New crafting class!?

[Anyendryyl]

Enchanter:

Make a class that can craft small enchantment stones that would go alongside materia. Only one per piece. But the said enchantment could MAX out the entire possible stat for that piece.

Say I have a healer and want more critical chance. I could craft one of these "crit" enchantments, and place it on the armour piece. My crit would be maxed out, but I'd still have a way to keep the 5 materia for other stats. Or Maybe I want a "vitality" enchantment to make up for the lower vitality of the crafted gear over the raid gear.

For a level 10 enchantment you could only gain +10 of said stat, but for 60 you could gain 60 or whatnot. Then to make it "difficult" make it so that the mats for the high level enchantments only drop from the high end raids. Simply so that the best ones aren't easily accessible. I.E.

~Spell Speed
~Parry
~Vitality
~Critical rate

etc. And maybe exclude main stats, with the exception of the vitality.

[Daralii]

+60 of a stat would effectively be worth another piece of gear. I have to think that would be incredibly broken.

[Anyendryyl]

+60 of a stat would effectively be worth another piece of gear. I have to think that would be incredibly broken.

Well, the balancing...yea, thats off. Like I said, just an idea to lessen the load of materia, and allow crafted gear to compete with "end game" gear more effectively. Any ideas on how it could be done?

[Radacci]

+60 of a stat would effectively be worth another piece of gear. I have to think that would be incredibly broken.

relic weps had total cap? so i don't think an item like that, would do much.

Well, the balancing...yea, thats off. Like I said, just an idea to lessen the load of materia, and allow crafted gear to compete with "end game" gear more effectively. Any ideas on how it could be done?

well that's the thing, crafted gear is purposely lower ilv than end-game, to make end-game stuff, desirable.
and if crafted stuff was that good...well you wouldn't be able to afford it, so the only way to get it, is if you capped out a crafter, yourself...cause you know, greed.
crafted stuff is usually a bit of a nerfed alternative, to tome gear - occasionally it has better stats, so people prefer it over tome gear. so....i'd guess they might add ilv 180-190 crafted stuff, when they uncap alexander NM.
mostly it's just vanity stuff, that sell for loads of gil...cause apparently people will spend any kind of gil, for vanity stuff.

[Makeda]

well that's the thing, crafted gear is purposely lower ilv than end-game, to make end-game stuff, desirable.

This is a design flaw though that makes crafting valueless.

What is needed is equal parity between them - and this can be game balanced by requiring end-game content to craft the top items, and crafting to turn the top end-game loot drops into useable gear.

[Gralna]

I'd just prefer if it could make materia, including the demi materia, would take a lot of the RNG out of the system.

[Ashkendor]

Well, the balancing...yea, thats off. Like I said, just an idea to lessen the load of materia, and allow crafted gear to compete with "end game" gear more effectively. Any ideas on how it could be done?

The devs have already said multiple times they don't want crafted gear to compete with endgame gear though.

This is a design flaw though that makes crafting valueless.

It's not a design flaw, though. It's working exactly as they intended it to.

[Dante_V]

This is a design flaw though that makes crafting valueless.

What is needed is equal parity between them - and this can be game balanced by requiring end-game content to craft the top items, and crafting to turn the top end-game loot drops into useable gear.

It's not a flaw, it's the intended direction of the design. And value is 100% subjective.

[Anyendryyl]

I understand crafted gear is lower ilevel to that of end game gear. But that essentially makes crafting useless at end game. Yea, we get to meld accessories for our warriors, but that's about it.This class idea was my thoughts (preliminary and rough admittedly) on how we could incorporate adding another crafting class (too make the crafters happy) And still help make crafted gear in general more viable. If people have ideas I'd love to hear it, like I said...just a thought.

[Gralna]

I understand crafted gear is lower ilevel to that of end game gear. But that essentially makes crafting useless at end game. Yea, we get to meld accessories for our warriors, but that's about it.This class idea was my thoughts (preliminary and rough admittedly) on how we could incorporate adding another crafting class (too make the crafters happy) And still help make crafted gear in general more viable. If people have ideas I'd love to hear it, like I said...just a thought.

Except that Yoshi-P himself has stated that he has no intention of ever making crafted gear be equal to or better than end game raid gear.