Do something about the AH and lower level gear????

[Olor]

Lmfao... now i really laughed out loud on that... Olor, he means things from kazham are sold outside of area lol. Not being in the zone. Great funny though 8).

Oh, der. I fail.

[RAIST]

Pray, how do you run to Kazham without the Kazham airship pass?

And, you don't have to have an airship pass to get an item from kazham. I run there all the time to get mats and pick up stuff for people while I am there. The chat and delivery systems are wonderful things

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I've heard of selective hearing... but selective reading?

[Olor]

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I've heard of selective hearing... but selective reading?

Yeah, I deserve to be mocked now. Free pass.

[chubrocka]

lets get back on topic huh....

[Flunklesnarkin]

What was the topic.. ways acquire gear without crafting or gil ... hmmmm.. very interesting OP >_>

seems almost like they want some hand out system

[blowfin]

seems almost like they want some hand out system

Thread tl;dr for you.

People just want to have a decent range of gear available to buy at low levels. It's nothing to do with wanting handouts. It's nothing to do with people being lazy. There's obviously a problem or we wouldn't be having the AH merges. It's that simple.

"Suck it up and level a craft, or be happy with shite from the NPC's" are both incredibly short sighted suggestions which ignore the fact that this problem has been developing for a couple of years now. While I'm sure low level players don't want all +1 gear, they certainly deserve something better than being naked unless they spend hours and hours gathering gear, until they get to level 20/Jeuno.

[Karbuncle]

Level 1~20 Gear, The Normal kind, Non-HQ, Can all be purchased from Starter-Cities for incredibly cheap.

You have places like the Tenshodo Shops in Starter cities selling low level (Up to soil i think) Gi-armor sets, Normal shops selling Up to (realistically) level ~14/15 armor sets, and so on. Conquest Points buy some of the better armors for low levels too. Its all Available pretty easily.

Post Jeuno (20+) theres almost always at least 1 of the item in stock you want. maybe not always. But a lot of the time theres at least some NQ instock.

Some of the more Obscure items, like say, Shade armor, usually isn't in stock. But I never seem to have problems finding gear on Asura, But if its bad other places i feel for new players. However some of them also need to understand for gear 1~20, The best place to look is generally Starter-City Shops, not the AH. I know Bastoks shops sell up to the Doublet-Class Armor (level 11) rather cheap, I know also Leather armor (Some good stuff early on) is purchasable very cheap. Most low level armor is pure DEF anyway.

After the Auction House Mergers, I think a lot of the problems will be eased, But rather its liked or not, the only real way to increase the supply to Auction house is to do something to make crafting low level armor more appealing.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Idk.. i soloed 17 of my subjobs to 37 way back when using the fov system... and gear at that level doesn't make a huge difference

I used the bronze / linen / w/e other trash was from the vendor or conquest tally merchant..

I can only imagine it being easier now with the exp boost and repeatable fov's...

bottom line is anybody who feels the need to blow a ton of gil on armor at that level has serious epeen issues.

system is fine.. if there was an actual demand for low level gear it would be on the AH.

and if it is a new player.. they really don't care too much about being in bronze / linen / conquest armor... its only old players with epeen issues that hate that >_>

I'm pretty sure armor/weapons also drops from the brown caskets as well.

[Olor]

system is fine..

If the system is fine I don't think we would have a developer in this very thread saying they are aware of the issue and are looking at ways to correct it.

[Fiarlia]

If the system is fine I don't think we would have a developer in this very thread saying they are aware of the issue and are looking at ways to correct it.

No offense, but there's certainly been times when the development team has been wrong in the past. Not saying they are now, just saying that when they say something like that, don't necessarily take it as 100% fact or a word from God or some such.