crafting a waste of time.

[ReplicaX]

What weapons do you use before getting GC or Primal weapons? Oh right, crafted weapons!

Also, nobody is going to meld tons of primal weapons into materia, so they'll load up on crafted gear to spiritbond instead. Just because it's not the absolute top tier doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

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My Sarnga HQ with Critical Hit IV and Determination IV materia says hello. Beats the Primal weapons and is perfect before I finish Artemis Bow. It is also a very attractive looking bow ingame.

[Nipa]

Pre-end-game weapon and armor crafting is indeed a waste of time...

[HamHam]

I can understand giving gear for the first 25 levels through quest, but after that it should have stopped and make players rely on crafted gear instead. This would have made it a balanced economy.

As a crafter, I haven't have the motivation to craft gear since I don't see the point of it.

So far, I've been more focus on crafting material and mining.

But crafted gear has not been productive at all. At least not yet.

[Alemana]

What weapons do you use before getting GC or Primal weapons? Oh right, crafted weapons!

Also, nobody is going to meld tons of primal weapons into materia, so they'll load up on crafted gear to spiritbond instead. Just because it's not the absolute top tier doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

Instance & quest weapons. The only point of making a crafted weapon is to HQ it, as opposed to buying a NQ from a vendor.

OP has a point, crafting does feel rather redundant and forced at the moment. I still enjoy it (granted I've only got goldsmith to 20 something right now) but I'm sure the novelty will wear off once I'm on my 7 millionth craft.

Also this

[Radaghast]

Pretty much all of the two star battle crafted gear is better than its darklight counter parts HQ'ed and properly melded. You can argue lower level crafting is worthless maybe (even though their HQ versions are better than the crafted/trash gear you get), but end game crafting is not.

[Aliena]

Dude...I wear mostly HQ items that I make. It makes a noticible dent in my leveling & crafting scores. I love being a weaver.

[MithrasInvictus]

The game hasn't been out for long enough for the crafting to become more viable. With spiritbond on gear limiting re-sale, once most people are done with their first run through the quests then buying from crafters will become the only way to get equipment.

[Maza]

The game has only been out for just over a week, I'm sure after a couple of months things will improve ^^

[Totorixiii]

Well duh, you realize that some people dont want to do quest or dungeons to get the equipment? They just want to buy them as its more convenient.

[Inuakurei]

Well duh, you realize that some people dont want to do quest or dungeons to get the equipment? They just want to buy them as its more convenient.

Then what do you do with that equipment if some people don't do quest or dungeons? Sit on it?