whats the point of crafting...

[Arale]

So far it's gil and it's a pretty big motivator! lol

Gil is pretty useless in my opinion. As a 8x50 player, It's just there to help people in my FC who still need it. Anything relevant in this game pretty much comes from dungeon grinding, which is wrong. I wish we could craft ilvl80 or 85 items via Coil 'Bind on Aquire' materials that had say double or 30% more requirements then a 2 star synth currently does. Basically, give crafters and players more choices whilew also making those choices relevant in difficulty to the end gamke that DoW/DoM's face. This avoids RMT, makes players work for the best gear still (Coil based drops) AND avoids RMT. There you go Yoshi, I just offered you a way to make crafting mean something again and avoided the RMT that you so rightfully fear.

[SchalaZeal]

Gil is pretty useless in my opinion. As a 8x50 player, It's just there to help people in my FC who still need it. Anything relevant in this game pretty much comes from dungeon grinding, which is wrong. I wish we could craft ilvl80 or 85 items via Coil 'Bind on Aquire' materials that had say double or 30% more requirements then a 2 star synth currently does. Basically, give crafters and players more choices whilew also making those choices relevant in difficulty to the end gamke that DoW/DoM's face. This avoids RMT, makes players work for the best gear still (Coil based drops) AND avoids RMT. There you go Yoshi, I just offered you a way to make crafting mean something again and avoided the RMT that you so rightfully fear.

I'd make it Crystal Tower-based drops. Since who wants to farm for bind-on-pickup items in a lockout dungeon? If the mats and the end product is not tradable, it doesn't matter how fast I do it. But they can make the difficulty to craft and/or obtain items such that it will equal myth/allagan acquisition rates (without necessarily putting it in the One Toughest Dungeon).

If I can get Myth from WP, then I wanna get those mats from something easier than Coil, too.

[scarebearz]

Anything relevant in this game pretty much comes from dungeon grinding, which is wrong. I wish we could craft ilvl80 or 85 items via Coil 'Bind on Aquire' materials

Best gear only coming from Dungeons is wrong, so implement materials you can only get in dungeons to make it fair?

How does that make any sense?

Rare craft materials that were Bind on Pickup from world mobs would perhaps work.

There is Far too much focus on dungeons and hardly anything meaningful (gear progression) to do outside as things are currently.

Many of those who do not wish to constantly do dungeons are bored silly.

[Arale]

Best gear only coming from Dungeons is wrong, so implement materials you can only get in dungeons to make it fair?

How does that make any sense?

Rare craft materials that were Bind on Pickup from world mobs would perhaps work.

There is Far too much focus on dungeons and hardly anything meaningful (gear progression) to do outside as things are currently.

Many of those who do not wish to constantly do dungeons are bored silly.

Not saying it's fair. Going by what Yoshi said. Basically, it'd give playuers and crafters a choice to make gear comparable to Coil Gear that can be melded/dyed without being a generic allagan/af2 clone. At the same time, crafters would have a place at end game once again. Right now you have 2 choices in my opinion for end game, and crafters have none.

[Bufkus]

I hope that crafters can one day be able to craft their own relic-style weapon. In other MMOs, for example Aion, you can craft the equivalent of a relic weapon using drops from raids and the crafted weapon is automatically bound to you. FFXIV could easily do something like that so that people don't just buy the weapons.

However stuff like this will naturally come in expansions/future patches, so I'm not worried about them never doing it. I'm sure all of the complaints about endgame crafting will continue to linger if they don't do anything about it.