Thread: Lessons from red scrips for 3.3

Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu

Still dont quite understand. You can either buy the favor items and turn them in for crafting materials (does use a red scrip token yes) and craft the 170 meldable gear or spend the red scrips directly and get a 180 gear that you dont have to meld. So you can already ignore the DoL items.
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IF you went with full red scrip gears without any crafted gear (you dont use any gathering tokens), you wouldn't meet stat requirements for any of the three stars. It's a situation where you need to spend crafting and gathering tokens if you want to get anywhere in the crafting scene (because honestly, the gear you get from trading in tokens is medicore at best), while at the same time, it's created an environment where crafters can't make anything except for other crafters (and only recently, combat classes and those aren't even BiS)

Originally Posted by Mindy_Macready

The option of buying 180 gear was nice for those wanting to go at a slower pace and not have to meld, but the gear is inferior and couldn't even hit 3 star minimums without food that removed the chance of using CP food.

You're nowhere near the stat requirements even with food. You have to have some sort of melded pieces to meet the 3 star requirements. My primary issue is how they handled what crafters could make in general (the absence of making gear for gatherers for example), and the concept of favors in general. It's not fun and it's monotonous grinding in the truest sense (espesically when they intially had it at 15 minutes and you needed 10 of each to get materials for one craft) on top of being an incredible time sink.