Barrier to entry for crafting is to damn high.

[YamiVKD]

sorry, my mistake on that one. but year, too much buying material for tomes, rots the brain I think lol

Is okay. I worked it out in the end.
Also about my current gear I got the crafted pieces a while ago and, yes the matria in them is horrible. I was just maxing out how much CP I could use at the time cause that's all I needed for what I was doing.
Sorry I burned your eyes with that disgrace LOL

[Kes13a]

Is okay. I worked it out in the end.
Also about my current gear I got the crafted pieces a while ago and, yes the matria in them is horrible. I was just maxing out how much CP I could use at the time cause that's all I needed for what I was doing.
Sorry I burned your eyes with that disgrace LOL

no need to apologize really.

it was at least 90 gear lol. that said, even pentamelding that gear would leave you short, even with the highest grade materia, since its already short 300 points each on the major craftsmanship and 200 on control pieces. so yes, I can see where you would say the requirements are "unreasonable"

but I think you will see once you get into better gear they are well within grasp to meet without pentamelding

[YamiVKD]

no need to apologize really.

it was at least 90 gear lol. that said, even pentamelding that gear would leave you short, even with the highest grade materia, since its already short 300 points each on the major craftsmanship and 200 on control pieces. so yes, I can see where you would say the requirements are "unreasonable"

but I think you will see once you get into better gear they are well within grasp to meet without pentamelding

Thank you very much. My current goal is crafting a Pactmaker set and saving up my cowries on my island to buy materia. If I work on both sides, scripts and cowries I'll have all the materia I'll need.
I'm having to work on getting scrips, both gatherers and gatherers so I can at least get that little boost to make crafting my set more manageable.
I think you are right. I did hit a wall I really didn't expect and got frustrated and panicked and ranted. This is really not something I normally do.

[Deveryn]

Thank you very much. My current goal is crafting a Pactmaker set and saving up my cowries on my island to buy materia. If I work on both sides, scripts and cowries I'll have all the materia I'll need.
I'm having to work on getting scrips, both gatherers and gatherers so I can at least get that little boost to make crafting my set more manageable.
I think you are right. I did hit a wall I really didn't expect and got frustrated and panicked and ranted. This is really not something I normally do.

Gatherer materia is super easy. Just hit the legendary nodes with a spiritbond buff active. Add durability for more spiritbond hits.

[YamiVKD]

Gatherer materia is super easy. Just hit the legendary nodes with a spiritbond buff active. Add durability for more spiritbond hits.

Thank you for the advice. Gathering isn't really a problem for me atm (Though I loathe FSH lol), I'm just getting gathering scriips so I can gather mats rather than buy them so I can craft the more efficient
crafter collectables.

[Kes13a]

Thank you for the advice. Gathering isn't really a problem for me atm (Though I loathe FSH lol), I'm just getting gathering scriips so I can gather mats rather than buy them so I can craft the more efficient
crafter collectables.

something to also keep in mind...

if they follow their pattern, late 6 expect new crafter gear, akin to Aesthete's in Shb

properly melded this will likely last well into 7. if they do, highly recommend making it if you can. (it usually has some crazy material requirements, but is well worth it in my opinion if you are going to do a lot of crafting)

make HQ Calamari Ripieni, adds 120 craftsmanship, 82 CP

it will help immensely in making your stat goal

[Eraden]

Gatherer materia is super easy. Just hit the legendary nodes with a spiritbond buff active. Add durability for more spiritbond hits.

It's easy to acquire but not in numbers sufficient to allow for pentamelding of gatherer gear without being extremely patient. I had close to 100 of each tier X gatherer materia and several hundred of each tier IX gatherer materia saved up for an attempt to retool my gear to go for the new collectables. I still had to spend almost 4 million Gil for additional materia in order to successfully complete this retooling. Losses were insanely and almost routinely high with one attempt clocking in at 88 tier IX materia being lost (there were several other attempts that came close to this in terms of losses). The retooling was necessary because the levels of Gathering and Perception needed to get a decent shot at the new collectables, is insane (around 3700 for each stat).