Thread: 3.0's Coming... What are the Craziest Game Changes you can Think of?

Originally Posted by Donjo

The dream of Crafted Gear being consistently BiS will kill the game.

Final coil of Bahamut released - October 28, 2014 (i110 Armor sets released at the same time.)
so you could either walk into fcob with the Soldiery sets (i110), Syrcus Tower Sets (i100), HA sets (i110) or the crafted sets (i110) AND... AND... i110 accessories from HA and Soldiery.

i110 accessories and weapons released - January 20, 2015
im not so sure you know what consistently even means because for almost the entire life of FCOB these items were not around. It seems as if you are assuming this stuff was around for the entirety of high end raiding when in fact they ALWAYS release it towards the end because they want people to get through so they can focus on new content (heavesward) And to further my argument... (taking a look at your lodestone profile http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2252820/ it would seem that you are decked out (not made by you of course) in the said i110 accessories) It would seem that you have in fact leveled all your crafters to 50, which takes a lot of effort, but since you yourself didn't make your accessories i would venture to say that you have not attempted to unlock your masterbook II recipes. ANY SINGLE PERSON who has done this DESERVES x1000 to have bis gear. even if i am wrong and you do have them unlocked then you should know and agree with this.

This gears purpose is sort of a catch up (which you have stated) but even though out off all the options to gear up, unlocking these alone is just as hard as FCOB, but if you don't go that route and just buy them then boom caught up. Same thing that is happening with the hunt, or with the zodiacs. OMG ZETA on same tier as FCOB weapon!!>??? yeah because they have been grinding zeta for a freakin year or probably more... they gave the fcob weapon its bis turn now the people who are working just as hard on relic/zodiac have their catch up. sounds a lot like crafters now getting the upper hand right?

But in the end what you are arguing against is our only shred of customization... so i want to be an aggressive tank who can hold hate just as effectively as any other. might take more effort but in the end do you want some lazy ass tank flashing his way though fights and just barely doing the minimum or someone who takes ever single aspect of his job seriously and pushes as hard as he can?

Originally Posted by Pterois

Moar Crafted Gear

Consistency has nothing to do with timing. When the crafted accessories are always BiS then they're consistently BiS. That's all it is. If we ever reach a time where an entire set of crafted gear beats an entire set of raid gear, raiding is finished.

Regarding my progress, you're right. I haven't unlocked any Masterbook II's. I gathered all of the materials myself for two full sets of the accessories(for my co-tank too) and gave them to a crafter in my FC. However, the only reason I'm not at 4* crafting is because I haven't spent much time on the endeavor. I leveled the crafters for 2 purposes, mainly: repairing my own gear and making food/potions for my raid group. Since 4* food is not worth negotiating the RNG to obtain HQ, I've stuck to 3*. Getting to 4* crafting isn't about skill. It's about time and pure, dumb luck. As long as the situation exists where you can fail at a "perfectly executed" craft for a reason that is not your fault, it has no place being outlandishly better than gear obtained from avenues where failures are always the player's fault. Even the relics, with their enormous grind, only create a weapon at the end of the day that can be 0.1% better than the raid weapon. Otherwise, it's precisely equal.

For crafted gear to be acceptable BiS, I'd say the following must occur:

1. RNG is removed completely from both crafting and materia melding. Instead, some kind of process that requires skill is necessary to succeed. Failure to meld a materia or get an HQ craft would always be because the player failed the "mechanic".
2. The crafting/obtaining of "raid level" crafted gear is locked out on a weekly basis, just like tomes and the raid itself.

What I'm currently hoping is that the failure to nerf the i110 accessories compared to i90 and the "early" increase of relic weapons to parity with Dreadwyrm are just the devs throwing us a bone and letting us feel like gods before the expansion, where they'll let the restart of the treadmill be an opportunity to rebalance things.