was fear again re-overmeld, if new recipes are too high. Could I wait 7.0.5 patch/30july?

not quite finished melding 100 gear but i already have 4700 craft and 4600 control

Why does the crowned pie not work with the gatherer? Is the gatherer spiritbond capped?

it works with 4628 craftsmanship too

Also just FYI, I'm not sure why but old lvl90*** legendary nodes also give very good spritbounding even though they are lvl 90.

I followed your melds exactly and have 4481 control, and even with the HQ Tsai food I am unable to get the green threshold, even with my mastery classes. With tsai I get 4576 with mastery classes and 4557 without but every time I've tried the macro it has fallen into to 10250-11200 range at best for the level 100 collectables. Not a single one has reached the 11400 threshold. Not really sure what's happening. There's no situation with the condition during the craft either, always seems to be normal or good. Not really sure what could be going on. Thoughts? I suppose I could just use a single HQ but that significantly increases the time investment.

Do you know when the master craft recipe books are coming out?

Does the 690 crafted set pentamelded last the whloe expansion? Or does another set come out that does?

hi ashe what's the best collectible to spam craft to farm grade 10 materia?

does spirit-bonding increase faster if you do hq crafts?

So is this the bis till next crafter gear?

How does spiritbonding help?

Been working on leveling crafters and gatherers and this is the first time I've had them leveled to patch. Are we expecting different crafting gear around 7.05 which is the reason for the lower melds?

So it seems like if you're just interested in getting crafting materia, it's better to find a profitable spammable 98 craft and spam the shit out of it?

Does retainer gear need to be hq?

as usual - the legend delivers. thanks my man! as usual - the legend delivers. thanks my man!

999 mils .. omg

xashHQ

this guy has 999,999,999 gil and still farming i only have a 5th of what he has shown and already thought of just wait and buy the whole shit hahahaha, i guess ill just stay poor

I did 80 L100 walnut fishing rods yesterday. I put a bunch of them in my saddle bag. I don't really like any of the orange gear. All my crafters have separate glam but i like what they already have more. I did buy one of the garden things for 1000 orange but other than that im going to get materia. Doing the crafts is win/win because of spirit bonding and scrips. I levelled my botanist yesterday to 100 and ive unlocked the folklore for all of them. Its hard going getting orange scrips because you get so few for each collectable even at a 1000 quality. Maybe fishing is better? Im doing fisher next. I enjoy the crafting/gathering side of ff14 more than anything else, and buying/selling. I never do leve quests so 90+ has been very handy for gathering levelling and faster imo. I get you don't get scrips but its better for me to farm them at L100. It took maybe 4 hrs to level the botanist plus done all the job quest thing plus custom deliveries. Ive only got the blacksmith and fisher quest left to do. MSQ is all done.

Half those buffs are wasted, spirit bond has a cap if you have the pot + max melds your capped.