snowcloak and new crafting gearFollow

what NPC gives the new artisans tools because all I see Talan with is new recipe books....

Also is Snowcloak part of the main story missions, or is it separate (like every other dungeon since 2.1) if it is seperate then what NPC do i start its quest with?

The i70 off-hand crafting tools are crafted; check CRP (which makes the WVR and GSM ones) and BSM (which makes all the others).

EDIT: grammar or something.

Edited, Oct 28th 2014 12:27pm by QSlick

They also appear to be crafted; so they're probably IN those new master books.

From my understanding and brief glimpse at the system, it appears that certain 3 star craft items (like the cogs for goldsmith) can now be hq'ed. Five of those hq'ed will get you a master book for the 4 star items, but you can also trade a set number of those hq items + Mastercraft materia + the lvl 50 tool to the guy who sells the master books in Mor Dhona to upgrade the item to ilvl 70. So the first step is hq'ing a 3 star item 5 times.

Edited, Oct 29th 2014 9:14am by Valkayree

2.4 MELD CAPS FOR NEW ARTISAN’S GEAR

Off-hand:

Craftsmanship: 25
Control: 14
CP: 3
1 Guaranteed Slot

Artisan’s Mitts

Craftsmanship: 4
Control: 6
CP: 0
3 Guaranteed Slots

Artisan’s Culottes

Craftsmanship: 1
Control: 6
CP: 3
3 Guaranteed Slots

Artisan’s Sandals

Craftsmanship: 1
Control: 6
CP: 3
3 Guaranteed Slots
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2kp7kw/so_you_want_to_be_a_master_crafter_patch_24/

Maybe it is nq, I'm not exactly sure now that you mention it.

I'm sitting on the sidelines on crafting. I'm still in the process of buying best man's gaiter's and desynthing them for wool cloth, hippogryph leather, and fieldcraft III. And I bought nearly a million gil's worth of gaiters already ><. But oddly enough, the fieldcraft III sell for 90k still, the hippogryph leather for 44k, and the wool cloth for 3k each, and since my percent chance to desynth on leatherworker on the ilvl 70 items is nearly 76%, I am breaking about even on profit.

I am afraid to spend anything until the dust settles. I went from 13 million to 10.5 million after the patch, but I bought the unhidden leather maps (bought 5, had one from a boarskin reward) and got my imperial shadow glasses and imitation mistbeard mask. Put the mask up for 1.4 million, glamoured the shadow glasses, and got lucky on a minecart minion drop which I put up for 1.5 as well, so I'm just going to hold onto my money until the prices drop a bit. Glazenut market tanked which makes me sad. But even with 10 million I still feel like I am too poor for crafting, that is pretty bad...

I'm really starting to believe that that FC airship is going to require a 4 star crafter in each job to get the job done. I hope not, but it feels like thats where it's headed.

You need to NQ five *** tokens to get your Supra tool. You need to HQ three *** star tokens to unlock the Master Book 2. The Master Book 2 unlocks **** recipes.

The Demi materia master books unlock the ability to make the off hand artisanal tools. So if you already unlocked the demi materia master books, patch 2.4 updated your list of master recipes.

Making the three HQ *** tokens is much harder than making a *** recipe. As it takes 9000 quality and 801 progress. To do this, you absolutely have to have to have the new off hand tool. And use reclaim very liberally.

People are still working on different methods/builds, but generally the consensus so far is that you should overmeld +15 craftsmanship into the off hand tool.

That relish loving jerk, Talan has all the items you're looking for.

The gear calculator Aryilla has been updated with all the stat caps at this point. And so you should play around there before doing any melds yourself.

Edited, Oct 30th 2014 11:44pm by Squander