Cosmic Tools

With you needing pentamelded gear to be able to get gold on the Rank A recipes, surely these should have a reward better than pentamelded gear I.e 5 guaranted materia.slots. Currently its equal to scrip gear so you should only need scrip gear to.make it.

They will have better rewards. Relics always end up being BiS. But you don't have the "full" relic yet.

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Originally Posted by Carighan

They will have better rewards. Relics always end up being BiS. But you don't have the "full" relic yet.

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This isnt about better rewards this is about the ridiculous difficulty. If the tool needs the best tool to make it then surely that tool should be the better tool. In my opinion obv the best tool SHOULD be the crafted penta meld as more time and money goes into it.

I wouldn't call it ridiculous difficulty...

There's certainly some challenging recipes on A3, but most of A-1 and A-2 are pretty comfortable.

It would be nice if they were a bit better than what they are, since it's just effectively a scrip tool, and I do think considering all the work involved, it should have at least 1 or 2 meld slots just to put it a cut above scrip.

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Originally Posted by Kaurhz

I wouldn't call it ridiculous difficulty...

There's certainly some challenging recipes on A3, but most of A-1 and A-2 are pretty comfortable.

It would be nice if they were a bit better than what they are, since it's just effectively a scrip tool, and I do think considering all the work involved, it should have at least 1 or 2 meld slots just to put it a cut above scrip.

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It's ridiculous in what's needed to get gold. It would be just as ridiculous if you needed pentamelded gear to farm scrips for the scrip weapon.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

This isnt about better rewards this is about the ridiculous difficulty. If the tool needs the best tool to make it then surely that tool should be the better tool. In my opinion obv the best tool SHOULD be the crafted penta meld as more time and money goes into it.

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Crafted+Pentamelded is just a test of whether you can play the marketboard, i.e.: have lots of ingame cash.

You just buy the crafted tool, a few hundred materia, click 5 times, done? How is that "difficult"?

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

It's ridiculous in what's needed to get gold. It would be just as ridiculous if you needed pentamelded gear to farm scrips for the scrip weapon.

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Not really, and besides there's only a select few recipes where you should be struggling to get gold, and if you have a pentamelded tool then in my opinion there should be no reason that you aren't macroing half of these recipes to gold anyway, and more often than not the ones you can macro to gold are generally the best for data logs which is what the relic requires.

and these relics get progressively easier. I'm just finished my 5th relic and when I work on the 6th relic my boost to data logs will be +150%, which makes subsequent relics very pain free.

90% of the crafts are dirt easy and can be macro'ed. There are a few exceptions but you dont even need to craft those items, simply stick to the easy stuff that you are comfortable with

also its crafting + gathering endgame, ofcourse they will require good gear at some point
you wouldnt enter savage or ultimates without melds and gear neither

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

90% of the crafts are dirt easy and can be macro'ed. There are a few exceptions but you dont even need to craft those items, simply stick to the easy stuff that you are comfortable with

also its crafting + gathering endgame, ofcourse they will require good gear at some point
you wouldnt enter savage or ultimates without melds and gear neither

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I've said the difficulty doesn't scale with the reward, not that i don't like the difficulty. For me the best recipes we had was in ARR. In my opinion everything should scale to the last weapon being the pentamelded tool or a better final reward on each tool end stage and I dont mean just for the last update of the expansion.

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Originally Posted by Carighan

Crafted+Pentamelded is just a test of whether you can play the marketboard, i.e.: have lots of ingame cash.

You just buy the crafted tool, a few hundred materia, click 5 times, done? How is that "difficult"?

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In my opinion it's more of a test to see if you've got the patience to move forward to the FINAL Expert recipes that you can't macro i.e Otter Fountain parts.

You don't need to get a Gold Medal on any missions to get the Cosmic Tools.

The Red Alerts reward rank IV tokens while being B-grade.