So why are the crafter relics.. bad.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Its not necessarily hard, just more time consuming. Pentameld and craftinh the indagator gear to HQ from scratch is a lot harder and more time consuming since you need to round up a lot more materials and battle with rng and money for materia melds.

If you havent done so, I say getting the relic is very much worthwhile.

[VeyaAkemi]

If you havent done so, I say getting the relic is very much worthwhile.

Yeah, my thought process was, "Pentamelding these 10 items(body/accessories) make a lot of sense, even if it's costly, they benefit 8 different classes and will affect every craft I make up to until 7.0, pentamelding these 16 items does not, it'd be even more costly, and they only cover one class each".

I guess I will go ahead and start it today, if nothing else they look really nice.

[Gemina]

Yeah, my thought process was, "Pentamelding these 10 items(body/accessories) make a lot of sense, even if it's costly, they benefit 8 different classes and will affect every craft I make up to until 7.0, pentamelding these 16 items does not, it'd be even more costly, and they only cover one class each".

I guess I will go ahead and start it today, if nothing else they look really nice.

Personally, I don't pentameld my tools so the relics are well worth it in my case. I have no issues with pentamelding gear because it can be used across all crafting classes. Dealing with the expense and RNG for 16 tools is well past my threshold, and the payoff isn't worth it because I also don't ever use macros, and I am only concerned with meeting the requirements to craft the recipes. The 17,000 quality requirement Expert recipes are the only thing I can't consistently craft, and roughly have about a 20% success rate with those. I am perfectly ok with that though. I can deal with that kind of RNG, and feel that is how it should be with the game's toughest recipes.

I just wish the crystalline tools came out before I put in the effort to craft the indigator's tools.