I don't know what to do

[Alahra]

You are, but it was the same in 2.0. Your grinding for the wep/gear so the new patch recipes will be craftable. Then, like 2.x, the next round of gear will show up in 6-8months to grind again. Just like raiding. You do savage now to get SA4 down, get your wep and gear for the next content to drop. Cyclical yes, but not as shortsighted as you make it.

There's a significant difference for crafting, though. In 2.0, release ARR, you did the grind (well, it was mostly materia melding there) in order to craft things that were entirely relevant at that time. You weren't doing the grind to craft things that came out in 2.1 or 2.2--you were doing so to craft stuff that was released in 2.0 that people *wanted*. This repeated for each major patch. In 2.2, you did a new grind, at the end of which you could craft the i90 3-star gear that had significant demand. Same for 2.4. Now, the stuff you can make once you hit the 2-star level is both incredibly arduous to produce and overall not in demand. The grind essentially has no purpose in the patch it's introduced in.

Yes, in 2.x, doing the grind in 2.0 also prepared you better for the one in 2.2, and the one in 2.2 better prepared you for 2.4. But there was worthwhile stuff to craft the moment you finished the grind, too. The difference now is that there's very little that's worthwhile to craft.

[Aeyis]

You, sir, have #nochill and flaming me on half cocked theories regarding my intelligence based on my preference of class and role to game on shows more about your immature and facetious personality(layman term=no real life friends because you're toxic and a probable social pariah) #getalifebruh

They call that a sense of humour I believe. I see you lack one.

[Katchoo]

You are, but it was the same in 2.0. Your grinding for the wep/gear so the new patch recipes will be craftable. Then, like 2.x, the next round of gear will show up in 6-8months to grind again.

Except it was 14 months between the 1* Crafted AF and the Artisan gear.