Anima crafted item asking too much?

[Medura]

What you raiders dont understand:

SE made crafting completely worthless by giving raiders an infinite gil pool, without ANY reason whatsoever to use gil on gear, which makes crafting pointless.

With the anima weapons, theres actually a reason to level crafters again, and now they can earn some gil. All the while since HW came out, finally crafting and gathering will feel like its worth it again ... for a few days at least, before the market crashes again :P

[rjspencer4]

What you raiders dont understand:

SE made crafting completely worthless by giving raiders an infinite gil pool, without ANY reason whatsoever to use gil on gear, which makes crafting pointless.

With the anima weapons, theres actually a reason to level crafters again, and now they can earn some gil. All the while since HW came out, finally crafting and gathering will feel like its worth it again ... for a few days at least, before the market crashes again :P

It can't crash soon enough, the marketboard on my server has 4 arrows for no less than 8 million gil right now.

[darkendfaith]

The mats needed to make these items aren't hard to come by. Don't get me wrong, they are locked behind master books and specialists, but the mats you need to craft them are simple to obtain. The problems I see is the fact that people are selling them for insane amounts of gil at this time. I mean literally these mats were going for like 3-25gil each (base mats) now its a RMT's dream, like up to 5mil each on my server (fully made HQ items). This happens every patch though, especially day one, then the under-cutters come in. I would suggest waiting like a week (its going to take a minimum of like 90 days @ 5 hours a day to obtain the unidentified stuff, would be 108 days if only doing dungeons no roulette) before maybe buying them, possibly longer. Another thing I see as an issue, most of these mats require (if not all, haven't looked around enough on my crafting lists) 2 different specialist classes to make them. You can only have a max of 3, which like i said before makes this a RMT's dream.

It does suck, but in my honest opinion this isn't as bad as it could be, its manageable so long as you wait, eventually the price will drop so much you'll wind up paying next to nothing for them. The thing that gets me is the other stuff that's needed for this quest. Oh and if you have a crafter in your FC or know a few or whatever, unless they're greedy, shouldn't have an issue with making the HQ stuff so long as you get the mats (mats will always be cheaper than the fully crafted item), just a thought.

[Kikoten]

I'm glad I like to take my time with these things. By the time I reach that expensive step, the prices might've dropped dramatically. I only got three crystals and called it good for the day (partially because I had to go to work ><)

[Jim_Berry]

I'm glad I like to take my time with these things. By the time I reach that expensive step, the prices might've dropped dramatically. I only got three crystals and called it good for the day (partially because I had to go to work ><)

Zetas only skip the Crystal FATE farm. I'm playing is at a slow pace as well, granted I had two Zetas (BRD and NIN). I traded those to flag NIN and PLD quest. However, at this rate, I'm only going for one Anima. I may get the other when they nerf the requirements for this quest like they did Zeta (had my Zetas before any nerf happened).

[Starkbeaumont]

the thing with the crafted items is, that it is kinda out of your hands. even if you have leveled several classes, you can only have 3 specialists by yourself. that means you have to rely on others beyond the duty finder.

from the ppl i play with i can also see that not all specialists are as popular as others, so at a certain point it might be hard to find someone to do the task. or pay for it.

[Waeksyn]

The crafting recipes are actually very simple. Price for the specialist mats and final items are outrageous now - can't understand why anyone would buy them now given it is so early in the process.

I am currently using Red Crafter's Scrips to get Crafting main hand tools. I'll have my last 2 in 4 weeks. In the worst case, I can take the next 6 weeks to buy Soul of the Crafter x 5 to get the other specialist and craft the things I need.

But frankly, the cost of these things should come way down. If not, I'll start pumping them out with my current specialist classes and fund purchase of the others.

[Jim_Berry]

Each HQ item is starting at 1mil gil on my server. We're looking at 16 mil minimum. I won't be getting this quest done no time soon.