Solution for crafting red scripts.

[dspguy]

Here I thought this was a post about the grind to make 2-star gear but it looks like it is a complaint about earning 450 red scrips in a 7 day period. I don't know, maybe it is about the actual gathering of mats to make 2-star gear.

I don't have the same problem the OP has. I'm sitting on a lot of red scrips (gathering and crafting). I don't have the time to gather the stuff myself (even with the 5 minute favor buff) so I don't use my red gatherer scrips and therefore don't use too many red crafting scrips (unless I'm in PF requesting a gatherer to do it for me). I've geared out (what I deem) the important stuff for most of my crafters (MH/OH/accessories). Which is great and all, but outside of a few random sales of accessories or an OH tool here and there, I don't commonly sell 9 tokens' worth of gear/week. The market is so slow.

Which makes me think that if they did actually release gear people wanted to buy, there wouldn't be enough crafters on the server with tokens available to craft the stuff anyway.

[Silverbane]

When the new 3.1 nodes come with crazy min requirements I'd like to be ready, if they keep it at 9 Gathering Tokens per week I don't want to HAVE to buy new materials from the MB while I gear-up.

I understand that. My wife and I have reached the point where we are choosing between gearing up more, making 2-Star items for sale, and/or stockpiling Rowena's tokens, favor tokens (i.e. ooids, etc.) and/or favor mats (i.e. razicoat, etc.) so that when 3.1 drops we already have the mats to craft whatever we need/want. Not really sure how all that will shake out, the pendency of 3.1 has us are balancing raising gil to buy a house (we only started playing this year, so we aren't that rich yet) against being prepared for new gathering nodes and recipes.