Please do not destroy Mastercraft Demimateria like you did with FCIII.

[Morzy]

It does take a long time.. But thats the content that is desynthesis. Not many enjoy it which is why so many buy instead of dealing with RNG.

I think they will make the content easier. They could cut the process it takes to get foragers and artisan gear.

[Sibyll]

It does take a long time.. But thats the content that is desynthesis. Not many enjoy it which is why so many buy instead of dealing with RNG.

I think they will make the content easier. They could cut the process it takes to get foragers and artisan gear.

A good start would be to quit releasing slot machine progression. It's a lazy way of slowing down progression through low drops rates that the player is powerless against.

[Songi]

A good start would be to quit releasing slot machine progression. It's a lazy way of slowing down progression through low drops rates that the player is powerless against.

RNG is bad but time-gated progression is even worse. A player can do absolutely nothing to beat a lockout, at least with RNG you can toss gil at it until something changes. Ehcatl Sealant was the absolute worst thing to happen to crafting even worse than desynthesis-gated 4 star materials.

[Sibyll]

RNG is bad but time-gated progression is even worse. A player can do absolutely nothing to beat a lockout, at least with RNG you can toss gil at it until something changes. Ehcatl Sealant was the absolute worst thing to happen to crafting even worse than desynthesis-gated 4 star materials.

Honestly I'd rather have timed-gated than RNG. With time-gated (Tomes) at least I know when I'll get my next upgrade. I killed T9 30 times before my weapons dropped and I know people that got server first that never saw their weapon drop once.

If it weren't an all or nothing mechanic it wouldn't be so bad. I'd be less upset about failing 10 75% desynths in a row if each failure increased my desynth a little bit and allowed me to progress. I'd be a little less upset about getting screwed on mastercraft demis if there was an alternative main hand I could get, or an alternative way of getting the Supra.

[Lemuel81]

@OP Lets be honest really, are you upset because your not making enough money off of FCIII and afraid it will happen with MC? Or is it really because you are upset they are making it easier now. Crafting grind can be a bit tedious as is, I welcome the fact that FCIII are easier to obtain now.

Im still asking myself with all of the work to meld all my gear, deal with the awful RNG, farm Desynth mats so forth and so forth, all this for what? So SE making it easier, i welcome it because I do not see any great rewards with endgame crafting.

[Sibyll]

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Maybe it's just my server is small, but there just isn't a market for gear. I mean most of the sales are from people leveling up crafting (so a pyramid scheme) and from the small percentage of people that get crafted gear for overmelds for end-game content. That's it. When crafted battle gear is designed to be inferior to raid gear while at the same time requiring a lot of time investment to craft and a massive gold sink just to get it to be on par with tome gear then you have a bit of a problem.

Even if they made the battle gear have it's own progression, like having alternative stats to tome gear and requiring the same coil drops to upgrade the items level, then it might be a more viable option. As it is right now the only people that can afford to wear crafted, pentamelded gear are RMTers, crafters, or people in massive FCs that are given the gear for free, which once again is the minority of the player base.

[Songi]

Yup, small servers got wrecked by the patch. No one on my server really cares to invest in 4 star gear except for glamour. There's maybe a handful of players total who will get an odd piece of 110 crafted to compliment their token gear or coil drops. Other than that, there's really no reason for anyone to have access to 4 star gear (on my server) except to throw money away. Granted, I have 4 sets of i110 crafted on my character but that's because I'm bored and have nothing to spend gil on. Not many have it like me and most would rather sit on their gil instead of spending it on armor or materia that will only last a month or so.

[Morzy]

@OP Lets be honest really, are you upset because your not making enough money off of FCIII and afraid it will happen with MC? Or is it really because you are upset they are making it easier now. Crafting grind can be a bit tedious as is, I welcome the fact that FCIII are easier to obtain now.

Im still asking myself with all of the work to meld all my gear, deal with the awful RNG, farm Desynth mats so forth and so forth, all this for what? So SE making it easier, i welcome it because I do not see any great rewards with endgame crafting.

No, I'm not worried or upset about my gil or lack thereof. I just don't agree with the method SE are using to make content easier.

[Sibyll]

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Unfortunately it took me until my 3rd Artisan Off-hand before I realized that I have really no reason to go 4 star. Culinary I could see being useful, and possibly Alchemist. The rest there just isn't much of a market for. It'll probably be worth it for when the next tier of SBing is available to craft my own i110 stuff, but right now it's just too expensive and impractical and the barrier to entry is far too high.

[Darra]

I hate the RNG crapfest they've created that surrounds crafting. If they wanted to they could easily fix a lot of problems with very little effort: copy the PVE raid loot method for crafters. Create an NPC that sells a variety of rare items, but the player can only purchase 1 item, once per week (the raid weekly lockout effectively), set the prices to double the mount prices from beast quest vendors and players can be guaranteed an item such as a Mastercraft Demimateria for a reasonable price, that doesn't rely upon RNGsus. This has the added effect of permanently removing gil from the economy, reducing the demand on the MB (and thus depriving bots/gil sellers a source of income) and reducing the temptation for players to buy gil in the first place. All the while, not making it "too easy" to obtain and crashing the market as is what happened with FC3. In addition, players that are not crafters, can have something they can buy & sell on to crafters, so they too, are less tempted to RMT