Thread: 3.2 patch is a slap in the face of (omni)crafters (specialist & stat garbage)

A while ago I posted about my doubts regarding the upcoming crafted battle gear
(http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...32#post3557532)
and unfortunately my (back-then semi-sarcastic) hunch turned out true.

Twice as many blue scrips for the new books, so twice the grind to get them. By the same logic you would double the amount of tomes of lore needed for the new gear compared to esoterics. This is already bad. You don't scale the grind up and up for new stuff, you tone down the grind for old content, SE!

Then you get the books and find out (almost) ALL the recipes are specialist-only. Thanks for not telling us, so grinding for those books we have no specialization for is pointless. Woe to those who got the books without having the necessary specialization, what a total screw-up!

So the majority of the new recipes are useless for (omni)crafters, as we are limited to 3 specializations and thus useful books. Well done, SE, to make most of the new recipes out of reach for us crafters (/sarcasm).

And then... the stats for the battle gear. 850/820 from what I read (did not get to grab the books yet, doubt I will bother). Dear devs, I don't know what you are taking but it is not enough or too much. I am so pissed off I cannot even express it.

This is a slap in the face of EVERYONE (luckily not me) who went through the massive time/gil-sink of getting ilvl 180 gear, as it is impossible to reach the stats needed, even with food and melded ilvl 170 accessories (expensive!) and all. So you made the ilvl 180 gear totally pointless and obsolete for the future of this game and totally screwed a good chunk of the crafters over.

And even those who had the MASSIVE time needed to churn out red tokens and make gil to get at least the pieces of ilvl 170 gear needed and mountains of materia? The melds needed are insane, all the more given there is no (real) tier V materia available. And that all the more as we would need to meld all the non-shared pieces, so even with restriction to 3 (specialized) classes that means 7 pieces x 3 = 21 pieces of gear to massively overmeld.

The amount of crafters who have THAT much time/gil to throw around is small, and they will demand TRUCKLOADS of gil for the new gear, costs of mats aside.

You don't create a healthy market for battle gear this way.

You could as well have not bothered implementing the Eikon gear, with these stat requirements.

I am so angry and feel so trampled upon it goes beyond words. And feel so bad and angry on behalf of those who got the ilvl 180 gear. Devs, if you want to get rid of endgame crafting for anyone who isn't doing this as a full-time job (at the very least, and for a long time) say so and us crafting fiends who have lifes beyond FFXIV just call it a day and unsub. I am definitely very close to doing the latter, fed up with the tons and tons of utterly poorly done content we have seen since Heavensward, crafting and otherwise.

This game used to be the most amazing on the market, it is turning increasingly into one big clusterf***.
(see my post about the lack of quality content here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...64#post3564364)

I love Eorzea and what this game has been in the past too much NOT to be extremely angry, but at the same time starting to give up any hope the devs will get things right again.

Thanks for increasingly ruining this game for crafters and others