Why is crafting so useless?

[Wizel]

Yoshi and Square threw a fit on crafters and gathering because Final Coil teams used crafted gear with penta melds to break their content in T10-13 and clear it in a week. They really did not like this and I believe they decided to just make crafting completely worthless going forward instead of trying to make a balance of it or put some time and effort into new ideas that would not break their content but still make it viable.

[marewa]

Someone is selling the new Weavers needle on Ultros for 500 million gil. I don't see the logic..

[BlaiseArath]

Someone is selling the new Weavers needle on Ultros for 500 million gil. I don't see the logic..

You could probably scroll through a lot of useless items and see people selling them for dumb amounts of gil lol. I doubt they expect it to sell for 500mil, unless they're just barking mad.

[DarthBuzzer]

You could probably scroll through a lot of useless items and see people selling them for dumb amounts of gil lol. I doubt they expect it to sell for 500mil, unless they're just barking mad.

Considering the time and effort required, it's worth AT LEAST 100 million gil.

[Snugglebutt]

Someone is selling the new Weavers needle on Ultros for 500 million gil. I don't see the logic..

It wont sell for that though. It is just human nature to try to get as much as possible for something especially when that something is new and currently limited in supply despite even them realizing they stand almost no chance at succeeding. Happens every time new content is added with new things people can try to sell for extreme prices early on prior to the market dictating its real value as opposed to the sellers wishful thinking.

[Lyrinn]

Someone is selling the new Weavers needle on Ultros for 500 million gil. I don't see the logic..

Hi, that would be me, and it's at 500 million because I have no intention of selling it. I can't use it until next week because of the stupid lockouts.

[marewa]

Hi, that would be me, and it's at 500 million because I have no intention of selling it. I can't use it until next week because of the stupid lockouts.

Yup. I admire your crafting
Yeah, i have kinda given up on the crafting thing now.

[Evangela]

I think it's a game breaking when you can put all the main stat materia on crafted accessories. It deserved to be nerfed.

[Atlaworks]

There's simply no balance is the issue. They don't understand- crafting was never necessary at any point in the game, save the few items the late zodiac steps needed. Sure, it was helpful in 2.4 to have 110 crafted stuff and it helped take down FCoB much faster than intended, but it was never a necessity to have that crafted gear by design. Sure, it could have used being dialed back a bit.

Now? Now our gear for DoW/Dom crafting cuts into crafting our own upgrades, is limited to one attempt per week, isn't as good as LAW gear when fully melded, and is a reskin of a much simpler recipe already added in 3.0.

This is bad. This is really bad. Crafting only needed a light nerf once during 2.4, but you need to understand the difference between "necessary" and "optional", or your entire crafting system becomes "irrelevant" like it is now.

[ckc22]

I'm not sure why they're so crafting phobic. In XI I enjoyed making actually useful gear for my character. I crafted my own Shiekh Manteel for my bard and it was awesome.