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.

[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.

[BreathlessTao]

Reasons why I stopped even leveling crafters with three to go (two to even start)...... it's overly convoluted, with ridiculous requirements, and there's really not much point to it at all. @_@

[Freestyle]

I want to get red scrips but for some reason i have still hit cap on them this week still stuck on 450/450.. No idea whats going to happen now because crafting is a large part of my game play,an if i can't even get anymore scrips not much point in me paying.

[Sartori]

The crafted blue gear is pointless, not sure why your even worrying about it