i90-i95 recipe difficulty not commensurate to the item produced

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

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I'm...not really sure how to simplify it beyond "This is too many expensive materials to make for gear that's only good for glamour" and "It is only going to get more useless in a couple of weeks"

I've personally crafted 5 vortex bows (4 out 5 HQ), moogle mogfists, mogblade, mogtome (SCH), Tremor Cane, and Vortex spear. I farmed most of them and had a good time doing it. Finally things in game to craft that aren't open for everyone to do. Only the truly dedicated and motivated crafters are able to farm the mats and desynth for what is needed.

That's a pretty closeminded way of looking at it in a game where pretty much the entire premise is "Anybody can do everything".

[DarkmoonVael]

I'm...not really sure how to simplify it beyond "This is too many expensive materials to make for gear that's only good for glamour" and "It is only going to get more useless in a couple of weeks"

That's a pretty closeminded way of looking at it in a game where pretty much the entire premise is "Anybody can do everything".

And as i pointed out you are lumping 2 catagories of items into 1. I90 have a lot of uses, but you claim they dont. The mats are not expensive for the return. On my server, if you buy the mats of the MB, you will spend less than 50% of the final sale price on mat. These mats can be obtained through other means, drastically reducing the initial monatary outlay for the craft.

The I95 weapons are I95, making them good enough for secondary/tertiary classes, as well as for glamour. The vast majority of mats from these can be farmed at little cost. Also, there is absolutely nothing that has been said from the devs that they intended these weapons to be accessed by all player with very little effort involved.

I70 crafted gear has never been nerfed since 2.0 (with the acception of the rebalance of vanya trousers to make them reflect the philosophy mat usage in the other crafts). I90 will most likely never be nerfed, neither will the primal weapons. It sounds more like you dont want to put the effort into crafting, rather than having a legitamate concern/complaint now.

[AxelDH]

Gotta say, it would be a bit annoying if they nerfed the recipes for these now... the market for them would drop fast, and I have a few left unsold at the moment!

I do think that the ilvl of these weapons could do with a bit of a boost though. ilvl 110 would be nice .

Seriously though, it would be great if you could one day craft weapons that are near to the top ilvl at the time. I think it was mentioned by the devs that if they made crafted gear too good, it could encourage 'gil buying'. But if that's the problem, they could always make such weapons untradeable, so you craft them for your own use only. It could be a sort of relic quest for crafters!

[scarebearz]

Seriously though, it would be great if you could one day craft weapons that are near to the top ilvl at the time. I think it was mentioned by the devs that if they made crafted gear too good, it could encourage 'gil buying'. But if that's the problem, they could always make such weapons untradeable, so you craft them for your own use only. It could be a sort of relic quest for crafters!

Gil Buyers are already buying T6-T9/Rumah Ex Farms for their gear, so I don't see why we should not be able to craft and sell near top tier weapons.

Raising the ilvl of the crafted i95 weapons to i100 would be ideal in my opinion.

[FJerome]

Seriously though, it would be great if you could one day craft weapons that are near to the top ilvl at the time. I think it was mentioned by the devs that if they made crafted gear too good, it could encourage 'gil buying'. But if that's the problem, they could always make such weapons untradeable, so you craft them for your own use only. It could be a sort of relic quest for crafters!

Only if they made them tradable once they dropped from being BiS, please?

As a crafter, I make most of my money in the low and mid-level markets. The major use of the top-level stuff for me is being able to help boost hyper-casual friends who are allergic to grinding.