Please consider adding armor to the sparks vendors.

I've actually found most of the armor I find in chests and put up on the AH sells, and it sells for a decent penny considering it isn't very good. I mean it isn't enough to fund my BST's pet food bill or anything but people are willing to pay several thousand gil for items that are really not very good. So I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to add, say 9 sets (mage, light, heavy X3), one at level 30, one at level 50, and one at level 70. After that it gets easier to gear, and before that most people (including me) use the chocobo shirt/hat and w/e else since everything is SO SQUISHY.

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

I abandoned a 70 PLD due to a complete lack of any post-50/55 gear on the AH and no other way for me to get it.

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I don't understand this mentality. When I come across this problem, I use old rare/ex gear and if I don't have it, I go kill the NM and get it. There are many NMs with very high drop rates and even 100% drop rates for gear/weapons. Go spend sometime with any online site that lists all the gear. Then check out all the rare/ex gear that you will need (pick multiple per gear slot, like 4-5 hand pieces.) Research each handpiece, by which I mean check who drops it, then check drop rate, then check NM pop conditions. Compare all the results and then you have a working gameplan as to how to gear your job.

Or wear crappy gear since the trusts will do most of the work for you, you won't need amazing gear, you won't even need decent gear.

I am a synther, multiple crafts and multiple characters (1 has a 100 craft and one has a 95 craft and they both have many lvl61-65 crafts as well.) So I noticed the lack of gear on the auction house, so I made it a point to make many types of gear, for many levels and in good quantities so I can keep the auction house moving (and make decent gil while I'm at it.) Want to know the end result? Tens of Thousands of gil spent on auction house fees, next to nothing sold and I was left with countless mules stuffed with gear/weapons that nobody was buying. I had to sell to the NPC tons and tons of gear/weapons. There is just no demand to justify making the gear/weapons. Selling a body piece once every 2 months for 2-3K barely covers the auction fees of constantly putting it up again.

I have 18 characters and I put up auctions only on weekends, I have 7 things up per character and countless items waiting to be sold after the ones up sell. Every Tuesday when I check the delivery box to see what has sold, at most I sell 4 items, but usually it's 1-2 with some characters selling nothing. I have all types of things up, from crafting supplies to gear to quest items to food/medicines and everything in between. I offer it all and the only things that actually sell are synthing supplies and I don't mean all of them...

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Originally Posted by Economizer

I think the campaign gear might be entirely your speed, especially if you level a lot in campaign - which can be done with Trusts.

Of course, if campaign still doesn't allow skillups you might find you have to level your skills outside of campaign occasionally too. Considering the sparks books, perhaps campaign could at least give skillups to level 75 caps.

As a player in another thread posted:



Lowering the medal evaluation times might help newer players too.

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I believe in the march version update, they did indeed make it so players can now skill up in campaign. Just figured I would step in for you there :). Which on a side note is kind of funny considering a couple years ago, they went out of their way to make it so you can't skill up in campaign at all (for a while you use to be able to skill up with out getting the tag, until they banned skilling up on campaign mobs all together).