Right now we have Normal Quality and High Quality items. I'd like to see third quality added in game to make crafting more fun.
It would work like this:
When you increase the quality to 100% the quality bar resets to 0% and the Excellent Quality chance starts increasing. Get it to 100% second time and the EQ item is made. Fail to do so and HQ item is made.
This would improve the diversity of items for crafters immensely while requiring reasonable amount of resources to implement.
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09-14-2019, 01:06 AMArchaellExcellent quality gear
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09-14-2019, 02:08 AMTheForceI'll pass. I think the quality system is fine as is. No need to complicate things further.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archaell
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09-14-2019, 04:14 AMDrWho2010
do you know how many pieces of gear they would need to multiply to make this possible? it's too much work for too little reward dev cost wise.
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09-14-2019, 06:15 AMArchaell
Changing the crafting process would most likely take the most time. Then they would have to create a new icon and give additional set of stats to gear - which could be done by multiplying the base stats. The additional layer of crafting is worth it imo.
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09-14-2019, 07:10 AMDrWho2010
gonna have to disagree.
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09-14-2019, 04:17 PMKaiserdrache
The Gear Progress should be more depthful, especially, because adding new icon colors is easy af, same as adding a new icon for an other quality grade.
FF14 should provide the following gear progression
- Common Gear >............. White Color Icon > Weakest Stats, not colorable, 1-2 Materia Slots, improves 4 relevant Stats (DPS Stat + Vitality + either Critical, Direct, Determination, Quickness/Cast Speed or the Role Stats)
- Uncommon Gear >.......... Green Color Icon > 20% better Stats, colorable, 1-2 Materia Slots, improves 4relevant Stats
- Rare Gear >..................... Blue Color Icon > 30% better Stats, colorable, 2-3 Materia Slots, improves 4 relevant Stats
- Epic Gear >...................... Purple Color Icon > 40% better Stats, has up to two colorable slots, 3-4 Materia Slots, improves relevant 5 Stats ( DPS+ Vitality + Quickness/Cast Speed always plus 2 randoms)
- Legendary Gear >............ Red Color Icon > 50% better Stats, has up to 3 colorable slots, improves all relevant Stats, no Materia Slots
Quality Grades
Normal > Just simple trash quality, no Bonus Effects
High > Stat Bonus of 10%, adds eventually 1 Materia Slot > Claw Symbol
Excellent > Stat Bonus 15%, adds eventually 2 Materia Slots and second color slot > Circle Symbol
Masterwork > Stat Bonus > 20%, adds eventually 3 Materia Slots and two color slots > Star Symbol
How to get it
Normal > End Crafting with less than 25% Quality, guaranteed
High > End Crafting with less than 50% Quality for a Chance, range 26-49% has depending chance based on how close you were to 50% , 50% is guaranteed high quality
Excellent > End Crafting with less than 75% Quality for a Chance , range 51-74 increse that chance, 75% is guaranteed.
Masterwork > End Crafting with less than 100% Quality for a Chance , range 76- 99 increase that chance, 100% is guaranteed.
Common Gear > Monster Loot/Chests/Crafting
Uncommon Gear > Monster Loot/Chests/Crafting/Dungeons
Rare Gear > Tomestones/ Raid Loot NPC Trades/ Hard Dungeons/ Deep Dungeons/ Normal Raids)/Crafting
Epic Gear > Big Raids, Normal Raids Epic Difficulty, Trials Extreme Difficulty/ Treasure Hunts
Legendary Gear > Hunting Grounds (Eureka), Big Raids Extreme Difficulty, Fulfilling legendary Quests from NPC's -
09-15-2019, 11:37 PMShadygrove
In 1.x there were three HQ levels. For everything. Materials as well as gear.
There were also inventory management problems....
While I wouldn't mind an additional HQ level, seeing as how they are going to simplify crafting and make it more accessible, I rather doubt we are going to get it. -
09-16-2019, 04:21 AMDzianIn reality we're not at HQ and NQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archaell
What it really is is Normal Quality and Junk... a failed HQ is basically a failed synth...
Adding another tier would just mean 2 tiers of Junk quality -
09-16-2019, 05:39 AMEloahSo Collectables, got itQuote:
Originally Posted by Archaell
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09-16-2019, 08:30 AMArthem
Sounds good to me. Make us use extra mats during the "excellent" process or however it would work, to help stimulate the economy, make 100% ExQ(?) extremely difficult to attain, and just simply make it a 5 materia slot version of the HQ gear. I can't imagine that would add too much of a work load on the devs.
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09-16-2019, 09:28 AMJojoya
They're pretty unlikely to add another tier of quality to combat gear when that could upset encounter balancing.
I doubt the majority of crafters would consider it more fun. It just adds another layer of steps for players to do before the item is completed. I don't see how going from 25+ steps to 40+ steps to make an item equates to more fun.
It doesn't improve diversity of items in any meaningful way. Instead of focusing on making a HQ item, we'll ignore HQ altogether to focus on making excellent items. If you want to increase diversity of items we can make in a way that's actually interesting, add more items with unique appearances or effects instead of increasing stats.
As Dzian said, we go from making junk or normal to making junk, junk+ or normal. Nothing is gained.
Which isn't really a third tier of quality. It's "craft to get quality as high as possible then decide if you want to toggle on collectible synthesis to get a collectible to turn in at Splendors or leave it to sell to others then complete synthesis". If creating a collectible required different steps instead of just the toggle to switch between quality and collectible rating, then it might feel more like a third tier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eloah
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09-16-2019, 09:36 AMCanadane
We had +1, +2, and +3 items/gear in 1.0 (and I guess ffxi lol).
They aren't going to bring that back.