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[Sleigh]

Unfortunately I didn't mess around with ACC caps cause tonight was basically i180 for everyone All I can say is 547 is ACC capped, like you.

I also got shoes/ring, those seem the most logical choices for immediate upgrades (and if Alexander Savage has an oil/sand system for Alexander gear). I'm aiming for pants as well, not necessarily because I want them so terribly much, but if my speculation that i190 crafted is coming out in 3.05 then it will be one of the cheapest, best options to have i190 pants already, cost wise.

[Waliel]

Unfortunately I didn't mess around with ACC caps cause tonight was basically i180 for everyone All I can say is 547 is ACC capped, like you.

I also got shoes/ring, those seem the most logical choices for immediate upgrades (and if Alexander Savage has an oil/sand system for Alexander gear). I'm aiming for pants as well, not necessarily because I want them so terribly much, but if my speculation that i190 crafted is coming out in 3.05 then it will be one of the cheapest, best options to have i190 pants already, cost wise.

If I understood Yoshi's intentions right, crafted gear wont do you much good. He said it was too good in ARR, and was originally only intented as catch up gear.

[HaroldSaxon]

If I understood Yoshi's intentions right, crafted gear wont do you much good. He said it was too good in ARR, and was originally only intented as catch up gear.

If he wanted crafted gear to be catch up, he should have brought it out afterwards - like they started doing with the Jewelry pieces.

The true issue however is that there's very little gear differentiation at end game - now that they are aiming at "balancing" out the secondaries, they should give us options to customize our end game gear to how we want to play - either by more gearsets available, or some way of "augmenting" stats on our gear (and please, no materia with RNG).

[Sleigh]

If I understood Yoshi's intentions right, crafted gear wont do you much good. He said it was too good in ARR, and was originally only intented as catch up gear.

Hey this very well could be, but from what I've gathered, they've said they've toned down crafted gear, probably in the amount of substats you can meld, but it will still be better than Alexander gear - there was a flow chart long ago, before 3.0 came out which as of now has been completely accurate:

Law > Upgraded Law > Alexander > ??? (probably primals) > Crafted > Esoterics > Alexander Savage

[hallena]

Hey this very well could be, but from what I've gathered, they've said they've toned down crafted gear, probably in the amount of substats you can meld, but it will still be better than Alexander gear - there was a flow chart long ago, before 3.0 came out which as of now has been completely accurate:

Law > Upgraded Law > Alexander > ??? (probably primals) > Crafted > Esoterics > Alexander Savage

Unless they make crafted gear i185. i fail to see how they could compare to alexander. Materia are currently incredibly weak compare to ARR. You need 3x more stats to gain as much benefit as you used to yet materia V only gives 25% more stats than materia IV