3.3 and gear question

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

There are examples of things having gone both ways. There were times where you had to meld to produce the top end recipes. Then there were other times when you could already produce top end recipes, and melding only future-proofed your ability to produce top end recipes.

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all the examples of the latter are before the introduction of specialization; with the few exception of pre mats and workshop mats.

I'm in a similar dilemma - finished levelling all the crafting classes to 60 the very day of the live letter. I'm capping red scrips every week but I haven't spent any of the tokens nor upgraded any gear beyond the Chimerical Felt/Serpentskin/Adamantite stuff.

They did say the old gear is going to be needed to craft the new gear, but that's probably only true if you are a LTW or WVR and definitely won't be true if you are an ARM, ALC or CUL. Even materia are better off sold since some new way of obtaining them will be coming soon...

Honestly this sucks. Waiting two months to continue progress as a crafter is miserable and buying class-specific gear now that's just going to become unnecessary soon or is for classes I don't even intend to specialise in (I don't plan to be either WVR or LTW specialist) feels like an unconscionable waste of resources.

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Originally Posted by Singularity

Honestly this sucks. Waiting two months to continue progress as a crafter is miserable and buying class-specific gear now that\\'s just going to become unnecessary soon or is for classes I don\\'t even intend to specialise in (I don\\'t plan to be either WVR or LTW specialist) feels like an unconscionable waste of resources.

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They\\'ll probably require grade 3 dissolvants, or a new version of holy/hallowed water, and for some pieces an ingot or two.

As for requiring an unconscionable waste of resources....welcome to crafting?

why ppl are expect that the new gear will be better than the old one?
maybe the new gear just for glamour or just lower or even same gear lvl.
maybe just use items which easier to get :3
i mean the new gear right side ilvl 180 just release it would be stupid do release already the next step of higher lvl gear so soonish.

or did i miss some clear details?

regards small hobbit

New gear that is not an upgrade would prevent them from putting in recipes that have higher stat requirements. We are nearly topped out with penta-melded i170, as it is, and are able to only exceed the 3 star stat requirements by a small, minor amount.

Either the new gear is 3 star stuff that is a clear upgrade to the i170/i180 (assuming same degree of melding) OR they are going to give us another new set of crafting/gathering gear when they come out with 4 star recipes.

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Originally Posted by SmallHobbit

why ppl are expect that the new gear will be better than the old one?
maybe the new gear just for glamour or just lower or even same gear lvl.
maybe just use items which easier to get :3
i mean the new gear right side ilvl 180 just release it would be stupid do release already the next step of higher lvl gear so soonish.

or did i miss some clear details?

regards small hobbit

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You did miss some clear details. It was stated in the live letter that 3.3 would see an ilvl increase for crafters and gatherers in the form of new crafted sets.

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Originally Posted by doctapeppa

You did miss some clear details. It was stated in the live letter that 3.3 would see an ilvl increase for crafters and gatherers in the form of new crafted sets.

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and the current gear DID NOT just come out.... we got it bk in 3.05? 3.1?; that recent stuff added in 3.2* are the vendor versions for the broke...i mean causal players (inferior stuff).