Any chance we may get i70 or i90 crafting gears in the near future?

[Rinaku]

I"m wondering why aren't crafters getting equip that are i70 or i90 as well? I know there is a hat and tool but what about gears?

[Ruddi]

I"m wondering why aren't crafters getting equip that are i70 or i90 as well? I know there is a hat and tool but what about gears?

I seriously doubt that, to make 3 *** ilvl 90 we had to max out the current gear just to have a fair chance to HQ, personally it cost me like 2,4mill to take leather-worker gear to that level of crafting. SE could had given us the higher lvl gear but since they did not do that I wont expect it to happen in the near future.

[Shadygrove]

Two chances. Fat and slim.

[chidarake]

I think we may get something.. some jewellery maybe,

as they are adding new mats from de-synthing gear and they will need to be used in something.

not saying we will defo get some but I'm hopeful.

[AttacKat]

If we do, it better be the upgrade path, because SE will have a lot of PO customers if they just come out with better i70/90 gear that renders all existing overmelded gears useless.

jc

[Nutz]

The way they seem to be going they just might make all of those melds obsolete, except for the fact that you have to have them to craft the items to trade for the i70 pieces. This doesn't bother me too much as the prospect of getting better gear and then having to dump a ton of materia into it as well is daunting.

I don't expect outright better crafted crafting/ gathering gear until the level cap increase, and even then I'm not sure how they'll handle it exactly.

It did just occur to me though that they might not go too far with the trade in system of better gear because that really only requires overmelding a single craft to obtain all of the armor pieces. If a full set was eventually released you could outfit all of your crafting jobs well while only having spent materia on one.

[chidarake]

attackat:

if you look at what they did for dow/m gear sets you can see they are willing to do exactly that. people worked there asses of for darklight and myth gear just for it to be thrown to one side with sol tomes and high allagan drops. sol tomes being a big shortcut to better gear if your willing to wait the two months it takes to deck out your character. although in truth your still probs gonna use darklight drops from the hm dungeons whist you gather your sol each week.

I totally expect that any future gear for crafters will either require us to re-meld (I hope not) or trade items for.

nutz:

the easiest way around what you said there nutz is for the trade ins to require something from every craft which of course is unique untradeable,. that way everyone would have to raise all crafts to get any of it. or another option would be to make it so each class can trade items for only one of the pieces.

I prefer the frst of those two options though.


I don't think any gear we may see anytime soon is going to make such a big impact as I don't think they want to destroy the 3* market so soon after introducing it, I think we are more likely to get something along the lines of slightly better max melded jewellery or off-hands as another stop gap to a bigger release with the expansion.

[Alistaire]

It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. This game hasn't even seen its first level cap increase yet. Don't expect it before that though.

[AttacKat]

if you look at what they did for dow/m gear sets you can see they are willing to do exactly that.
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I totally expect that any future gear for crafters will either require us to re-meld (I hope not) or trade items for.

While I do not mind seeing further gear upgrades for crafters, and truth is, to craft i110 gear, then upgrade must come.

However, as of the currently state, that is just totally unreasonable to expect. ATM HQ 3 star is RNG based and totally hit and miss. While I also understand dow/m items are RNG, but at least they don't have to spend gils to get them, crafters must, and a lot of it when it comes to crafting high level items.

So, until SE ease the path for 3 stars, I do not see it soon. It will be totally unfair for SE to give dom/w a gil-free path to their i110 items, while demanding DoH/L to spend millions (9+3) on their sets.

jc

[HEC]

You don't need ti spend a single gil on you DoH or DoL gear or on anything you're crafting. DoW / DoM gear is not "free" either as you need to invest time to get, the same way you can invest time for DoH / DoH to avoid spending gil on any mats.