Turning 30,000 Levinsilk into Crafting Materia | FFXIV Dawntrail

[@TenelenTheScrub]

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[@philedwards7331]

These sort of things are what I call Stupid Little Goals. Things like maxing ventures, etc, that have minor actual, useful, effect on gameplay and aren't exactly efficient. I love them! They're one of the main reasons I keep playing during content lulls. Thank you for doing this vid, it's great!

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@philedwards7331 YES! I love stupid little goals. I need more! It feels surreal to hear you say that. I know we've got content luls, no denying that, but sometimes you just gotta make your own content 😅 Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed

[@beautybysree6402]

Interesting video, I liked it and love your content! Thanks for making videos, I know it's a lot of work!

[@LukeBBert]

I just want to say how much I appreciate this fun positive content. So many KZbin videos have become debates on the content schedule or if dt is a good expansion. I love a simple video that talks about a fun experiment! Thank you for your voice in the community

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@LukeBBert THANK YOU, it means a lot to hear that I try my best to just have fun in my games!

[@Dancenorigins]

Something to note. If you have the premium version of the ff14 companion app. You can send out and claim retainer gathering ventures from the app with a currency that regenerates twice per day. So that two extra gathering you can do while you're at work or away from Your pc

[@Canned_Corn_isgood]

Great video as always! Thank you Tenelen

[@TenelenTheScrub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Lordwhizzkid]

The way I personally take this is something I had an idea of, but wasn't entirely sure of and didn't really want to commit the time to it. Spiritbonding is actually pretty underrated when it comes to crafting calculations, mainly because you can't guarantee what you get. With scrips it's easily calculable and much easier to visualise what you need. However that then leads us to searching for the "cheapest & fastest" way to make collectables, which tends towards the mob drops like Tisane and Carne Asada. I wouldn't die on a hill saying "it's more optimal to make high craft required collectables", but it's likely closer than expected. So I think it's better to say: if you have the time, energy, or retainers that can gather passive items, find a way to use those passive items. Whether they be mob drops from battle retainers, or gathered resources, getting them out consistently to keep your pool of resources high, is good. The thing you don't want to do, and I think so many casual crafters do, is see the mountain of numbers, get overwhelmed at the time it'll take to get everything, and just end up buying things to make it quick. (It's me I do this all the time I regret it every time I buy anything off the MB).

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@Lordwhizzkid ITS ALSO ME 😂 I am trying to combat my "panic buy materia because you only need to finish 6 more slots on your gear, you can't leave it unfinished" -6mil gil 😭

[@Steiny9584]

As a former OSRS player for many years (maxed main, super progressed iron etc.) this type of stuff is just the best. I have a ton of crystals, i might try this on a smaller scale. Great video!

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@Steiny9584 that's great, is my OSRS brain the reason I enjoyed this project? 😂 I've been playing on and off since forever, but never got maxed!

[@Steiny9584]

@@TenelenTheScrub Haha for sure! This type of planning, patience and execution is 100% OSRS brain 😂

[@Soress9]

also you can use the thundersilk to make orange scrips so its not all a waste

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@Soress9👀 I definitely neglected looking at what else I could use the Thundersilk on. I was saving a lot of it for 7.1, but now you've got me thinking

[@Soress9]

@TenelenTheScrub itll be especially helpful since we can buy the new orange scrip solution for 125 scrips i think. ive already made about 150ish collectables and will probably make 80ish more for 7.1

[@GremDisaster]

Thanks for reminding me i have ~10k-ish of most high level mats sitting in an alts retainer. Should get to SBing that all before 7.1...

[@lostaname64]

If you have optimised pentameld, you can equip the meteor ring for another +2 or something spiritbondingboost

[@retzerbil867]

I just went serverhopping buying hundreds of materia cheap to pentameld my gear in 7.1. And even if I may have went overboard I hope to sell the remaining at a fat profit when the prices skyrocket

[@darthdodge]

If you have saved the materia you should be able to get more for it when 7.1 hits as the price will skyrocket

[@Soress9]

im pretty sure its because our rings are lvl 98, but im not at my computer to check atm. i feel like the right side might have non lvl 100 gear

[@eugenepark9665]

I wanna say that Tenelen is an accountant or actuary IRL 😀

[@umo7043]

Hell yeah

[@John-od7dr]

Lose all the things you could have gotten from quick ventures. All it would have taken was getting jet black dye once from a coffer to make the same profit. Should definitely do the same experiment with doing quick ventures. Adding up all the dyes, furniture items, gear turned into GC seals, dye, glamour etc.

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@John-od7dr absolutely, but quick ventures are the norm so I figured most people are aware of the random things they can get. Also, I have terrible luck. I've only had a handle of venture coffers ever... One of my FC mates gets one a week, I swear

[@ultimateuk]

i am trying soooo hard to push my retainers to 100 and its taking forever

[@ultimateuk]

also how do you bring up that materia creation window? is that an option for consoles?

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@ultimateuk it takes forever to level them.....🥲 Yeah you should be able to! It's under Character -> Action's & Traits -> General and it's called Materia Extraction

[@YapatononskibidiinohioYapper]

Bro is either a bot or ark ham mental aslum escapee

[@TenelenTheScrub]

@@YapatononskibidiinohioYapper 😂😂😂 It's my number addict brain

[@YapatononskibidiinohioYapper]

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[@hathuiv1975]

you keep saying you passively gathered all these materials when you didn't. the numbers is interesting and it's a fun lil project but you keep contradicting yourself several times in the video

[@TenelenTheScrub]

Yes, but also no? You can do all of this with only retainers, I just choose to gather some myself and bought some cheap ones off the market because I wanted to get as many as I could before 7.1 to stock up materia. You can 100% replicate this method by only using retainers is the point I am making. Nothing requires you to actively do anything.