Crafting Endgame Balance Idea

[Sibyll]

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Are you not starting with HQ items for 4* armor? I mean if you are doing all NQ on a piece of gear, yea there is a chance you could get bad luck and fail a Reclaim, but with HQ 2/3 (or 3/5) for the 4* mats and HQ for all the 1/2/3* mats then you should have no trouble HQing those unless you get some awful luck, in which case just Reclaim.

Aside from that, yet they do sell slowly. I don't know how your server is in terms of end game, but there are only a handful of groups on my server that run FCoB so the demand for 4* gear has been met and anything else rots on the boards for weeks. Artisan/Forager gear however sells well.

[RichardButte]

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I haven't delved into it because I just don't see it being worth the ROI plus risk factors.

It takes 6 sealants for each offhand. Those sell for ~200k on my server, so that's 1.2 mil alone right there and a HQ version sells for 2.5. A good profit margin, but that's a lof of farming and, even with Reclaim, I don't trust the "10%" risk factor because the RNG is so screwy in this game. A NQ offhand sells for ~500k, a massive loss...

Some may go for it, and more power to them, but every time I've said, "Yeah, I'm gonna buy a BS artisan offhand and make some of these!" I then look at the mats and risk vs. the money I make anyway and I'm like, "Nah...".

[Sibyll]

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The artisan off hands aren't even worth trying to sell on my server. Artisan Sandals cost half as many sealants and sell twice as fast for as much if not more. The only reason I even make these is for personal use.

The 4* battle gear on the other hand doesn't feel like it pays off. At this point anyone that wants the gear has it already and anyone that would have wanted it realizes that tome gear is easier to get.