HQ Gear as reward from Heavensward quests

[Lyzern]

Does anyone else think this was completely unnecessary to do and just plainly nerfs people who invest time crafting?

One of the reasons people take up to crafting is to have better gear than what they're given while levelling, so that their time actually means something. Not every one of us crafters does it for the endgame profit, we do it to help ourselves and others. With this new system, it makes gearing way too easy and I think there's no point in holding the hand of players who don't actually try to get better gear and end up getting BIS gear through main story.

Then level 60 comes and crafters still don't get the upper-hand when it comes to gear, because it's not even slightly competitive with Token/Primal gear (Not saying it should).

There are a lot of other things crafters can do, yes, but they're all for endgame content. I just wish being a crafter from 51 to 60 gave some sort of an advantage besides grinding for endgame.


TL;DR: We're basically pigeon-holed to being the makers of alt classes' gear with no chance of having any real impact on our main classes until we reach level cap.

[Verdan]

I was gonna write a thread about this. I don't think it's a total disaster yet, cause all the gear isn't in, but it really hurts to just be given stuff that would normally be the result of a lot of work and careful thought.

Also it's not exactly good for the economy.

[arc_08]

I was gonna write a thread about this. I don't think it's a total disaster yet, cause all the gear isn't in, but it really hurts to just be given stuff that would normally be the result of a lot of work and careful thought.

Also it's not exactly good for the economy.

What do you mean all the gear isn't in?

[Verdan]

All the gear isn't in! We still don't have any of the AF2 stuff anywhere, as well as have no idea what the relic quests are gonna be like.

[DarthBuzzer]

I hope the new gear comes with 3.05 in a month rather than 3.1 in 3 months, otherwise what was the point in allowing crafters to level to 60?

[arc_08]

I doubt there will be new recipes in a month. The next update will probably be just the Alexander raid and the continuation of the zodiac weapon. There's no incentive for crafters to grind to level 60 at all! The specialist system, scrips etc. are all pointless right now. It's like they rushed the crafting side of the game or ran out of ideas what to do with it.

[DarthBuzzer]

How was the launch of 2.0 with regards to crafting? Did we have 1 star items immediately at launch? I want to know if this is a repeat or a lack of content that didn't occur before.

[arc_08]

Yeah, 1 star items were available at launch. I remember levelling my crafting then as I couldn't be bothered farming myths every week lol. This is a lack of content but hopefully they have something planned in the next update otherwise this is very disappointing.

[Treble]

I was actually just about to come in here and mention what the OP has. Crafting seems to be total bullshit atm. I just got my miner to 55 and black smith to 53 and a half, and I've learned that all the HQ items apparently sell for 7kish per! Ilvl115-133 shit, for 7k. If I roll a new job all together and try to get some lvl 15 gear I'll be paying 30k for one piece of crap leg gear or something, but then I arrive at lvl 50 in ishgard! and I find that items over lvl 100 are.. worthless? Raw materials are being sold for 30+k a pop, while items go for pennies when their material cost is closer to 100k+ per.

I havn't lvld a combat class yet, or done any quests really. I've just been lvling, so I didn't know the game was just handing out HQ gear like candy. How dissapointing. and here I thought I'd get to feel special leveling a craft this time around first over a combat class. :/

Hopefully this changes once people want to lvl alts? but even then the damage done to the economy could take months to be repaired by this initial jolt since theres so much gear flooded in there.


Also, total side note but.. I noticed that weavers make tanking gear now that has dps stats? but the armor value is the same as tanking statted armor? Is there... a particular reason for this? Seems like a kick to the nuts for armorers.

[Ondori]

First of all. I have yet to see someone with a master book (3.0 one) and the market is out of wack atm which it always is with new stuff. Then, people bitch to themselves and say I wish I would of hung on to those. I crafted a lot 4**** everything going into 3.0. I looked into the recipes and such on things u can make. I don't get why ppl are selling things for cheap, but maybe they are just dumb on economics. Its like when 2.0 started. All the material IV's were like 30k a pop. Later on they rose to 100k to 800k. Thing is, crafted penta melded gear is usually whats needed to go into progression so I am pretty sure youll see some huge price fluctuations. Also, and I will state it again... I have yet to see someone who has the master book to see what the top tier stuff to be made is. I do however, agree with the HQ gear coming from quests. That was really odd. Why not make NQ or greens from quests? I lol'd at all the HQ stuff I got from quests.