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I know I'm playing catch up, only got my crafter's to 60 around the beginning of the year.
I started with penta-melded whites. Have made all the i170 OH, and two of the MH. Bought one of the 180 chests.
My initial plan was to aim for the rest of the MH and make some more chests.( barely melded the white chest). Those are the biggest jumps, but all not shareable. I could instead make an the acc's and belt this week, but without tier V they aren't much better than what I have.
Thoughts?
Im pretty sure over melding of the main stats materia(str/vit/dex/etc is not going to be possible in 3.2. I dont know what your melding atm but maybe make sure its plausible with the new Materia updates.
This is for DoH, so no primary stats are involved.
Everyone is only speculating at this point, since we don't know a lot about what the new crafted stuff will look like. But it's a pretty safe bet to speculate that the new recipes will be of a higher tier (likely 3-star) and have higher base Craftsmanship and Control minimum requirements than the recipes we have now. If your current gear doesn't take you much higher than 2 star minimum and you want to be able to craft the new stuff early then it would be a good idea to focus on the pieces that will give you big Crafts+Control boosts like you're planning.
The accessories are probably still worth picking up, especially since you can get the mats for all of them in 1/3 of a week's worth of red scrips, since you'll have a bigger CP pool with them and the extra flexibility will likely be helpful.
I'll need to check when I get home from work, but I think my top geared classes is about 100 craft/50 control over 2-star min. That's unmelded crafted blue/green MH/OH and scrip blue chest. That's for bsm, going to prioritise arm, ltw, wvr for getting them to similar level for most left side gear suspected recipes.
I would get your accessories/belt and fully meld them because they are universal and CP is king. Then I would choose a few classes that you want to gear up first finish making their full sets and see where you are at from there.
Any chances we get universal gear like the lv 150 one?
im almost done w all the green pieces.
all acc
x4 OH
x8 mainhands 180
Should I start crafting job specific gear or is better to wait?, what do you guys think? Thx in advance.
Universal set will not be available right now...
It's like the old ilevel 55 set
One per job and need to be meld
We have to wait a bit to see the equivalent of the 4* set
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For 3.2 we will most likely have gatherer set and tools
New crafts are most likely going to need at the least full right side i170 hq and maybe even some other pces for the stat requirements. I would be surprised if they made them the same 2 star stats
So I'm all gathered to make the i170 accessories/belt, but staring at the stats its hard to get excited about them... I have max melded previous tier stuff. Pre-melding the new gear is worse than what I have. Melding the i170 max looks like it requires t5... so can't meld it at all until 3.2 (or spending more than I care to spend on t5 from materia transmutation)
The big difference for the accessories is CP. Full i170 accessories melded for max CP gives you 17 more CP than the whites with full CP melds. That's a free Basic Touch conversion unless your rotation currently takes every last CP you have.
The rings can be max melded without tier V materia. The others would take a craftsmanship V apiece if you want to 100% max them out (Crafts V capping at +9, Control IV x2, CP IV x2) but if you use a craftsmanship IV instead you only lose 3 craftsmanship per piece (or 9 total.) I would be shocked if that margin makes the difference to whether it's possible to make new recipes, especially since they're most likely planning the numbers around someone who has the i180 set.
Also you can max meld the feet, hands, legs and hat without T5 materia.
Got all the accessories/belt crafted... there were some stressful moments with the RNG hating me (all the astral lumber ended up NQ inspite of 95-98%), but forged ahead anyways, last ring, all NQ starting mats, half the HTs failed, no good procs. only about 20% after BB, but finally the RNG took pity and it still HQ'd.
Going to start melding the rings.... still not sure about the rest.. would prefer to wait for tier 5s for that first meld.... Luckily our airships have been bringing back a nice amount of t4s... still not enough to keep up with this sort of meld approach though.
rank V materias at such price point are not worth imo to meld just yet, they were probably implemented soon but meant for probably something higher than the AF2.
Depending on what SE decided to go after last months feedback about specialiazations, there is 2 possible routes: Gonna really embrace specialists or just left them to fall into the category of dead ideas never finished. If its the first, and im a 90% sure it will be, i would be forgetting about ever seen a mastercrafter set like adept or artisan ever again... At least till a much later stage. What i can see in the future is specialist exclusive crafting gear, like an upgraded i180 main tool, even some kind of relic tool (purple) only aviable to specialist (as combat relics are only aviable to jobs, not classes). Considering scripts and specialist are basically SE way to equal crafters and gatherers to combat classes i can totally see that in the future.
Just a quick one, are we gonna carry on crafting with our ilvl170 gear? Or are we getting something new like artisan? Just wondered or if there was any news on that