Patch 4.2 micro-site updated

**Ash_** · 01-25-2018 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by KageTokage

The eastern aesthetic of the mendacity sets is more appealing to me then the creation sets, though.

I'm the complete opposite. Eastern style gear does nothing for me and I thought we were on a upswing with the creation gear; tome gear finally looked great again. But the mendacity gear looks terrible, and I don't imagine many people will leave it un-glamoured like the current omega genji gear.

**New_Game_Plus** · 01-25-2018 11:03 PM

Oh come on. The crafted gear is just the void ark gear. Square, please. Please stop giving us old outfits and give us new outfits. I feel like a lot of SB gear is just rehashed HW gear and it's really disappointing.

**RiyahArp** · 01-25-2018 11:12 PM

I can't blame them because we have 6 archetypes, and about 5 different gear sets per patch if not more: crafted, expert armor, omega armor, tome armor, pvp armor, etc. The patch cycle and content treadmill forces them to make a lot of gear, and in general I don't think its sustainable any more. At some point they are going to need to slow down content and make it last longer, because they are going to run out of shortcuts to help with this: i.e. no gear to recycle.

I think they are going to have to move to full yearly patches or something.

**jameseoakes** · 01-25-2018 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by RiyahArp

I can't blame them because we have 6 archetypes, and about 5 different gear sets per patch if not more: crafted, expert armor, omega armor, tome armor, pvp armor, etc. The patch cycle and content treadmill forces them to make a lot of gear, and in general I don't think its sustainable any more. At some point they are going to need to slow down content and make it last longer, because they are going to run out of shortcuts to help with this: i.e. no gear to recycle.

I think they are going to have to move to full yearly patches or something.

They already slow down in 4.1 which only had 2 gears sets

**Vidu** · 01-25-2018 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by New_Game_Plus

Oh come on. The crafted gear is just the void ark gear. Square, please. Please stop giving us old outfits and give us new outfits. I feel like a lot of SB gear is just rehashed HW gear and it's really disappointing.

Funny that I've got an opposite view here: I'm very happy to get former raid/dungeon sets as crafted gear again. First off because that normally means its dyeable now and second off all: I've got easy means to get it now. I'm keeping several VA-pieces (aswell as pieces from all other 24-man-raids) with the thought "Maybe I want to glamour this one day..." - if I can just re-craft it, I can get rid of those!

**era1Ne** · 01-25-2018 11:28 PM

Really love the healer raid gear. Will be one of my new glamours going forward. Luckily we'll finally be able to switch glamour sets on one role with a macro, so my whm can have a different glamour than my scholar without switching the gear itself.

Originally Posted by Istaru

I disagree. I have all of the zetas and I don’t feel slighted.

To me, they are nowhere near as pretty without their glow effect.

Without the glow effect, they are worthless to me for glamour.

If they glowed like the relics, I would agree 100%. Thankfully these do not. I wouldn’t use these for glamour, I will keep using my zetas and luxes however. This does not devalue my enjoyment of my relics or the joy I have from possessing the full set of zetas.

I don't have a lot zeta weapons, but it is not an issue for me for the reasons you said and additionally the ARR relict are very old now. If we get the anima weapons as crafted in 6.2, i would not have an issue with it either. Depends on the timespan between relic vs crafted relic. If it is to short, then i'd complain myself.

**New_Game_Plus** · 01-25-2018 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by Vidu

Funny that I've got an opposite view here: I'm very happy to get former raid/dungeon sets as crafted gear again. First off because that normally means its dyeable now and second off all: I've got easy means to get it now. I'm keeping several VA-pieces (aswell as pieces from all other 24-man-raids) with the thought "Maybe I want to glamour this one day..." - if I can just re-craft it, I can get rid of those!

I completely understand what you're saying.

**era1Ne** · 01-25-2018 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by Vidu

Funny that I've got an opposite view here: I'm very happy to get former raid/dungeon sets as crafted gear again. First off because that normally means its dyeable now and second off all: I've got easy means to get it now. I'm keeping several VA-pieces (aswell as pieces from all other 24-man-raids) with the thought "Maybe I want to glamour this one day..." - if I can just re-craft it, I can get rid of those!

Thats a very good point and running old content can be difficult at some point, because many people don't run it anymore. I like the decision, since some old gearsets really look great and this also helps the developers, because they don't have to create even more gearsets and especially weapons. Think about it for a second, we probably will get 2 jobs every expansion and this means going forward the amount of work, they have to do will only grow over time. Somethings got to give imo.

**enthauptet** · 01-26-2018 02:22 AM

Please make original crafted gear again! We wanted dye-able 24-player raid gear, but the gear to be dye-able and not "new" gear which is dye-able... We want more new designs again like ARR and Heavensward! This is just disappointing.

I posted a long time ago to add a second loot drop in old raids and that would be a much better solution than this. Now it once again lowers incentive to run old raids and also reduces new original content.

Regarding Zeta, I do not care too much, I imagine these are not dyeable and they don't glow so it does not matter much. I just am bummed out we are missing out on yet another set of new gear we could have gotten instead.

**Valkyrie_Lenneth** · 01-26-2018 02:24 AM

Originally Posted by enthauptet

Please make original crafted gear again! We wanted dye-able 24-player raid gear, but the gear to be dye-able and not "new" gear which is dye-able... We want more new designs again like ARR and Heavensward! This is just disappointing.

I posted a long time ago to add a second loot drop in old raids and that would be a much better solution than this. Now it once again lowers incentive to run old raids and also reduces new original content.

The i90 crafted gear was recolored versions of BrayFlox gear.

Also, they can only do so much design work. assuming what Yoshi-P said is true, it takes about a year to design and implement each gearset. We got 3 unique sets this patch, possibly 4 if Eureka has unique armor.

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