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

[Kincard]

I would. When you consider the amount of runs you need to complete a body piece, you could've spend that time making gil off normal salvage or whatever and go towards hexed-1 stuff instead, which is some of the best stuff in the game, as opposed to these which only have a few that even count as marginal upgrades.

I didn't expect another NNI but I don't think it's unreasonable to have at least expected this stuff to be better than AF3 gear. :/

[Demon6324236]

Idk how you get plans honestly, so I cant say for sure either way.

[Kincard]

At the moment it's looking like if you choose your path correctly, you can get like 4-8 of a specific type of plan every run. The problem, of course, is that you'd have to have all these plans going to a single person, and it'd still take you like 2 weeks to finish.

[Return1]

The part that annoys me the most is that they were so close to making the event worthwhile. I bit of Store TP here, more MAB there, not removing the relevant stat here, and more MND there and suddenly the sets have amazing pieces everyone wants.

[detlef]

I share this sentiment. Neo-Salvage, it could be worse. But as it is, I was expecting something better. Not a million times better, and I wasn't expecting to have the same reaction as when I saw Neo-Nyzul gear. I did expect more pieces that would be more useful than what SE gave us. A few more pieces that are really exceptional, that people would see and not be able to talk themselves out of doing Salvage.

I had high hopes for Salvage. After all, it was the crown jewel of level 75 events. Something that truly lived up to Matsui's vision: Exceptional players could fully clear it every time while lesser players would have to pick and choose what could be done (but still progress over time at a slower pace). It was the last pre-SoA endgame event to look forward to, and I really was hoping that SE would get it right. There's still time, and maybe there are Salvage elements that haven't been figured out yet.

But what's up with the upgrade system? Seriously, 40-50 plans? For that effort I would have expected better gear.

[Monchat]

for MNK, each usukane +1 piece only had to be 2~3% better than the old version for the full set to be good. The lolz. Why is each piece not 2% better when there is 25 level difference?

[Dohati]

i really don't get this thread <.< i don't care about most of the gear but one of the only things i'm hearing mentioned specifically is usukane+1. i still use all the usu pieces on pup at some point or another. the hat, body, and hands are good eva gear, the legs are decent smite gear, and the feet are good TP gear. maybe not the best gear as a set, but each piece is now one of the best pieces for everything i was already using it for. as opposed to being able to just compare w/ other pieces, it's now easily the best for all those things. incoming comments spawned out of the ffxi forums' inability to rate-down posts.

[Demon6324236]

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

[Merton9999]

I wish the gear sucked a little more so I wouldnt have to bother with it at all.

This is exactly what I was thinking before I scrolled down and read my mind in our post. +1

[Camate]

Happy Friday!

I’d like to comment a bit on the high-level Salvage content based on everyone’s feedback thus far since the version update took place. While it might not address the current topic of equipment rewards, I feel it gives a bit more insight into the content. However, we will be sure to pass along the equipment related feedback to the development team right away!

With the recent high-level Salvage expansion we wanted to make it possible so that players with less experience could aim to clear the content without getting stuck on certain aspects.

Based on this objective, we balanced the content in such a way so that a party of roughly 6 players can clear it, and made it possible so that with the right amount of battle power you would be able to clear it comparatively faster. (It seems like there are already quite a few players who have managed to clear the content with less than 6 party members. Good job! )

For those of you who are well versed with the original Salvage content, you might be feeling that this content is a bit easy.

As a method of fostering skillful play for our veteran players, we’ve set up the content so that special routes can be taken to obtain more items more efficiently and made it so you can feel your achievements even more from spending time and heavily challenging the same routes.

For example, depending on your objective – if you are selecting a route to go after the equipment that you want of if you are selecting a route that will yield a great deal of alexandrite – your battle strategy will change.

With that said, we’d love it if you can fervently seek out these elements and take on the challenge, and let us know what you think.