To touch on the red scrip mats dropping, I am super excited for this, because it will help me finally get my foot in the door to reliably make red scrips and actually participate in the system without having to be an omnicrafter (which they, supposedly, wanted to kill off, ironically) or spending millions on materia that will be useless within a single patch.

For those who don't know, this is how the gear currently ranks:
1. HQ level 60 crafter gear = NQ crafted DoH AF2
2. Then you have HQ crafted DoH AF2
3. Red scrip AF2 DoH gear = HQ crafted DoH AF2 + max melds on every piece

So with the items dropping in dungeons it is cutting the cost and the grind to make it easier to get people to a level where they can get HQ DoH AF2s crafted so that participating in the red scrip system doesn't require a sacrificial limb. It's not making crafters jump to being the best by any stretch, as the new sets will make even the red scrip AF2s obsolete, but it will make it a hell of a lot easier to get crafters to a point where they can be effective and (albeit slowly) reliably craft for red scrips so they can begin progressing. (Without relying on materia, I should add.)