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Each Life/Class inFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Timehas its own equipment. Combat Lives use weapons such as swords and staves, Gathering Lives use tools for collecting resources (ex: Axe), and Crafting Lives' tools can only be used during crafting minigames.
You’ll collect basic weapons/tools when you reach Fledgling rank in any Class. They won’t have any skills and will always be ordinary ranking. To get a Good or Great rank on your gear inFantasy Life i, you’ll need the right Crafting Life for the job.
Gathering and Crafting Lives
Which Lives Can Make Tools, Weapons, etc.
InFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, you’ll have 14 different Lives to choose from. A Life is basically a Class where you learn different skills that can beused in the overworld.Fantasy Life ihas three categories for Classes:
Combat
Paladin, Mercenary, Hunter, Magician
ThePainter LifeandFarmer Lifeare not readily available at the start of the game. You’ll need toprogress through the main storyto unlock them.
As their category indicates,Crafting Livessuch as theCarpenter Lifeallow you to make various tools, weapons, and armor from materials you obtain throughGathering Lives. Thus, when it comes to makingGood/Great/Top Qualitygear, you’ll need to put some effort into your Crafting Lives and Gathering Lives.
How to Get Excellent in Crafting Minigame
How to Get Good Quality
To create Good, Great, and Top Quality gear, you just need tointeract with a Crafting Station. Each Life has its own HQ/base in Eternia Village. It’s also recommended you equip stronger tools. For example, try using an Oak Saw instead of the ‘borrowed’ saw you received at the start of the Carpenter Life fledgling quest.
When you select an item to craft, you’ll notice the Crafting Life icon next to a number at the bottom of the screen. This number indicates theRecommended Crafting Skills. On the left screen, you’ll seeyour Crafting Skills. To ensure a better tool, you want your Crafting Skills to be close to this level or higher. Your Crafting Skills can be enhanced by leveling, unlocking skills in the Skill Tree, or by equipping a tool with a high Crafting Skill number.
Crafting Minigame Explained
Once you’ve selectedyour tool and crafting recipe, you’ll be thrown into a minigame where you have to select the correct ‘station’ in time with the button prompts. You’ll have aset number of turnsthat requires you toall given actions within the time limit. This number appears in the top-right corner of your screen. The time limit bar is in the middle, and it will also display the next station/prompt. To complete a prompt, you need to tap, hold down, or repeatedly tap the action button.
At the end of the minigame, you’ll receive a ranking of Failure, Done, Good, Great, or Perfect depending on your performance.
You’ll get aGoodQuality craft item by doing any (or all) of the following:
Also, keep in mind thata tool’s Rank is not the same as a tool’s Quality. When you choose a weapon or tool to craft, you’ll be able to select from Ordinary, Fine, or (if you unlocked it) Notable. While a Fine tool with no quality is better than an Ordinary tool with no quality, it’s not always better than an Ordinary tool with a Good Quality. Furthermore, if you’re trying to craft Good Quality items for quests, you should just stick with the Ordinary Rank.
After you start gathering Strangelingsand return them to normal, you can have them help you with crafting. This will boost your Crafting Skills for that session, and you can switch between characters during the minigame.
Crafting Skills to Level Up
You should be using the Skills menu for each Crafting Life. Nodes contain Skills that extend crafting time, add more Skill Points, and even unlock special moves that can auto-complete lower-leveled crafting recipes. It’s also recommended you work on unlocking the Spin and Hold nodes, since these take longer to complete than simply tapping the action button.
Using Auto-Completewillnot give you high-quality items(ex: gear with Good Quality) orgive you more items(ex: Logs).
Best Equipment to Upgrade First
Recommended Tools and Armor
Generally, you should focus on getting Good qualitytoolssuch as theSaw (Carpenter),Hammer (Blacksmith), andNeedle (Tailor). Because all three Crafting Lives make materialsandequipment, it’s highly recommended you have tools that will increase your total Skill number.
Next, you should work on forgingstronger weapons, mainly for whichever Combat Life you prefer.If you like the Magician Life, then craft some Fine Pine Rods and aim for good quality. Tools, weapons, and armor with good/great/top quality marks will come withadditional skills, such as elemental damage/protection, enhanced SP, and more.
