Crafted Gear for leveling other classes is actually quite...amazing

[OSUBuckeye4]

What are you talking about?

The post I was responding to was someone talking about levling up their subclasses from 1-50. They said that crafting HQ is useful (for the reasons you mentioned), crafting anything else is pretty much worthless, because they get so little utility/use out of the eqiupment... they are already ready for an upgrade before even SB'ing it to 100%.

Put it this way, the period of relevance that you get from crafting lvl 25 gear is extremely short... as you can go from lvl 25 to lvl 30 extremely quickly, and then you have to go ahead and craft yourself lvl 30 gear.


Why waste the time/resources gathering and crafting your level 25 gear, when you're just going to breeze through to level 30? If you really hit a wall, you can just run dungeons like Brayfox and get gear that is better than anything you can craft for that level anyway. (plus you get experience while running the dungeon)

[Ultimatecalibur]

Yep. Melded HQ whites are competitive with greens.

Heck Aetherial equips are basically HQ equips with the secondary stats dropped and random Materia embedded in them.

[Shinkyo]

I love it too.
You basically enter a dungeon already equipped with the gear you'd be getting from it. Puts my DPS right at the top and always have to pay attention to my enmity not to out aggro the tank :-)