Allied Seals Merchant: How does this make sense?

if it was only for vanity, an armor level 1 without stats is enough and people will have less complain... but here the point it's to put a gear less good soo expensive when you can buy for almost nothing a gear 20ilvl better.

since 2.2, all the vanity stuff it's a pain to get, it's nice to add vanity stuff but if people must litterally grind them ass for get it... people will often simply not do it. we play for have fun and forget real life, not for work. just saying.

It's what happens when you keep delaying newer GC ranks but tell gear designers to come up with new designs for them ahead of their implementation, and since modeling and graphic work in general takes relatively less time than coding, writing and implementing new quests and systems for those ranks that gear gets completed first but put on the backburner.

Then suddenly one or two months before a big patch someone decides to implement a new type of content out of the blue and it's just kinda thrown in there with some basic thought and ideas behind it but ultimately with little foresight on how the content will be actually be attempted by the players, oh and they also need some rewards for that content.

Since it was developed quickly and spontaneously and they also had some unused gear designs just sitting there it's faster and cheaper to just repurpose them. Since that gear looks mostly cool and also because it's newer, shinier and never before seen in game, at least design wise, it costs more. Since it was planned to be implemented for GC ranks that should have been added months ago it's lower level than the current mid to top tier gear.

Just speaking out of my behind though.

Why can't we actually have USEFUL gear and options with more stats (ie, 1.x stats) on this gear? Why does everything have to be vanity? Give us more options/stats....

Well this is what happens when people tell SE to focus on vanity rather than having an actual use.

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Originally Posted by Meier

Why can't we actually have USEFUL gear and options with more stats (ie, 1.x stats) on this gear? Why does everything have to be vanity? Give us more options/stats....

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Cause horrible vertical gear progression. :X

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Originally Posted by Amarathval

They already said they were going to buff the daily ones, as for the Myth gear I suspect the reason it is on the allied seals vendor (and for cheap) is as a catch up mechanic, before you know it you'll be running dungeons for (which you'll need a high enough ilvl to enter)ilvl 100 gear, CT for 110 gear, and Coil3 for 120, not to mention when Myth tomes get removed and the one above soldarity is added, they will most likely remove the Myth gear from the RT vendors, this way they are still obtainable.

as for the cosmetic items, I agree the prices are a bit steep, but then again you might as well consider the PvP gear purely vanity as well considering how useful it is in the content it was designed for, and its price is even worse.

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I'd much rather they just re-implement Philosophy tomes. I'm so sick of Hunts/allied seals as a whole.

Why even bother adding stats if they claim it's for "vanity". I honestly think that's pretty stupid. The same with i80 from dungeons being called "vanity" despite it actually being an upgrade for some people.

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Originally Posted by Parodine

The weapons are crazy expensive. 1600seals for vanity? You could get 2 sands of time for that price and still have 100 seals leftover.

They definitely need to tone down the prices for those, or at least make daily marks worth doing. T_T

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The way I see it, given that 2.4 isn't that far away, people are going to fall into two categories:
1) Rushing to catch up to the max gear score.
2) Kinda bored since they have played the same job for a while, have all or most of their gear, and now have the opportunity to gear another job.

Even if someone thinks their outfit looks hideous, there are a bunch of much easier to acquire vanity sets at this point than one that costs the same as multiple oils/sands.

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Originally Posted by Najara

I'd much rather they just re-implement Philosophy tomes. I'm so sick of Hunts/allied seals as a whole.

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I'd also like to see the return of Philo - in particular the ability to use tomes for Darklight gear. My GSM would appreciate it.

I honestly wish they would increase the prices of the glamour set, to make them even rarer, they were never designed for stats. Still unsure why they didn't just make them full on level 1 no stats though