As LVL 50 in all DOH/DOL - stop now it's a waste of time

[Uveck]

I can't believe how much of a waste of time crafting is in this game. It seriously makes me not want to play the game anymore.

Why would I craft when I can just grind dungeons until I can get the best gear in the game? Can you give me any reason at all to do any craft other than Cooking?

Why am I being punished for taking the initiative by maxing out my crafting and gathering?

There is NO WAY you can make better gear than the items you purchase with mythos or the drops from B. Coil. The ilvl 70 gear simply doesn't have the cap space to compete with the mythos and coil items. Yes you can add more determination/accuracy/speed etc but it still won't matter because the STR/MND/whatever caps are too low for ilvl 70 so you may have more determination but your main stats(VIT/STR) will still be well below the ilvl 90 items.

[SeleneVenizelos]

I would love to see more emphasis given to crafting; I wouldn't go so far as to say we are being 'punished', but the situation is pretty grim. As somebody in the same position as you the majority of my crafting has been making high quality job specific sets for my crafting jobs. After finishing that I sat back and thought "Why did I bother to do that?" There really was no point. Crafting itself is fun. Gathering itself is fun. It's just a shame that they're quite useless for the economy right now.

[Stravanov]

Crafting is for making temporary gear that helps you reach higher stat numbers faster than by farming. Turn your argument around: if you could get the _best_ gear through crafting, why would you farm non-endgame dungeons?

[Xandim]

Crafting is for making temporary gear that helps you reach higher stat numbers faster than by farming. Turn your argument around: if you could get the _best_ gear through crafting, why would you farm non-endgame dungeons?

The problem with this is that, even w/o side quests, DoW/DoM WILL ALWAYS level faster than a DoH/DoL. So you end up with a lv50 PLD and lv10 ARM/BSM. Its just not worth that much to lv up for gearing purposes. And they dont sell fast/good either....

I do love crafting in this game tho, love how they have their own separate lv, equips, status, skills... I just feel like they are kinda 'meaingless'! But I still hope that with the next few patches/updates, crafters can shine more.

[Alpheus]

I'm pretty sure they'll have incentives to craft even if it is vanity things like decorations for housing and not to mention Crystal Tower looks to be crossover central I'm sure some mats are gonna drop there to craft AT LEAST some items from FFIII. Then again I'm an optimist >.>; but I totally get why others aren't so optimistic. The situation could definitely benefit from some communication from the Dev Team as far as their plans for the non battle jobs.

[Stravanov]

DoW/DoM WILL ALWAYS level faster than a DoH/DoL.

I was BS 50 way before I was LNC 50. And I made myself about a mil in the process. Add to that that I can farm materia more easily than people who didn't level crafting and my alt classes can get gear easily. I'd say that levelling my BS to 50 is time well spent.

[bwalker36]

My understanding was that the HQ Ilvl 70 Stuff melded was decently better than DL. Regardless they are not really worth making and I agree crafting needs some love. I enjoy it so I will continue to level it as a break from AK runs. It should cost like a quarter of the tomes to make something of equivalent value for a crafter due to needing to level and have the stats to actually craft it.

[Xandim]

I was BS 50 way before I was LNC 50. And I made myself about a mil in the process. Add to that that I can farm materia more easily than people who didn't level crafting and my alt classes can get gear easily. I'd say that levelling my BS to 50 is time well spent.

I never said it wasn't well spent, but DoW/DoM DO lv up way faster than DoH/DoL, you can't argue with that. You just took your time and probably knew how to lv up your BSM, but that isn't the scenario for everyone else.

[Alaltus]

It's not even that crafting gear isn't the strongest, it's that Darklight outright destroys the effort put in to make it. Who needs the hassle of making that stuff to prepare for I90 farming when Darklight does the job adequately and costs much less in tomes/time.

[Vyniea]

DoW/DoM WILL ALWAYS level faster than a DoH/DoL.

Wrong.

I got my alchemist from 32 to 50 is 7 hours.

I don't think it's even POSSIBLE to do so as fast on a DoW/M, even by spamming fates at the fastest rate possible.