Coil ruined the craft.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Its ok that the best drops comes from dungeons, whats not ok is that crafters don`t have anything to craft.

First off, people who wants gear, gets it from dungeons, they barely have the money to afford a piece of 3 stars gear, not even think about a full set, then again, the demand for such items is really low and the crafters themself make it go even lower by overpricing (myself guilty as charged).

The only solution to keep this good desing choice of best gear = dungeon but also to give crafters a reason to live is to make Vanity a properly implemented CRAFTING system.

1.- Only crafters can glamour items just as just crafters can repair or meld.
2.- Prices and materials for prism should be increased in quantity and cuality, grade V prism should at least require 2 stars materials.
3.- Make all cool desing of armor and weapons crafted, make dungeon drops to look like normal items. So the vanity items HAVE to be crafted. For example, the hussar gear set should be crafted, while the now hussar gear set should look like a normal leather set.
4.- Put a limit to how many master recipee books can a single character buy, lets say, 4. Recompensate people already have more than 4, that will force economy to trade since not everyone will be able to everything.

The only future i see for crafting and economy to have a place in this game, is via vanity since stats are already in dungeons and thats not a bad choice.

[jgg1988]

The gear is perfectly fine as-is. The i90 crafted gear when melded is a great benefit for The Second Coil of Bahamut.

However it's too expensive, it's a slower market and there ARE people who want to buy this gear but it's a HUGE investment.


Excalibur Prices;

OMGGGG.
People in my server isnt buying like that!

[Delsus]

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The huge huge massive problem with your suggestion is to glamour one piece of gear could end up hugely overpriced for what you get meaning no one glamours gear. Looking at some prices for HQ crafted iLvl 90 gear no wonder it won't sell, you do realise it takes much more work to make over 500k than it does to beat coil T1-4, a full set at 500k each will cost 3mil (including a belt) why not just run some PF coil in a fraction of the time it takes to farm that much gil.

iLvl 90 gear+ materia would probably out perform Alagan gear, but with the combined costs as they are, it's just not worth it.

[Taruranto]

Crafting being level 90 ruined crafting, not coil.

[Jinko]

They should stop adding "end game" focused gear for crafters and just give them a bunch more vanity gear recipes. (this is coming from a crafter)

OP you should be less focused on the cashmere stuff and more the vanity stuff like Sailors and Summer dress if you are interested in making money.

The current i90 craftables would be useful if the items to make them weren't so expensive to get, they just aren't worth buying. (it was the same case for i70 at launch)

Edit:-

SE should have all dungeon gear have no more than 2-3 models and then if you want to change the look you would have to rely on glamour and vanity gear, dungeon gear would be for stats and craftable gear would be for looks, WIN WIN!

[CYoung187]

You are doing it wrong. 2.2 has revitalized most crafting. There are many more things you can craft besides i90 gear.

[NintenPyjak64]

For the most part, this is intended. Community reps came straight out and said they have no plans to improve crafting to match endgame gear. SE for some godforsaken reason hates the fact that crafted gear could be better then raid gear.

[ReplicaX]

OMGGGG.
People in my server isnt buying like that!

And most of us on Excalibur refuse to buy it as its too expensive. Even a NQ non-melded for something like Vanity is way too overpriced.

[juniglee]

For the most part, this is intended. Community reps came straight out and said they have no plans to improve crafting to match endgame gear. SE for some godforsaken reason hates the fact that crafted gear could be better then raid gear.

They state it as some sort of way to combat RMT. Or at least, to not let the influence of RMT destroy the game.

But then again, you have people buying and selling T5 and EM Primals carries...so yeah.

[Lyrinn]

Excalibur Prices

lol, 3 stars are 200k~300k on Ultros with a few pieces being below 200k.