Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail has introduced a new color of Crafters' and Gatherers' Scrips: Orange. Now, Purple Scrips are the easier-to-obtain Scrip, and are used to buy items like Crafting Master Recipe Books, Materia, and materials.
If you want to seriously get into crafting and gathering in Dawntrail, you'll definitely want to spend time farming Purple Scrips for both Disciples of the Hand and Land. Below, we'll take a look at a few of the best ways to gather both of these Purple Scrip types.
For both Crafters and Gatherers, these methods assume you are level 100 with level 100 gear . If you're still leveling up, Custom Deliveries and Crystalline Mean/Studium/Wachumeqimeqi Deliveries are a good way of getting both EXP and Purple Scrips.
Best Way To Farm Purple Crafters' Scrips
For Purple Crafters' Scrips, you have a lot of different options. For the most part, the best way to get this resource is to craft the level 99 Collectable for your chosen Crafting Job, as these items reward the highest amount of Purple Scrips. That said, there are a few Jobs that will have an easier time of this than others, mainly due to the materials used in each recipe.
Considering the cost, ease of gathering, and Scrips earned, here are the best options and their recipes.
Leatherworker — Rarefied Gargantuaskin Trousers
- 2 Gargantua Leather
- 8 Gargantua Hide — 24 Bicolor Gemstones
- 2 Acacia Bark — Botany
- 1 Thunderyards Silk
- 5 Levinsilk — Botany
- 1 Ra'Kaznar Ingot
- 5 Ra'Kaznar Ore — Mining
- 1 Magnesia Powder — Mining
Weaver — Rarefied Thunderyards Silk Gloves
- 2 Thunderyards Silk
- 10 Levinsilk — Botany
- 1 Gargantua Leather
- 4 Gargantua Hide — 12 Bicolor Gemstones
- 1 Acacia Bark — Botany
- 1 Ra'Kaznar Ingot
- 5 Ra'Kaznar Ore — Mining
- 1 Magnesia Powder — Mining
Culinarian — Rarefied Stuffed Peppers
- 1 Turali Corn Oil
- 6 Turali Corn — Botany
- 2 Ut'ohmu Chili Sauce
- 5 Ut'ohmu Tomato — Botany
- 1 Dragon Pepper — Botany
- 1 Alpaca Fillet — 3 Bicolor Gemstones
- 3 Bell Pepper — Botany
Rarefied Stuffed Peppers are the best option by far when considering the amount of pre-crafts and items you need to gather, requiring the least amount of gathered items per craft. Plus, Turali Corn Oil and Ut'ohmu Chili Sauce are crafted three at a time, meaning the base materials listed above will actually get you more than one Collectable.
Rarefied Gargantuaskin Trousers and Rarefied Thunderyards Silk Gloves are both good options, but they need a few more gathered items per craft, and are also more expensive in terms of Bicolor Gemstones or gil if you instead by the leather from the Market Board.
For other Jobs, the Collectables are much less appealing due to their recipes requiring Black Stars. This item needs two tiers of pre-crafts, making it a bit more time-consuming to farm up a bunch of Collectable items. This also makes the number of gathered items per craft much higher than the other options listed above.
However, if time isn't a concern for you, the Blacksmith-crafted Rarefied Ra'Kaznar War Scythe is a good option, especially if you have a Miner Retainer to gather the ore for you.
Best Way To Farm Purple Gatherers' Scrips
Collecting Purple Scrips for Gatherers is much simpler than Crafters. For Miners and Botanists, you'll be gathering the timed nodes as they pop up, during two Eorzean-hour intervals. As long as you have both Miner and Botanist leveled and geared, there will always be a new node every two hours.
These items reward between 14 to 16 Purple Gatherers' Scrips each at base Collectability, and between 35 and 38 at the maximum Collectability of 1,000.
You can also gather Collectables from previous expansions if your gear isn't strong enough to hit the max Collectability for Dawntrail materials yet. Endwalker Collectables are still worth a competitive amount of Scrips, while Shadowbringers and older aren't really worth the time it takes to gather them.
Be sure to make ample use of Hi-Cordials to keep your GP up if you plan on hitting every node back-to-back.
What To Spend Purple Scrips On
If you're capped on Purple Scrips and don't know what to spend them on, don't worry. Even if you don't plan to get deep into Crafting and Gathering, you can make good money on the side by doing weekly Custom Deliveries and turning your Scrips into Materia, for example.
Before dumping your Purple Scrips into Materia, however, we recommend getting each of the Master Recipe Books for every Crafting Job, and all of the Regional Folklore Books for Gatherers.
Each Crafter Master Recipe Book added in Dawntrail costs 1,200 Purple Crafters' Scrips, or 9,600 Scrips in total.
For Gatherers, Regional Folklore Books cost 1,600 each, for a total of 14,400 PurpleGatherers' Scrips.
Once you've cleared out these items, you can choose to focus on stocking up on Crafter and Gatherer Materia; either to sell or use for melding your gear later. Pentamelding a full set of Crafting or Gathering gear takes tens of thousands of Purple Scrips, so you'll definitely want to start saving as much as possible.
