The Culling of the Weak

[dspguy]

The idea is probably for us to upgrade the head/body/hands/legs/feet/off-hand first. Fully meld those (buy your materia now). Then attempt this with either the artisan tool or supra. I'm just going to guess that the supra is no needed, but will likely give a big advantage to its users. Maybe one less progress tick? I'm still trying to wrap my head around a rotation for that. 801 progress? Nearly 9000 quality? Needing about 7500 quality to guarantee HQ?

Is it just me, or are they trying to push crafting more in the direction of FFXI? Relying on the RNG to HQ? I think getting to 6k will be a stretch, unless the new artisan pieces are a huge increase to craft/control. Or are they assuming we'll need an excellent on BB to HQ it?

Edit: I just realized all these items are called "Artisan X." If they wind up being like the other i70 Artisan items, then no melds on them. Will they even be upgrades?

[Shadygrove]

The idea is probably for us to upgrade the head/body/hands/legs/feet/off-hand first. Fully meld those (buy your materia now).

No yesterday. Materia proces have already doubled on Sarganatas.

Edit: I just realized all these items are called "Artisan X." If they wind up being like the other i70 Artisan items, then no melds on them. Will they even be upgrades?

But these are crafted. So they will have materia slots. And they are intended to be upgrades.

I am going to guess that with one overmeld each piece will will be inferior to a fully melded iL55 piece. Well, save for the feet which currently max at one overmeld. For gloves we already have the Ixal gloves.

[rex1976]

aside from the offhands you're going to have 8 3/4's to meld into the new piece from converting all the 55 fully melded gear. if you need any more it will probably be 1/2's. sell materia now, buy it back after everyone figures it out imo.