I am probably alone in this but.....

[FoxyAreku]

I didn't agree with this thread at first, but thinking about it and now that it has been out awhile, I'm pretty disappointed too.

You worked hard to gear up one or two crafters a patch or two ago, and made real bank when midas came out on that sweet 220 gear. That was amazing, your hard work really paid off.

Now...they have these ironworks sets, which only have 1 material that is even slightly difficult, the rest is super easy to buy or gather.

And what is worse, it's not even worth making the set to sell, because each piece goes from 900k to 1.5 mil...which honestly, is a pathetic amount for what is supposed to be the best crafting gear in the game. You won't even make a profit if you were to buy the materials and craft it, because every weaver/goldsmith/whatever specialist can craft them. Hell, selling the crafter specific 170 gear for glamour enthusiasts would net you a bigger profit (if anyone would buy them which I doubt at this point).

The only limitation to making IW gear is specialist lock, and that at least keeps the price reasonably high, but what will happen next patch when they go off of specialist? I can easily see people flooding the market with them and this gear set dropping to 500k a piece on populated servers like mine, or worse, and anyone with even a small to decent amount of gil will have a full geared crafter the instant they hit 60 with no work. It just doesn't seem healthy for progression and economy sake, I guess.

It's just such a ridiculous 180 from how it was , just gearing out your 3 specialist classes took time and effort. You had to spend time farming favors and red scrips and you felt so satisfied when you got that awesome looking gear for your favorite crafter job, and you felt special because so few other people had it, but this is just... "Oh yay an ironworks piece, that was easy."

Keep in mind I'm not saying buying your way to best in slot is bad, either, but I do think that the best in slot should at least be a little valuable and not be something everyone can get with literally no effort. Maybe they should have implemented a way to upgrade the 170 gear we made instead, or make the materials for ironworks actually difficult to come by, but this is just bad. Next patch everyone and their mom is going to be a 4 star crafter and it's going to destroy the economy.