Alchemy is an often overlooked tradecraft, but stands as one of the most valuable at all phases of leveling. Even so, it’s always nice to reach level 50 in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and leves are here to help.
There are three types of tradecraft leves available. They are highlighted below so you can use this list to its utmost, but if you want more information on the types and how they vary as well as leve mete locations, I’ve worked up a Tradecraft Leves Guide with Levemete Locations.
This guide has had all of the XP rates and new leves added! A new layout appears!
The list here is fairly straightforward, but there are some things that need to be explained:
- The base experience gain is listed. You will receive double the base experience for HQ turn-ins. Normal quality turn-in rewards are marked as NQ and high quality turn-in rewards are marked with HQ.
- Triple turn-in/charity leves have the triple turn-in rewards in parenthesis with an asterisk next to them.
- Some zones have multiple levemetes. If the one listed isn’t at the levemete you are currently at, check with the other one.
- ‘Constancy’, ‘Charity’, and ‘Ingenuity’ mark the type of leves these are.
- ‘Constancy’ means both the levemete and turn-in NPC are in the same area. These are marked with (C).
- ‘Charity’ means the leve can be turned in three times (also known as a repeatable leve). These are marked with (T).
- ‘Ingenuity’ means the levemete and the turn-in NPC are in separate areas. These are marked with (I).
Level 1
One for the Books (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 1770 XP, HQ: 3540)
Requires: 1 Leather Grimoire
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Leather
1 Hempen Yarn
1 Maple Log
1 Enchanted Copper Ink
Mercury Rising (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 960 XP, HQ: 1920 XP)
Requires: 3 Quicksilver
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
2 Cinnabar
Root Rush (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 1902, HQ: 3804 XP)
Requires: 3 Growth Formula Alpha
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
1 Shriekshroom
1 Quicksilver
1 Rock Salt
Met a Sticky Eng (C) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 1168 XP, HQ: 2336)
Requires: 3 Animal Glue
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
1 Animal Skin
2 Bone Chip
The Bleat Is On (I) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 1290 XP, HQ: 2580 XP)
Requires: 1 Maple Wand
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Maple Branch
1 Growth Formula Alpha
Days of Chunder (C) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 1770 XP, HQ: 3430 XP)
Requires: 3 Antidote
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Rock Salt
1 Grass Viper
Level 5
On the Drip (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 2106 XP, HQ: 4212)
Requires: 3 Eye Drops
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Rock Salt
1 Yellow Ginseng
A Jawbreaking Weapon of Staggering Weight (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 3430 XP, HQ: 6860 XP)
Requires: 1 Whispering Maple Wand
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Maple Wand
2 Growth Formula Alpha
Distill, My Heart (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 480 XP, HQ: 960 XP)
Requires: 3 Distilled Water
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
1 Muddy Water
The Hexster Runoff (I) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 3430 XP, HQ: 6860 XP)
Requires: 1 Maple Picatrix
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Hempen Yarn
1 Maple Lumber
1 Maple Log
1 Enchanted Copper Ink
Don’t Be So Tallow (C) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 4044 XP, HQ: 8088 XP)
Requires: 3 Beeswax
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
3 Beehive Chip
Gotta Bounce (C) (Scorpion Crossing, NQ: 2274 XP, HQ: 4548 XP)
Requires: 3 Rubber
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
1 Latex
Level 10
Morning Glass of Ether (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 7744 XP, HQ: 15488 XP)
Requires: 3 Ether
Recipe: 1 Lighting Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Distilled Water
1 Tinolqa Mistletoe
1 Imp Wing
Using Your Arcane Powers for Fun and Profit (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 7698 XP, HQ: 15396 XP)
Requires: 1 Ash Picatrix
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Cotton Yarn
1 Ash Lumber
1 Ash Log
1 Enchanted Copper Ink
Wand-full Tonight (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 4460 XP, HQ: 8920 XP)
Requires: 1 Budding Maple Wand
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Whispering Maple Wand
1 Growth Formula Alpha
1 Beastkin Blood
Unbreak My Heart (I) (Horizon, NQ: 27786 XP, HQ: 55572 XP)
Requires: 3 Natron
Recipe: 2 Water Shard
1 Effervescent Water
1 Rock Salt
You Grow, Girl (C) (Horizon, NQ: 7744 XP, HQ: 15488 XP)
Requires: 3 Growth Formula Beta
Recipe: 1 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Rock Salt
1 Jellyfish Umbrella
One for the Road (C) (Horizon, NQ: 4820 XP, HQ: 9640 XP)
Requires: 3 Potion
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Chanterelle
1 Distilled Water
1 Tinolqa Mistletoe
Level 15
Shut Up and Take My Gil (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 8114 XP, HQ: 16228 XP)
Requires: 1 Ash Wand
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Ash Branch
1 Growth Formula Beta
Book and a Hard Place (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 12218 XP, HQ: 24436 XP)
Requires: 1 Engraved Hard Leather Grimoire
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Hard Leather Grimoire
2 Hard Leather
1 Yew Log
Kiss of Life (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 13146 XP, HQ: 26292 XP)
Requires: 3 Potion of Vitality
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Goobbue Fang
1 Rock Salt
1 Lavender
Devil Take the Foremost (I) (Drybone, NQ: 13566 XP, HQ: 27132 XP)
Requires: 3 Potion of Strength
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Yellow Yarzon Leg
1 Rock Salt
1 White Scorpion
Sanity Points (C) (Drybone, NQ: 12218 XP, HQ: 24436)
Requires: 3 Potion of Mind
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Viscous Secretions
1 Rock Salt
1 Jellyfish Umbrella
There’s Something About Bury (C) (Drybone, NQ: 8114 XP, HQ: 16228 XP)
Requires: 1 Hard Leather Grimoire
Recipe: 1 Lighting Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Hard Leather
1 Cotton Yarn
1 Elm Log
1 Enchanted Iron Ink
Level 20
Everything Is Impossible (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 12746 XP, HQ: 25492 XP)
Requires: 1 Budding Ash Wand
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
2 Water Shard
1 Ash Wand
2 Growth Formula Beta
The Writing Is Not on the Wall (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 20578 XP, HQ: 20578 XP)
Requires: 3 Enchanted Silver Ink
Recipe: 2 Water Shard
2 Silver Sand
1 Acidic Secretions
Don’t Forget to Take Your Meds (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 4860 (14580*) XP, HQ: 9720 (29160*) XP)
Requires: 5 Potion of Intelligence
Recipe: 1 Lightinng Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Beastkin Blood
1 Rock Salt
1 Red Landtrap Leaf
Blind Man’s Bluff (T) (Quarrymill, NQ: 5073 (15219*) XP, HQ: 10146 (30438*) XP)
Requires: 5 Potion of Dexterity
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
1 Water Shard
1 Bat Fang
1 Rock Salt
Hush Little Wailer (C) (Quarrymill, NQ: 13250 XP, HQ: 26500 XP)
Requires: 3 Weak Silencing Potion
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shrad
2 Water Shard
1 Blowfish
1 Quicksilver
1 Bat Wing
Dripping with Venom (C) (Quarrymill, NQ: 12746 XP, HQ: 25436 XP)
Requires: 3 Weak Blinding Potion
Recipe: 1 Lightning Shard
2 Water Shard
1 Bat Fang
1 Quicksilver
1 Bat Wing
Level 25
Sophomore Slump (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 8505 (25515*) XP, HQ: 17010 (51030*) XP)
Requires: 3 Goatskin Grimoire
Recipe: 2 Lightning Shard
2 Water Shard
1 Aldgoat Leather
1 Dew Thread
1 Yew Log
1 Enchanted Silver Ink
Glazed and Confused (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 33100 XP, HQ: 66200 XP)
Requires: 1 Clear Glass Lens
Recipe: 3 Water Shard
1 Natron
1 Silex
Automata for the People (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 19770 XP, HQ: 39540 XP)
Requires: 3 Crab Oil
Recipe: 2 Water Shard
2 Megalocrab Leg
Conspicuous Conjuration (C) (Quarrymill, NQ: 20946 XP, HQ: 41892 XP)
Requires: 1 Whispering Ash Wand
Recipe: 2 Lightning Shard
2 Water Shard
1 Budding Ash Wand
1 Growth Formula Beta
1 Scalekin Blood
Put Your Left Hand In (C) (Quarrymill, NQ: 23144 XP, HQ: 46288 XP)
Requires: 1 Engraved Goatskin Grimoire
Recipe: 2 Lightning shard
3 Water shard
1 Goatskin Grimoire
2 Aldgoat Leather
1 Walnut Log
The Wailers’ First Law of Potion (T) (Quarrymill, NQ: 11115 (33345*) XP, HQ: 22230 (66690*) XP)
Requires: 5 Hi-Potion
Recipe: 2 Lightning Shard
2 Water Shard
1 Gil Bun
1 Distilled Water
1 Natron’s Mistletoe
Level 30
Riches’ Brew (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 30282 XP, HQ: 60564 XP)
Requires: 3 Hi-Potion of Mind
Recipe: 3 Lightning Shard
3 Water Shard
1 Treant Sap
1 Rock Salt
1 Moor Leech
Stuck in the Moment (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 17670 (53010*) XP, HQ: 35340 (106020*) XP)
Requires: 5 Horn Glue
Recipe: 3 Water Shard
2 Aldgoat Horn
Just Give Him a Serum (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 47824 XP, HQ: 95648 XP)
Requires: 3 Hi-Potion of Strength
Recipe: 3 Lightning Shard
4 Water Shard
1 Gil Bun
1 Blue Yarzon Leg
1 Rock Salt
Eye of the Beholder (C) (Costa del Sol, NQ: 30282 XP, HQ: 60564 XP)
Requires: 3 Hi-Potion of Dexterity
Recipe: 3 Lightning Shard
3 Water Shard
1 Scalekin Blood
1 Rock Salt
1 Belladonna
The Write Stuff (C) (Costa del Sol, NQ: 31882 XP, HQ: 63764 XP)
Requires: 3 Enchanted Mythril Ink
Recipe: 4 Water shard
2 Mythril Sand
1 Scalekin Blood
Growing Is Knowing (T) (Costa del Sol, NQ: 17670 (53010*) XP, HQ: 35340 (106020*) XP)
Requires: 3 Growth Formula Gamma
Recipe: 3 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Rock Salt
1 Blue Landtrap Leaf
Level 35
Alive and Unwell (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 64792 XP, HQ: 129584 XP)
Requires: 1 Budding Oak Wand
Recipe: 4 Lightning Shard
4 Water Shard
1 Hi-Potion of Mind
1 Oak Branch
1 Growth Formula Alpha
Always Have an Exit Plan (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 23940 (71820*) XP, HQ: 47880 (143640*) XP)
Requires: 5 Poisoning Potion
Recipe: 3 Lightning Shard
4 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Formic Acid
1 Morbol Vine
The House Always Wins (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 41034 XP, HQ: 82068 XP)
Requires: 3 Blinding Potion
Recipe: 4 Lightning Shrad
4 Water shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Blue Landtrap Leaf
1 Morbol Vine
The Sting of Conscience (C) (Observatorium, NQ: 41034 XP, HQ: 82068 XP)
Requires: 3 Sleeping Potion
Recipe: 4 Lightning Shard
4 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Belladonna
1 Morbol Vine
Open Your Grimoire to Page 42 (C) (Observatorium, NQ: 42194 XP, HQ: 84388 XP)
Requires: 1 Embossed Book of Silver
Recipe: 4 Lightning Shard
4 Water shard
1 Book of Silver
2 Silver Ingot
Going Nowhere Fast (T) (Observatorium, NQ: 23940 (71820*) XP, HQ: 47880 (143640*) XP)
Requires: 5 Paralyzing Potion
Recipe: 3 Lightning Shard
4 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Mandrake
1 Morbol Vine
Level 40
Your Courtesy Wake-up Call (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 32049 (96147*) XP, HQ: 64098 (192294*) XP)
Requires: 5 Smelling Salts
Recipe: 4 Lightning Shard
5 Water Shard
1 Desert Saffron
1 Rock Salt
1 Blue Landtrap Leaf
A Bile Business (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 54214 XP, HQ: 108428 XP)
Requires: 3 Shark Oil
Recipe: 5 Water Shard
1 Hammerhead Shark
1 Silver Shark
A Patch-up Place (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 83662 XP, HQ: 167324 XP)
Requires: 3 Mega-Potion
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
5 Water shard
1 Mugwort
1 Distilled Water
1 Mistletoe
Arcane Arts for Dummies (C) (Whitebrim, NQ: 54994 XP, HQ: 109988 XP)
Requires: 1 Book of Mythril
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
5 Water Shard
2 Mythril Ingot
1 Flax
1 Enchanted Mythril Ink
No Accounting for Waste (C) (Whitebrim, NQ: 55774, HQ: 111548 XP)
Requires: 3 Enchanted Electrum Ink
Recipe: 5 Water Shard
2 Electrum Sand
1 Spoken Blood
A Real Smooth Move (T) (Whitebrim, NQ: 32049 (96147*) XP, HQ: 64098 (192294*) XP)
Requires: 5 Lanolin
Recipe: 5 Water Shard
1 Karakul Skin
Level 45
Quit Your Jib-Jab (C) (Ul’dah, NQ: 67146 XP, HQ: 134292 XP)
Requires: 3 Gold Needle
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Electrum Ingot
1 Spoken Blood
1 Ahriman Wing
A Matter of Vital Importance (T) (Ul’dah, NQ: 40288 (120864*) XP, HQ: 80576 (241728*) XP)
Requires: 3 Mega-Potion of Vitality
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Rock Salt
1 Grenade Ash
1 Pudding Flesh
Sleepless in Silvertear (I) (Ul’dah, NQ: 106560 XP, HQ: 213120 XP)
Requires: 3 Potent Sleeping Potion
Recipe: 6 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Desert Saffron
1 Quicksilver
1 Ochu Vine
Not Taking No for an Answer (T) (St. Coinach’s Find, NQ: 39087 (117261*) XP, HQ: 78174 (234522*) XP)
Requires: 5 Mega-Potion of Strength
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Sagolii Sage
1 Shark Oil
1 Rock Salt
Shut Up Already (C) (St. Coinach’s Find, NQ: 69104 XP, HQ: 138208 XP)
Requires: 3 Potent Silencing Potion
Recipe: 6 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Dart Frog
1 Quicksilver
1 Ochu Vine
Make Up Your Mind or Else (C) (St. Coinach’s Find, NQ: 69104 XP, HQ: 138208 XP)
Requires: 3 Potent Poisoning Potion
Recipe: 5 Lightning Shard
6 Water Shard
1 Quicksilver
1 Ochu Vine
1 Pudding Flesh
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