HQ i170 vs i180 Main Hand Tools

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Something tells me that at this point, a lot of us already have red tokens to spare... So, apart from making more HQ astral lumbers / adamantite ingots etc to sell, it's also not a bad idea to think about the possibility of acquiring some i180 mainhands / chest pieces.

Heck, one can even use an i180 chest, but glamor it with an i170 chest so one can dye it! That's not a bad idea since it saves soooo much melding fee, yet one can enjoy the dyeable version of it! I'm long gone from the game now, but hey, it's something you people can consider in the future!

I've started to trade my Red Scrips for Soul Crystals instead of tokens. I'm already swimming in tokens and have my 170 main hands and chests melded to achieve equivalent 180 stats.

But yeah, if one doesn't have the means for heavy melding and is focusing all 8 classes, then maybe consider a 180 for each job in at least 1 slot. I would recommend chest.

I get the feeling Specialist recipes are not going away anytime soon and it really does suck to not being able to do everything yourself like it used to be. Having Soul Crystals saved up is a viable way around all of that. When 3.1 landed, I quickly loaded up on about 400 titanium alloy ingots then swapped that BSM specialist to ARM the following week allowing me to start making some good money off all those ingots.