What's the point of the Amber Trader?

[rzr22]

Some white quality jewelry that only goes up to level 58...Hooray?

[Risvertasashi]

Not everyone prefers to level through dungeons, and others might not have good luck with drops. Most other NPC vendors sell only left side.

That said, the currency choice is a bit odd.

[Noxifer]

I think mainly it was their way of getting around the whole "you find a blue chest during your leve... yay! pink item! open it up only to find an item you absolutely don't want, like tank armour when you play caster" issue. This way you get to choose the piece you want.

But yeah, just plain NQ jewelry was a slight disappointment to me, too ^^; They could at least have offered HQ versions for a couple of amber thingies more.

[Gunspec]

The point of amber vendor is to make battle levequests even worse than before.

Less xp than a single fate, FAR less xp than a tradecraft or fieldcraft leve despite sharing a daily limit, no more aetherial gear drops for armor and weapons, and the amber currency has such a low drop rate you need to do at least two days worth of leves to buy a single item.

When an aspect of the game falls THIS far behind the rest, you've got to wonder about the dude programming it. You'd think he would say "the part of the game I'm working on is far inferior to the things other people are doing, should I change it?"

[Risvertasashi]

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That guy probably doesn't get to make design decisions. That said, you'd think the designers would be mindful of it...

[Airget]

Amber provides a non-gil method to obtaining accessories which would otherwise be tougher to obtain to be a high enough IL to do the endgame dungeons. Nothing more nothing less, people don't understand how useful it actually is for hitting 60 if you don't have any other means of hitting that il 145 cap for doing the 2 endgame dungeons.

Yea, gear is easy to obtain from the left side via dungeons but on the right side it is a tad trickier. You might think nothing of it because you are past that point but personally it helped me out when I needed that extra IL to do the end game dungeons.

[Gunspec]

That guy probably doesn't get to make design decisions. That said, you'd think the designers would be mindful of it...

Amber is the same color as the liquor he drinks every night after work, as he rambles on to the cute bartender about how he designs parts of a videogame that most people ignore in favor of more rewarding content. You think the Amber trader is modeled after the matron of his favorite bar? Poor guy, I'm going to go to a few battle leves now.

[rzr22]

Yea, gear is easy to obtain from the left side via dungeons but on the right side it is a tad trickier. You might think nothing of it because you are past that point but personally it helped me out when I needed that extra IL to do the end game dungeons.

Eh, accessories drop all the time in dungeons. Not sure what you're talking about. After my first character, by the time I actually get a new class to 60, I've already got a ton of laws just from doing daily roulettes that I have full gear for my new class.

Regardless, a vendor selling the jewelry for gil would have made far more sense than creating a special currency that can only be obtained through specific means.

[Welsper59]

Eh, accessories drop all the time in dungeons. Not sure what you're talking about. After my first character, by the time I actually get a new class to 60, I've already got a ton of laws just from doing daily roulettes that I have full gear for my new class.

Regardless, a vendor selling the jewelry for gil would have made far more sense than creating a special currency that can only be obtained through specific means.

It honestly doesn't have to make sense. It's throw-away "upgrade" gear for people to do with what they will if they do battle leves. No other intent beyond that. It's similar in concept to coffers during leves giving pink gear, except the difference is that you can choose what you specifically might want. That's it.

[Gunspec]

It honestly doesn't have to make sense. It's throw-away "upgrade" gear for people to do with what they will if they do battle leves. No other intent beyond that. It's similar in concept to coffers during leves giving pink gear, except the difference is that you can choose what you specifically might want. That's it.

I guess it feels much worse for me, since I usually have high crafting levels in everything. For 1-50 battleleves, the pink gear was nice because you could equip it at -1 or -2 to level requirement compared to the crafted versions, and was basically like HQ + a few materia in terms of stats.

The amber items are literally the exact same as NQ crafted items. I have 10 battle classes left to level from 50-60, and I can give them HQ jewelry the whole way due to having a level 60 goldsmith. The aetherial items may have been random, but they were still useful for someone like me.