Goodbye DoH/DoL old AFs

[Jx00x]

Sounds like all the time spent creating the gear plus getting the materia required to meld onto the gear is going to (potentially) have been a waste now with the new stuff.
I would have preferred the ability to upgrade my gear along the lines of augmentation material or Relic Weapon. Why can someone that is just getting into the game have gear that is better/equivalent to the gear I spent months getting? Not saying they shouldn't have the ability to catch-up, but it should not be better in anyway

[BobbinT]

Easy. That's one way to prolong MMO live, making ppl sacrifice stuff & time. Not the first time and certainly won't be the last. lol

[Black91CRX]

I've been sporting a fully melded patrician set since melding each individual class would've cost a fortune. So I'm looking forward to the upgrade.

[BobbinT]

I've been sporting a fully melded patrician set since melding each individual class would've cost a fortune. So I'm looking forward to the upgrade.

That's actually depends on you though. I do main-ed full patrician set for awhile until I can make my own HQ DoH individual gear sets. And I kinda practically meld those mostly from spiritbonded effort. Think I spiritbonded countless of patrician and accessories set for that.

Of course, by this time, it's not really a good thing to do that anymore perhaps. I do enjoy my individual, near-max melded DoH gears for months, which lead to my small attachment to those.

Just have to see what happens next after patch went up.

[Oplusion]

Does this mean we wont need to meld our new DOH / DOL gear for max stats , ie they will come with max stats by default ?!

On the bright side, your retainers can take your old gear.

[chidarake]

why would you think that this gear wouldn't need a max melded crafter to create?? plus also atleast initially these will be really expensive to buy assuming they are tradable so newly levelled crafters wont be getting these sets very quickly.

plus they will still have to do ixal quests for the gloves and then craft for the glasses and spend even more gil to get supras if they aren't willing to craft for them. which means they will have to earn millions of gil someway to be able to catch up.

for those new 4* crafts I can only imagine a combination of supra and new off hand is not enough to get a reasonable chance at hq and so the new set will probs be meldable. which means if they are meldable materia will skyrocket yet again because all the top crafters will be buying it over the next few weeks or months meaning that new crafters will be locked out even further on trying to catch up. there just not worth worrying over tbh

plus anyway most top tier crafters have been using af sets for a long time now and so have easily gotten there gil's worth out of them. and I bet nearly none of them were to concerned when we got the new dodore set to craft and meld, actually I bet they pretty much just got it done in an hour after the mats were available.

[Oplusion]

Its called wishful thinking haha !!!

Lets hope they don't screw over our Dodore sets too =D

I feel bad you must attach new material to your gear now, but there's chance they bring you the new UNMELD option, then life is made LoL

[Kiara]

I posted in the other thread, but I almost feel like Yoshi P and the Dev Team will just use this as a stepping stone and make us jump through hoops similar to our Main Hand Tool:

* (Current Crafting Gear "AF") -> Artisan's Gear -> (in 2.5) "Surprise!" (Crafting AF Gear "Supra" Head, Body, Hands, Pants, Feet)

I hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did (and THAT "Supra" Crafting Gear Set would require Tier V Materia to meld (oh joy)).

[Oplusion]

Now I have even more interesting question for you

Will the patch change melding caps for gear ? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[NationOfZealots]

They will still be a source of materia, which if 2.4 prelim notes are indicative, will be very much in demand due to the new crafted DoHL gear assuming they have materia slots.

So, no, I do not see these being as obsolete or unwanted unless yu have no use for materia.