What's your plan?

[abzoluut]

Apart from the fact that crafting i170 gear lets you have the full sets of gear earlier (at the cost of it currently taking a MASSIVE amount of additional time and effort) there's also the fact that the i170 gear can be made to have better stats than the i180 gear if you throw enough materia at it.

Okay, this makes sense. Let's hope materia V's will be available in high quantities. :P

[Jade-Nephrite]

Okay, this makes sense. Let's hope materia V's will be available in high quantities. :P

You can cap the left-side sans Body with IV's, and you'll need just 1 CP V for the 3/5 of the Accessories to get them capped. Though you will need those V's for the Primary & Secondary Tools. I've read some pretty genius ways to get IV's from the ilv 55 gear

[Fince]

I made the BSM and CRP offhands and melded them with four tier IVs and a tier III materia. It was too much for me ! I don\\'t have time in a week to hit A1-4, cap esoterics, cap red craft scrips, cap red gather scrips, keep up my supply of ventures, AND spend hours and hours and mindless hours doing favors to be able to buy mats. And just forget about leveling another battle class to 60... It didn\\'t take long for me to realize that on average I was getting less than 20 barter items from concealed nodes per set of five favors. If I had been able to keep it all going I would have eventually found myself out of gather tokens and unable to buy crafting materials while my red craft tokens collect dust.

[Fince]

On Mateus there is NO marketboard supply of ooids and warts to close the gap. The only players doing favors are omnicrafters who are trying to make their own crafting gear and similarly would not be willing to part with an ooid at any price. All the pure gatherers are focussed on buying i180 gathering equipment with their tokens and aren\\\\\\'t wasting tokens on favors.

So now I am getting my weekly tokens and simply stacking them until the whole situation becomes tenable. Cause the current situation is just shit.

[cearka]

at the moment the plan is waiting to see what they are now gonna do with favors, which means doing nothing but capping reds =
I've made and melded all the accesories and BSM main hand thus far, but the next step is ARM>CUL>GSM>LTH>WVR>CRP>ALC main then repeat for body and offhands.

[Thrustie]

I never thought about comparing the MHs, I just assumed the crafted one was vastly superior. Thanks for the tip!

It is possible to make them better but you'd have to pentameld 5 tier 4s or have 2 tier 5s (one over melded) and some 3s. And you'd only have it marginally better than the scrips one. I'd be hard pressed to spend the time/Gil for it at this point. Maybe when tier 5s are more common but I'd save it for last, if you're crafting your own gear, at the very least.

[tomtensfarfar]

It is possible to make them better but you'd have to pentameld 5 tier 4s or have 2 tier 5s (one over melded) and some 3s. And you'd only have it marginally better than the scrips one. I'd be hard pressed to spend the time/Gil for it at this point. Maybe when tier 5s are more common but I'd save it for last, if you're crafting your own gear, at the very least.

Too bad the scrip MH is very expensive in tokens though.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

26 tokens (for the i180) for the MH tool is a lot. But .. what else are you going to use your RCS on while gearing your Gatherers in the i180 gear they get? It takes 9 weeks to get all of the i180 gear for any given Gathering class .. that's enough time for three of the Crafting class' MH tools. If you decide to do all three Gathering classes, that's more than enough RCS for all of your MH tools, with almost 4 weeks' worth of RCS left over for other stuff.

[tomtensfarfar]

26 tokens (for the i180) for the MH tool is a lot. But .. what else are you going to use your RCS on while gearing your Gatherers in the i180 gear they get? It takes 9 weeks to get all of the i180 gear for any given Gathering class .. that's enough time for three of the Crafting class' MH tools. If you decide to do all three Gathering classes, that's more than enough RCS for all of your MH tools, with almost 4 weeks' worth of RCS left over for other stuff.

I didn't do the math, so thanks for doing it for me . It seems like every high end crafter will get the non craftable MHs, and I'll hop on that train.

[Alahra]

I'm having a hard time deciding on a plan right now, honestly. The system has sucked the joy out of crafting for me. I have my ALC mainhand, but I can't decide if I want to go further on the gear for that or to get mainhands for my other two Specializations and just meld the level 60 set instead. It would be a lot easier to decide if there were things I was excited to make.