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

[Seif]

Gah, can't add anything but I agree with the majority.

At least implement it in a way that makes going from tier to tier more sensible than just skipping all the way to top.

[AznAirLines]

I'm disappointed in hearing that we're having an addition to primary tools. Even if it's a "relic" like quest to our i70 weapon. The rest of the crafter's gear is being ignored, especially the accessory part. They are in dire need of an upgrade considering it's our lowest ilvl gear + belt. They break a lot sooner than our AF gear.

[KagatoAC]

If they do introduce another new MH tool again I will never go past 2 star until the level cap goes up. period. I just spent the better part of a week farming the HQ mats I need to do Gsm / Wvr / Ltw to 3 star (thank god I did as they would have cost over a mil each if I'd bought them). the only reason it was even that short is a friend of mine HQ'd the Twinthread and Truegold for me with NQ mats.

to do all that work and then have SE announce new tools already, might as well just kick me in the face.

[Wulfyn]

Hell I am still waiting for an off hand for Fisher, ie: Tackle Box and they could atleast give us some ability that uses the gp we have no use for.

[Jendor]

I was more talking about taking materia out of the craft specific AF equipment

And what about all the materia lost when melding the equipment? Or do you really think the materia attached was the only ones used to finalize the gear?

[Xine]

As much as I "enjoyed" the grind to getting all of my i70 Artisan's and Forager's Tools to even be able to touch the 3* synths and 2* unspoiled nodes, this better be a typo.... the amount of inventory space required to hold on to the damned DoH and DoL Artifact pieces is getting to be excessive when some of play more than a single DoW/DoM class on top of ALL of our DoH and DoLs.... I'd love to see some of the Artisan's and Forager's set BEFORE seeing a new i90 Main hand for them.... As many have said, its pure retardation to add new main hands to them 3 months after we JUST got a new set for them. But by the sounds of it, I might as well start saving up my gil for the most likely expensive run to get these new tools after 2.3 rolls through....

I have to really wonder though, is there any real, serious plan in mind for DoH and DoL? because its beginning to sound like a big fat NO!

[Giantbane]

People are able to distinguish between 2 trains of thought right?

Yeah that was the original conversation, then someone brought up the incoming crafted i90's that, confirmed or not, are pretty common knowledge there's at least a chance of, someone says they'd rather them not be meldable to avoid needing to re-penta meld things, I point out if they are slotless they're useless.

All caught up?

You misunderstood. I was responding to someone asking for new crafting jewerly. Not new DoM/DoW crafted accessories they're adding in 2.3 (whether they're i90 or not).

If they add new crafting jewelry that has a single slot to meld, then all new recipes added are going to have requirements set with those crafting jewelry pieces max melded (or near max melded). Thus, I'd have to max meld the new stuff to stay up to date when I already have max melded crafting accessories. Not really something to look forward too.

Although, for that matter, I'm not really looking forward to pentamelding new sets of crafted i90 jewelry either (grumble, grumble, RNG). But it's good stuff so I'll probably do it.

[Giantbane]

Wasn't meaning to be snippish, just amazed at the number of responses which assume the Dev post is wrong just because people don't like the information it contained. Yoshi-P mentioned in one of the E3 interviews that there had been requests for crafters to be able to upgrade their blue tools in the same way that DoW classes upgrade their relic weapons and he said that they had something like that planned. Seems far more likely that this is it - rather than Camete mixing up primary tool and offhand.

I've only done one of the i70 main hands because the grind sucks, is expensive, and the stuff you currently make is not all that special. If they do it like the relic quests that means MORE grinding. That sounds terrible.

It's not necessarily that people are all assuming that the Dev post is wrong, for some people it's wishful thinking hoping that the dev post is wrong and any additional gear fills one of the other slots (and doesn't require another lengthy grind to get it).

[BobbinT]

... and Camate still went silent. lol

[Limecat]

I'm definitely hoping there's some miscommunication going on and that we'll be looking at offhand + universal *insert left-side slot here*.