What is happening with FFXIV?

[RemVye]

Hmmm... I sort of got that, but the whole "level to 5555555 in WoW in one day" threw me off and also the "petition" part!

Anyway, I don't really understand this whole debate on crafting. Making a item require more mats or less mats doesn't actually make crafting any easier or harder. Maybe 5% of people (random number guess right there ) actually go out and farm all the mats to make the gear they want, the rest just buy them from market wards. Well that's what I do at least... so it doesn't make it "harder" to have more mats just more things to buy and more time / money to use lol.

I understand people wanting more "realism" though, like the OP said if a hat has a feather the recipe should have a feather! The way they had crafting setup makes logical sense, it's just a bit of overkill for some of the items.

[darkstarpoet1]

Anyway, I don't really understand this whole debate on crafting. Making a item require more mats or less mats doesn't actually make crafting any easier or harder. Maybe 5% of people (random number guess right there ) actually go out and farm all the mats to make the gear they want, the rest just buy them from market wards. Well that's what I do at least... so it doesn't make it "harder" to have more mats just more things to buy and more time / money to use lol.

yeah, shouldn't take rocket science to see how 100% hq rates by standard bashing a synth is easier than using abilities, touch ups, bold synthesis, and waiting when needed.......

when i make an item i either craft the parts myself or farm them myself. when i want to make a piece of finished gear for myself i always use all hq items at least +1. there's no way i am going to spend the outrageous prices for hq parts from the wards on my server. 500k for a iron rivet hq? no thank you. if i want a piece of hq gear i do my own gathering and craft up the items i need.

[Felis]

yeah, shouldn't take rocket science to see how 100% hq rates by standard bashing a synth is easier than using abilities, touch ups, bold synthesis, and waiting when needed.......

The difficult would be to get all mats in HQ for your 100% craft. I think SE would reduce the chance to get HQ mats. And forget your +1 mats, they would be NQ in the time.

[darkstarpoet1]

The difficult would be to get all mats in HQ for your 100% craft. I think SE would reduce the chance to get HQ mats. And forget your +1 mats, they would be NQ in the time.

yes, i can see how getting a hq r12 iron ingot will be more difficult than getting r50 iron greaves as a r50 armorer. that doesn't even begin to make any logical sense.

no, you can say forget hq mats all you wish, but hq now means i collected to get hq mats. just because part of the hq now won't be then is irrelevant. if i was willing to take the time to get them then means i would take the time to do so afterwards.