Foragers gear....

Body, hands, legs, and feet...I don't get why people bother re gearing with this stuff. Its so expensive and you have to remateria it also again for little boost that it does give...

I can see doing it for amount of stat gain say the hat and off hand gives but the rest, just a waste...

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Originally Posted by Sartori

.... but the rest, just a waste...

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So are video games when you get right down to it.

Passed my gathering AF down to my retainers so no waste involved.

It's all for the completionist inside.

My JSE had no melds, or minimal melds to hit 600 GP. So the gear was a substantial upgrade for me, freed up some room in the armory, and I converted the old JSE into materia.

Hmm, who knows what requirements the Expansion will bring! My fisher is sitting at Gathering 401 without food or FC buffs so... Bring it on SE!

One forager's gears all your DoL, and you can give the old sets to your retainers.

Get a sugar daddy.

I agree, I don't understand why people ever buy those things on the MB or make one for themselves.. It's not like any of that's required for 3 star gathering either and yet, it still commends a decent price on the MB.

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Originally Posted by GenJoe

I agree, I don't understand why people ever buy those things on the MB or make one for themselves.. It's not like any of that's required for 3 star gathering either and yet, it still commends a decent price on the MB.

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It's impossible to get to a 100% catch rate on most of the big fish in game right now. Every little speck of gathering helps. With fully melded forager's gear and food I can hit 425 gathering. It's definitely been worth it.

Also it looks cool.

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

It's impossible to get to a 100% catch rate on most of the big fish in game right now. Every little speck of gathering helps. With fully melded forager's gear and food I can hit 425 gathering. It's definitely been worth it.

Also it looks cool.

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Ohh, I see. For FSH it may be different. I only do botany/mining and for those, you can get 2 stars with forager main hand and max melded class specific greens.. then lucis will push you over to 3 stars.. So I saved some money on forager's gear.

Before Lucis, a full set of fully melded Forager's gear, along with HQ food was necessary in order to catch the mightiest of the Big Fish, unless you used the Free Company buff (in which case you could get away with a partial, or not-fully-melded set).

For Miner/Botanist, though, yeah, you can manage even the highest nodes without it, though as always higher stats means better gathering rate and higher HQ chance.

It's only expensive if you buy it off the Market Board.

If you craft it yourself, you'll save at least 500k gil on my server, that's half the cost.

If you get your own sealants, you cut off almost 90% of the price.

And the reason I got mine is because it's a (very small, yes) boost on all my 3 gatherers and I don't have to have 3 sets of equipment.

I gather 1-3 star maths for my crafts. It saves a lot of gil. When i started to craft 3 star i had to gather HQ 2 star to make leather, ingots, etc. i used 650 gp rotation (fully melded forager gives 636gp and 4 gp in offhand, then perception food buff with 10 gp at least). After getting craft lucis/masterbooks2 i modified my rotations and now gathering HQ is not the main goal for me - i prefer amount of items, so i use food with 10+ Gp buff and max gathering buff.

I didn't have to meld a Miner's set at all because I had a Forager's set for my Botanist already. (And melding the Forager's stuff was easy because of the extra guaranteed materia slot)

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

I didn't have to meld a Miner's set at all because I had a Forager's set for my Botanist already. (And melding the Forager's stuff was easy because of the extra guaranteed materia slot)

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Yeah overmelding can be incredibly annoying to just sit there and click away.. If that's the case, I supppose forager's set will allow you to get by without having to go through all that trouble of trying 50 times before a materia goes in..

and when xpac comes out and the stats are needed to mine the new high level nodes the people who did upgrade will have an advantage maybe during levelling or timed nodes.

of course at that point everyone will be clambering over the mats needed to craft them and the sales volume will probs increase and so will the price. although im sure S.E will make it much easier to get sealants by then if the gear is needed.