You cannot escape the cycles of Samsara. You only begin a fresh run through with the crafting piece. Get yourself a crafting calculator for higher end ones and it will be less onerous but.. yeah. Holy hell its like looking out at the hike ahead only to see you've just began to trudge.
I should use that as WAR glam now that I think about it.
For A ranks, the time it can take to join servers with long wait times between pulls waiting for people to gather when everyone migrates and assembles/waits for A ranks means I can scout them out and just kill them faster alone, since it can take 5+ minutes per hop if they go to populated servers, which if you know the spawns you can just scout them out yourself. And better yet, especialy for S ranks _you_ control the spawn timers since outside of maint resets they have hours long windows before they show up or are available again. It's not 'Poaching', at all they are overworld mobs and if I find them I can do what I want with them, and I will not budge on that because some large group decides to show up. It isn't like I join the train servers and go ahead to what they have scouted out, I scout myself and was entirely unaffiliated and have no knowledge of their upcoming plans.
Having not checked them since EW, I only ever used them for gil. There was a notorious ShB leve for a CUL item that was easy to make, and handing in HQ doubles the gil reward. There was an EW CUL craft that was much the same.
Theyre useful for levelling gatherers past the point where ishgard restoration is good.
They're useful if you want to level up your crafters/gatherers quickly. And can be an okay chunk of change if you need a steady (but not spectacular) flow of gil.
I make steady money as a gatherer, I gather what cannot be bought from NPCs, particularly the ingredients for raid food; timed nodes sell incredibly well too.
they're very good exp on-level, so they're really good for turboing through to the expansion's level cap. And as people said, they're also a staple money maker for very little effort, there's always a
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Ah, good to know. I never bothered much with it myself because gil has never been a concern, so I was mostly familiar with Coffee Biscuits and knew it got nerfed in EW.
Trained Eye still exists and works on everything up to level 90 except Expert Crafts, yup. You can make a 3 action macro for Trained Eye > Groundwork > Groundwork and craft basically anything from the past expansions.
When I started playing I missed out on being able to benefit from Coffee Biscuits but Tsai helped me buy 2 large houses along with doing other stuff. After I set up a couple of FCs with OJs I've not touched leves since, but it's nice to be able to let people know they can basically print 1mil every week for free if they need it. Goes towards the Honest Gillionaire title too!
Yeah there's a couple of mods I use for more accessibility related reasons like one that lets me change my cursor around so it's easier to see (Where's My Mouse?), Player Tags (I think?) for putting a big party number and job over someone's head in duties, and TidyChat so I don't have 20 lines of messages about how I've put things on a retainer etc. I always forget how awful the game is for notification spam, even when you've toggled things off, until mods go down.
I know this is 100% self inflicted, but have you ever accidentally swapped to the Battle tab during an S rank?
