Skybuilder's tools (510 shiny)

[LaughingBanana]

Yes, it's confrontational if you slate them, call them trash, and effectively inferior with insufficient research or consideration of pre-existing builds, and then subsequently try to pawn this off as fact.

He may or may not be wrong regarding his opinion about the thread's subject, but I really don't see how he's being confrontational in that post. All I get from all that post is an IMO, it's his opinion, and he's not trying to antagonize OP, merely disagreed with the OP about the state of things.

Like, I really don't see how that post is an indication of how he needs to "grow up" or somesuch, it's really mild and inoffensive, and it's just him disagreeing with the OP, which I thought is just fine.

[Kaurhz]

He may or may not be wrong regarding his opinion about the thread's subject, but I really don't see how he's being confrontational in that post. All I get from all that post is an IMO, it's his opinion, and he's not trying to antagonize OP, merely disagreed with the OP about the state of things.

Like, I really don't see how that post is an indication of how he needs to "grow up" or somesuch, it's really mild and inoffensive, and it's just him disagreeing with the OP, which I thought is just fine.

Well, I can at the very least tell you that reaching higher Craftsmanship breakpoints you get much more control loss from remelding pieces versus just equipping the Skybuilder's Tools. Case in point; in order to reach 2735 Craftsmanship on non-specialist you will hit a maximum of 2738/2819/554 I believe, compared to that of 2749/2820/554 from the Skybuilder's Tool approach, so in that regard, it is better, that's just a simple, and cold fact. I'd have been willing to agree with them if they said the ends currently do not necessarily justify the means (starting from scratch > 510), but they outright called it trash and ranted "suboptimal stats" which is simply factually incorrect.

You'd need to ask the other poster that, but they at the very least came across as non-constructive with a lot of feedback "it's all trash"; instead of giving feedback as to what they could do to improve tools in the future. Be it an additional step that would allow for materia to be affixed to the gear, or by creating a 'bonus stats' section for the tools, so you grind and grind materia amongst other rarities and outright customize additional stats right down to the single digit. Similar to that of light grinding, I guess. Consider the following;
Craftsmanship; 854 - Control; 468 - CP; 6
Additional/Bonus Stats
Craftsmanship; +21 - Control; +18 - CP; +1