Thread: 3.3 crafting thread

Originally Posted by keyburz

This means 2 star materials went from the most expensive thing, to literally trash.

They made them even cheaper as they are dropping like candy from Aqu. Could see them hitting 1 Gil soon lol. Talk about killing a system.

Originally Posted by AdamZ

Talk about killing a system.

Yes. That system was a mistake in the first place, needed to die, and this patch was the appropriate time to kill it.

In 3.2, they made the most ridiculous grind with favors and crap to gear up crafters, with ZERO reward for doing so. There was nothing to craft if you geared up. By "nothing," I mean i180 battle gear that cost several million Gil worth of mats to make. No one would buy that when the uncapped tomestones gave 180.

SE had messed up badly. Never before in ARR had the grind been THAT bad and there be literally no reward. The forum was filled with threads of people talking about how crafting was dead. The market board for the crafted 180 battle gear was literally a sea of zeroes.

Nevertheless, a number of dedicated crafters spent the ridiculous amounts of time and Gil to gear up anyways, either for their pride as crafters or the hope that they would be rewarded in a future patch.

Yoshi decided to delay nerfing of the gear progression that would have normally occurred in 3.3 so that those who geared in 3.2 would be rewarded for their efforts. Those crafters had a great run in 3.3 and it is now time to stop making up for the mistakes of 3.2 and move forward with gear progression.

Originally Posted by AdamZ

They made them even cheaper as they are dropping like candy from Aqu. Could see them hitting 1 Gil soon lol. Talk about killing a system.

Rowena tokens did nothing but gate newer crafts, which served the exact opposite of what everyone wanted. This divides people up based on whether you want to casual craft (use red scrips for ilvl 200) or grind for the ilvl 195 set and meld it to be better. Much better approach.

anyone can tell me where the neo aetherstones drop? im looking for the body part