Is anyone particularly happy with the new gear from New Salvage?

[SpankWustler]

Camate, some deep and dark part of you had to be snickering and nudging you onward when you were choosing where to post that. Truly, I commend your choice.

[detlef]

Quite a bit of alexandrite would have to drop in order to be competitive with old Salvage.

[Cowardlybabooon]

I love the explanation. It really is nice to understand the thought behind stuff. I haven't tried it yet but I'm looking forward to it.

[Camiie]

I was hoping that Neo-Salvage would be sort of an intermediary step between Aby/Dyna/VW and NNI/Legion. Obviously that isn't the case. There are a handful of pieces I'd like to try for, but nothing that's going to push me substantially forward. Once I get those few pieces, I still don't think I'll be any closer to being competitive in the highest of the high-end events.

[Vivivivi]

I have only tried out the new salvage once so far, but initial impressions are that I absolutely love it! It still feels like salvage but without the hassle of passing/lotting cells, and seems to be the right amount of difficulty at level 99- challenging but not so challenging it's not fun. Our first run was with 4 people and we fared okay, didn't quite clear it, but made it very far.

Looking forward to participating many more times. Thanks to the dev team for breathing more life into one of the mostfun events in the gam e

[Insaniac]

I'm wondering what a "great deal of alexandrite" is. You need about 4 people for Neo-Salvage and can solo the original. In my SSR runs my alex hauls average out to around 110 per run. For me to do Neo salvage for alex a "great deal" needs to be much higher than 400. I say much higher since you need to organize a group and actually pay attention instead of 1 shotting a bunch of trash level mobs.

[Afania]

Each job get some minor pieces, some jobs get a few stand out pieces, but almost no job gets a truly amazing piece.

Leave truly amazing/epic piece to hex HQ augment items and rich endgame players then. I'm fine with stand out pieces and easier to get.

[saevel]

Quite a bit of alexandrite would have to drop in order to be competitive with old Salvage.

Every zone has a guaranteed linen purse if you kill the HQ megaboss. To kill the HQ you must first pop / defeat the NQ which has a chance of dropping a linen coinpurse. Also the way the zones are laid out, once you know which unlocks to get quickly you can spend lots of time farming gears to get more alex, just bring a THF.

As for the gear ... it's situational. What SE did was try to make pieces that were good for a variety of jobs simultaneously, which rarely works as many jobs / abilities need different pieces. Morigans is pretty bad for RDM but amazing for BLU as a Req / Sang set, that kind of stuff. Ares's has a few good pieces for Upheavel and maybe a few other WS, but nothing that really stands out for Res / Ukon spam or SD spam.

[Mayoyama]

You merely have to look at a couple of the 20+ page thread on FFXIAH.com about this gear to see how unhappy most people are lol

[Insaniac]

The linen purse from the HQ is not 100%.

Edit: Actually maybe they are? I thought I read a report of someone not getting one but now I can't find it. Either way 1 100% linen is not good enough for a small group of people.