What's the point of the Amber Trader?

[Welsper59]

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.

Yeah, they feel different, but HW operates differently than ARR did when it comes to gear. NQ stuff in HW aren't as bad as they were in ARR. Part of the reason being the frequent upgrades compared to how it was before. Every 1-2 levels is an upgrade (or set of upgrades) waiting to happen lol. Be it dungeon gear or crafted. The other being that the stats are high enough that the loss of say... 4 <stat> is nowhere near as impacting as it was at level 30. That being said, they're simply there for those that might find upgrades out of it because all they do is quests, FATEs, and leves to level (or perhaps they have incredibly horrid luck on dungeon drops and don't/can't buy/craft upgrades). For everyone else, it's not for you.

[LunaChild]

Amber trader really help me to reach IL req of last dungeon in story quest when lv 58 accessories still very expensive during launched. At present, it still help new players too imo.

btw Large Scale Battlecraft leve give nice exp in a few minute and if you got chest, there're 5 Amber in it.

[Gunspec]

Amber trader really help me to reach IL req of last dungeon in story quest when lv 58 accessories still very expensive during launched. At present, it still help new players too imo.

btw Large Scale Battlecraft leve give nice exp in a few minute and if you got chest, there're 5 Amber in it.

I was just about to ask that. I thought it was weird that normal leves only gave one amber.

I normally blow my allowance on single leves, since those give more reward if you plan on grinding out ten in a row. Maybe when I'm sitting on 100 leves again at the end of the expansion, I'll do the largescale leves and desynth the jewelry. At least it's something.

[Bishop81]

I hate to say this but I have never acquired a single piece of Amber and have no idea where to get them.

[Noxifer]

I hate to say this but I have never acquired a single piece of Amber and have no idea where to get them.

From blue chests in the new Ishgard leves. The normal leves (that cost 1 allowance) drop 1 Amber piece from such a chest. The largescale leves (that cost 10 allowances) drop 5 pieces from such a chest.

It's still random if such a chest appears or not.

Edit: Yep, Battlecraft leves only, same as you only got blue chests from Battlecraft leves back in ARR =)

[Bishop81]

From blue chests in the new Ishgard leves. The normal leves (that cost 1 allowance) drop 1 Amber piece from such a chest. The largescale leves (that cost 10 allowances) drop 5 pieces from such a chest.

It's still random if such a chest appears or not.

I have done quite a few Tradecraft leves, have never seen a single one. If it's Battlecraft only, that would explain it - I grinded side quests to get to Lv 60; totally forgot about Battlecraft leves. LOL

[Gunspec]

I have done quite a few Tradecraft leves, have never seen a single one. If it's Battlecraft only, that would explain it - I grinded side quests to get to Lv 60; totally forgot about Battlecraft leves. LOL

Don't worry about it. The battlecraft leves were giving worse xp than fates. And that was BEFORE they buffed fates.