New Gathering gear in 3.3?

[Morzy]

I believe the live letter specified crafting.. so... Time to hoard materia for melds. I'm personally gonna be buying up V materia cus our original 3.0 crafted gear is i150 so I think it's safe to say this will be.. either 170/180/190. Personally I'm guessing i170, we'll have to see.

I have 4 V gathering and 1 V GP.. I recnetly spent ~30m on the accessories and belt + melds to break 674 GP

Now that I think about it... I might regret buying the i180 gloves for miner/botanist..errr..oh well. Guess I'm glad I didn't bother buying the i180 sets, they were complete overkill anyway, as if the melds from i170 accessories + i170 offhand and i180 mainhand weren't enough overkill.. Lol



Thoughts?

[MistyMew]

I haven't even finished my gathering gear yet so I hope there isn't another "upgrade" already. Let us enjoy what we have ....for a little bit se ...sheesh...

What I would appreciate they spent time on is adding another way to get tier V material for gatherers and crafters, doesn't have to be a fast way...but more guaranteed. Add some new Ixali dailys or something...have the material cost a decent amount of their tokens, but something more then the current avenues.

They made it quite easy for combat materia...time to add crafting and gathering to that degree as well.

[Morzy]

Well, crafters got spoiled and to be fair for a good reason, stuff looks hard. Point being our next tier crafted gathering gear shouldn't be too far away if they at least want us to stay semi caught up with the crafters.

I think it is due for a upgrade really.. The new folklore nodes either require a lot of melds if you still have 150(such as myself) or red script gear and decent melds on the right(though not as much as the other) and both of these options require you to have the i180 mainhand and i170/i180 offhand... So really if you're a fresh gatherer that just hit 60, reaching the newest folklore can take a very long time and a lot of gil and I hope 3.3 can change that and make it easier for newer players

And really, red script gear has been out for over half a year. If you don't have it by now you must have been doing a lot of favors like myself or skipped a lot of weeks.

Well any gaurenteed way will be fast.. Weekly void ark is kinda slow for the individual but the market will get inflated fast when 50%-70% of the players will sell it.


I should comment on my own post. Yes some of this gear is overkill but for the new gatherers just hitting 60, getting it can take a while.. 6 weeks or so for just the mainhand and offhand.. That's a lot of time.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I don't know what the new level will be, but I'm guessing it will be an upgrade to the i170/i180 gear, not an equivalent set to them.

[cgbspender]

It has to be an upgrade, we've been waiting for it for quite some time now...

I'm not a fan of something easy to let the fresh 60 skip everything again.

I 'd rather have the current 170/180 sets stats necessary to make it to the next level of gear. There is absolutely no reason why a fresh 60 would be able to gather one-star (soon 2 star) (understand, folklore nodes) overnight, without at least working for it at least a little.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I don't know if the new gathering gear will be crafted, or bought with scrip. I would hope that it is a new color of scrip, and not more red scrip though, and that the new scrip have new stuff requiring i170/i180 gear to gather.

[konage]

Think they said current red scrip will be uswd

[Xaeth]

Well, since new crafting gear is released we might get new gathering gear but they didn't say so specifically so who knows if we will get an upgrade. Hopefully they won't release new accessories since (at least on my server) most people are still running with the non-green accessories. I am a little biased myself since I've spent some money on buying i170 greens and melding them during the last weeks.

[AskaRay]

Either way I wonder if it's gonna be scrip or crafted?
Right now I'm earning 9 red scrip tokens a week that are just rotting in my inventory....
either way, if it'll be crafted then I better get to working on favors for money, or just saving them to buy with scrips.

[Morzy]

I have avoided red script gear and if this is crafted I'm glad I did..

I'm not a fan of something easy to let the fresh 60 skip everything again.

I 'd rather have the current 170/180 sets stats necessary to make it to the next level of gear. There is absolutely no reason why a fresh 60 would be able to gather one-star (soon 2 star) (understand, folklore nodes) overnight, without at least working for it at least a little.

.. Well I hope they at least reduce the amount of tokens the red script gear requires. As much as I don't want others to walk all over my accomplishments with an easier time, I wouldn't wanna wish 4-8 weeks of red scripts just to gather end-game cause that could be a big turn off for anyone imo..