whats the point of crafting...

[Sindri_Myr]

even iLevel 70 materia melded gear will be trumped by iLevel 80 gear from Crystal Tower

furthermore as the weeks accumulate and players start outfitting in AF2 or iLevel 90 gear the value of crafting is just going to continue to nosedive.

45k for a peacock ore? sure! I'll make money off crafters as much as possible while they don't realize these facts.

Who told you once Crystal Tower is out, they wont add new recipes (ilvl80) for crafters to match Coil drops ?
Are you an idiot or something ?

[Gurpsmeister]

Who told you once Crystal Tower is out, they wont add new recipes (ilvl80) for crafters to match Coil drops ?
Are you an idiot or something ?

You're assuming that they are adding new recipes? Who here is the more idiotic? They've all but announced the big additions in 2.1 and new recipes aside from housing stuff, did not seem to make the list.

[Chauve]

You're assuming that they are adding new recipes? Who here is the more idiotic? They've all but announced the big additions in 2.1 and new recipes aside from housing stuff, did not seem to make the list.

It's really not all that idiotic. Adding recipes seems like a pretty common-sense thing to do, right?

But realistically, adding recipes in probably isn't at the top of their list at the moment. And might not be for a while. I doubt they'll have this implemented at release, but I would HOPE they would put something in fairly soon after. Then again, I may be giving them too much credit. Things have been a liiiittle rocky :x

On a side note, not entirely sure new recipes would fit in with "big additions". There's a number of things that may be implemented in 2.1, but no confirmation.