Thoughts on the new gearing progression (2.0 vs. 3.0)

**Eul** · 03-01-2016 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by Evangela

The materia slots suck.

I'll have to spend 5-600k for materias for every new piece I got. These gears will be outdated and need to be replaced in the near future anyway. And removing materias will break them all. This is stupid.

It's pretty good for healer. Since those gear didn't give accuracy, we can meld bunch of accuracy. And some spell speed for quick healing and dps

**Sasha** · 03-03-2016 08:39 AM

I love the new gearing progression, crafting and melding is finally useful and completely optional unless you're doing savage.

**KarstenS** · 03-03-2016 06:14 PM

The current system is not really nice.

In ARR the final raid+tome gear of one raid season was the gear for starting into the next raid season.

Now the final raid+tome gear is just glamour the moment the next raid season starts, as the new crafted gear and the Alex normal gear+primal weapon are at higher item level. Also the loot of the last raidboss is just glamour all the time, as there is no current or future content this stuff will be needed.

Maybe an idea could be:

- release the 24 man and savage raid at the same time
- the 24 man raid should give upgrade mats and gear of equal iLvl to the finished (old) tome gear for catching up and maybe to replace some crappy items
- release the story mode of the savage raid at the place where the 24 man raid was before (the middle of the raid season) and drop weapon tome + gear with an iLvl inbetween the start and finish point of the current gear progression (like the 24 man content did before, but without upgrade mats).

This would also solve the issue, that the whole raid story is spoiled before you could try to unlock it in savage. It would also not generate a black hole, as for people that do not go into savage the story mode would be new content.

**Dzian** · 03-04-2016 04:38 AM

Likely won't bother melding anything unless I find the material free.

I won't buy 220 gear either, a lot of it is several million on my server and there's no way i'm going to blow a ton of cash on buying / melding gear that I know is going to have a very short lifespan and get replaced in a couple of weeks / months depending on the piece.

**The_NPC** · 03-05-2016 12:37 AM

Melding gear will be interesting since the 1st class to get all Lore will be PLD (interesting cause I'll be putting STR in Vit rings) thou I probably will only meld that which I have a lv60 crafter to do it with untill I have enouf spare materia to get it all done in 1 shot... provided I ant working toward a upgrade item for 1 of them by then. As for ilv220 crafted I only bought 1 for 5 mil (& nearly emptied my wallet) cause I genually wanted it for Glamour in the future even thou PLD is using it at moment cause it technically was an "Upgraded"

still which they added a feature to "destroy item to get back materia" thou unless u had a 2nd of the same gear u'd end up farming 2x as long if u wanted the materia back from a weekly cap item, but would make grabing it off some random crafted item before discarding it useful

**Ashkendor** · 03-05-2016 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by Evangela

The materia slots suck.

I'll have to spend 5-600k for materias for every new piece I got. These gears will be outdated and need to be replaced in the near future anyway. And removing materias will break them all. This is stupid.

Do beast tribe quests for free Tier IV materia. Since it's placeholder gear, a difference of a few points won't matter.

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