What to do with new EndGame crafting?

[LunnaRavenheart]

Well for example, I am crafting to earn gil.

[Yeldir]

Well for example, I am crafting to earn gil.

This is only temporarily possible. It will wither away when all of the crafters and gatherers, who are doing exactly what you are, fully gear up. All materials on the market right now, all synths, are for crafters and gatherers to gear up.

But there's nothing to make when you reach that goal but other gear for other crafters. Do you see the end, yet? It's not far off.

[Chrolo]

This is only temporarily possible. It will wither away when all of the crafters and gatherers, who are doing exactly what you are, fully gear up. All materials on the market right now, all synths, are for crafters and gatherers to gear up.

But there's nothing to make when you reach that goal but other gear for other crafters. Do you see the end, yet? It's not far off.

Thats only normal, we're selling right now because we can, also we level crafts because we enjoy crafting and/or want to be self-sufficient. If the market dies because every player on the server has the equipment, while there is still no patch then oh well SE delayed the patch by a huge amount then.

Also why did battle classes farm FCoB for gear in 2.5? They could already beat the hardest content with their current one.

[Neophyte]

You want to know for what you're gearing? Nah, i would say for next content.
It's like I could ask myself why i got Furier-stuff and Lucis about 1 month before expansion, when the max price for ***-items was about 2-4k, just to reach lvl 55/58 in HW and "throw" it all away.

Ppl should realize that when they got their first crafting gear complete it may not be long until next patch (with maybe new recipes, risen cap and maybe something with new relic?).
That's what your really working for, as all which is there now can be crafted with i150+170/180 mainhand(+food) i think.
Then it will be more easy (and useful) to obtain the gear and the market price for mats will drop and the gear slowly becomes available at market place, too.

I'll craft mostly the same stuff i did already last week and make money, it's still the same "fun".

Perhaps somebody should explain me what the actual "fun" at crafting/gathering was before HW? Was it all about DoW/M-gear, Kirimu-Coat and potions? Besides that, was there anything else which is now missing?

[DarthBuzzer]

Perhaps somebody should explain me what the actual "fun" at crafting/gathering was before HW? Was it all about DoW/M-gear, Kirimu-Coat and potions? Besides that, was there anything else which is now missing?

Unlimited Crafting. Now we're stuck at making 2 items a week.

[Neophyte]

Unlimited Crafting. Now we're stuck at making 2 items a week.

Ok, so what did you do/craft until yesterday and why can't you still do it?

Would be new to me that a minor patch (like 3.05) makes everything beside toplvl-crafts irrelevant.

[DarthBuzzer]

Ok, so what did you do/craft until yesterday and why can't you still do it?

Would be new to me that a minor patch (like 3.05) makes everything beside toplvl-crafts irrelevant.

When new content arrives, I expect to be able to do that content. (otherwise what's the point in releasing it?)

I want to be able to craft 2 star items, as many as I damn well please for the sake of the enjoyment of crafting high difficulty items. Square have taken the CRAFT out of Crafting and replaced it with WAIT as it's just a waiting game now. I get to craft 2 high difficulty recipes a week and then my enjoyment is suddenly gone because other 3.0 recipes are too easy.

There is no way to defend this system if you know it's in and outs. I assume most people who do just that are simply uninformed.