Any chance we may get i70 or i90 crafting gears in the near future?

[AttacKat]

if you look at what they did for dow/m gear sets you can see they are willing to do exactly that.
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I totally expect that any future gear for crafters will either require us to re-meld (I hope not) or trade items for.

While I do not mind seeing further gear upgrades for crafters, and truth is, to craft i110 gear, then upgrade must come.

However, as of the currently state, that is just totally unreasonable to expect. ATM HQ 3 star is RNG based and totally hit and miss. While I also understand dow/m items are RNG, but at least they don't have to spend gils to get them, crafters must, and a lot of it when it comes to crafting high level items.

So, until SE ease the path for 3 stars, I do not see it soon. It will be totally unfair for SE to give dom/w a gil-free path to their i110 items, while demanding DoH/L to spend millions (9+3) on their sets.

jc

[Ravno]

ATM HQ 3 star is RNG based and totally hit and miss.

You do it wrong then.
I never miss any 3 stars item.

[AttacKat]

You do it wrong then.
I never miss any 3 stars item.

You HAVE a 100% 3 star HQ rotation?? Please share.

jc

[StouterTaru]

You HAVE a 100% 3 star HQ rotation?? Please share.

jc

It's easy, just start with 3 star mats that someone else HQ'ed.

[AttacKat]

It's easy, just start with 3 star mats that someone else HQ'ed.

In other words, 100% HQ rotation doesn't exist for all 3-star items.

jc

[Ravno]

The only difficult mat to HQ is the mastic (i still get mostly HQ) that's used to craft all ilvl90 gear, but even without that, it's easy to do 100% HQ if the other comp are HQ.

[kaynide]

Respectfully, I think SE designed the jobs as they did (like most MMOs) very intentionally. That is, most players will level some kind of adventuring job, some will dabble in crafts and much less will level all crafting. I think the point of crafting is that it is something you can do alone, in your free time. The adventuring jobs require coordinated play with others: forming parties, scheduling statics or RNGing/PUGing various instances. The challenges involved are like apples and oranges. Complex apples and oranges mind you.

Additionally I don't think it's entirely fair to say a DoW/M does not have dependencies on other jobs. As a PLD, I had to level WHM and WAR to various levels to get specific abilities to be able to do harder dungeons effectively. Again you're right in saying it's nothing like the amount of levels involved in crafting, but honestly leveling crafting was, for me, very fast and very cheap- I actually made a lot of money leveling almost all crafting jobs to 50.