Thread: Patch 3.1: Crafting Reborn (?)

Originally Posted by Mature

If materia goes down in price I will definitely start melding. But you will need materia IV to reach caps or even come close to it.

Example Astral birch Ring HQ (the "easiest" to cap)

Cp 23 (cap 27)
Control 0 (cap 8)
Craftsmanship 0 (cap 9)

You need one CP IV + 2 CONTROL IV + CRAFTSMANSHIP IV + CRAFTSMANSHIP III

Or you could do CP IV + Control IV + Control IV + Craftsmanship III + Craftsmanship II

Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

And im all up for that. Whats the point of specializations if you can specialize in everything? These are good changes.

The point of Specializations was to fill the role of some of the now near mandatory lvl 50 Cross-Class abilities. They were meant to allow those who only wanted to level a few Crafts to be able to HQ their Endgame Crafts. Omni-crafting has always been available, and yes it can be a problem when everyone can Craft everything, but with HW they made it MUCH more difficult to reach omni-craft levels, while simultaneously easing the Endgame for non-omni-crafters. Those who were willing to put in the time and effort were rewarded with the ability to omni-craft, but with Specialist recipes no matter how much time or effort I'm willing to commit I will never be able to Craft every Specialist recipe at any time. Unlocking the Soul Crystal limit would have been a fair trade-off to this as I could have spent the next few weeks worth of Red Scrips unlocking Specializations for the rest of my classes, but as of right now that doesn't seem to be happening.

Specialist Recipes aren't the end of the world of course, but they're a thorn on the otherwise beautiful rose that is Crafting D:

Originally Posted by MeridaQ

Did they mention anything about being able to convert into T5s now?

It is known that there is a small chance that DoW/M i170 gear converts into Tier V materia, so I would assume a similar chance exists for DoH/L (not that anyone would have taken the risk considering the cost until this point). There will likely be a few more flowing in from the Diadem, as well--if we're lucky, from direct drops, if we're less lucky, people will be trying to transmute elemental Tier Vs at Mutamix and getting good stuff out.

Overall, this seems much more feasible than 3.05, and I'm pretty pleasantly surprised; it restores the DoM/W <---> DoH side of the gil triangle. Time to go use all the tokens I've been sitting on.

Originally Posted by Lobotomite

It is known that there is a small chance that DoW/M i170 gear converts into Tier V materia, so I would assume a similar chance exists for DoH/L (not that anyone would have taken the risk considering the cost until this point). There will likely be a few more flowing in from the Diadem, as well--if we're lucky, from direct drops, if we're less lucky, people will be trying to transmute elemental Tier Vs at Mutamix and getting good stuff out.

Actually, the i160 Crafted Chestpieces can yield TV as well: