Alexander Gears and Red Craft/Gatherer Scrip restrictions

[aesteval]

Red scrip restriction probably is not going anywhere because the current limitations make it so that they can keep the system active going forward. The main currency for red scrips are actually the tokens, cups, and dice. Future use of red scrip just needs a new exchange item.

The proper way to unlock the red scrip upgrade items in anticipation of the expansion is to switch their cost to blue scrips.

[aesteval]

I don't especially care about the weekly limit on red scrips, but I'd like them to increase the maximum amount I can hold on to at once.

I'd like to see the limit increased to 550 or 600. I understand the reason for keeping the wallet small, but it would be nice to have a slightly larger buffer to work with when getting the 480 needed for an additional Soul so that I don't have to deliberately craft something worth fewer scrips to ensure that I don't exceed 500.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I'd like to see the limit increased from 500 to 900 (or, exactly two weeks worth of collecting). The 450 limit is really nothing nowadays, at least for someone who has all crafters and gatherers at 60 in i190/i195 gear melded well.

It takes crafting for Zhloe and then maybe a few more items to max out red Crafting scrip. It takes an hour, depending on luck with nodes and Discerning Eye procs, to get enough collectibles to finish red Gathering scrip.

[DrWho2010]

i don't think they'll raise or remove cap for scrip - however alex gear and dun scaith weekly lockout should be lifted prob either in a 3.57 or 3.58 patch.

[Nezerius]

It's beyond me as well why red scrips are *still* limited this close to the newest expansion.

That's because the scrips system shouldn't be seen as a carbon copy of the tomestone one.

Red scrips will remain the relevant scrips, while outdated stuff gets moved to blue scrips. New stuff gets bought with new tokens, which in turn are bought with red scrips.

Increasing the weekly amount would just mean that they'd have to lower it with every new addition, while increasing the total cap would allow players to get too much of an advantage by pooling red scrips before a patch that adds new scrips stuff (to current 500 likely being the acceptable amount).

The 450 limit is really nothing nowadays, at least for someone who has all crafters and gatherers at 60 in i190/i195 gear melded

It's never really been much to begin with, even when people were still wearing the lvl 60 white quality gear.

Zhloe is mostly just to test a feature like that, with the ease of getting scrips being incentive for crafters to do those turn ins, as well as to get fresh lvl 60 crafters to ease into it. It's probably something they'll expand on in 4.0.

[Nixxe]

while increasing the total cap would allow players to get too much of an advantage by pooling red scrips before a patch that adds new scrips stuff (to current 500 likely being the acceptable amount).

Only if they handle it incredibly poorly. Blizzard would just convert all Arena Points/Conquest Points/whatever down to honor with each new season. Regardless of what your cap was for those, your cap moving into the release of new and better stuff was 0.

[Laerune]

I still need to farm blue scrips for the folklore tomes, god help me if the materials are required for crafting 60-70 items in Stormblood.

[Vivi_Bushido]

It's beyond me as well why red scrips are *still* limited this close to the newest expansion.

If I were to guess, it's likely that the blue/red script system will be carried over into 4.0. If they were to remove the cap on them, they would either have to recreate a new set of scripts altogether or return the cap on them after SB launches. That or they don't want players to amass crazy amounts of grade V crafting/gathering materia yet.

[Atlaworks]

It takes crafting for Zhloe and then maybe a few more items to max out red Crafting scrip. It takes an hour, depending on luck with nodes and Discerning Eye procs, to get enough collectibles to finish red Gathering scrip.

Actually at rank 5 if you get orphanage donations with max collectability, you get 75 per turn-in, so 450 for your weekly turn-ins.

[Kemonologist]

It's beyond me as well why red scrips are *still* limited this close to the newest expansion.

Last time, they remove it only 1 month before 3.0.