Anima crafted item asking too much?

[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 ><)

[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.

[UnstablePersonality]

And where does this list of the items / tokens you supposedly have to turn in come from ? I havent seen any word on that in the patchnotes ?

Because they never put them in the notes..Gee wonder why? It was taken off reddit and it turns out it is true.

[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.

[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).

[Ashkendor]

Agreed. The last step is hell, especially the cost of the items if you have no crafting leveled up. The first 2 are at least doable with time, the last one you're screwed out of at least half of the thing if you don't have the gil or crafting leveled.

You could always try asking around to your friends that craft and see if you can work something out. I know I'm willing to make the items if people provide the mats. I've even traded higher end mats with having people provide me stuff that's easier to gather but I use a lot of. A friend wanted 6 Pterodactyls and I told him just to gather me a stack each of Highland Oregano and Furymint whenever he gets the time. *shrug* Saves them money, saves me time. It doesn't always have to be about gil. :3

I am skipping it all entirely. The last part was the nail in the coffin as far as the relic is concerned. I do not have a crafting class and never will. Not after I got a friend to make me a diamond chandelier that she already had the recipe for and failed. After she failed the 200k+ mats I got for her to make it were GONE.

She then went to the Auction house and bought one for me and gave it to me for free. Screw that crap, the crafting in this game is crap. At least in Wow I cant fail to make something I have already learned to make, and have all of my materials disappear.

Putting crafting as a gate for the relic was a big mistake. It almost makes me want to unsub.

Uh. If your friend failed crafting a furniture item (you can't even HQ them) that's her own fault, not the crafting system.