The Culling of the Weak

[Rath]

Just unlocked 4 star today and have been cranking out HQ il110 with just a penta-melded offhand. None of the new artisan clothing is needed. I am getting 80% HQ rate with all NQ mats.

[Songi]

Just unlocked 4 star today and have been cranking out HQ il110 with just a penta-melded offhand. None of the new artisan clothing is needed. I am getting 80% HQ rate with all NQ mats.

It's very funny how easy the 4 star crafts are compared to everything else we have to go through in order to unlock them. Gathering the mats is quite a pain in the ass too. Literally had to abandon all my 100 desynthesis skills in order to get Allagan silk. Not about to buy Allagan silk either considering it's going for 2m each on market board.

So far nobody on our server has crafted an 110 armor piece of any kind. I guess on the lesser populated servers the WVR and LTW Allagan mats are going to be quite hard to come by for a few weeks until every 4 star crafter has converted their desynthesis skills over.

[Lebenoshl]

Takes like 1.5 hours to lvl leatherworker/weaver to 87. Once people start seriously grinding allegen mats they shouldn't be an issue, especially since you can get up to 5 per desynth.

4* crafts are still far enough away from almost guaranteed HQ that there is still some risk in crafting them. Any harder it just wouldn't be worth the risk crafting them for months

[dspguy]

The desynth items for LTW are coming from what? T1-5 allagan drops?

[Kalandros]

You don't even need to desynth to get them. Just do T4 and farm the mats.

[Lyrinn]

Bored with 4 stars already honestly. Rotation is laughably easy, so all that is left is waiting for stuff to sell and mind-numbing T4 farm. For some reason, I remember cracking 3 stars was much more fun.

[chidarake]

lyrinn - from the posts I've seen you make over the months on this forum I would of been surprised if you atleast hadn't completely ace'd 4* by now.

but for most this will be a big hurdle to even get into the 4* market.

personally I've been making so much gil selling fieldcraft 3's I haven't had time to unlock the new recipes or even all the tools yet. (currently 5/8)

and as you can imagine I'm loving the failure rate on the hq trade in items.

[Lebenoshl]

Bored with 4 stars already honestly. Rotation is laughably easy, so all that is left is waiting for stuff to sell and mind-numbing T4 farm. For some reason, I remember cracking 3 stars was much more fun.

Yeah, it's a shame that they locked 4-stars (crafted equipment) behind hard to get mats rather than hard to craft recipes. Artisan gear still has a chance of NQ which is always risky.

Then again crafting is casual content and people would probably ragequit if it was cheaper for them to buy it off the marketboard than craft it themselves because they didn't bother to learn how to properly craft