What is the point of crafting leveling gear?

[Laerune]

There are alot of reasons why one would want to craft their own gear:

- Crafting your own gear means you will spend less on vendor gear. We must not forget that newcomers with no gil need a way to upgrade the gear of their crafting and gathering classes.

- The game wants you to make HQ items, if you want 2x-4x reward, then you need to hand in a HQ version of the item and crafting a HQ item requires high stats, skill or just luck.

- If you want to level fast, you need to hand in HQ items, this means you will either need to be able to make one yourself, buy one from the Marketboard or ask someone to craft them for you and that might cost you money aswell. For alot of newcomers the last two options is not possible, so they can only get them by crafting the item themselves.

- Its very handy and if you HQ them you only need one gearset every 10 levels. The HQ stats are higher then the NQ stats that you get from items after 5 levels, this means that you can keep wearing the same gear for 10 levels. Since all gathering and crafting classes share the same gear, this means that you will save inventory space and you can spiritbond the gear when you are done with it.

- After level 50, you can not buy the right side of the gear from an vendor, the only way to obtain them is either from a quest reward or crafting.

Personaly, I think the option to level our own gear was made so we can save gil, gil that newcomers wont have.

[Vidu]

- After level 50, you can not buy the right side of the gear from an vendor, the only way to obtain them is either from a quest reward or crafting.

This is news to me?

[ErryK]

This is news to me?

It's true, you can't get accessories outside of blue scrips(lv60)/red scrips(lv60)/quests/crafting.

[Laerune]

This is news to me?

Yep, I was suprised aswell. I reached level 50 with all my crafters few weeks ago and was suprised that there is no vendor selling the leveling gear for the right side. At first I thought I wasnt looking correctly, but few minutes on the internet and I found alot of threads some even dating back to when Heavensward was released and they were al about players complaining that there was no right side gear being sold by a vendor.

Personaly, I do hope this is something that SE will change with Stormblood, so new crafters who reach level 60 after Stormblood releases can have a easier time bypassing the huge stat wall that there is.