The "Hand-out" sacks from Potd.

[BigTough]

I'd say it sounds more like:
a. "I can't sell crafted weapons or the mats for these weapons at a ridiculous price anymore"
or
b. "a lot of other people have this weapon, so now it doesn't feel special and I don't want that"


perhaps I'm being too cynical?


My EX Ravana gun is still as cool as it ever was. I put in lots of barely finished and FC organized runs to get it. Am i sour now that people can go in and run it unsynched to get the same gun for almost no effort or get handed it just out of some RNG bag? Naw.

You almost have it right. But I'm all for making it less expensive, as I suggested, giving mats instead of full weapons, or any other alternative way to obtain the item OTHER THAN giving the entire weapon away. The system they have come up with is just horrendous and lazy.

[Krotoan]

Soooooo making the ...

hardcore people spend more time playing: more time to farm mats
Elite people can farm harder encounters: more drops of "hard to get" mats/items
It's very relevant to the economy of the items.

I'm still confused what you mean by "giving meaning to the crafting recipes"

The content has been around for a long time, for a while they were the only way to get those weapons. Now the weapons are much easier to attain. Their time as a "premium" weapon has expired.

I'm failing to see how 3 types of weapons being devalued hurts you so much as a crafter. Yes, you might have lost 3 (ok ok, like.. 30 something different weapons I get it) , likely very lucrative , sources of income. But you don't SPECIALIZE in mog weapons. It's not a job or a class. You're a BSM or a GSM, find another rare thing?

Maybe I don't understand because I don't craft ONLY. But it sounds greedy to forever want something rare just so you can ride that demand.

[BigTough]

My intention isn't to sound like an elitist a-hole either, I'd like for everyone to enjoy the game. I haven't even hit level 70 yet. In fact, I haven't played much all year except for some crafting here and there. Certain things like this have caught my eye that are pretty annoying. You know the dev team couldn't have overlooked this, and you know even more so that they must have noticed it's certainly by now and yet... there's just no care in the world to try and rebalance it. Where's the happy medium? Why are those mats even still a thing?

[Krotoan]

My intention isn't to sound like an elitist ...

I'd say they're still there because removing that kind of thing would create a whole new problem: someone logs back in with 99% of the mats they had built up to make whatever thing after maybe taking a 2 month break. Decides they wanna make the thing... now those mats are useless.

I really don't have a good answer for the happy medium though. In my eyes it's OK. But then again, like you said you only login to craft and if that's your fun in this game I can see how this would affect you heavily.

From my perspective (I did max out all my crafting/gathering just so I could make things I wanted but don't care if I don't always use those skills) it's just making more fun available to more people. I am sorry it's making less fun for you. You are a rare case though.

[Lildragora]

Stuff said here.

Again, no correlation to hardcore or elite farming as the context is making mats easier to obtain through PotD, and if you fail to see how giving mats instead of the final product gives a recipe more meaning there's nothing left I can say to you on that matter.

But you're right; it is greedy to want something to be rare forever, which giving mats achieves the same thing without devaluing the crafters time as much. Again if you cant see this I dont know what to tell you.

As a side note I only level crafts to have max level crafts. I make my money through other means so this really doesn't affect me at all.

[BigTough]

Honestly, if they took the mats out of the game, I'd feel better. I'm irritated there's a mat on the marketboard for 4 million gil that makes a weapon in which only a high level crafter can make that you can also get for free from potd, or for 200k off the MB. Why?

There are a LOT of people in this game with gil, a lot of gil. There's also those players who can't seem to keep their heads above 100k, ever. Why would I talk about balance and expect to upset THAT balance, where parts of the game are only accessible to the filthy rich?I don't want that, that's not what I'm saying at all. Anyone remember how long a Mog weapon sat on the MB pre-HW? WEEKS! I can make over hundred million in a week by selling small things at small prices, trust me, I don't need these weapons to sell at 5 mil to make gil.... What I want to know is why a weapon would cost 6-7 million to craft, when you can get it for free, or for 200k? Why are weapons that cost 6-7 million to craft as common as a level 1 weathered weapon? I mean clearly there aren't a lot of people running bismark or Ravana, why would they?

[Krotoan]

other stuff

I'm saying the PoTD dropping the weapons drops value of mats, so the more hardcore/elite players don't have such a monopoly on the supply of those weapons which I support. I apologize If I didn't make that as clear as I should have. I understand getting mats means people will have to ask crafters to make the weapon instead of just having the weapon. I don't think it makes the recipe useless to HAVE though. If you get the mats you can still use them. But many weapons have alternate easier methods of acquiring them now.

I see how it would "devalue" the crafters time IF they ONLY farmed those weapons and spent all their time trading in the items that suddenly have become cheap. Otherwise the crafter should move on to more valuable crafts.
EG: Table Orchestrions. In demand, valuable stuff and the mats are farmable. I don't think they drop anywhere either.

[JockHarley]

The demand will fall, the mats will get cheaper and the crafters will still make a profit. Or .. the price will fall beyond crystal/cluster costs and crafters will move on to another source of profit. I'm not seeing a downside for anyone but the people who depended solely on huge windfalls from farming/crafting those particular weapons.
I'll always stand by making things more available to all players instead of weighing it in the favor of "hardcore" or "elite" people.

how is that elite?: sounds more like someone wanted profit for crafting, this is a reasonable request, so is yours to keep it the way it is now.

[Maeka]

So wait, you can get this stuff from PotD? *blinks*

[Krotoan]

how is that elite?....

I'm not calling OP elitist. Their request is reasonable and well thought out. what I'm saying is just because one recipe is devalued doesn't mean they all are. There are new things to go farm and profit off. I like when older content is made available to a wider swath of the population.

Elite/hardcore players (this is not a negative title, just a a classification) will usually control a lot of "rare' items in any given games since it's these people who put those items into the markplace. They have the time/skills/organization to get the mats beyond their current needs and as such will put those mats on whatever market board has been implemented. Current example: Minion Lakshmi and Susano are SUPER expensive right now because you need their EX drops and a high crafting class. However I don't think that control should last forever.