Vanya Silk and requirements for crafted gear that make no sense.

[AnimaAnimus]

It's a recipe for burn out.

Sadly that recipe has been mixed, baked, packaged, stored, frozen, thawed, served and eaten in many cases. Before I dropped out of my fc over half the ppl in hadn't logged in in over 30 days and the membership was nearly capped

[Laryndra]

While I do agree that 9 items are definitely a lot, you have to consider that 1) People have more and more tomes by days 2) Philo items are getting cheaper and cheaper. (15k in some servers!)

With this in mind, it's not hard like it was in the beginning to make these items. I myself was firmly against this, but I started to make some Vanya pieces/Astral for my SCH, in order to min-max my stat better. Not like I have better use for those philo (or gil), anyway.

This said, they definitely could reduce some recipe. 18 Ores for a single Astral Ring is a complete and utter joke. 10 would be a fair price. A shame no one in the development team seem to have caught wind of this.

Actually, of all the pieces the jewelry are the most important. A full set of crafted jewelry will not only get you better DD stats but unless you're a tank itll add another ~50 vitality. Which is around 750 life unbuffed. It's -huge- for end game.

[Bufkus]

Actually, of all the pieces the jewelry are the most important. A full set of crafted jewelry will not only get you better DD stats but unless you're a tank itll add another ~50 vitality. Which is around 750 life unbuffed. It's -huge- for end game.

Wouldn't allagans/myth be better though? I can see making 1 or 2 crafted pieces but it'd be much faster to fill the rest with allagans/myth.

Unless of course you're super rich and just crafting the items for fresh 50s.

[Laryndra]

Wouldn't allagans/myth be better though? I can see making 1 or 2 crafted pieces but it'd be much faster to fill the rest with allagans/myth.

Unless of course you're super rich and just crafting the items for fresh 50s.

Allagans and Myth could be better, but if you are below ~4.3k HP and on twintania you risk being one shot by conflag. If you already have a bunch of left side myth/allagan you are likely covered as far as HP goes. That being said my Dragoon uses Allagan accesories and 2 Crafted, i have also a couple of allagan pieces on the left side too to help supplement vitality. It's a balancing act. If you're a dead DD you're doing nothing at all.

And to the second point, yeah. If i ever decided to level a mage DD job i wouldn't farm darklight. I'd make another set of crafted gear. It's quicker for me to make gil than it is to spend hours in dungeons.

[Telosol]

Congratulations. ^^

For materia you might want to have a look at the chart linked from this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...HQ-craft-gears

For the Vanya Robe of Healing, he suggests Savage Aim materia for Critical Hit increases... Critical is probably more useful for Scholars than White Mages, but the alternatives aren't very attractive either. ^^;

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