Crafting - The Path to Mastery

[blink625]

After getting to level 50 crafting there are 3 steps you need to do to master a crafting job.
Then you'll need to do two more quests:
Submission Impossible
Just Tooling Around


1st Step you need to max meld your equipment.
I found that this is the best way to meld, this is base on the fact that you rely on high tier materia to safe money on lost materia.  This is the step that cost a lot of money since you can lose 100+k on overmelding.
For head you'll want to aim to get Artisan's Spectacles which can be used for all crafting jobs.
However you'll need to meld your head gear at least once.


The following list is the attribute will get you to Craftmanship 391 and Control 374 which is required to craft 3 stars items.
The numbers in the brackets is the extra attribute that you can still get.
Otherwise it is already maxed out.


Requirements

Star	Control	Craftmanship
1	255	275
2	318	347
3	391	374

Melding Success Rate Chart:
1st Overmeld: 45% (I), 41% (II), 35% (III), 29% (IV)
2nd Overmeld: 24% (I), 22% (II), 19% (III), 16% (IV)
3rd Overmeld: 14% (I), 13% (II), 11% (III), 10% (IV)
4th Overmeld: 8% (I), 8% (II), 7% (III), 6% (IV)

2nd Unlock Master Recipe
You'll need to make 5 of these item in HQ. The requirement is [Craftsmanship Required: 347]
One of these HQ item usually sells around 60k in Market Place.
Other then the basic material, you'll also need some item from dungeon or company seals.

Job	What you need to make	What item is needed from company seals
ALC	Growth Formula Delta Concentrate	Lime Sulphur
ARM	Darksteel Ingot	Coke
BSM	Darksteel Ingot	Coke
CRP	Treated Spruce Lumber	Hardened Sap
CUL	Sauteed Coeurl	Cooking Sherry
GSM	Rose Gold Ingot	Peacock Ore
LTW	Hard Hippogryph Leather	Animal Fat
WVR	Vanya Silk	Potash

3rd Obtain Artisan's Gear
You'll need to make 50 of these item in HQ.  The requirement is [Craftsmanship: 347   Control: 318]
This is the step that cost the least amount of money since you can gather most of these material yourself.

Job	What you need to make	AF2 Weapon Obtained
ALC	Spirits Of Salt	Artisan's Alembic
ARM	Darksteel Wire	Artisan's Raising Hammer
BSM	Darksteel Hook	Artisan's Cross-pein Hammer
CRP	Spruce Plywood	Artisan's Chocobotail Saw
CUL	Spicy Tomato Relish	Artisan's Frypan
GSM	Rose Gold Gear	Artisan's Mallet
LTW	Gryphonskin Strap	Artisan's Round Knife
WVR	Silver Brocade	Artisan's Needle

Here's a link to rotations:
http://www.ffxivguild.com/ffxiv-end-game-crafting-rotations-master-star/

[Tigerlilley]

this is incredible, thanks Blink!