Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
Confirmed with Disciple of the Hand lead

Currently there are no plans to add any new low/mid level crafting recipes.
We designed FFXIV so that gear obtained from dungeons is more effective than crafted items.

For their first class, players can gain equipment from the main quests so we don't think they should face any problems. But we believe there are other chances to use low-level gear, such as creating materia or equipping them when leveling a second class.
Here's the problem that I have with this..and it's been bothering me for a bit now.

I leveled my first class (Paladin) through quests and whatnot and got the gear through that and dungeons. Fine, cool, I like it. Doesn't force me to do anything in particular. At the same time, however, I made sure to cap up my rank in my GC and made sure to do all the GC hunting logs. This gives me access to all GC gear.

Here's where your last line makes NO sense: I have been successfully able to level from 1-50 with three other classes without a single bit of gear from crafters by simply slotting in GC items instead. Due to the fact of the ease of leveling (Through Fates pre 2.1), gear has lost such value and need, and the saturation of what you guys did gear wise, that crafting is completely useless and it completely nullfies your statement of "other chances to use low-level gear". Why? I get enough points out of Fates to feed myself gear every five levels through the GC and STILL get gold in Fates and give my full 100% participation.

So if crafting is supposed to help level other classes...and yet I have the option to not even bother and just grab gear out of a GC which has better gear than crafted stuff at that level...What's the point of crafting other than a sink?

And not even a great one too.

I wish you guys, instead of just coming to sit and say "yeah so the leads say this won't happen" would actually sit down a bit longer and discuss just how you guys approached it and what their thought process was. It would help us understand a bit more.

Honestly? Crafting's pointless. Entirely pointless and a simple "do this cause it's in the game" type deal. I understand the approach of not wanting to force people to level because it's the best gear, but man...give DoH SOMETHING.