HQ Double Star Greens VS DL...

[Arale]

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.

Pretty sure it's more then an exaggeration. You are plain wrong in terms of DL HP. Even people in AF have more then 2.5k HP. Get away from the synthesis and get a clue please. People do Coil in DL just fine.

[Asiaine]

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.

One *TINY* little thing:
Those items require rare materials (Peacock Ore, etc.) These can only be bought with tomes (or from the market by someone who bought it with tomes).
Therefore either one is paying gil for it (off the market), or one is buying it with tomes and using it (as opposed to selling it on the market in return for gil). In the case of the later, it is a loss of potential profit, and therefore can count as an expenditure of gil equivalent.

So, yes, in essence they are spending millions.

On the other hand, if they want to, that is of course their choice ^^. And some people (especially those who focus on only one/two jobs) may have excess tomes and do not desire or need gil.

[Brattle]

20/30 min speed runs in either CM or AK. So in about 5 hrs you have a pretty nice piece a gear if you leveled or know someone who has crafting skills. Very cheap and not millions like most of you say.Think most of the complaints I have heard are from people that just look at the market place for all there goods.Nothing wrong with that i made millions off of you but please stop whining.

[montecchia]

Crafting bot is a crafting bot. Such a troll...

[SolarMisae]

A question from me, how to the HQ double star greens compare to AF2/Allagan pieces then?

[Laryndra]

Edit: Ok how about we do it this way. Someone with a monk in full darklight go ahead and post your stat window. ONLY darklight gear + Relic and compare it to Gryphonskin. No food buffs or group buff. The results are similar for the other jobs too.

[Raldo]

A question from me, how to the HQ double star greens compare to AF2/Allagan pieces then?

With a few exceptions, the AF2/Allagan gear will be superior to the HQ double-star stuff, simply due to the iLvl difference (90 vs 70).

[des]

Which is true for amor pieces, Gryphon/Astral pieces might just win because you can meld 10 VIT on each of them (for Coil).

[Laryndra]

Which is true for amor pieces, Gryphon/Astral pieces might just win because you can meld 10 VIT on each of them (for Coil).

This.. Darklight accesories have no vitality. thats 50 vitality you miss out on by using Darklight instead of crafted. On top of that you can put more stats in it thatn darklight even has.. Fully buffed in coil my monk has around 4.6k hp. which is ~1k more than most DDs. That 1k HP is often the difference between life and death, and when you're dead you do 0 damage.

[Kaplin]

name 1 part in coil where you need a higher HP pool as a dps/healer

(hint, you can't)

the only use for a higher HP pool in coil is so you don't come come close to being one shot when you mess up (like a bad) and get hit by caduceus tail whip/ads laser

for everything else, more HP doesn't make a difference. that full set of gear might look shiny, but realistically it is very little DPS improvement over darklight, especially when you consider that the most difficult DPS check currently, turn 4, can be cleared by people in AK gear.