New NW drop Weapon and Armor!! >"<

this thread is stupid.

I can not believe any smart person would think there would never be drops from NMs..... stupid.....

You guys are overreacting, this is a way of adding options to the ways player gear, which is a GOOD thing. I like it, FFXI had the same system going. CP gear, rare/ex drops from low level nms, crafted gear, crafted CP gear,bcnm drops,garrison drops etc etc. You had tons of ways to gear and tons of options. it was nice. Crafted gear was still useful.

30-40 was a dead crafting arena anyway.
There are a few pieces from the patch that made it into endgame setups, sure, but who knows what materia slots they'll have if any. I bet the harley pieces have crazy materia slots.

This also keeps the PC players from charging PS3 players an arm and a leg for 30-40 gear.

They also drop craftable armor like Dodo skirts and Canvas slops, this here is uncalled for!

Hey, as long as I don't have to pay crafters very very stupidly overpriced gear, I'm all for untradable and drop gear. Gil may be worth nothing but as my main character is a 50 armorer and black smith? I know for sure a lot of gear isn't worth anywhere near 400k+ unless the item comes from a hard to get resource (hard NMs, which doesn't exist), especially as I can make and get a lot of the materials needed for free.

ITT Crafters think equipment should ONLY come from them

I can kind of see why they're made. They used to be the only source of endgame gear and now they're not. However they shouldn't be whining like children that people have other options now. There will always be a mix of crafted and dropped items. It's not like these new items somehow negate your ability to make what you previously could.

I guess it doesn't have a huge impact on me or the group I play with since we tend to handle most gear needs within the Linkshell. We gather items, people make it, we distribute it.

I don't see why you guys are calling this endgame gear, but that is me. To me it appears like R25 -40 gear. Maybe I am confused though. Crafted gear still has merit at R50, there isn't much gear that comes from NM drops at that level range that I have seen post 1.17.

If your making profit crafting right now, then you are lucky. On my server I'm lucky to sell 3 crafted items a week due to competition. I rarely play DoW/DoM classes at all and NM drops aren't going to affect me in the slightest.

Seriously some people can never be satisfied... Stop whining and deal with it. It's not like this wasn't an obvious future addition.
I trust Square Enix will balance things out eventually so nobody becomes completely useless.

You should give the DoW and DoM some fun of their own, being completely dependant on crafters seems like a stupid idea.