Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
The Resplendent tools aren't intended to be best crafting tools. They're intended to be bragging rights for hardcore crafters so they can prove how hardcore they are, which is something many were asking for.

I doubt very much that SE is going to create rewards that will give a tiny group of players a serious market advantage over the rest of the community considering the changes they've made to crafting/gathering this expansion. If the Resplendent tools don't appeal, then the community needs to offer other suggestions.
Technically, they do. Ultimate weapons are better than their Savage counterparts due to that extra materia slot. It's meaningless but they are better. Which is more than the Resplendent tools can climb.

Nevertheless, the issue is for many hardcore crafters, they aren't after some "prestigious" tool. They're interested in simply making gil either to spend on glamour and such or simply for the sake of having it. I fall in the latter category myself. Additionally, I personally don't feel these tools carry any "status" beyond "hey, I beat RNG!!" Which is the essential problem with crafting grinds like this. Unlike battle content, where you can solve a problem either by learning the mechanics or helping raid mates learn, there's no sense of control with these higher tier Expert Recipes. You can progress all the way to the needed craft only for RNG to say "NOPE!" and back to the beginning you go throughout no fault of your own. That alone ruins any prestige for me because it doesn't feel earned so much as lucky.

Either way, I sincerely doubt these tools will have the desired impact. Hell, even the likes of Ashe10 isn't touching them until Endwalker simply because they aren't worth the effort.