HQ Double Star Greens VS DL...

[Maphyr]

Utterly pointless? Lol. After having 12m from maxing crafts 1st, selling 2 stars and various crafting items i started to level pugilist. I had better gear when i hit level 50 than 99% of the server without ever setting foot in a level 50 dungeon. Not to mention it is superior gear. Go on 'head and try to do coil in your darklight.. lemme know how that works for ya. (lolz @ 2.5k hp casters)

Who has 2.5k HP in Darklight? Seems all you know is how to run a crafting bot and not much about actual gameplay.

Oh and people are doing Coil in Darklight, everyday... soo yeah - Utterly pointless.

[Matsume]

Utterly pointless? Lol. After having 12m from maxing crafts 1st, selling 2 stars and various crafting items i started to level pugilist. I had better gear when i hit level 50 than 99% of the server without ever setting foot in a level 50 dungeon. Not to mention it is superior gear. Go on 'head and try to do coil in your darklight.. lemme know how that works for ya. (lolz @ 2.5k hp casters)

Um... as a WHM in Coil Turn 4, I have Full darklight, relic +1, AF+1 boots, and my accesories are purely AK greens. Honestly, nothing special. Oh, I had 4K HP in full darklight without relic weapon, when I was doing titan... and it's actually been working very well so far tyvm.

That aside, the HQ two star synths, given forbidden materia melding, are by far superior to darklight gear. Especially the accessories.

[Sindri_Myr]

HQ 2-star equipment is pretty much equal to darklight. With melds, it can easily exceed it.

This. You gotta fail at math if you cant count the base stats plus the meld bonuses and see it exceeds DL by far.

[Budi]

The ☆☆ Equipment is useless, unless you have lot of gil and don't want to farm dungeons for your DL gear. The crafted gear costs (at least) 1125 Tomes, which is more than 2 DL pieces of gear combined (~950 Tomes). The "better" stats can be ignored, as Spell Speed and Critical Hit Rate stats are currently neglectable. (I wear exclusively Spell Speed gear and didn't even reach 10% faster cast time yet).

Vanya Robes are the only ones that are good, because you can wear the i90 head piece with it. Don't know about Darksteel Armor and Legs.

[Kyana]

The heavy darksteel body/head, legs/feet and hands cost roughly the same ammount of tomes as the heavy darklight equivalent.
So, the better tanking gear would be the HQ crafted one for 3375 tomestones compared to 3135 for heavy darklight?

[Cuban]

HQ Heavy Darksreel is awesome Simply hitting that 450 accurate cap along with the rosegold jewelry where u can get a ton of vit and socket it with str material to raise defence

[NefGP]

Some people just can't read I guess.


There will be a level cap increase, probably within the game's 1st year according to YP in an earlier live letter. Guess what that means? All those millions you blew on the double star, melded HQ - POOF! Wasted. The Bahamut gear is supposed to be even stronger as well (again all according to YP in the live letters) so.... why waste all the gil?

Oh right, this is the internet and people have e-peens.

[Raldo]

lol, most people who have HQ double-star stuff aren't spending much gil at all; they can either make it themselves, or they know someone who can. Few people are "spending millions", and the people who are melding their gear are actually using it right now to complete content today. I'd hardly call that a waste of money.

[Laryndra]

Who has 2.5k HP in Darklight? Seems all you know is how to run a crafting bot and not much about actual gameplay.

Oh and people are doing Coil in Darklight, everyday... soo yeah - Utterly pointless.

Considering I am wearing ilv 90 earrings from coil and am on turn 4 im pretty sure I know how the gameplay works. Nice try though. Maybe 2.5k was an exaggeration but I easily outstat/hp people in "ilv equivalent" darklight gear with my crafted set.

Anyone with half a brain can tell that the crafted gear is superior and if you had a set of it you'd be better off than if you didn't currently. Is it worth the expense? I don't know that's for you to decide. I had my gear crafted and melded before I ever stepped foot in CM.

Once the crystal tower comes out though, unless they release a new tier of crafted it will more than likely become obsolete.

[Tiraelina]

lol, most people who have HQ double-star stuff aren't spending much gil at all; they can either make it themselves, or they know someone who can. Few people are "spending millions", and the people who are melding their gear are actually using it right now to complete content today. I'd hardly call that a waste of money.

There's this thing called opportunity cost. It doesn't matter where it came from.