Can we make crafting more USEFUL....?

[_Enigma_]

Most of the crafters are COMPLETELY useless when it comes to the PVE content...! Ok maybe EXCEPT for the FIRST MONTH of release where you can craft some DECENT gear but other than that the ONLY crafter i EVER use now is CUL and ALC....

MAYBE... Just MAYBE on a RARE occasion maybe ill craft a GLAM or furniture (OH WAIT i dont even have a FREAKING HOUSE....)

Thnx Yoshi....

[Ziggyzapps]

Kinda sad they didn't add any battle gear as well... we're basically just crafting crafter gear so that we have better gear to craft more crafter gear...it's kinda redundant. Sure we are preparing for 3 star but some of us won't even be interested in playing when that patch drops.

[Zojha]

[...] we're basically just crafting crafter gear so that we have better gear to craft more crafter gear...it's kinda redundant.

Battle content at endgame revolves entirely around getting better battle gear to tackle content with higher iLvL restrictions to get better battle gear out of it so you can then do the battle content you got the gear from more easily until the next even patch where you get to do more battle content for even better battle gear. That and farming gear with inferior stats for glamour.

If that works fine for battle content and not for crafting content, maybe the deeper issue lies in the design of crafting content and not the redundancy of the system.

[Ksenia]

*snip* maybe the deeper issue lies in the design of crafting content and not the redundancy of the system.

The deeper issue might be that it's all a gear grind, treadmill and that's an issue with all MMO's and it's the core to burn out and apathy issues that all MMO's face. Both battle and crafting has seen most players skip intervals of the gear grind treadmill because they have done it 15 times. (How many people CBA to meld for the last phase knowing they would get this new 2 star?) I'm still just going to wait and see what augmented blue looks like. "Been there, done that". It's true for most aspects of the game.

[Big_Panda]

Wait, the purpose of omni-crafter isn't to just craft your own glamour/furniture/fancy items?

[Elvin]

I agree.

Raid gear should be the best, but something like... ilvl 325...released on 4.1... woudn't hurt.

[Seyb]

I would love to craft my own battle gear. Untradeable. Can't sell on market board. No overmelding. Can be specialist restricted. Same item level (and patch) as the gear from the 24 man raid, but crafted by myself.

[Alisi]

Most of the crafters are COMPLETELY useless when it comes to the PVE content...! Ok maybe EXCEPT for the FIRST MONTH of release where you can craft some DECENT gear but other than that the ONLY crafter i EVER use now is CUL and ALC....

You can craft decent gear now and there will be harder recipes coming up. This is only the first phase of things. Generally, they release recipes in two parts: 1) mostly crafter/gather gear along with recipes books and such like and 2) the harder recipes. They're just letting the new crafting gear recipes filter down before they add more. Plus, well, crafting is the best way to make monies in the game and having monies is always nice. xD

[LittleSparrow]

So making hundreds of mil is useless? Lel.

[IronWyrm]

Crafted gear should be comparable to dungeon and tome gear. Here is why: It fuels a need for crafters (provides diversity to a player's activities within the game, aside from nothing but combat, combat, combat!) and creates competition within the economy (competition means lower prices on the market board). We can't just make crafted gear the absolute best though. SE wants players running the content they create like dungeons, primals, etc. So what to do? Perhaps we allow crafted gear to have a reasonable stat level comparable to tome gear. Consider the following tier of quality from lowest to highest: crafted gear < tome gear < crafted gear with materia < with upgraded tome gear. Such a hierarchy allows players a few more options when it comes to end game equipment aside from, "Well, I hit level XX, time to grind dungeons until my face falls off."