Crafting DoH Endgame Melding BIS Patch 7.31 for FFXIV Dawntrail

Once you hit level 100, you can start crafting and melding your endgame gear to craft items from the newest Master Books. It is important to know Crafting stats and melds are entirely dependent on the craft itself as well as your budget, time, and crafting goals.

There can be many viable stat points at endgame, which all work. However, some might be more expensive, instead offering benefits such as faster rotations and less of a reliance on HQ mats/food/potions. The most important part is to strike a balance between cost and your goals. For example, if you do not craft often, there is no need to spend a fortune on an expensive meld set if you will not make the money back.

What is best for your crafting classes depends entirely on your goals and there is no point spending 10 million gil on a set for you to not use it often.

Furthermore, what is best also depends on the craft. What's best for collectables may not be best for the current endgame which also might not be optimal for old endgame crafts and none of which might be best for expert crafting.

The meld/stat priority for Crafting(DoH) is as follows:

• Craftmanship to requirements
• CP
• Control
• Excess Craftmanship

More specifically you only need craftmanship to set breakpoints. Craftmanship works in stat tiers meaning extra points may not necessarily be of any use. The value of control has also slowly dropped more recently due to a reliance on HQ materials. CP continues to be king.

The best way to farm crafting materia by far is via farming orange and purple scrips. Orange scrips are used to obtain grade XII materia, and purple scrips are used for grades IV-XI.

Crafters can also Spiritbond instead for materia. This is normally less efficient though. Early on in an expansion you can get the best of both worlds by spiritbonding as you Scrip Farm.

The current BiS gear for Dawntrail is using the i750 "Crested" set with "Gold Thumb's" tools. There are several meldsets we recommend for this gear.

There are no foods/potions linked directly with these sets because different rotations can require different buffs and list their stat requirements before buffs.

You can substitute any odd numbered materia with a higher grade version of itself to save you gil.

Cosmic Tools are unlocked via Cosmic Exploration as upgradeable tools starting at level 10 until currently becoming i750. The Cosmic Tools do not have any melding slots and are equivalent to any other i750 tool with a single CP X materia inside. This makes them perfectly viable for all meld sets, however the High Tier set will have higher control.

These tools have the unique effect "Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.". Most of the tools do not currently have this text but it is a bug and they do still function with the unique effect. This makes these tools amazing for Expert Crafting. While optimal for experts, they have less stats than our high tier set due to a lack of meld slots.