Normal mode raids: please don’t settle on this loot system...

[Zigabar]

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Find a crafter-friend. Treat them nicely!

This right here is the solution if crafting is 'too hard' or 'too expensive' for you. My static group has 2 people who don't craft. They treat me and our other crafters nicely. They offered to level gatherers and bring us mats. It's simple, easy, and your crafter is probably going to make you good DoL gear as well as DoW/DoM because everyone benefits.

[RiyahArp]

This right here is the solution if crafting is 'too hard' or 'too expensive' for you. My static group has 2 people who don't craft. They treat me and our other crafters nicely. They offered to level gatherers and bring us mats. It's simple, easy, and your crafter is probably going to make you good DoL gear as well as DoW/DoM because everyone benefits.

You need to get two gatherers to 70 and unlock the regional folklore books for them, which take 50 tokens from rowena, aka 2500 red scrips each. You also need to gear those gatherers pretty high, because under a certain amount your HQ chance for those node items becomes 0, making it much harder for your crafter friends to make the HQ ingredients needed to HQ a 4 star piece. And you need your crafter buds to have all crafts at 70, for a set of gear due to splitting it up among the differnt crafts.

I mean, people are kind of pooh poohing effort. You're not going to be able to make a full set of 3 star crafting gear HQ for yourself as someone who doesn't already have crafts leveled to cap or without sinking decent time in stuff; crafting is too interrelated to be easy to do so. The only reason the prices remain low currently is that the demand for crafted gear is very low; most people just ignore it unless they needed to raid the first week, and even at low prices, you're probably doing at least 15 mil gil work of gil or effort.

It's not really an option for a player who isnt into crafting. A ot of the gearing options in this game kind of suck. At least eureka hopefully will help combat players to gear in an actual combat way, without BS.