Red Scrips

[CupDeNoodles]

Maybe I misunderstood the whole point of scrips. I thought it was supposed to be an alternate method of getting gathering and crafting gear (while saving Gil) but the fact that it takes 8-9 weeks just to gear one class seems a bit ridicules to me.

I also find it odd that it takes scrips to get the mats necessary to craft the normal gear anyway so most people that plan on leveling most if not all of their crafting and gathering classes will spend it on materials. I mean, to me it looks like another wall they put up on crafting and gathering when I thought the whole point was to make it easier for the average Joe crafter/gatherer to get to that point where they can make the stuff they want to make.

tl,dr
Scrips are used for favors to collect materials and not for actual gear progression.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I personally think it's good. Theoretically it should allow more people to make money on stuff as theres a limit as to how much people can gather or make. Since there isn't an unlimited supply of 1 and 2 star mats. Whether or not it works we have to wait and see.

[CupDeNoodles]

Theoretically it should allow more people to make money on stuff as theres a limit as to how much people can gather or make. Since there isn't an unlimited supply of 1 and 2 star mats. Whether or not it works we have to wait and see.

I can't speak from experience and I know the intent of crafted gear was never meant to be as good as raid gear but I've been seeing words like, "useless" and "pointless" being tossed around to describe current high level crafted Disciples of War and Magic gear. All because of the effort needed to get them crafted because of that restriction to scrips. You need people to buy the stuff otherwise there isn't any money being made.

[MiniPrinny]

Well, the problem with Red Scrips is twofold. First there is the problem that the gear you trade the scrip tokens for directly is beyond worse than the gear you obtain through crafting it yourself. Secondly, the gear you craft yourself costs more time and effort than the traded gear, so much time and effort that people are estimating the gear is worth millions upon millions of gil before even beginning to meld it simply due the time sink. The idea originally was that hardcore crafters could do things "quick and dirty" while casuals could do things slower but with assured results, what ended up happening is that hardcore crafters can do things "horribly long and grindy with no end goal" and casual crafters can do things "horribly longer and less grindy with no end goal."

[Lyrinn]

So who else is ready to spend another exciting 24+ hours of running around in circles of mindless gathering after reset tonight? I know I am, because the only thing running through my mind is, "Kill me now."

[Millen1]

I have spent a lot of time looking at both the crafting and gathering red scripts over the passed few days. The gathers have it the worst, hours of running in circles to get 2 or 3 of the 20 items needed for 1 crafting item. The last beast tribe in 2.0 was boring but do able to get crafting mats. Placing the mats for the i110 DoW/DoM gear in coil was a slick move in my opinion. I was hoping they would continue that in 3.0. At this time I see little point in crafting. On the flip side this system is so bad in my opinion it has given me motivation to unplug from the game and go back to something more productive and fun, killing zombies in Black Ops. Way to kill crafting SE.

[Chrolo]

So who else is ready to spend another exciting 24+ hours of running around in circles of mindless gathering after reset tonight? I know I am, because the only thing running through my mind is, "Kill me now."

dont worry you have until thursday before you have to do it again. Red scrips apparently reset on thursday

[DarthBuzzer]

I personally think it's good. Theoretically it should allow more people to make money on stuff as theres a limit as to how much people can gather or make. Since there isn't an unlimited supply of 1 and 2 star mats. Whether or not it works we have to wait and see.

First of all 1 stars are unlimited mat-wise. Secondly you can't make money from 2 stars because you'll have to sell these at 100 million+ each as that is the minimum they are worth in time and effort.

Therefore there is no money to be made.

[Niqote]

Red scrips is the Esoterics of the Land/Hand.

Personally... I really like it. I like that we get ''AF2'' for them as well as the fact it costs me 0 gil to obtain.

dont worry you have until thursday before you have to do it again. Red scrips apparently reset on thursday

Correct.

[DarthBuzzer]

Red scrips is the Esoterics of the Land/Hand.

Personally... I really like it. I like that we get ''AF2'' for them as well as the fact it costs me 0 gil to obtain.

That's funny, here I thought it took over 1 million Gil for the lowest cost red scrip gear. Unless you tell me you're going to farm all the mats to cap your red scrips? That is possible right? I mean if you play 10 hours a day and do nothing but gather then it's certainly possible. Otherwise, not a chance.

None of the gear is free. You either have to sell your soul and become a gathering drone for endless hours or spend lots of Gil.

Well, anyway, see you at Christmas 2016 after you've spent 100 million Gil and finally got all your weak red scrip gear.