Crafting is fun!

[Eothas]

You know what really is hard and annoying, and my only problem with crafting? Is that even if you have all crafters leveled up, are familiar with your CP management, cross class skills and reliably HQ lvl 60 recipes with NQ mats. You --- WILL NEED --- to overmeld your gear to even be close to be able to "unlock" 1 star recipes. 2 star? Haha! you will need to MAX meld. I.E. spend 50m gil to be able to try your hands on 2 stars.

This is what I hate about crafting, you will spend MUCH, MUCH MORE time making gil to meld your gear, than you will with red scrips. Not worth at all, I'm almost giving up, my problem is not with mats, with scrips or w/e. But with the excess of melds that you need to do.


And then you wonder why some people buy gil...

[Silverbane]

You know what really is hard and annoying, and my only problem with crafting? Is that even if you have all crafters leveled up, are familiar with your CP management, cross class skills and reliably HQ lvl 60 recipes with NQ mats. You --- WILL NEED --- to overmeld your gear to even be close to be able to "unlock" 1 star recipes. 2 star? Haha! you will need to MAX meld. I.E. spend 50m gil to be able to try your hands on 2 stars.

You're exaggerating. I've successfully crafted 2-star L60 HQ items, and I didn't have to overmeld all that much. None of my gear is pentamelded.

[Eothas]

You're exaggerating. I've successfully crafted 2-star L60 HQ items, and I didn't have to overmeld all that much. None of my gear is pentamelded.

Or I am unaware of something, or you are doing a miracle.



My stats with lvl 60 white HQ gear and some IV melds and the requirements for 2* LTW crafts. I would need max/penta meld every single item and maybe I would be able to try.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Or I am unaware of something, or you are doing a miracle.



My stats with lvl 60 white HQ gear and some IV melds and the requirements for 2* LTW crafts. I would need max/penta meld every single item and maybe I would be able to try.

Red scrip tool. The i180 hand.

[Silverbane]

Red scrip tool. The i180 hand.

Or the i170 offhand: the upgrade from i140 OH to i170 offhands produces the same stat boost as getting the i180 mainhand.

In my own case, my wife and I bought red scrip i180 BSM, CRP, and i180 GSM mainhands.
Having BSM+CRP+GSM mainhands lets us make the offhands for all the other classes, at which point we will be able to do all the 2-star crafts.

Capping red crafter scrip takes about 2 hours, if you wait for a gold star on something easy. I prefer it to the 2.x grind for Oaknots, myself.