o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[TheVedis]

I am personally liking what I am seeing here, I think I need to think things over a bit longer to drop a final verdict, but it all looks positive.

I am in agreement with the conversion of item qualities people are suggesting. NQ and +1 should become NQ and +2 and +3 should be HQ, if I see my +2 items going into NQ I will be a very pissed off camper. But we have no official news on how this is going to go, yet.

i think alot of people will be mad seeing their +1s get transformed into NQ too....
thats a concern i have

[NoctisUmbra]

i think alot of people will be mad seeing their +1s get transformed into NQ too....
thats a concern i have

Honestly, a lot of people will be mad no matter what changes - as long as something changes someone somewhere is always going to get pissy.

However it makes the most sense to split them right down the center. Yoshi says that HQ will provide a clear buff to the gear, and being that it is a single-tier HQ it would make more people upset if +1,2 and 3 all become HQ. This devalues the current +2/3 gears which both are considerably more difficult to obtain than a +1 - you don't even need HQ mats to get a +1 final product consistently.

If anything people should be happy for such an advanced notice. I'd take this opportunity to sell off any +1 and +3 gear I have (provided we get an official transition plan announced.)

[TheVedis]

Honestly, a lot of people will be mad no matter what changes - as long as something changes someone somewhere is always going to get pissy.

However it makes the most sense to split them right down the center. Yoshi says that HQ will provide a clear buff to the gear, and being that it is a single-tier HQ it would make more people upset if +1,2 and 3 all become HQ. This devalues the current +2/3 gears which both are considerably more difficult to obtain than a +1 - you don't even need HQ mats to get a +1 final product consistently.

If anything people should be happy for such an advanced notice. I'd take this opportunity to sell off any +1 and +3 gear I have (provided we get an official transition plan announced.)

the fact that it looks like there is going to be a new tier of crafted endgame gear(cobalt for instance) does give a bit of hope to the fact that the older stuff wont be as important to that effect either

but yeah people will be mad regardless, but one thing to look at, will you hit a bigger crowd by making +1s nq or hq?
i can almost guarentee a small fraction of players carry around +2/3 gear overall compared to +1s, most every hq peice of gear out there is a +1 so HQs would be near non existant under the new system to start if the change hits as such(and the people who worked for those +1s will be mad that they worked for them for nothing)

[Vesper]

the fact that it looks like there is going to be a new tier of crafted endgame gear(cobalt for instance) does give a bit of hope to the fact that the older stuff wont be as important to that effect either

but yeah people will be mad regardless, but one thing to look at, will you hit a bigger crowd by making +1s nq or hq?
i can almost guarentee a small fraction of players carry around +2/3 gear overall compared to +1s, most every hq peice of gear out there is a +1 so HQs would be near non existant under the new system to start if the change hits as such(and the people who worked for those +1s will be mad that they worked for them for nothing)

Will have to see more on this cobalt stuff. But atm its my least favorite. Its just going to be everyone looking the same (again). I think gear needs to have no stats on them whatsoever. Make it so crafters add the stats, new recipes would be new looks only. This way you could effectively mix and match tons of gear for a unique look and then have it statted to your preferences.