Request for better challenges and better rewards (Formal Letter/Megathread)

[Nandrolone]

Honestly? These recipes don’t look as hardcore and difficult as I imagined, lol. Guess I’ll see when I play around with it in a few hours.

[tdb]

Honestly? These recipes don’t look as hardcore and difficult as I imagined, lol. Guess I’ll see when I play around with it in a few hours.

They seem plenty hard to me. I made three attempts at one and didn't even come close to getting enough collectability to return them, let alone reaching the max tier. I have somewhat conservative overmelds because I didn't want to spend hours farming scrips to buy VII and VIII materia, but I can trivially craft HQ three-star items starting from NQ materials. I'll just stick to farming scrips with the normal Lv80 items for now and consider attempting the expert ones again when the rewards are known.

[Ryaz]

They seem plenty hard to me. I made three attempts at one and didn't even come close to getting enough collectability to return them, let alone reaching the max tier. I have somewhat conservative overmelds because I didn't want to spend hours farming scrips to buy VII and VIII materia, but I can trivially craft HQ three-star items starting from NQ materials. I'll just stick to farming scrips with the normal Lv80 items for now and consider attempting the expert ones again when the rewards are known.

Even people in Discord who succeeded in making one said it was down to them just getting extremely lucky. Its coming down to abusing Hasty Touch and Tricks of the Trade again.

[tdb]

Even people in Discord who succeeded in making one said it was down to them just getting extremely lucky. Its coming down to abusing Hasty Touch and Tricks of the Trade again.

Yeah I figured that much, given how I was running out of CP. It seems like it's necessary to use Byregot's Blessing two times to get good collecability ratings, and that's not exactly cheap on CP or durability. Possibly spamming touch actions at 11 inner quiet stacks before Byregot's could be enough to reach the first collectability threshold. It just needs finding the right balance between CP use and durability. I'm sure I can come up with a working rotation if I put my mind to it, but that (and upgrading my melds) requires time which I'm woefully short of.