Some DoH/DoL news from the latest live letter

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

12 Crafter souls? A bit unrelated to the actual topic, but wow that's such a waste of red scrips. O_O

I felt like I was wasting a lot just by buying one to get rid of alchemist.

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because I have nothing else to buy , too lazy to do my own favour farming. I could buy the favour mats and use my RS to make 170 for sale but it's moving slow and the profit is not that good. My retainer sort is better off to list something else

I must have missed it in world but which NPC can meld for you? Is it the one of the two friends of Mutamix in Idyllshire who doesn't exchange Mhachi matter?

Two-star DoH/DoL recipes were not specialist-only, nor did they use specialist components. My read on that is that they want to give us the ability to be self-sufficient within DoH/DoL jobs even if DoW/DoM gear, cosmetics, and housing items are restricted. Plus, crafting your own gear upgrades is just as central to DoH/DoL gameplay as pillaging dead bosses is to the fighting part of the game.

Assuming they just give us new recipe books (as opposed to say, making us turn in demimateria or making us buy untradable components with scrips or something), I think it is reasonable to assume that it will probably be just like the ilvl 170 gear: tradable, non-specialist gear with the same crafting requirements as other three-star gear.

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

There is both good and bad with shared gear.

Good : less gear to meld!

Bad : no visual distinction between classes.

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More room in my Armory Chest. OMG it gets full quickly having both gatherer and crafter specialized gear along with my adventuring gear.

you may want to re-read that op

via red scrips does not mean via red scrip tokens.. best we can have will be 450 scrips when new stuff lands.

there is no way they will allow us to stock pile for months in advance to just get the new gear the day its released after forcing us to gear up weekly all this time.

as for souls, well unless you plan on changing your spec multiple times then they are mostly worthless but that being said its nice to have that flexiblty if its needed.

another things we should all take note in is we will either need to be fully 2* capable if not 3* specialists to get the new items. 2* for most shouldnt be an issue by now but getting 3* for alot of crafters seems like to big a hill to climb.

given how they have segmented crafters into specialists it would be kinda weird to have a unilateral set again as it would mean with souls we could just change spec at a drop of a hat with no real consequence after gearing up.

Also a little note, I am pretty sure they mentioned the next set of gear is going to be crafted. Not exchanged like it was done with the i180 gear.

So I take it it's by straight scrips and not RS tokens? It'd be nice to get proper clarification because I don't want to be hoarding RS tokens and then learn that they're all but useless. And I would personally prefer shared gear, maybe not for all but like if ARM and BSM shared and LTW and WVR shared, at least it lessens the grind.

Likewise I REALLY hope the next tier, if crafted, are 2-star and not 3. 3-star crafters are a dime a dozen, but most of us are 2-star crafters so it's more realistically possible.