Thoughts based on the Live Letter?

Most particularly, what do you think we can read into this line "We’ve also made it so that you won’t run into problems where you are not able to collect the necessary materials like has been the case in the past."

I'm hoping it means the new raid gear doesn't use favor mats nor folklore mats, but maybe I'm too optimistic. Would think it also implies don't needing any sort of rare dungeon/trial drop.

I'm personally hoping they were referring to the dravanian mistletoe/abalathian rock salt/coerthan tea leaves debacle.

Oh I forgot how much I hated that.... Good point.....

I think they are going to open up more opportunities to obtain red scrip materials based on that statement.

That was under one of the "Land and Hand" sections ... I may be reading too much into it, but I think it may be an adjustment to Favors. I'm GUESSING that the new combat gear recipes (and others, as well) will be off of Favor nodes. Currently, you spend two RGT on one set of 5 Botany and one set of 5 Mining Favors, but you are only guaranteed 5 ooids/whatever per RGT. With needing 20 gathered items (10 mining, 10 botany) per RCT, it is easy to see needing more RGT to make up the shortfall from the 5 Favors you just used.

I think it's a case of them increasing the ooids/etc. guaranteed per Favor (just guaranteeing 2 per Favor would be awesome), simply increasing the chance of the favor stuff appearing, or removing the red scrip cap enabling you to get more Favors per week. Another idea that occurs to me would be increasing the number of favors you get per RGT.

I wonder more what the "adjustments" they plan on making to the Hand and Land classes will be, and what the "hot fix" on the 25th is going to add. On another note, why not just call it what it is? 3.2DoH/DoL Patch :P

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning by "guaranteed" ooids off of favors/RGT. In a normal 5-favor/iRGT run I get ~18 ooid-class and 2-3 roundstone-class mats. (Numbers lower by ~4 and 1 for most BTN favors setsdue to them being worse in terms of distance & aggro)

Im more believe they may remove the red scripts weekly limit, or moved the materials to blue scripts.

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Originally Posted by Astrelle_hyperion

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning by "guaranteed" ooids off of favors/RGT. In a normal 5-favor/iRGT run I get ~18 ooid-class and 2-3 roundstone-class mats. (Numbers lower by ~4 and 1 for most BTN favors setsdue to them being worse in terms of distance & aggro)

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From the 3.1 patch notes :
3.0 When using Matron's Favor or Trader's Favor, players will always be able to locate a hidden gathering point at least once under the effect's duration

That guarantees at least one ooid-class (as you put it) per favor, or at least 5 ooid-class per RGT.

Getting 18 ooids from one RGT and 14 from the other means you spend 2 RGT to get the stuff to hand in with only one RCT, with 8 and 4 left over, leaving you 2 and 6 short for the second RCT. That imbalance is what I was getting at, that they may be hinting they are trying to correct with that line in the live letter.

Well that will also effect the market I just finished my I 170 8 sets and melded so I will be a bit upset if they make it easy to obtain. What they might do is lower the trade value e.g. 5 blue ooids, And 5 bladeleaf per 15 odourless animal fat. That would help a lot. I'm more worried about the hot fix that's coming they could nurf IQ or something crazy. And also want to know they have mentioned a buff to materia what happens to crafting materia so many questions.

We'll nerfing and making red scripts easier to obtain is inevitable as more patches are released. Hopefully the changes will be substantial enough to make gearing for 2* much easier.

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Originally Posted by Zorlinta

Im more believe they may remove the red scripts weekly limit, or moved the materials to blue scripts.

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As much as I hope for this, I sincerely doubt it. The devs dislike Omni-crafting and generally seem to want to force people down a more linear path of "pick one or two crafts."

They said they would be adding new items you could purchase with red scrips. I'm guessing you will be able to direct purchase mats needed for new gear with red scrips. Maybe some items are only thru crafter scrips and some only thru gather scrips but won't necessarily rely on each other like the current Favors setup. This could be why they said mats would be easier to obtain.

I don't think any of the new stuff will be accessed via current red tokens or mats because they already exist en masse in the game. Anytime new tier stuff is released it's essentially a fresh start so relying on older currencies is rarely a thing.

If you need to go thru the same crap that was favors in order to crafts I'll lose it. And they didn't say if the new recipes are specialist only either. If they are then I wouldnt be able to afford the new glamor which makes me sad.

I'd expect a mix of specialist and general recipes. I could see them splitting the recipes between the two in a variety of ways; I just wish they would scrap the Specialist system altogether.

I doubt they will split it based on they made the latest mats for other classes specialist only. I don't want to pay hundreds of thousands of gil just for mats.

Rumors I've heard somewhere.

1) the materials to make the new battle gear and accessories will be easily obtainable.
2) stat requirements to craft them will be high.

And I've been told if you have i170 set melded "you will be fine".

:x

Mmmhmm,
In other words those of us who have not been grinding red scrips will be screwed on being able to make any of these until we grind out... how many weeks of red scrips?

Hopefully crafting materia will be significantly more accessible so we can meld out our 150 gear to grind/make/meld 170 to grind/meld/make whatever else they throw at us...
Or do we expect to see a new set of craftable cross-class crafting gear?

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Originally Posted by Kenji1134

Or do we expect to see a new set of craftable cross-class crafting gear?

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It seems really early to be doing this. The class-specific stuff from 2.0 wasn't fully replaced until 2.5, and there's a lot of people out there who aren't even close to having full blue gear in the current cycle yet.

The big question is whether they're going to move through tiers of scrips at the same rate as tomes. If so, then we would see blue scrips become obsolete, red scrips become uncapped, and a new set of scrips added. If they do, I would expect to see some new gear come out of it (new tools, if they keep to the pattern from 2.X) and it would become a good deal easier to catch up on the blues/greens that are out now.

whater thay do i just fucking hope its not behind more bullshit gated content x-x

I guess mâts will be folklore gathering point...
But i hope they will also reduced the cost for those folklore book.

So it would be easy to gets mats !

And I smell specialist recipe coming... Like the skypirate stuff

1) Way too early for new crafting sets.
2) Youre either looking at 3 star recipes or higher 2 star requirements (3 star more likely).

IF the required stats to craft the new raid gear is higher you can bet that they will be specialist locked, for the simple fact that SE is against omni-crafting regardless if you can farm all the i170 hq sets or not.

They need to seriously consider taking specialist actions off RNG because unless you get lucky the current system is useless and way too much CP to be using.

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Originally Posted by SnugglesD

I'm personally hoping they were referring to the dravanian mistletoe/abalathian rock salt/coerthan tea leaves debacle.

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curious on what your referring to?

Theyre making tank dps work with vitality better instead of strength. Glad to see vitality potions now have a use!