Heya folks,

With Massively having all their end of the year awards or "awards" being.erm, awarded, I've been thinking about MMO endgame features and FFXIV specifically a bit lately. To start it off on a positive note; I *LOVE* FFXIV CRAFTING. It's one of the best in any of the few MMOs I've played. Props to the designers for that.

Idea for discussion-

Remove gear drops from all progression/endgame dungeon and raid content and replace them with items to upgrade crafted AND basic class relic gear to an appropriate ilvl and appearance. In fact, do this for ALL non-crafted/class relic gear in the game.

Say you just hit lvl 50 and have your shiny new set of relic gear. Hit the dungeons or DF farm raids (aka CT/ST) to get nifty materials to upgrade your gear.

Got a crafter to 50? Make a set of awesome crafted gear equivalent to class relics and hit the content for upgrade materials.

Not a crafter but have the mats and want to upgrade your gear? Do a fun short quest line to upgrade.

Got the mats and you're a crafter of high enough level? D I Y baby.

New raid/ilvl tier? Oh look, the crafters get new patterns to make the entry-level gear for that tier.


Your thoughts?