Vanya Silk and requirements for crafted gear that make no sense.

[Bufkus]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/3225989/

Ive made two for other drgs in my FC as well.

For bragging rights I guess?

[Laryndra]

Has nothing to do with bragging rights. It's about having the best gear for the job. Those legs are better than Darklight.

[Loxius]

The endgame crafting items are often upgrades for darklight equipment before you get the allagan items. You often only take a crafted item if that slot isn't filled by mythology items.
Since the chance getting an allagan item in coil is quite low in most cases and even more if you have to roll with another healer, dps or tank crafted gear is an excellent upgrade.
And yeah it is a high price but it wasn't ment that you could get all decked out in crafted gear a couple of weeks after this game got out.

You do know that if you do for example castrum with a static group you could easaly do it within 30 minutes wich would give you 100 tomes. So for making the robe wich would require 1125 tomes like you said in op, it would take 12 castrum runs which is equip to 6 hours of dungeon runs.
Or to make it easier if you do AK or WP to cap your myth you would get 1000 tomes if you do WP 10 times to cap out which you need to do anyway.

[Laryndra]

The endgame crafting items are often upgrades for darklight equipment before you get the allagan items. You often only take a crafted item if that slot isn't filled by mythology items.
Since the chance getting an allagan item in coil is quite low in most cases and even more if you have to roll with another healer, dps or tank crafted gear is an excellent upgrade.
And yeah it is a high price but it wasn't ment that you could get all decked out in crafted gear a couple of weeks after this game got out.

You do know that if you do for example castrum with a static group you could easaly do it within 30 minutes wich would give you 100 tomes. So for making the robe wich would require 1125 tomes like you said in op, it would take 12 castrum runs which is equip to 6 hours of dungeon runs.
Or to make it easier if you do AK or WP to cap your myth you would get 1000 tomes if you do WP 10 times to cap out which you need to do anyway.

Or you could just make money and buy the items.. I had two full sets of crafted gear before ever getting a DoW to level 50. You dont HAVE to farm dungeons to get these items.

[Telosol]

I just want to say thank you all for your feedback and knowledge, beside the rude, pointless ones. I just successfully crafted my first HQ Vanya Robe of Healing. I still need to research what the best materia would be for melding and advanced melding. The initial point I was making was the time it takes vs. getting the Darklight. This was a lot of work to do and I still feel that maybe the robe should just be a little better than what it is. I understand the mats will go down in price and maybe a couple of months down the road, the Vanya gear will be really cheap (especially after 2.1). Right now the HQ robe on my server is over 500k. Again, thanks for the feedback.

[Taruranto]

While I do agree that 9 items are definitely a lot, you have to consider that 1) People have more and more tomes by days 2) Philo items are getting cheaper and cheaper. (15k in some servers!)

With this in mind, it's not hard like it was in the beginning to make these items. I myself was firmly against this, but I started to make some Vanya pieces/Astral for my SCH, in order to min-max my stat better. Not like I have better use for those philo (or gil), anyway.

This said, they definitely could reduce some recipe. 18 Ores for a single Astral Ring is a complete and utter joke. 10 would be a fair price. A shame no one in the development team seem to have caught wind of this.

[NRhodes]

Fact of the matter is:

HQ crafted gear w/ 5 materia slotted properly = FAR better than DL by a long shot.

As some have said, it rivals Allagan and AF2 gear for stat allotment. If you're not serious about raiding in this game, I would advise you to grab your DL gear. But if you intend to do progression, then I will assure you the money and time is well spent.

I just recently began grabbing some Vanya gear for my healers. My SCH is +1 with full DL/partial AF/Allagan. I'm also working on WHM after working on my crafts in order to be able to get the Vanya gear. So, I will be slowly trying to convert my DL to Vanya until I pick up iLvl 90 gear for the slots I'm missing. Also crafted accessories are arguably BiS, even over Allagan/AF2.

[Mikita]

I just successfully crafted my first HQ Vanya Robe of Healing. I still need to research what the best materia would be for melding and advanced melding.

Congratulations. ^^

For materia you might want to have a look at the chart linked from this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...HQ-craft-gears

For the Vanya Robe of Healing, he suggests Savage Aim materia for Critical Hit increases... Critical is probably more useful for Scholars than White Mages, but the alternatives aren't very attractive either. ^^;

[peaches]

Any 2 star crafted item that only costs 9 tome items is well worth it. But the items like Vanya legs of healing which cost 27 tome items I believe are simply NOT WORTH the time. That's 3375 tomes for one piece of gear, vs the 800 cost for darklight pants. Same with every piece of jewelry, except for earrings, they all cost 18 tome items. I'll be going for them of course and meld some Det and Vit, but still. 20+ runs for ONE piece of jewelry is insane, especially when the only options for tomes are two dungeons that most of us are sick of farming by now, after 200+ runs.

[Ksenia]

especially when the only options for tomes are two dungeons that most of us are sick of farming by now, after 200+ runs.

This is an issue with so much of the game. You can't do stuff a few times. It's either once and never again or over and over and over and again and again.

It doesn't matter how well the content is made when you are running it in auto mode hundreds even thousands of times it feels cruel. Crafting, FATE content, dungeons, Levequests, Gathering. They all require farming to be made useful. It's a recipe for burn out.