Crafting needs to be more rewarding!

[Reika]

HQ crafted gear with the right materia will be on par with, or even better than, dungeon drops. With the random nature of dungeon drops, the effort to attaining either option is probably fairly equal. I ran through Brayflox 20+ times back in beta and only received 2 pieces of ARC gear. The biggest problem is how quickly you can out-level your gear.

I can't, and won't, comment on end-game since I'm nowhere near there. However, materia melding will ALWAYS be needed.

You cant meld dungeon drops, and the current end game drops are way better than crafted. There is also no need for the ilvl70 crafted gear, as you you can get darklight faster also get by just fine with darklight gear
















You snipped one line, I'll make a seperate post for this tomrrow.

You know it doesnt $&@(*&$@ matter that ilvl70 crafted gear can be made SLIGHTLY, and I repeat SLIGHTLY better than darklight, you have to be a complete retard to spend your tokens on crafting mats. They did not increase the amount you need for the damn hardcore, they did it to fuck crafters. How hardcore are the folks who have mats left over from 1.0? Pretty fuckin hardcore since in 1.0, Hardcore meant taking the damn time to level up the damn crafts. Stop trying to make up reasonings for it, wreaks of white kight.

[Lux_Rayna]

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Except this actually isn't true. HQ ilvl70 melded crafted gear is better than everything by a fair margin except for allaghan/af2. Even then, the pieces are comparable depending on how much you have melded the pieces. People don't understand that ilvl70 gear is hard to get precisely because it is *much* easier to meld now. You get 2 free sockets, with the possibility of melding outside of those sockets. The only consequence is losing the materia that you tried to go further with. This is a very low risk/high reward system.

Like I said in another thread, hardcore players will buy it up bc they know how good they can make the gear. If you're not hardcore with your gear you wont bother, which is fine. But the idea that crafting is not rewarding is patently false and largely stems from lack of information, or outright misinformation.

[Sunprince]

dun forget that people will constantly need new gears for spirit bonding to make new materia.

There is currently a limited variety of armor. Options will open up as new crafted armor are added in