How to fix this red scrip nightmare:

[Sartori]

What nightmare, working as intended for me

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I figure 3.2 they are going to lift the weekly cap on Red Scrip entirely.

We'll be given a new Scrip, Green Scrip, with new crafting/gathering gear to get that has the same time sink and constraints as the current Red Scrip stuff.

Patience! We can all play Catch-Up in May/June.

[Empty-handed]

sigh, so for this week I will need 70 red ooids, 70 wyvmarts, 30 green ooids and finally 30 void nutts.


...... I have 35 red gathering scripts and. Not looking forward to doing all those favors.

Mindless time sink. Please reduce the amount of favor mats required for 2stars. I wonder how many favors I need to do to get all the mats

[Mature]

I just want to be able to craft whenever I want. I don't wanna be limited as to how much I can craft per week. That's all I ask

[ServerCollaps]

you can craft as much as you want, just buy the mats from other people

[Mature]

you can craft as much as you want, just buy the mats from other people

Why should I pay 1 million for 10 red ooids and 1 million for 10 wyverns wart PLUS red craft token? I'm not daft enough you know..... You missing the point completely. And don't forget you only get 9 crafting tokens per week hardly anyone sells that. So back to my point I just want to craft freely without restrictions or waiting a week to craft. The system is poor.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Why should I pay 1 million for 10 red ooids and 1 million for 10 wyverns wart PLUS red craft token? I'm not daft enough you know..... You missing the point completely. And don't forget you only get 9 crafting tokens per week hardly anyone sells that. So back to my point I just want to craft freely without restrictions or waiting a week to craft. The system is poor.

Just curious, how did you get your scheelite back in Patch 2.2? And how about those demimateria in Patch 2.3? And how did you get your Allagan Leather, Allagan Silk and Ehcatl Sealants in Patch 2.4 to do 4 star crafting?

Has this game ever has a time which we can craft freely without restrictions? Can you please remind me? I hate Favors as much as you do. But the concept of "freely craft without restriction" doesn't ring the bell for me since ARR...

[Mature]

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I can't remember 2.2
I desynth myself whenever I wanted.
I run t4 for a day to grab leather , silk when needed
I did my ixali tribe religiously everyday. And I bought some from mb for around 120k-70k each.

My point is. I was doing stuff every day to get the mats I needed whereas now I'm stuck, I HAVE to wait a week to obtain red tokens to actually craft something. It's not just about getting red ooids or green ooids but is the fact I need something that I can only get ONCE a week. And people are not selling them unless you want to pay an absurd amount of money for them.(No one are really selling them cause they need them to actually craft)

Making red scrips a weekly thing was a bad idea. Imho it should be a daily reset thing. Gathering for a week to craft for a day it's NOT right.

Hope this answer your question.

[Jeykama]

I did my ixali tribe religiously everyday. And I bought some from mb for around 120k-70k each.

I think his point was, you've bought time-limited materials before. You could have never done your Ixali dailies and simply bought all those sealants nonstop and kept crafting whatever you wanted to use or sell.

How does this change now, except that the "sealants" are personally gated to 7 a week? It doesn't. Nothing is gating your ability to push your crafting buttons except gil, same as before. It's just these new things are more expensive because more personal effort has to go into each item.

And fwiw, I don't really mind red scrips. Everything in this game even remotely related to progression is gated. I'm sure even the i210 gear from airship exploration will be gated, because it's >i160. All I'd want changed is to get rid of the damn mobs staring at nodes (looking at you, stupid bear and jellyfish fate in Hinterlands) and a way to convert the "rare" favor items into something useful because spending 3 tokens is not useful. Have like 40 of each of those stupid "rare" items sitting around that I can't ever use until they unlock red scrips.

[Silverbane]

Have like 40 of each of those stupid "rare" items sitting around that I can't ever use until they unlock red scrips.

My wife and I both have all crafts, MIN and BTM to 60, and my wife also has FSH to 60. As a result, my wife spent the extra three weeks getting a third DoL red scrip mainhand, and as a result has a modest stockpile of red crafting scrip built up during that time. So I give her my excess Favor tokens, including rare ones, and she uses her crafting scrips to turn them into mats. This is apparently a pretty typical method of using them, although usually some gil needs to change hands and trust is required.

I don't know the going rate per red crafting scrip is in such a transaction. The additional starting quality from one or two HQ red scrip mats is pretty substantial, so it might be high: HQ Leaf/Land-born Aethersand has a comparable effect and has a few sales at around 1,000,000 gil here on Faerie. Perhaps a split of the mats between the provider of the Favor tokens and the provider of the red scraft scrip could be worked out instead of any gil changing hands.