Quote Originally Posted by chrillix View Post
So you're saying we should wait until that BiS gear is needed, and then complain about how to acquire it? If you don't think it ever will be needed, then why is it even in the game? In either situation there is something drastically wrong with the system.
Well for starters, BiS has never ever been 100% needed to do endgame crafting. Mind you, BiS for crafting generally involves the overmelds, so that's primarily what I'm getting at. Pentamelding is generally NEVER needed unless you're lowballing the materia tier to save on costs of inevitable overmeld failures. I'm speaking from experience on that one, as I've always been able to reach minimum reqs for crafting endgame without going all out BiS melds for every single piece, until 2-star HW gear came out. Despite that, there's still no reason for it. Even when a new tier of minimum reqs comes out, BiS is not going to always be mandatory in every single way. Right now, for example, some melding of 3.0 60 gear + a couple pieces of non-crafted gear from red scrips already puts you at the requirements to do 2-star without food. Again, no point to hitting that level right now unless you actively want to. That right there gives the notion that it isn't mandatory to be in BiS everything unless you actively make it so for yourself.

You don't have to wait, but again... it's not needed and never has been, unless that's your goal, then so be it. It can be a problem to not find reason to get at least some of the current BiS goods, sure, but we're still early into it to really deem it even worth complaining about yet. Even with 2.0, 2-star combat equips weren't exactly game changing to acquire for progression in CoB compared to the much easier to acquire Darklight gear. If anything, the accessories sort of were for some cases, but that's about it.