Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
and once you got the primal weapon, which you will use over the crafted gear on any dd class, what did you do with your original weapon? chances are you sold it in the wards by going below the price items are being sold.

you mention your crafted thm weapon, but i said absolutely nothing about mage weapons. i specifically stated dd's and not mages. yes, you may have done the spiritbinding and bought items to turn to materia. that helps the economy now. that's why i stated if the jse gear is along the lines with the ifrit dd weapons it would further hurt the economy. if the jse gear is better and the irfit dd weapons are better then that will not continue.

u/u cannot have materia attached. if the jse has better stats you will not buy gear to wear nor will you buy gear for binding because materia would have no use being made. what would be the point of bonding an item to make materia when the gear cannot hold materia?
Please note when I say gear I mean both weapons, armor and accessories.

Nope, I finished spiritbinding my weapon and broke it, I don't resell gear in the wards I SB it. And even though I had the moogle weapon I bought more conj weapons to spiritbind. If I had a melee job I would do the same so that is not really relevant to the argument.

So what if the JSE is the best for now? I will have bought several sets of high level gear from the market wards before I get the JSE for the 3 jobs I want it from anyway. I'm not doing activities naked until I get my U/U gear...

Taking materia & U/U gear out of the equation for a second, I would have bought 1 set of high level gear for each of my 3 jobs from the wards to wear and that would have been it. Now add back in U/U gear, I would have bought 1 set for each to wear until I managed to get the equipment drops I wanted so crafters have lost nothing unless I repair it and put it back on the market. Now add materia, now I buy highlevel gear, break it for materia, buy another set of gear to attach the materia to (several sets actually as im trying to get double melds) and then manage to eventually get my Ifrit weapon and JSE. I still break my old gear to sell the materia...

The only way I can see crafters being hurt is if people are going into the endgame fights naked or if they are reselling their old equipment at very low prices. Everyone I know is gearing up appropriately going into fights and not reselling equipment, they are breaking it and using/selling the materia.

I AM hoping that someday the crafters will be able to further enhance my U/U gear.