Release - Epic Crafting

BG Reference: https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Escutcheons

Each phase requires certain tasks to be completed.

Brief

• Players Build up the Craftsmanship of their shield by initiating Crystal Synthesis.
• At each phase of the shield, once full charged, allowing your guild leader to examine the fully charged shield will grant the player a Crafting Crystal which is used in the upgrade.
• Shield Craftmanship: Similar to crafting skill-ups, points are awarded to the player as they craft with the shield equipped. Feedback is provided via Chat messages.
• Crafting Points: Similar to guild points, Crafting Points are used to buy materials needed to upgrade your shield from the Crafting Points NPC of your guild.
• The quest will progress through multiple phases, and ultimately reward Unique Key Items as well as the completed Escutcheon and a Special Title.

The Questline

Start NPCs: Synthesis Focuser II, Mewk Chorosap - Port Jeuno (G-8)

Pre-requisites:

• Craft Rank Expert (but not necessarily Skill 110)

DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY

• AQ Complete (Maybe? You suggested that you don’t want any battle content tied to this, but it seems like we’re gating AQ behind some crafting anyway)

Do we want/need logic to abandon and choose a different craft to start over? (Char VARs, delete key items, and Failsafes. TBD)

Do we want/need logic to recover a dropped shield?

Pre-requisites (Flagging the Quest)

Steps:

• Have at least one craft at expert Rank
• Interact with the Synthesis Focuser II in Port Jeuno for instructions.
• Trade the Synthesis Focuser II the Crafting Stall corresponding to the craft you want to build a shield for (Craft is now flagged)
• Talk to Mewk Chorosap (Flag Quest, receive the base <craft’s> Aspis)

Phase 1 (Aspis -> Ecu)

Steps:

• Travel to and speak with the Guild leader that you’ve flagged the quest for
• The Quest now officially progresses to Step 2, which opens Crafter Point NPC dialog to obtain components.
• Increase the craftsmanship of your <craft’s> Aspis from 0 -> 100 by doing synthesis (see notes below).
• Once you reach Craftsmanship 100, talk to your Guild Leader who will ask to examine the Aspis.
• Trade your <craft’s> Aspis to your Guild Leader, who will give you a Craftman’s Crystal: and your <craft’s> Aspis back.
• Acquire 2x Mythril Screw: and 1x Camphor: from your Guild’s Crafting Point Representative in exchange for Crafter Points. (see notes below)
• Craft Your <craft’s> Ecu using this recipe:
  • Earth Crystal
  • <craft’s> Aspis
  • Craftman’s Crystal:
  • 2x Mythril Screw:
  • 1x Camphor:
• Trade your newly synthesized Ecu to your Guild Leader, who will examine it and send you to Mewk Chorosap to begin the next phase.
  • DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY This will also reset the charge charvar from it’s current value to 0 to prevent players shortcutting the process.
• Travel to Port Jeuno, speak to Mewk Chorosap who will ask to see your <craft’s> Ecu. Trade your <craft’s> Ecu to Mewk to view a Cut Scene and flag the next phase.

Phase 2 (Ecu -> Scutum)

Steps:

• Travel to and speak with your Guild Leader again. As before, your guild leader will give you instructions on how to proceed.
• Increase the craftsmanship of your Ecu from 0 -> 100 by doing synthesis (see notes below).
• Once you reach Craftsmanship 100, talk to your Guild Leader who will ask to examine the Ecu.
• Trade your <craft’s> Ecu to your Guild Leader, who will give you a Craftman’s Crystal: and your <craft’s> Ecu back.
• Acquire 1x Gold Screw: and 1x Camphor: from your Guild’s Crafting Point Representative in exchange for Crafter Points. (see notes below)
• After you have acquired the Gold Screw, Camphor, and Crystal, speak with your Guild leader once more to acquire a Titanium Frame:
• Craft Your <craft’s> Scutum using this recipe:
  • Earth Crystal
  • <craft’s> Ecu
  • Craftman’s Crystal:
  • 1x Gold Screw:
  • 1x Camphor:
  • Titanium Frame:
• Trade your newly synthesized Scutum to your Guild Leader, who will examine it and send you to Mewk Chorosap to begin the next phase.
  • DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY This will also reset the charge charvar from it’s current value to 0 to prevent players shortcutting the process.
• Travel to Port Jeuno, speak to Mewk Chorosap who will ask to see your <craft’s> Scutum. Trade your <craft’s> Scutum to Mewk to view a Cut Scene and flag the next phase.

Phase 3 (Scutum -> Shield)

Steps:

• Travel to and speak with your Guild Leader again. As before, your guild leader will give you instructions on how to proceed.
• Increase the craftsmanship of your Scutum from 0 -> 100 by doing synthesis (see notes below).
• Once you reach Craftsmanship 100, talk to your Guild Leader who will ask to examine the Scutum.
• Trade your <craft’s> Scutum to your Guild Leader, who will give you a Craftman’s Crystal: and your <craft’s> Scutum back.
• Acquire 2x Platinum Screw: and 1x Sequoia: from your Guild’s Crafting Point Representative in exchange for Crafter Points. (see notes below)
• Acquire a Chrome-Molybdenum Sheet: and a Sanukite Slab: from your Guild’s Crafting Point Representative in exchange for Crafter Points. (see notes below)
• Craft Your <craft’s> Shield using this recipe:
  • Earth Crystal
  • <craft’s> Scutum
  • Craftman’s Crystal:
  • 2x Platinum Screw:
  • 1x Sequoia:
  • Chrome-Molybdenum Sheet:
  • Sanukite Slab:
• Trade your newly synthesized <craft’s> Shield to your Guild leader.
  • They will give you your ’s Argentum Tome Key Item and send you to Mewk Chorosap to begin the next phase.
  • DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY This will also reset the charge charvar from it’s current value to 0 to prevent players shortcutting the process.
• Travel to Port Jeuno, speak to Mewk Chorosap who will ask to see your <craft’s> Shield. Trade your <craft’s> Scutum to Mewk to view a Cut Scene and flag the next phase.
• This time, Mewk will ask you to return to her once you have obtained the Craftman’s Crystal and show it to her.

Phase 4 (Shield -> Escutcheon)

Steps:

• Travel to and speak with your Guild Leader again. As before, your guild leader will give you instructions on how to proceed.
• Once again, increase the craftsmanship of your Shield from 0 -> 100 by doing synthesis (see notes below).
• Once you reach Craftsmanship 100, talk to your Guild Leader who will ask to examine the <craft’s> Shield.
• Trade your <craft’s> Shield to your Guild Leader, who will give you a Craftman’s Crystal: and your <craft’s> Shield back.
• Your Guild leader will direct you to go deliver the Craftman’s Crystal: to Mewk, who is expecting it.
• Travel to Jeuno and speak with Mewk Chorosap for a lengthy cutscene.
• IMPORTANT PLAYER NOTE 1 Here we deviate significantly from Retail behavior. Though the cutscene explains the Retail behavior, there will be a note at the end explaining that the cutscene was for continuity purposes only.
• IMPORTANT PLAYER NOTE 2 Simply trade your Craftman’s Crystal: to the Synthesis Focuser II to obtain your Apex Crystal:
• Speak with Mewk again, which will initiate a new cut scene, and direct you to go back to your Guild Leader to obtain a missing component.
• Visit your Guild Leader, who will direct you to return to Mewk.
• Travel to Jeuno and speak with Mewk Chorosap for a cutscene with instructions.
• At Last, it’s time to craft your <craft’s> Escutcheon using this recpie:
  • Earth Crystal
  • <craft’s> Shield
  • Apex Crystal:
  • 2x Admantite Screw:
  • 1x Duralumin Frame:
  • 1x Guild Emblem:
• After synthesizing your Escutcheon, speak with Mewk, who will ask to see it.
• Trade your Eschutcheon to Mewk for a Cutscene.
• Mewk will congratulate you, and send you back to your Guild Leader.
• Speak with your Guild leader, who will ask to see your Escutcheon.
• Trade your Escutcheon to Your Guild Leader, who will provide you with a ’s Aurum Tome Key Item.
  • DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY This will also reset a number of previously completed charvars/flags
• Return to Mewk and speak with her.
• This will conclude the quest line and will grant you the title of Legendary

Notes

Crafting your shield

• Shields are all flagged as “Unbreakable” so material loss should be impossible.
• A Word of Caution: DO NOT CRAFT YOUR SHIELD ON BOATS, AIRSHIPS, OR OTHER ZONE CHANGING OBJECTS
  • Doing so may lead to a loss of crafting materials.

Increasing the Craftsmanship of your shield

• Increasing the Craftsmanship of your shield from 0 to 100 is accomplished by doing any main craft synthesis.
• As you increase the Craftsmanship of your shield, messages will appear in the chat log.
• You are not prohibited from Skilling up at the same time as increasing your Craftsmanship.
• Creating Sets will also provide points towards capping the Craftsmanship of your shield. (see below)
• The following conditions apply:
  • The Shield must be equipped when you initiate the craft (MOD Check)
  • The Shield will only increase Craftsmanship when you are on the appropriate phase of the quest
    • This means you cannot pre-charge your shield before speaking with your Guild Leader AND Mewk at each phase of the quest.
  • The skill of the Synthesis you choose (main or sub) must match the shield craft
    • E.g. No Craftsmanship increase on a Joiner’s Shield (Woodworking) by crafting Copper Ingots (Goldsmithing)
  • The difference between your skill vs the skill level of the craft plays an important factor in how much Craftsmanship you increase it by.
    • The closer the skill cap of the synth is to your actual craft skill, the greater the craftsmanship return is. (see table below).

Skill Gap to Points Received (Player Skill - Craft Cap)

• Much like the NQ/HQ Tiering of synthesis recipes, the gap between your skill and the synthesis you are attempting will determine how much you increase the craftsmanship of your shield.

• DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY These values are currently hard coded in synthutils, but easily identified and adjusted.

Crafting Point Representatives

Gaining Crafting Points

• Crafter Points are obtained via synthesizing Craft Sets using Analysis Crystals and trading them to the corresponding Crafting Point Representative.

• Analysis Crystals may be obtained without building or expending Guild Points by the use of our custom shop system:

  • !shop 2

• Recipes are built and will be gated beyind Way of the Key Item to prevent skill-up abuse early on.

• Recipes are at the skill level of the resulting kit. As such, when used as an option to increase Craftsmanship of your shield, they will return values commiserate to the craft level of the set.

• Higher level recipes will grant more Crafter Points than lower level recipes.

• Delivering the requested sets will increase the stock of the corresponding Kits being sold by the Guild Point Representative.

  • This will provide additional options for budding crafters to obtain Skill-up Materials

• Conversely, purchasing Kits from the Guild Point Representative will reduce stock instead

• DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY A lua based multiplier is available, values are currently coded at kit tier * 10 (10 - 90), which can be easily multiplied in globals/epiccrafting.lua

Purchasing Materials using Crafting Points

• The Crafting Point representative keep tally of a players “Crafter Points” and provide materials for sale relevant only to the step of the quest that the player is currently on.
• DEVELOPERS NOTES ONLY This is handled in the script using player vars.

Obtaining items which are not part of menus

• The only items not obtainable through menus are the Apex Crystal and the Titanium Frame.
  • Titanium Frame: Conditional check, player needs to have both CP materials AND the Crafting Crystal, Guild leader will hand it to them.
  • Apex Crystal: Addressed through a trade with Synthesis Focuser II after the player finishes watching CS 431, they will receive a system message telling them to simply trade the crystal to the Synthesis Focuser II.

Deviation from Retail Behavior

Aside from the deviations detailed in the questline above, the shields themselves are slightly different.

Aspis/Ecu/Scutum

• No negative augments are applied at any stage.

Shield

• No negative augments are applied to the shield
• The “Synthesis Speed” bonus is currently unimplemented.

Escutcheon

• The “Synthesis Speed” bonus is currently unimplemented.
• Enchantment “Artisanal Knowledge: ”
  • The only Bonus that is limited to the is the “Dec. likelihood of synthesis material loss -15%”
  • “Subskill +10 (Max 70)”: As we allow players to raise all crafts to 110, this is instead applied as a +2 bonus to all craft skills except the main craft (which is already +2 from the shield)
  • Similarly, Inc. rate of high-quality item synthesis success +3 is not limited to the main craft, thus granting a total bonus of +5 to High Quality Chance