Crafting DoH Endgame Melding BIS Patch 6.5 for FFXIV

Once you hit level 90, you can start crafting and melding your endgame gear to craft items from the newest Master Books.

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 but offer 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.

If you do not have the new Indagators gear yet, start by checking out our guide to catch up on gearing:

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.

At the same time what is best also depends on the craft, what's best for collectables may not be best to current endgame which also might not be optimal for old endgame crafts and none of which might be best for experts. To this end a more general meld set is ideal.

As a general meld priority you tend to want CP → Craftmanship → Control. The reason being CP is the most impactful stat to a crafter. Craftmanship is generally needed to start and finish the craft and then control is neded to gain quality.

More specifically you only need craftmanship to set breakpoints. It works in stat tiers meaning extra points may not necessarily be of any use. The value of control has also slowly dropped this expansion due to a reliance on HQ materials.

The best way to farm crafting materia by far is via farming purple and white scrips. Purple scrips are used to obtain grade X materia, and white scrips are used for grades IV-IX.

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.

There are several meld sets we recommend for different purposes below. Check out their descriptions to know if this set is for you. With Dawntrail coming soon we mainly recommend the Budget Scrip set which is more than enough to get you to level 100.

There are no foods/potions linked directly with these sets because different rotations can require different buffs and list their stat requirements before buffs. Generally, HQ Jhinga Biryani and HQ Calamari Ripieni are the most popular foods.

You can substitute any odd numbered materia with a higher grade version of itself to save you gil. Normally VII can end up more expensive than IX for example if you are buying.