Crafting DoH Endgame Melding BIS Patch 7.3 for FFXIV Dawntrail

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This guide shows our best crafting meld sets, explaining our best in slot(BiS) and a brief overview on how best to farm materia as a crafting class.

1.

Crafting Melding and BiS (Best in Slot) Patch 7.3

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.

2.

Is Getting Crafting BiS Important?

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.

3.

What is the Crafting Meld/Stat Priority?

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.

4.

How to Farm Crafting Materia

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.

5.

What is Crafting Best in Slot (BiS)?

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.

6.

Cosmic Tools and Are They Worth Using?

Cosmic Tools are unlocked via Cosmic Exploration as upgradeable tools starting at level 10 until currently becoming i720. They are of course, not worth using until you upgrade them to i720 but they can be a potential upgrade to your current gearset. The Cosmic Tools do not have any melding slots and are equivalent to any other i720 tool with a single CP X materia inside.

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.

Cosmic Tools are not worth using currently at endgame because we have i750 tools. That being said, if you plan on completing your relic it may be worth holding off on crafting/melding i750 tools until we see the 7.31 relics.

7.

Endgame Crafting Meldsets

Below are our 3 main meldsets for 7.3, the High Tier set which is the best set we provide and the Mid Tier set which is a more cost efficient set which still enables you to craft savage raid gear.

This is the final set of the expansion and therefore worth investing into!

High Tier Meld Set Mid Tier Meld Set Budget Meld Set
7.1.

High Tier Meld Set

This is our main set that will provide the most value for your gear allowing you to use less HQ materials and more efficient rotations.

Additionally, the set has been designed so that players who want to avoid the costs of melding all 16 tools can just meld CP into the main slots to save a bit of gil without too many downsides where in the worst case you will just need slightly more material contribution. You may also want to wait for 7.31's relics. These potentially do the exact same thing for your main hands.

This set is built around specific stat-values ensuring it will be incredibly effective in both 7.4 and Cosmic Exploration.

7.2.

Mid Tier Meld Set

This is our Mid Tier set for the current endgame meldsets. To ensure this set can remain competitive, CMS and CP hit the same breakpoints as the high tier set. Simply takes a few additional HQ materials but guarantees you will not have crafting issues.

This set avoids tool overmelds to save on materia as well as reducing overmelds entirely on the left side and using lower grades to save you gil.

With so many spare slots available, feel free to either fill them with low grade materia for spiritbonding or to fit in extra control if you want to reduce the amount of HQ materials you need in future patches.

7.3.

Budget Meld Set

This is our budget set able to craft in patch 7.3. This is the same set as last patch because the next budget/scrip gear releases in 7.4. This is when budget players would upgrade. Regardless, the budget set is capable of crafting everything in the game.

This set uses the same right side melds as you used in previous patches. The 7.4 scrip set should have scrip accessories so do not feel pressured to upgrade your right side.

With this set, CMS food is always needed. So Cheviche has been included in the embed.

8.

Changelog

  • 05 Aug. 2025: Updated for 7.3.
  • 26 Apr. 2025: Updated for 7.21. No meld changes.
  • 05 Apr. 2025: Mid Tier adjustment for optional comfy Rroneek rotations.
  • 25 Mar. 2025: Update for 7.2.
  • 05 Dec. 2024: Etro links added.
  • 13 Nov. 2024: Updated for 7.1.
  • 07 Sep. 2024: Budget set added.
  • 03 Jul. 2024: BiS Added for 7.0.
  • 26 Jun. 2024: Tentative updates for Dawntrail.
  • 21 Jun. 2024: Spiritbonding guide added.
  • 17 May 2024: Added notes about using the scrip gear with Dawntrail so close.
  • 26 May 2023: Updated for 6.4.
  • 10 Mar. 2023: Added Splendorous Tools Advice.
  • 13 Jan. 2023: Updated for 6.3.
  • 09 Feb. 2022: Guide added.
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