Bosses, Crafters, and Materia.

[Madruk]

Crafted gear should never be more powerful than raid gear for one simple reason. Raid gear takes coordination, multiple players to accomplish and (debatable) skill. Some may argue it's not skill it's just time vs. reward once strats are known but the fact still remains the content takes multiple players to accomplish. This is the point of a MMO.

Crafting does not take this type of group effort. It discourages group play especially when the rewards for sitting on your ass in town are better. There's plenty of examples that have been said to make crafting still viable but under no circumstances should it ever be better than multi-group content, with some rare special exceptions like a long epic quest.

I wouldn't necessarily call what we have available now as raid caliber content, so maybe there's something better down the line. I'm hoping that they're balancing it versus real raid content and not the single group stuff we're seeing now.

[Gath]

My two Red Wizard gil's is less than 2 gils of Gath

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[Rentahamster]

No. No need for this. Simply need Blue W gear to have stats at or above the level of a high tier tripe meld.

If so, then either the difficulty of obtaining blue gear needs to go up, or the difficulty of a high tier triple meld needs to go down for balance, so as not to cause the situation where one method is significantly easier than the other.

[NoctisUmbra]

If so, then either the difficulty of obtaining blue gear needs to go up, or the difficulty of a high tier triple meld needs to go down for balance, so as not to cause the situation where one method is significantly easier than the other.

Agreed. Always on the side of balance.

[Brannigan]

Crafted gear should never be more powerful than raid gear for one simple reason. Raid gear takes coordination, multiple players to accomplish and (debatable) skill. Some may argue it's not skill it's just time vs. reward once strats are known but the fact still remains the content takes multiple players to accomplish. This is the point of a MMO.

Crafting does not take this type of group effort. It discourages group play especially when the rewards for sitting on your ass in town are better. There's plenty of examples that have been said to make crafting still viable but under no circumstances should it ever be better than multi-group content, with some rare special exceptions like a long epic quest.

I wouldn't necessarily call what we have available now as raid caliber content, so maybe there's something better down the line. I'm hoping that they're balancing it versus real raid content and not the single group stuff we're seeing now.

This right here is what I call A Good Post.

[Jinrya-Geki]

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[Delmontyb]

I'd prefer that you could attach or convert all gear in the game. Gives players need to run content again.

[derenkirby]

2 - Allow rare materia of high tier and stats (possibly entirely new kinds?) to drop as well

This would undermine one of the reasons materia is so good for this game, to have a use for old gear other than just put it on the market for a lower price than crafters trying to make their gil, cause if crafters don't get gil then they wont sell stuff, the way it was before.

Sorry that I want things to do, instead of just having gear made for me that is better than dropped gear and totally ignoring things like the Iftir battle.

You have got things to do, go make some materia, thats why the materia process is long, to get the best stuff you have to put in more time. One good thing about it is you can actually make materia by doing nearly everything in game so u can choose what u wish to put this time into.

Crafted gear should never be more powerful than raid gear for one simple reason. Raid gear takes coordination, multiple players to accomplish and (debatable) skill. Some may argue it's not skill it's just time vs. reward once strats are known but the fact still remains the content takes multiple players to accomplish. This is the point of a MMO.

Crafting does not take this type of group effort. It discourages group play especially when the rewards for sitting on your ass in town are better. There's plenty of examples that have been said to make crafting still viable but under no circumstances should it ever be better than multi-group content, with some rare special exceptions like a long epic quest.

I wouldn't necessarily call what we have available now as raid caliber content, so maybe there's something better down the line. I'm hoping that they're balancing it versus real raid content and not the single group stuff we're seeing now.

lol, so it doesn't take multiple classes to get materials? Not to mention more time and risk.

[Gath]

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[Molly_Millions]

Gath's awesome knob goes to 11.