3.2 patch is a slap in the face of (omni)crafters (specialist & stat garbage)

[Avin00]

If you have all ilvl 180 gear left hand side the 170 off hand like you should have any ways melded right hand side of ilvl 55 and use food you can make the minimum required to craft the new stuff. It's going to be nails hard and certainly if you invest the time and money into the 170 melded gear it will be easier but it is possible with the 180.

[Chiami]

If you have all ilvl 180 gear left hand side the 170 off hand like you should have any ways melded right hand side of ilvl 55 and use food you can make the minimum required to craft the new stuff. It's going to be nails hard and certainly if you invest the time and money into the 170 melded gear it will be easier but it is possible with the 180.

If you penta-meld the ilvl 170 belt and all jewelry to absolute stat-cap (checked on Ariyala) and eat HQ seafood stew AND are specialist you get to 856 craftsmanship and 828 control, so yes you can do it that way, but this is already a massive amount of overmelding in addition to the time/gil sink of red scrips for ilvl 180, AND it still renders all the ilvl 180 accessories we got/get now useless for endgame crafting. So the point of my original post remains, those who invest(ed) into ilvl 180 gear got screwed over, and the new ilvl 180 accessories are a bad joke. Just as all the other points of my post remain, sadly And shall we bet at latest half a year from now 4-star recipes will come with stats that are totally beyond anything but ilvl 170 gear pentamelded with tier V materia and being a specialist?

[Sollux]

So the point of my original post remains, those who invest(ed) into ilvl 180 gear got screwed over, and the new ilvl 180 accessories are a bad joke. Just as all the other points of my post remain, sadly And shall we bet at latest half a year from now 4-star recipes will come with stats that are totally beyond anything but ilvl 170 gear pentamelded with tier V materia and being a specialist?

I'll admit I'm a little surprised that a full i180 set cannot meet the minimum stat requirements for 3*, but Crafting needs to have SOME sort of progression, something it hasn't had for a while. From the start if you correctly melded the white gear you could meet the minimum stat requirements for everything up to and including 2-Stars, which in reality meant there was never a need to get ANY i170 or i180 gear until this patch other than saving some gil.

They're also releasing i180 OHs which will likely cover the stat gap, and if they don't then a i170 OH overmelded + food will meet the minimum cap. That's not a lot to ask, considering how much cheaper the mats are and the fact that we've had MONTHS to obtain i170 gear. I will agree that the i180 Accessories are a joke as they are easily matched or beaten by safe melds on the white accessories.