Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post

if the luminary costs me twice the amount of time, gil, and synths than it does someone else for the same end result then it is an advantage no matter how you look at it.
Not necessarily...you both start from the same place. If anything, you are the one with the advantage because you have the benefit of experience. You've already done it, so you know what is cheapest to make, what is most cost-effective to synth, and you can probably synth it at least twice as fast as the newb if you are well-geared and use your skills.

I fail to see how your retroactive time/effort somehow gives the other guy an advantage. You ended up putting in more time, but both of you started from the same place... at 0. You can argue the fairness of that all you want, but there's definitely no disadvantage on your part. Starting from 0 you both get to the same place at the same time; you actually will likely get there faster because of your previous experience.


As far as these achievements go, a double-melded tool can own luminary tools outright, and a triple meld is a no-contest at all. Imo if you're already capped you might as well work on melding an HQ double/triple meld tool instead of farming irrelevant nodes thousands of times. Thats just my opinion tho, some ppl just want the tool for the prestige.