Anyone else feel they were kinda lazy with crafting quests?

Not the storylines, of course, I feel the stories were great. Especially the weaver one (made me cry). But the rewards are so boring...when you hit 50 on a class in ARR and got your primary blue tool it felt like a real accomplishment, now it's just some materia...

I'm probably nitpicking but I thought the reward for hitting 60 would be just as good, so underwhelming to have to craft your own BiS tool.

Kind of, yes. I believe there's even one quest that gives you the NQ version of the HQ tool you had to turn in. But it's pretty far behind in line, behind the other glaring issues of HW crafting.

Ah yeah stuff like that was horrible too, there was also a weaver quest that had me craft some gloves and they gave me NQ gloves back...

I guess it's too late to ever fix this stuff but it's just so silly. :(

I was really disappointed with the quests as well. The least they could have done was give you an HQ main hand at level 60 or something.

Yeah I've yet to do my 60 GSM quest because, well.......why...lol?

i skipped all cut scenes :D

I did the LTW questline first. Got to the final quest, realized I needed the masterbook. Jumped to the conclusion that "if it is gated behind a masterbook and requires a 1-star recipe, it is going to be something good." And I think I got a choice of a Tier IV materia... or a set of Tier IV materia. Not sure. Never did another crafter quest past that. I'm sure at some point they'll make something that requires you to do them, but they couldn't throw us a bone with this? Hell, how about making the reward 300 blue scrips? That'd be worth something to some players.

The rewards are not worth the effort.
I finished the ARM one and then ignored all the other crafts' quests thereafter.

I enjoyed it, since when I did them I was already at the point where I had pentamelded all my pieces short of my tools. I farmed up all the stuff and just stocked up on CP Materia for my Main and Offhand for all 8 classes. Took a couple hours, got a lot of materia and it didn't cost more than a couple gil.

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

The rewards are not worth the effort.
I finished the ARM one and then ignored all the other crafts' quests thereafter.

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You should really do them for the story. The level 60 cutscenes in particular are amazingly well done.

Plus you know, the quests give free materia at least...

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Originally Posted by dspguy

I did the LTW questline first. Got to the final quest, realized I needed the masterbook. Jumped to the conclusion that "if it is gated behind a masterbook and requires a 1-star recipe, it is going to be something good." And I think I got a choice of a Tier IV materia... or a set of Tier IV materia. Not sure. Never did another crafter quest past that. I'm sure at some point they'll make something that requires you to do them, but they couldn't throw us a bone with this? Hell, how about making the reward 300 blue scrips? That'd be worth something to some players.

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Materia is worth a lot more than blue scrips on 90% of servers >.>

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Originally Posted by Teppie

I enjoyed it, since when I did them I was already at the point where I had pentamelded all my pieces short of my tools. I farmed up all the stuff and just stocked up on CP Materia for my Main and Offhand for all 8 classes. Took a couple hours, got a lot of materia and it didn't cost more than a couple gil.

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Hi Tepe :3

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Hi Tepe :3

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Hey Areku :3

In a sense the only incentive to do them at this point in time is the entry quest to each one to get those tasty xp scrolls. After that I do have to agree there really is no incentive to finish the quest until 4.0 since as far as we know completing these quest don't really open up anything new. It be nice if those quest opened the door to future content to encourage people to finish those quest but as they stand they are moreso just dead weight til 4.0.

The thing that worked for 2.0 was the fact you could obtain the best main hand for that time by completing the main quest so there was incentive there, however when it comes to these quest you get 3 measly IV materia, and man materia is like a dime a dozen thanks to airships so it really takes away from the "reward" from doing the final quest. It would of been nice if maybe SE changed things up this time and offered a unique "offhand" tool in the same respect as the main hand tools we got in 2.0 to at least showcase something worth driving for when completing those quest. But to only be given 3 materia for the most part those quest are just going to be lying there for a while til I'm forced to do them.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

You should really do them for the story. The level 60 cutscenes in particular are amazingly well done.

Plus you know, the quests give free materia at least...

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The materia isn't really free, in terms of opportunity cost.

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Originally Posted by Airget

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You're on my server, and on our server each of those materias go for 100k a piece, sometimes more. I'd hardly call that a dime a dozen :p

This makes me so sad though and why I wish the rewards for these quests were more interesting, I actually didn't even think at first that there would be people who wouldn't do them at all. Easy XP and expensive materias is at least something, but to hear there's so many people who don't even do them now...it makes me sad because the stories are so good and so many won't ever get to see them or discover how cool they are.