Crafting is dead

[Yeldir]

Look at the bright side - the rich crafters with the millions it takes to procure the materials they need for their AF are destroying their own personal fortunes forever. There's nothing to craft with the shiny AF, and, according to SE, that's by design this time around.

[Wizel]

Cooking is the way to go, with savage progression you can sell food pretty easily on the market. I plan on spending scrips to get the main hand cooking/gathering tools and using profits to afford the off hands if they ever become available which will in turn make those three things easier to do.

[Raves]

Holy crap. I have 6 of 8 at 60 and I *might* have spent 750k gil. And that includes buying NQ junk off npc vendors to get the last half of 59 to 60 for 2 of them by leves.

That is just insane money.

[Alahra]

Holy crap. I have 6 of 8 at 60 and I *might* have spent 750k gil. And that includes buying NQ junk off npc vendors to get the last half of 59 to 60 for 2 of them by leves.

That is just insane money.

Server economies can be pretty wildly different. From what I understand, Diabolos is within the top 5 richest servers (and I believe we're one of the most dedicated crafting servers, too). Granted, since ALC was my first craft, that increased my necessary investment by quite a bit, since those stupid books always need 4 or 5 mats from other crafts. That got to be rather pricey for scrip turnins to unlock the Master III book.

[Leafont]

I think I'm just going to sit out of crafting for this patch until they fix things.

[GunnarWolfram]

Its more than the prices though. Its the fact that the prices do not justify the end goal. Why spend millions of gil to get gear that will allow you to craft items that are simply good for glamour, but in addition are locked behind another gate. If these items were viable in the market we would probably complain about the grind but be more accepting. The end is not justified by the work required.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Wonder how are japanese DoH/DoL reacting to this.

[DarthBuzzer]

Wonder how are japanese DoH/DoL reacting to this.

They hate it just like anyone with a brain (which thankfully is the vast majority)

[Ossom]

I think spending 5 Weeks to get a tool and a body piece that is already not the BiS is gonna hurt you in the long run, because what happens in 6 Months when you don't have the craft and control to do the 3 star? You can't meld anything to raise the caps so you are gonna need to start over from square one.

In the 3.0 Chimerical set you can already meet the crafting caps to craft the new 2 Star gear so there is no reason to spend red scrips on getting a Non Bis Tool and a Non Bis Body piece.

[Seyb]

I think spending 5 Weeks to get a tool and a body piece that is already not the BiS is gonna hurt you in the long run, because what happens in 6 Months when you don't have the craft and control to do the 3 star? You can't meld anything to raise the caps so you are gonna need to start over from square one.

In the 3.0 Chimerical set you can already meet the crafting caps to craft the new 2 Star gear so there is no reason to spend red scrips on getting a Non Bis Tool and a Non Bis Body piece.

I showed you an alternative to the insane amounts of materia that you will blow up in the process otherwise.
Also, to make the ilvl170 mainhand and body 'significantly' better than the 180 ones, you have to put in a lot of materia (not just IV, also V), again many will blow up. Do this 16 times. Not worth it in my opinion.