How to Get
Crafting and Gathering Materia in FFXIV
In Final Fantasy XIV,
Materia is used in melding gear. Crafters
and Gatherers
are even more likely to need the extra points and require a ton more Materia to
overmeld their gear. So, Ilya Dalamiq, Rustie Gaming,
and Craftaholic Central teach you how to obtain
enough Crafting and Gathering Materia for all of your melding needs.
Custom Deliveries
When you
open your Timers, you can see all of the Custom Delivery clients, and each
client will grant you a specific amount of yellow and white scrips. Depending
on which client you choose, they will also have different rates for yellow
scrips and white scrips. For example, Ehll Tou and Kai-Shirr have a decent
amount of yellow scrips and many white scrips, but Adkiragh has many yellow
scrips and only a few white scrips. So, you’ll want to go through the list and
look at which of the NPCs are giving you what you want because different grades
of Materia will be bought with different color scrips.
Once you
have obtained the scrips, you can go to a Scrip Exchange to turn in your
scrips. Be sure to do the Crafting turn-ins for Crafting scrips and Materia,
and do the Gathering turn-ins for Gathering scrips and Materia. A lot of new
players don’t realize that these are two different currencies and are
not interchangeable.
If you are
looking for grade VIII Materia, you should do the Custom Deliveries that give
you the most white scrips; if you are just after Materia IV, V, VI, or VII, you
should do the ones that give you the most yellow scrips. Your grade VIIIs are
only available in your normal slots and the first overmeld slot. Grade VII, V,
IV, and the rest are going to be used for the other slots. Grade I, II, and III
Materia aren't used that much anymore as of late, but you can still put them
somewhere to get some CP.
Dwarf/Qitari Beast Tribe
Beast Tribe
is a good way get Materia everyday or every three days. Whenever you do Dwarf
Beast Tribe, you’ll get three tokens a day. Then you go to the Hammered
Frogments Exchange to buy a Materia VII for three tokens, meaning you can buy
one of those Materia each day. Or, you can save up three days’ worth of quests
and buy a Materia VIII instead.
The same
thing goes for your Gatherers as well. If you go to Qitari Vendor, you can use
nuts to exchange for Materia VII or VIII in the exchange store.
Materia Extraction
As you keep
using your gear more and more, you are increasing the Spiritbond of your gear.
Once the Spiritbond is 100%, you can right-click it, then use “Extract Materia”,
which will create Materia from your gear. Doing this doesn’t consume your gear.
It will just reset the Spiritbond level back to 0% and give you Materia.
If you
extract Materia from a Crafter gear, you'll get Crafting Materia; if you
extract Materia from a Gatherer piece of gear, you’ll get Gathering Materia.
There are
ways to speed up the Spiritbonding process. For example, the Squadron
Spiritbonding Manual or a Free Company Action will increase the Spiritbonding
speed.
Wondrous Tails
Wondrous
Tails is an easy way to get Crafting and Gathering Materia. The Gold
Certificate gives you 12 Cracked Planicrystals and 6 Cracked Stellacrystals,
which can be exchanged for non-combat Materia VIIs and VIIIs. The Silver
Certificate gives you 4 Cracked Planicrystals and 2 Cracked Stellacrystals. The
Bronze Certificate doesn’t give you Stellacrystals, but it gives you 2
Planicrystals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDd5Lb3eT3Y
Ocean Fishing
Ocean
Fishing won’t give you a massive amount of yellow scrips. It would only give
you 400-600 yellow scrips, depending on the run you get. So it is a little bit
of RNG. However, if you haven’t levelled your Fisher, it’s a good way to kill
two birds with one stone.
From the
level 70 items, you will get Materia VIs and VIIs, and from the level 50 ones,
you can get Materia IVs and Vs. It depends on which ones you need for which
Gathering set you are making. If you are going for the best in slot, you will
need to go through many different Materia.
Collectable Exchange
If you have
some spare Collectibles, you can go to the Collectable Appraiser to turn them
into Scrips and buy Materia with the Scrips.
Materia Transmutation
If you have
an FC and access to a workshop, you can do some Airships and Submersibles to
gather resources, which will also bring you some Materia. If you don’t need
some of those Combat Materia, you can transform them into a Crafter Materia or
Gatherer Materia with Materia Transmutation.
Mutamix
Bubblypots, located at The Bonefire in Central Thanalan, allows you to transmute
Materia into something else. You are going to click “Transmute Materia” and put
in 5 Materia that you don’t need, then Mutamix Bubblypots will give you back a
random piece of different Materia. Doing this also gives you a chance to get a
higher grade of Materia.
Market Board
You can also
buy Materia from the Market Board with your FFXIV money.
But, to get the best price, you should wait for the right time to do it. The
secret to this is doing it gradually, week by week, day by day, and not trying
to do it all at once when you desperately need it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooRhvDFAdY
Don’t buy
Materia from the Market Board near the beginning of a patch because that is the
worst time to buy Materia. The best time to do it is between patches when the
demands for the Materia are not high, and the Market Board sellers don’t
overcharge for it.
You need to
keep an eye on the Market Board from week to week, day to day, and catch the
best prices. You can go from server to server for the best price and only buy a
little bit at a time, then wait until the price is down again before you buy
any more.
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