The Culling of the Weak

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High quality versions of the following items can now be crafted: Reinforced Spruce Plywood / Balanced Darksteel Hook / Reinforced Darksteel Wire / Calibrated Rose Gold Cog / Water-hardened Hippogryph Strap / Intricate Silver Brocade / Concentrated Spirits of Salt / Rich Tomato Relish

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Are you prepared?

http://i.imgur.com/ELPe7Bc.png

I'm not ready to grind out more Fieldcraft IIIs after the Supra grind....ugh this is truly a test.

Should have had the title as "The culling of the weak/week" :P Seriously I wonder what these are for, or maybe I missed it in the notes?

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Originally Posted by Laurell

Should have had the title as "The culling of the weak/week" :P Seriously I wonder what these are for, or maybe I missed it in the notes?

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Masterbook II will probably need them, 5 or 10 of them.

And i think this is a bit too much honestly, crafting is getting overwhelmingly time and resource consuming.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Masterbook II will probably need them, 5 or 10 of them.

And i think this is a bit too much honestly, crafting is getting overwhelmingly time and resource consuming.

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I for one will enjoy less competition

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Originally Posted by Lebenoshl

I for one will enjoy less competition

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That after you get 600ish oaknots you need for the ehcatl thingy to craft the artisan gear in the first place xD!

I honestly don`t know about this, i expected 1 new artisan piece, off hand to be exact, along of new recipees, but this is really a whole new level of work, a completely diferent tier... Is way too much time consumption for content that will get outdated by expansion xD

The idea is probably for us to upgrade the head/body/hands/legs/feet/off-hand first. Fully meld those (buy your materia now). Then attempt this with either the artisan tool or supra. I'm just going to guess that the supra is no needed, but will likely give a big advantage to its users. Maybe one less progress tick? I'm still trying to wrap my head around a rotation for that. 801 progress? Nearly 9000 quality? Needing about 7500 quality to guarantee HQ?

Is it just me, or are they trying to push crafting more in the direction of FFXI? Relying on the RNG to HQ? I think getting to 6k will be a stretch, unless the new artisan pieces are a huge increase to craft/control. Or are they assuming we'll need an excellent on BB to HQ it?

Edit: I just realized all these items are called "Artisan X." If they wind up being like the other i70 Artisan items, then no melds on them. Will they even be upgrades?

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Originally Posted by dspguy

The idea is probably for us to upgrade the head/body/hands/legs/feet/off-hand first. Fully meld those (buy your materia now).

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No yesterday. Materia proces have already doubled on Sarganatas.

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Edit: I just realized all these items are called "Artisan X." If they wind up being like the other i70 Artisan items, then no melds on them. Will they even be upgrades?

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But these are crafted. So they will have materia slots. And they are intended to be upgrades.

I am going to guess that with one overmeld each piece will will be inferior to a fully melded iL55 piece. Well, save for the feet which currently max at one overmeld. For gloves we already have the Ixal gloves.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

That after you get 600ish oaknots you need for the ehcatl thingy to craft the artisan gear in the first place xD!

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They didn't show any new crafting items you can purchase with Soldiery Tomes, these could very well sell for a few hundred soldiery tomes each.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

They didn't show any new crafting items you can purchase with Soldiery Tomes, these could very well sell for a few hundred soldiery tomes each.

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Stuff like the Ararchne Web, Kirimu Skin, Dubbin, Raziqsap, etc all look like pretty sure bets for the new Soldiery mats.