Can we please start thinking rationally again?

[Jaeifer]

I'm not usually one to tell people to drop their diapers but the amount of seperate QQ, "ermuhgerd crafting iz ded" threads and the likes are becoming really annoying to see - especially given these few circumstances.

If you were informed about Heavensward, you'd have seen this coming...

... from miles away. They've already stated in Live Letters multiple months prior to the release of Heavensward that they want to put an end to omnicrafting and want people to specialize in a few trades. They've introduced Free Company crafting with their rules and regulations to have multiple crafters present in a Free Company to advance. And last but not least, Red Crafting Scrips are a knockoff to Esoteric Gear, which from a game design standpoint suggests that our gear progression was meant to be similar to battle classes, which sometimes have to wait 2-3 weeks to even get one piece of gear and we still have it better than them, which comes in the next paragraph.

If you would properly inform yourself, you would know 66~ weeks to be a lie.

Melded i170 HQ gear is better than i180 vendor gear. It takes about 14 Craftsmanship and 5 Control worth of melds to make a chest better than the i180 counterpart. Which is achievable without even using a Tier 5 materia at all. Each craft takes about 3-4 Red Scrips materials so you'll be getting 2-3 new gear pieces a week on your own if you're diligent, which makes about 28-32 weeks to get all 61 items. You, again, have it better than battle classes who can now never ever hope again to have all battle classes evenly geared.

Oh no, perfect melds require Tier 5 melds/overmelds!

Well of course they would, otherwise Tier V crafting materia would have no actual market in the game for the effort it may or may not be to spiritbond for them (we'll only know tomorrow about that one I guess.) and we don't even know if absolute perfect melds are necessary. I've already stated above that the 170 HQ gear can be made better than the i180 without even using Tier 5 materia at all.


So... at the end of the day, put the deepeye tears back in a bottle. You might need it for a Strenght Dissolvent for what's to come. This is a preparation patch - they want you to work on your gear for your specialized trades for now and will give you plenty of recipes to profit from it later down the line. Specialize yourself as the game intended or if you want to stay omni - make it a group effort! Ask your FC or static to help you, help them in return once actual crafts roll out - and stop letting the heat of the moment blind you. I'll probably get a lot of flak for this but it feels like something that needs to be said.

With regards,
Kanri