Fieldcraft Demimateria III; Does anyone feel a bit shafted?

[Kinseykinz]

If you can't craft NQ 3 star recipes without the ilvl75 tool, getting it won't help you any.

People aren't just going to make difficult items that you need and flood the markets with them at cost.

Umm...you do realize a specific class (goldsmith) makes the ruby right?

You do realize that that ruby is then used, by get this, other crafting classes to make said 3-star items.

....so. Yes, it IS plausible to have not leveled goldsmith, and STILL be able to craft 3 star items on other crafting classes. This is even more plausible when you factor in it is totally plausible to reliably craft 3-star furniture on Other classes without needing any cross-skills from goldsmithing to do it.


But again, in the context of the OP's original post, it does seem to be a bit much to expect, gatherers to basically either level (or have leveled) a crafting class/and then level it's desynth to get their tool. The actual item we have to gather, is simple to get, and easy. Everything else for the tool however, is either 'just buy it and save yourself the hassle' or as has been pointed out, requires crafting.

Meanwhile, for the actual crafting tools, you only need 3 mastercraft materia+ the crafted item x5 (which does take Fieldcraft materia, but hey, you're actually crafting and probably actually have some).

It probably would have been better to require the 3 mastercraft demateria (just like crafting tools) but then made the DOL's have a more difficult item to gather than they have currently....or make them gather a far larger amount. At least then, you'd be 'gathering to earn your gathering tool for the most part' as opposed to grinding crafting to earn your gathering tool.


So anyway, my point was, unless you can craft all the necessary items (which a DOL might not have even touched...or might not have proper class leveled to make a mat cheaply) , it's probably better to just buy your Fieldcraft III's/Mastercraft materia's needed for the Tools w/ proceeds from selling items you gather.