66 Weeks of Red Scrip Grinding

[Galactimus]

450 Red Crafting Scrip per week
Rowena's Red Token Cost = 50
450 / 50 = 9 Rowena's Tokens per week


Gear Costs
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Main Hands: 26 Tokens x 8 = 208
Head: 8 Tokens x 8 = 64
Body: 18 Tokens x 8 = 144
Gloves: 8 Tokens x 8 = 64
Legs: 7 Tokens x 8 = 56
Feet: 7 Tokens x 8 = 56

Total: 592 Tokens

- 66 Weeks of farming. 450 Red Scrip per week. 9 Rowena's Tokens per week.
- Over two months to obtain a full suit of Crafting gear for a single craft.
- Over a year to obtain all eight sets.

Discuss!

[AnimaS]

why do we even need this gear right now when I hve 721 crafts and 698 control without even melding my mainhand/offhand?

[Krindor]

Main hand tool: 4 tokens x 8 = 32
Chest piece: 4 × 8 = 32
Legs, hands, feet = 3×8×3=72
Off-hand = 3×8=24
Accessories and belt = 5×2=10

Total 170 tokens
Total weeks 19 and a huge amount of melding.

It all depends if you are unable to meld and make the gear or if you just do it the slow and easy way.

[gzuscry]

Except this slow and easy way was supposed to be for casuals to stay relevant in crafting, but as it stands now you will being just slow beyond help. Point me to one person here in forums who will say that he sees this 66 week goal and psych himself for it. I bet he will give up in 2 months before he even fuly gears one craft, its gonna get so boring very vast for casual. Casuals are frightened by big gated grinds, i say yoshi overestimates the patience of casaual crafters.
Bare in mind there is gonna be even harder recepees added so the more time moves onward the more outdated we become. In 66 weeks we will see new gear with new gating, so we start a new, and so the cycle perpetuates. Casuals are never relevant to attempt relevant crafting in reasonable time.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

In 66 weeks we will have seen new crafting/gathering/combat recipes, to say nothing of the potential for a whole new expansion mucking up that schedule.

I figure that by the time 3.2 rolls out, the time gate on the RCS stuff will be nerfed considerably.

[gzuscry]

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Nerf is not the point, nerf makes the point that gate at the start was ridiculous to begin with. Nerf as a name implies is a nerf to the introduced system.

[Culfinrandir]

IMHO, the nerf to the system needs to arrive with the patch this Thursday! It's not just broken, it's atomised in a Rose Tyler way!

[Hanmerreborn]

I feel this is just going to make RMT worse

[chidarake]

red scrips is stupid, crafters don't need gated content we don't need to be held back by a weekly cap,

taking over a year to gear all crafting classes is broken math on the game designers side. seriously in 2-3 months we will have new recipes that will no doubt require higher gear checks, or are they saying they plan to not have harder crafts over the next year.!?

scrip mats are tradable yes but most crafters will save them for themselves, casual crafters will use them for gear. so stock will most likely be limited.

I just said this in another post but seriously those mats need another way to be obtained that is not gated and relies on gatherers and crafters to obtain, not some bs retainer venture or crazy desynths of i180 gear or anything else they cook up.

we will have to wait till the next patch in a few days to find out exactly whats needed but with the info we have at hand its looking rather retarded.

[StouterTaru]

Main hand tool: 4 tokens x 8 = 32
Chest piece: 4 × 8 = 32
Legs, hands, feet = 3×8×3=72
Off-hand = 3×8=24
Accessories and belt = 5×2=10

Total 170 tokens

Close, but:

Main hand 4x8=32
Offhand 3x8=24
Head/Hands/Feet 3x3x8=72
Body/Legs 2x4x8=64
Belt/Acc 6x2=12

204 total, 23 weeks.

With 3 mules, I'll be selling tokens in 6 weeks.