good luck to all players without 50 dow, craft, and 10 mil gil.

[Bartel]

You mean like almost every MMO? DERP HERP.

Most aren't like XIV was, where you can wear the same crap for 50% of the grind. And that's a terrible system. In most MMOs you want to upgrade your gear every few levels. New players will be fine after a little while. The market will equalize.

Please name 1 MMO on the market where gear costs NEARLY that much every 3 levels. I'll wait.

No it's not.

What the hell is this gear problem everyone is talking about? The old gear is just fine as long as it is your level or below. It was asinine retarded to allow a lvl 30 to equip lvl 50 gear with reduced stats. My highest lvl is 31 and I'm not seeing any trouble whatsoever on that or any of my < lvl20 classes. Sure I can't solo a 4 Star leve anymore but I'm doing just fine on 2 stars or chain grinding =+ mobs.

Everyone seems to be smoking the same crack pipe around here. Patch is great, there is finally a remote challenge in playing this game.

Reread the post you are quoting me from. I wasn't talking about gear there, I was talking about it NOT being easier to level and chain mobs at low levels. At low levels, it is significantly harder to rank up because they nerfed the XP from leves and mobs, and dragged out the length of simple battles.

[Synfrag]

Please name 1 MMO on the market where gear costs NEARLY that much every 3 levels. I'll wait.

Name another MMO that allows your lvl20 to use something that is lvl21. I'm not waiting, because there is none. You don't HAVE to upgrade every three levels. In some cases it's actually better to skip a level. For example Hora over Cesti over Baghnakhs for h2h. Some have higher delays and not much attk difference in a 3 lvl range. Hell, you can do just fine on the starting gear till at least lvl 10.

Apparently you are unfamiliar with a craft driven, open market style of game. I'll help explain, There are DoW, DoM, DoH, DoL classes. The crafters level up and their reward is to sell stuff. The fighters level up and their reward is drops. The crafters can't make anything without the fighters and gatherers. The fighters can't fight without the crafted equipment. Some people play FFXIV strictly to craft and make money. So not buying things from them is just as bad as them over pricing it. Simple Economics dude.

I swear MMOs need an ESRB rating of: GPA:3.0+ or College Graduate

[Sontawila]

Bring me back pre 1.18 FFXIV!

[AmyRae]

Name another MMO that allows your lvl20 to use something that is lvl21. I'm not waiting, because there is none.

Technically FFXI does in Level Sync and Level Cap situations.

Just sayin'.

[Mireille]

its easier to level now fight weak stuff and and get xp bonus's and there a ton of mobs around now.
anytime something is new your gonna pay more until it spams the markets then you cant make money off it, i give it 2 weeks.

Materia removes items from the market by encouraging players to convert their used goods into materia rather than reselling them after 10 levels.

[Synfrag]

Materia removes items from the market by encouraging players to convert their used goods into materia rather than reselling them after 10 levels.

That's a pretty minor thing to be concerned about. Crafters will make more, I know I will.

[Synfrag]

Technically FFXI does in Level Sync and Level Cap situations.

Just sayin'.

Not really.

P.S. Smartass >.<

[Nuru]

I sympathize for the new players, hence why ive been crafting low level THM and CNJ +1 and +2 weapons and selling for about 15k a piece. I'm going to start working on weaver again and work my way up to making Felt Gear xD

[Quanta]

Personally I think that, while it'll be hard for a little while, this was ultimately needed. The old gear needed to be phased out/heavily changed because stats are changing, and stricter level range restrictions were needed in order to help stabilize the crafting market.

It's gonna be rough for a week or so, much like it was at original launch when you couldn't even find a shield to save your life, but it'll equalize.

I don't see why they couldn't have simply grandfathered everything over to the new gear setup. Instead of a mountain of SQL insert statements adding all the new gear to the database, they could have just used a mountain of update statements to fix the stats and add relevant data for materia and shit.

[XxOstiaxX]

Name another MMO that allows your lvl20 to use something that is lvl21. I'm not waiting, because there is none. You don't HAVE to upgrade every three levels. In some cases it's actually better to skip a level. For example Hora over Cesti over Baghnakhs for h2h. Some have higher delays and not much attk difference in a 3 lvl range. Hell, you can do just fine on the starting gear till at least lvl 10.

Apparently you are unfamiliar with a craft driven, open market style of game. I'll help explain, There are DoW, DoM, DoH, DoL classes. The crafters level up and their reward is to sell stuff. The fighters level up and their reward is drops. The crafters can't make anything without the fighters and gatherers. The fighters can't fight without the crafted equipment. Some people play FFXIV strictly to craft and make money. So not buying things from them is just as bad as them over pricing it. Simple Economics dude.

I swear MMOs need an ESRB rating of: GPA:3.0+ or College Graduate

Wow's account bound gear, can use it from lvl 1-85 :P