good luck to all players without 50 dow, craft, and 10 mil gil.

:V yeah lol I started crafting not so long ago.

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This is an absolute LIE at lower levels. Maybe at high levels its easier, but newer players just got shafted HARD by this patch.

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not a lie you dont know what your doing. i use my mule character and had no problem killing stuff. you must be used to getting powerleveled

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Originally Posted by Fixy

1.19; godspeed.

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I reply to all of you people with multiple 50 jobs: Have fun dealing with all that really super stellar DATED level 50 gear. Goodluck attatching stuff to that.

Economy will adjust to the changes soon enough. You think crafters are gonna allow their goods to sit up for sale for weeks and weeks with nobody buying them?

"Let the Whine begins!".

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Originally Posted by Fixy

and when new players struggle even more.

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I am a pretty new player, so dont worry about me. Im doing just fine ^^

As a player who only has a level 30 Conjurer on a low population server as his highest level, I feel it's a fair statement that the change to items is effecting me the most. Sometimes in silly ways too. I went out mining the other day and had scads of copper ore but couldn't make ingots because for reasons unknown, Tin was absurdly uncommon. (I went and looked for gathering guides to try to find places to mine it but did not have much luck with that.) For whatever reason it seems silly to me to need level 20 mining to gear a level 15 gladiator, but perhaps after hours of scouring guides i was still doing it wrong.

As far as my hypothesis goes, it all started when the Gil reward for leves dropped. Players who had been playing since launch had gained allot of money from it and set up an economy based on that level of intake. Then suddenly gil became much harder to come by, especially for lower level players, but the prices for mid/low level gear didn't drop in the same proportion as Leve earnings. Now add to that that gear needs to be upgraded all the more frequently, gil is still scarce, and now gear is also scarce, It makes playing the lower end of the game very frustrating.

My hope is that the game will fix itself up nice and purtty and the PS3 launch will bring in enough new player base across the board that the level gap balances out and the economy becomes manageable for the lower end again.

Oh yes one last issue: it is hard to find people to do things with; linkshells seem fairly closed off to new low level players and without level appropriate gear and the new healing costs, soloing is far more difficult (sometimes near impossible.)

I have been playing a lot since 1.18 and I am only level 30 right now (thm is highest, 27~ conj)

I must say, I totally disagree with the people who think it's impossible to play or level up now. EXP chains are awesome, and we can fight mobs around our level which makes way more sense than always fighting something +10 levels.

The hit to gear was bad only for people who are covered in gear that was too high. My character is totally fine.

Itsnot that bad, wear stuff that fits your class and rank as u should anyway. Optimal was a bad idea. Money is too abundant pre 1.19. Theyre rightfully balancing stuff. Give it at least a week before bitching about this kind of stuff.

prices will stabilize hell colbolt ore went from like 20K gil each down to 5K gill each in a day, just have to give it some time and when the wards stabilize you will see a lot more items up which will bring prices down.