Done with crafting

[Rosekitten]

Not that anyone really cares, nor do I want them to care.. I just need to get this little bit out. Yep calling it quits on crafting. I usually love crafting, I expect a challenge and for it to not just be handed to me.. but there comes a point when I just don't have the free time to even begin playing catch up.

Spent a while on crafting now, got everything to 50 for both DoL and DoH.. now they released new items for both last patch. So I was playing catch up to that at first.. not i'm further behind and from the horror stories i keep hearing on melding (and my own experiences..) I think I'm better off not bothering. As a mother of two I have a number of other things I can spend what little free time I get during the day.

This saddens me to be honest that I can't craft.. normally crafting in a mmo is what I turn to when I want to just relax or spend some time not running dungeons or killing things in general. Personally I feel sorry for people who come new to the game and plan to craft.. but I wish them the best of luck. Also I dread seeing what crazy hoops you have to jump through in order to craft in the upcoming expansion. >_<

This being said I admit I am also not as excited as I once was for player housing or even getting a personal room due to being unable to craft half the items I planned on getting for the FC or my own use.

There end rant.. done (least it's not another god hunts are broken or pvp sucks thread!).

[Sove92]

Oh my god, SE dared to add DoH content, how could they do such a thing

[Rosekitten]

Oh my god, SE dared to add DoH content, how could they do such a thing

saw this coming.. but anyway.. it's more the way they did it.. they can add new content all they want. I was just saying I'm done with it. people with more free time and endless gil pockets can have at it. ^^

I mean don't you see the extra content as a way of forcing you to specialize rather than an expectation that you're going to get every Supra? Also melding isn't that bad, especially if you can make a bunch of ilvl 55 accessories to convert your own materia.

I do, but the issue is I can't/don't have the time to get the gil or bind all of the materia (even if none of it failed and I don't see that happening). It's just not what i'm looking for personally in new content as far as crafting goes. As I said.. I look to crafting to be relaxing and I don't get this vibe anymore from FF's system.

[Wobble]

Oh my god, SE dared to add DoH content, how could they do such a thing

I don't think it's the point they added more but they added even more right after that. Would have been nice to just let us upgrade our original relics in the first place but they made us mine, harvest, fish and craft for new gear and tools only to screw us that worked hard getting them and still working on some. This is SE's problem, they put little thought into what they do and end up messing everyone up.

[Rosekitten]

I don't think it's the point they added more but they added even more right after that. Would have been nice to just let us upgrade our original relics in the first place but they made us mine, harvest, fish and craft for new gear and tools only to screw us that worked hard getting them and still working on some. This is SE's problem, they put little thought into what they do and end up messing everyone up.

Thank you xD this was the point I was trying to get across.. i just fail at words. :3

[Worm]

I don't think it's the point they added more but they added even more right after that. Would have been nice to just let us upgrade our original relics in the first place but they made us mine, harvest, fish and craft for new gear and tools only to screw us that worked hard getting them and still working on some. This is SE's problem, they put little thought into what they do and end up messing everyone up.

I honestly don't get this. Your problem is that they put in the Forager's stuff? If they just left that out and you were attempting to get your Supra Relic without the Spectacles and Forager's Tool it'd be somehow better?

I mean it does seem overwhelming when I think about all the work that goes into Supra, but I really don't have an issue if they add new recipes with a few incremental upgrades to make things easier for someone who hasn't fully melded everything yet.

[Wobble]

I honestly don't get this. Your problem is that they put in the Forager's stuff? If they just left that out and you were attempting to get your Supra Relic without the Spectacles and Forager's Tool it'd be somehow better?

I mean it does seem overwhelming when I think about all the work that goes into Supra, but I really don't have an issue if they add new recipes with a few incremental upgrades to make things easier for someone who hasn't fully melded everything yet.

That is exactly what I'm saying.

[Welsper59]

I don't think it's the point they added more but they added even more right after that. Would have been nice to just let us upgrade our original relics in the first place but they made us mine, harvest, fish and craft for new gear and tools only to screw us that worked hard getting them and still working on some. This is SE's problem, they put little thought into what they do and end up messing everyone up.

That's honestly the worst way to be looking at 2.3 crafting/gathering content. There is literally nothing that you cannot make or gather without the new equips. 2.2 gear is all you need to make any 3 star recipe, even the augmented and primal goods. There's very little change involved even after acquiring the i75 weapons, as you'll still need to have at least some HQ mats to reliably HQ the result (just as it is without i75 weapons).

The way I look at it, the new equips and such help remove some of the reliance on materia to reach the required minimum to make 3 star goods. I mean just getting the Dodore HQ gives you 5 extra control by a base stat... that's 1+ less materia to have to worry about to reach minimum 3 star reqs. And that's just the belt.

Even if you are new to crafting, you have to have a decent strategy to survive. Not enough shards? There's a special way to quickly gain thousands without buying or gathering. Not enough gil but tons of shards/crystals/clusters? Why not sell some? For a new player, selling goods that you may not even realize you have is a part of surviving the market that they need to pick up for themselves. There are tons of goods that one can gather themselves in minutes that will lead to 30k+ profit. T1 materia selling for a decent profit? I can farm up 11+ of them in around 5min. That's no exaggeration neither. Given the price that craft/gathering materia costs, that 11+ materia is a minimum 50k profit on my server. There's seriously so many ways that people can work the economy, regardless of how outrageous some goods may be, to get what they want. Things won't just be handed to people (usually), if they really want something... think a little outside the box. Maybe apply some RL strategies.

[Worm]

Not enough shards? There's a special way to quickly gain thousands without buying or gathering.

Honestly I'm curious about what exactly you're referring to here. Making an alt and doing the first couple DoH quests?

[Welsper59]

Honestly I'm curious about what exactly you're referring to here. Making an alt and doing the first couple DoH quests?

Yep, that. Seems to get a lot of flack when it's actually mentioned, so didn't bother.