Non-crafters only: Are you happy with the vanity system?

[dragonflie]

If your guild owns a house, ask them to install the Material Supplier npc, that npc alone sells up to lvl 15 materials.

[Ninix]

Honestly, your server must be better than mine. I've seen single prisms on mine selling for $10k+. Unless, you want your gear to look like low-level starting gear, that equates to roughly $50,000 to glamour one set of gear.

The cost in materials to make the glamours is literally exactly the same regardless of grade. On top of that, there is practically zero difficulty in making a glamour, you just need some low level 40-durability mats and a couple crystals, but absolutely nothing needs to be HQ'd and it does not take anything beyond hitting "1" to complete the synth instantly so a naked level 50 crafter can make any of them. Grab the mats, which cost all of 500gil per prism, and find someone with a sufficiently leveled DoH class (again, they don't need to be a fully geared 3star master omnicrafter), and have them make a set of 10 prisms for you. Tip them a couple thousand for the 30 seconds it took them and be on your way.

[NorthernLadMSP]

The cost in materials to make the glamours is literally exactly the same regardless of grade. On top of that, there is practically zero difficulty in making a glamour, you just need some low level 40-durability mats and a couple crystals, but absolutely nothing needs to be HQ'd and it does not take anything beyond hitting "1" to complete the synth instantly so a naked level 50 crafter can make any of them. Grab the mats, which cost all of 500gil per prism, and find someone with a sufficiently leveled DoH class (again, they don't need to be a fully geared 3star master omnicrafter), and have them make a set of 10 prisms for you. Tip them a couple thousand for the 30 seconds it took them and be on your way.

I had no idea they were that cheap to make. So question for you. The recipes are only located in the books, right? So, how would I find out what materials to stock up on if I cannot purchase the books?

Are the recipes listed somewhere else?

[Ninix]

I had no idea they were that cheap to make. So question for you. The recipes are only located in the books, right? So, how would I find out what materials to stock up on if I cannot purchase the books?

Are the recipes listed somewhere else?

http://xivdb.com/?recipe/30340/Grade...sm-(Clothcraft)
http://xivdb.com/?recipe/30344/Grade...m-(Clothcraft)

The materials for each grade of a given class's prism are identical save for the "Grade X Clear Prism", which all cost 200g anyway so they may as well be the same item.

The recipes are located in the crafting books, which cost 1000g and are available from the Lalafel NPC right next to the guy who unlocks the glamour system. There are no requirements to learn the recipes save for a level 30 crafter of the right class.

[Zaels]

lol @ op calling crafters greedy for wanting to make money out of the time and resources they spent on getting a craft to 50

[Airikay]

Honestly, there isn't that much Gil to be made. The ones that are listed at over 4k don't even really sell. And how else are crafter's supposed to make money? They can't even craft end game gear or have anything to do with endgame besides this where most games they're needed. Is this your first MMO? You just seem awfully butthurt for one of the cheapest endgame grind MMO out.

[Volsung]

Vesiroth, and northernladmsp, you guys are being ridiculous. The ridiculousness of the arguments here, I dont even.

[NaliaBrown]

My highest level craft is... 32, I think? Maybe 33 or 34. Less than 40 for sure. I don't remember, it's been a while since I looked at it. I thought that since I had at least one craft up to level 30, I would be able to at least craft some of the prisms myself. For me, that's the most disappointing thing about the system. I like that it gets crafters involved. I happen to be in a FC that has a lot of people who like crafting, so I had them make the prisms I wanted for a reasonable fee. Now I love my look.

[Worldofwarcraft]

Sometimes if you want things you have to work for it, and this is one of those times. Sometimes you have to work for gear, sometimes you have to work for money. You can't have everything, and if you want everything you better be ready to work for it because that's the only way you'll get it .

[Versiroth]

Vesiroth, and northernladmsp, you guys are being ridiculous. The ridiculousness of the arguments here, I dont even.

Say yet another greedy crafter. You people are just as bad as the trolls in DF and CT.