Quote Originally Posted by Ohiuu View Post
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In all honesty, they could either remove primary stat melding from accessories or add the option to the other gear. The part that aggravates me is that left side gear and off hand are garbage because you can't meld enough secondary stats to make up for the missing primary stats. Weapons aren't if usable because weapon damage is so important.

The other thing is their idea of crafted gear as catch up gear. I get this concept and it's a fine approach, but not for the way they've designed FFXIV. In WoW/Rift you'd have to spend weeks farming up token gear to hit the ilvl requirement for experts, which you'd have to farm to hit the raid entry ilvl. Crafted gear generally got you right into experts.

No such system exists in FFXIV and even if it did you can get full i180 gear in a weekend from running dungeons. This begs the question why a person would ever need to buy this gear. Crafting could be removed from the game today and nothing would be impacted because of how insignificant it is to the vast majority of raid groups.

I don't get how they could spend so much time developing an intricate crafting system and completely fuck up making it actually useful.