The Adventures Of Pirotess: Crafting With Blacksmith

 Our next adventure in crafting is Blacksmith. Blacksmith is a great crafting class to have for your adventuring and other crafting jobs because you can make a variety of weapons for your adventurer's melee and mage job classes and make tools that are used in the crafting classes. To unlock the Blacksmith job class you will need to travel to the Blacksmith's Guild in Limsa Lominsa.

Pirotess at the Blacksmiths Guild.

As with the other crafting jobs, you have a journal with a list of recipes you can craft for your different levels. You will need your primary tool, a hammer and your secondary tool, a file to craft these items. There is a tab for tools and weapons recipes. It shows you a list of the materials needed in order to craft the item. This is where the gathering job classes of Botanist and Miner come in handy because you will need fire and earth shards to craft as well as various metals and ores. It is also a good idea to have Leatherworker unlocked because some of the items on Blacksmith involve working with leather.

List of weapons and tools in the crafting log for Blacksmith.

You can also craft housing items such as tables, chairs, and windows. This is in a separate tab and just like the items list, it shows you the list of housing items you can make and the materials needed to craft them. These are a little more challenging, but they are fun to do and you can make quite a bit of gil on the market boards with housing items.

List of housing items that can be crafted on Blacksmith.

When you start crafting, you have a set of basic skills that you can use to create your item and sometimes enhance it to better your chances of crafting a high quality item. With more challenging items, expect a few synthesis failures. One thing that helps with pretty much most of the crafting is food. Culinarian comes in handy for this because there are a lot of foods that can add things to help your crafting such as increased crafstmanship. Weaver is another good one for this job because Weaver can craft gear that has crafting enhancing skills on them.

Use the crafting skills on Blacksmith to create items.

For some of the basic materials needed and regular things like sheets of metal or brass plates, you can buy these from the suppliers at the blacksmith's guild. This is cheaper than buying items from the market boards. For fancier items you will need to buy from the market boards or use gathering classes such as Miner and Botanist.

Buy supplies for blacksmith from the guild suppliers.

When you reach certain levels such as level 25, you can talk to the guild master NPC Brithael, to do a quest for Blacksmith. This requires you to craft a specific item and present it to him. For completing the quest, you receive the tool or gear of your choice for your Blacksmith.

Talk to Brithael for job specific quests.

There you have it. Blacksmith is great for helping to gear up crafting classes with the right tools and giving adventurers the weapons they need for their melee and mage classes. Blacksmith can also help adventurers take some time to decorate their houses with furniture and other housing items. Blacksmith is a lot of fun and it's a nice break from adventuring. There's a great variety of items you can make that are useful all across the board. So if you're interested in checking out Blacksmith, head to Limsa Lominsa and start crafting. See you at the next adventure!

See you at the next adventure everyone!

*Final Fantasy XIV is available to play on the following platforms: PC and Playstation4