The crafting grind

[Train88]

I was in the process of making a set of 60 HQ gear for my Weaver. Lately i made the main hand and all i had left was the off hand. I did some math and i'm 115 crafting points short for 2 star. Even with an HQ offhand and the best food there is i'm not making it.

Turns out you need the blue gear to make the blue gear. My blue tool is 26 tokens which is a little over 1000 red scripts. A turn in is 19-33 with a minimum rating of 4000. Just the tool is not enough for 2 stars.

Then there is the mats. To make the Weaver blue tool, i need 2 star carpenter. 2 star carpenter, you would have guessed, requires over 1000 red scripts.

Did i mention mastercraft demimateria? Yeah need to level desynth past 100 to the new cap.


Crafting has been my whole game for months now. But i'm not up to this kind of grind. All this time was wasted.

[Train88]

So anyway, if a dev reads this, i'd like to ask you: how many people bothered to gear for 2 star?

[Indiction]

Only way to get to 2 star crafting w/o getting the lv 60 blue gear is to have high-melded HQ lv 60 (white) gear. It is feasible, albeit quite expensive.

[Train88]

These mats and this gear is just not sold on my server. There is no history for it, it never was.

[Synestra]

These mats and this gear is just not sold on my server. There is no history for it, it never was.

Materials sells decently but the items made from those not so much, most players are rather poor so its no wonder your 14mil+ items wont sell even tho that is more than resonable price for said item when you count in the mat cost.

[Natashio]

I wouldn't sweat it too much. It'll all get nerfed down in a few patches from now.

[Madamepancake]

It is very much possible to craft the new gear and tools without any blue gear, I've made 3 things so far, all HQ. you do need to max meld your gear, and look around for rotations that fit your crafting style. There is a good discussion in the DoH section of the NA forums that has people discussing it. I would give it a look Good luck!

[Ashkendor]

That's why I just melded out a HQ white set and use it on all my crafters. I'm really unhappy with the fact that they went back to every class having its own set of gear. I get that they wanted each class to have its own unique look, and I can appreciate that, but putting together a bunch of different sets is a PITA. It wouldn't have been so bad if you didn't have to meld them.

With no melds on my tools and no food, I'm at 718 craftsmanship, 681 control, and 393 CP.

[Catwho]

That's why I just melded out a HQ white set and use it on all my crafters. I'm really unhappy with the fact that they went back to every class having its own set of gear. I get that they wanted each class to have its own unique look, and I can appreciate that, but putting together a bunch of different sets is a PITA. It wouldn't have been so bad if you didn't have to meld them.

With no melds on my tools and no food, I'm at 718 craftsmanship, 681 control, and 393 CP.

That was my plan. I'm really not interested in doing scrips or anything at this point. I just want to finish getting my crafters to 60, then go back to making obscene amounts of money off leveling gear.

[Ashkendor]

That was my plan. I'm really not interested in doing scrips or anything at this point. I just want to finish getting my crafters to 60, then go back to making obscene amounts of money off leveling gear.

Yep. I'm making stupid amounts of money just making and selling several different varieties of food. I have a friend that does a lot of the higher end crafting and I sell him a few of my red scrip tokens from time to time; other than that I just camp on them.