Quote Originally Posted by DarthBuzzer View Post
@JayCommon Yoshi needs to stop making decisions for what he and the dev team wants, and should instead focus on what WE, the community want. Yeah, I get they dont want overpowered battle gear for fast content clearing, but there's so many ways around that. Just release the recipes a week later or cap their stats for a week.
Oh I agree, I hope my original post doesn't make it sound like I'm a proponent of this massive gating system. I am absolutely against it. If you have a grind gated behind artificial time-walls, I can absolutely see where the outrage is coming from. I just wanted to clarify just exactly how important those crafted accessories are to progressive raid groups. They are important to the point that world first clears on certain turns would have been pushed back by weeks before they were supposed to possible.

And if there are any battle accs you need Red Scrip mats for that are higher than i150, then I can see why it was done. But yes, I completely agree with you that it was handled the wrong way. That's easy for me to say, but I'm sure it was much more difficult for SE. Look at it from SE point of view. In threads they have crafters saying it is outright ridiculous that they can't provide relevant gear to raiders until after progressive raiders have already cleared. And then in other threads, you have the raiders who want the accs quicker, you have raiders that think the accs are a crutch, you have raiders who don't know what the hell they want but only to be better than casual scum... >.>

You have crafters who want to be able to actually supply battle Jobs with relevant gear, but with the Materia system in place anything crafted has to be kept in line because every crafted piece can be upgraded. They are in a very awkward position when it comes to this and I'm glad I'm not the one having to make decisions. I don't think I would be able to come up with anything better to appease millions of people.



I still wouldn't gate it behind time and grind though. Sheesh, one or the other is enough.