Final Fantasy XIV – Best Non Retainer ways of Farming Crystals



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Retainer is always better but if you don’t wanna pay for extra retainers here you go enjoy 🙂

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21 thoughts on “Final Fantasy XIV – Best Non Retainer ways of Farming Crystals”

  1. I honestly think retainers are the best way to get crystals. I have 4, so that's 480 every hour. On my server 120 Wind Crystals are worth more than anything else my retainers can get me an hour.

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  2. I'm new to on content crafting and gathering and have been watching a lot of your videos, and they've been super helpful and informative even for someone inexperienced, going to start farming for melds soon lol

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  3. Hey Ashe, I really like your content about optimising gatherer and crafters and watched your videos for a long time. However, after doing some quick math in excel, I noticed diminishing returns on the 700 GP rotation compared to a 400 GP rotation (dropping Solid Reason/Ageless Words) considering GP spend in relation to Collectables collected.
    It's only a gain using Solid/Ageless when you'd only get 1 gathering attempt after raising collectability, it being even on 2 attempts and dropping low on 3+ attempts.

    400 GP rotation would be 400 GP per item on 1 remaining attempt, 200 on 2, 133 on 3, 100 on 4, 80 on 5 and 66 on 6
    700 GP rotation would be 280 GP per item on 1 remaining attempt, 200 on 2, 155 on 3, 127 on 4, 107 on 5 and 93 on 6.
    (Ageless words/Solid reason get counted as +1.5 gathering attempts due to the 50% chance of proccing Eureka)

    With Unspoiled Nodes for scripts it's obviously better to use the 700GP rotation to get the most out of that single node, but on ephermal Nodes I think it might be better to mostly stick to the 400GP rotation where you're waiting on GP with an abundance of nodes available.
    What are your thoughts on this?

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  4. Worth using ageless with giving land+twelve bounty? On a +2 you can get 8 buffed hits if it procs.
    Edit* Just occurred to me if its possible to go full GP with food and maybe you can use ageless twice? With procs total of 10 hits.

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  5. Do note: with 950gp you can Giving Land, Bounty, Solid Reason + Wise to the World, Solid Reason + Wise to the World, on a +2 attempt node. This results in 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 [with good rng obviously] for 10 gather attempts at an average of 18 crystals for 180 from a single node. But it does require that high-bar of GP.

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  6. So do all those items in that node yield the same crystals? I dont know how to tell which items yield which crystals without having to gather each and find out.

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  7. How do I know, which shard I get, if I use the reduction? Garland Bells don‘t show me the possible shard for the reduction. As example, the node „The high Bank“ has itself the Ice cluster and Ice crystals. But when I reduce the Rhodolite, I got fire Cluster and fire crystals.

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