Buyable Gear Options

[Glamdring]

Right now, even buyable equipment is being made out of reach due to idiots setting the prices of level 117 weapons at absurd amounts (20+ million for Atitnian Staves? Really?!) and Crafting materials being made far too rare to even consider crafting. S-E is being too cute with these rarity games and causing their own MMO to falter unnecessarily.

In the crafters' defense, if the materials are costing them 18 mil to make the item, 20 Mil IS a fair price (they deserve SOME profit, that is why they are crafting in the 1st place). Then they have to eat auction fees until someone buys that 20 Mil piece-which could be awhile. And while making the materials more plentiful would definately help, what happens when the majority of the needy players have bought the Staff or whatever and the market dries up? Sorry, we need a bullletin board system or something where players without say woodworking at that level can commission a crafter to use their mats-at whatever fee they choose to set (leveling a craft to the top takes alot of time, effort and $, they deserve a good fee)-to make the gear without having to eat AH fees or waste inventory space on bazaaring the item when that market happens. I know you can put up a wanted message on FFXIAH's site, but if you do it in game instead you can cut out the attempting to meet issues so people with different playing times can all benefit (i.e. I'm RARELY on during Japanese prime time, and vice-versa, but this way I could still hit up a japanese crafter willing to do the job at a decent price).

[Daemon]

In the crafters' defense, if the materials are costing them 18 mil to make the item, 20 Mil IS a fair price (they deserve SOME profit, that is why they are crafting in the 1st place). Then they have to eat auction fees until someone buys that 20 Mil piece-which could be awhile. And while making the materials more plentiful would definately help, what happens when the majority of the needy players have bought the Staff or whatever and the market dries up? Sorry, we need a bullletin board system or something where players without say woodworking at that level can commission a crafter to use their mats-at whatever fee they choose to set (leveling a craft to the top takes alot of time, effort and $, they deserve a good fee)-to make the gear without having to eat AH fees or waste inventory space on bazaaring the item when that market happens. I know you can put up a wanted message on FFXIAH's site, but if you do it in game instead you can cut out the attempting to meet issues so people with different playing times can all benefit (i.e. I'm RARELY on during Japanese prime time, and vice-versa, but this way I could still hit up a japanese crafter willing to do the job at a decent price).

I'm wondering what happens in the case you obtain all of the materials and don't have the craft skill to make them. How do you pay a crafter to do it for you, but most of all how do trust turning over 18 mil worth of synthesis materials to a stranger?

I know in Japan stealing is never an issue nor even a thought being that stealing is equivalent to murder and will humiliate the person on every front page newspaper, news channel with a very harsh prison sentence.

Then again what happens when the crafter gets lucky and HQ the item?

[Riggs]

SE have stated that they would to increase the stats on new gear to give the same effects as if they had increased the job level, however they have made it way to hard to get this equipment. If they had just increased the job level to 120 i could have jumped on my thf ran to abyssea and soloed to 120 in a few hours.
If the plan is to just give the stats on gear instead of job levels they need to make obtaining this gear as easy as soloing to 120 in abyssea

[Glamdring]

if there's a BBS this becomes an official activity. if it's official, sounds like a GM could/should investigate. Adn Expand the GM's powers to where they can give you back your stolen goods or the finished item and they can confiscate the thief's gil.

[Daemon]

if there's a BBS this becomes an official activity. if it's official, sounds like a GM could/should investigate. Adn Expand the GM's powers to where they can give you back your stolen goods or the finished item and they can confiscate the thief's gil.

Yeah but like every other game, GMs "could" tell you it's your own fault for trusting the person you handed over those materials to. That's why I question what to do in this case.