Crafting requirements.

[Adren]

And some point responses:
>It's well accepted that crafting is mostly an all or nothing. That you need to level all crafting classes to become a successful crafter for HQing.
>Yes, most people do use leves to level crafting. If you think otherwise, you are delusional. People like taking the easy way out and the easy way is leves.
>Again, level up with lower level leves if needed and then get gear from a shop or from another player. You are insisting that a fresh lvl 50 crafter without the gear should be able to craft gear way above his ilvl.
>Final Fantasy 14 has a full fleshed out crafting system unlike some other MMO's you may have played. Yes, it requires time to level up and isn't some side activity that you might feel like doing. You commit to it like you do any battle class/job. Should you stop working on your DPS job to work on your crafting job is as valid question as should you stop working on DPS to work on Tank job for a while.
I'd rather gathering and crafting not become a worthless side thing like it is in WoW.

You're laboring under the assumption that I'm the one having problems with crafting things. I'm not. SO let me clarify for you. I have level 70s across two accounts one with level 70s on mateus and 60s on excalibur and the other with 70s on jenova and mateus. I've been with this game since beta. My account still has the beta tag on the mog station that reads; FFXIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Test Windows® is registered to this service account. My problem is the difficulty gap for the new players between expansions that are now considered "Leveling" is causing new players to quit the game. There is a flow with arr crafting that is rather enjoyable. Then once you hit that peak at 50 the difficulty spike goes through the roof. Why? Because SE didn't plan on there being a HW because of the debacle with FF14. As the game picked up steam they threw in extra content for ARR (the 6 billion quests for the seventh astral era line for example) and the item level went from 70 to 90 in crafting. No problem there. You have to keep people interested after all.

The issue that new players are having is because as they designed HW they made the completely illogical decision to make the starter level 51 crafting gear for HW Ilevel 65. BELOW ARR level 50 greens. So new players are given a choice. Stop leveling their combat class and go through the trudge of leveling every crafting class just to be able to get the ARR gear needed to HQ a HW item or ignore crafting until 70 because HW level 51 items suck for crafting. Most people do the later. I remember being told "welcome to the REAL end game" once I hit 70 in crafting.

You said "I'd rather gathering and crafting not become a worthless side thing like it is in WoW." Well in a way it is worthless to new players. They can't HQ craft their own gear so they just get them from the vendor for their combat classes once they hit HW and forget HQing a leve item.

As for my reputation I write game reviews so my reputation means something to me. When I look at my feedback page and see 2 messages like "Dude you said (insert game name here) was good but it sucks because (insert reason here)" I usually ignore them. But when it comes to FF14 more then just several people left me a quite a few messages that, when I took the time to think about it, have merit. My IRL friends have tried the game before due to my recommendation, I even paid for their subs and the game, just to help the game grow, and they had bad experiences. Not because of the same reason but it seems this game is getting less and less recommendable.

[Nezerius]

Why? Because SE didn't plan on there being a HW because of the debacle with FF14.

Uh, what? You realise that the release of ARR was well above their expectations, right? To the point of server issues.
You honestly think they didn't start planning HW at that point?

The issue that new players are having is because as they designed HW they made the completely illogical decision to make the starter level 51 crafting gear for HW Ilevel 65. BELOW ARR level 50 greens. So new players are given a choice. Stop leveling their combat class and go through the trudge of leveling every crafting class just to be able to get the ARR gear needed to HQ a HW item or ignore crafting until 70 because HW level 51 items suck for crafting. Most people do the later. I remember being told "welcome to the REAL end game" once I hit 70 in crafting.

They designed it with the idea of players helping each other (see specialization).
Even still, it's a non-issue, since there's plenty of ways to get from 50 to 51, which makes it easily possible to craft the HW recipes.

You said "I'd rather gathering and crafting not become a worthless side thing like it is in WoW." Well in a way it is worthless to new players. They can't HQ craft their own gear so they just get them from the vendor for their combat classes once they hit HW and forget HQing a leve item.

Whether crafting is worth it or not, is up to the new players themselves. Besides, new players will generally get their initial combat gear through the MSQ.

As for my reputation I write game reviews so my reputation means something to me. When I look at my feedback page and see 2 messages like "Dude you said (insert game name here) was good but it sucks because (insert reason here)" I usually ignore them. But when it comes to FF14 more then just several people left me a quite a few messages that, when I took the time to think about it, have merit. My IRL friends have tried the game before due to my recommendation, I even paid for their subs and the game, just to help the game grow, and they had bad experiences. Not because of the same reason but it seems this game is getting less and less recommendable.

Never heard of you, and I can't imagine your reputation being all that high up there considering your comment in the first quote of my post.

Your thread just sounds like some kind of post to speak for all the newer players, and how they'll just ignore crafting, simply because there's one small bump going from 50-51.
News flash: newer players are just as capable to figure out if they like crafting or not, before they reach even 50.

[Adren]

Never heard of you, and I can't imagine your reputation being all that high up there considering your comment in the first quote of my post.

Your thread just sounds like some kind of post to speak for all the newer players, and how they'll just ignore crafting, simply because there's one small bump going from 50-51.
News flash: newer players are just as capable to figure out if they like crafting or not, before they reach even 50.

You don't even know WHO I am..... Who I am is currently is a contributor for one of the largest game review sites. If you've read any game reviews for upcoming or current MMOrpgs then most likely you've read one of my pieces. As for my reputation... Well we get feedback and if our feedback dips we make less money.

[Nezerius]

You don't even know WHO I am..... Who I am is currently is a contributor for one of the largest game review sites.

Okay? Cool, I guess?

If you've read any game reviews for upcoming or current MMOrpgs then most likely you've read one of my pieces. As for my reputation... Well we get feedback and if our feedback dips we make less money.

I haven't, since I rarely read reviews, nor do I hop MMOs often. If I see one that's interesting to me, it's almost always while I'm checking random youtube videos.

So you're right, I have no idea who you are, but I stand by my comment in my initial post.

You're also missing the point of the lvl 50 4-star DoH gear. It was meant to be the endgame gear for crafters in 2.x, kinda like their "raid gear". The extra materia slot is significant, because it means you'll have less overmelding to worry about.
They made the 51 gear lower so the crafters that put in the effort to get their gear in ARR, can actually keep on going for a few levels, while newer players have a relatively easy alternative to get them to the next set.

[Rymm]

You don't even know WHO I am.....

[NanaWiloh]

Like that gilf lol

[Thamorian]

You're laboring under the assumption that I'm the one having problems with crafting things.

I know you're not the one doing the leveling but you are the one advocating on nerfing requirements so it was just easier to refer to the people you are talking about as "you." Also low level crafting is not worthless to new players. There are ways to make some even with low level crafting even at level 30. Some people just won't like a game because of how the core of a game is designed. When you try to please everyone, you can end up pleasing no one.

Example: Not everyone is going to like the slow 2.5 GCD even when at max level with all the oGCDs. Doesn't mean SE should change GCD to 1.5 because then you are just going to lose the ones who play this game who like the slower GCD.

[Niwashi]

You're laboring under the assumption that I'm the one having problems with crafting things.

You're the one laboring under the assumption that anybody cares whether it's you or not. You are the one complaining about it, so you're going to see the responses to your complaints.


And basically those complaints come down to you have friends who want to get guaranteed High Quality crafting results without even leveling their crafting classes, let alone gearing them. Anybody who looks into the crafting system at all in FFXIV already knows they need to level all their crafting classes, and should ideally be keeping them pretty closely in sync throughout that process. If they haven't seen any of the hundreds of mentions of that fact online, then it's clear enough in-game once you reach level 15 and see how cross-classed skills work. By the time one of their crafting classes hits 50, the rest shouldn't be far behind, and they're going to need to finish off that bit before getting much further, or at least before expecting any High Quality results further down the road. (If someone really only wants to level one or two crafting classes, then they should always expect Normal Quality results. HQ is for omni-crafters.)

And yes, 50 was endgame long enough that there are some significant gear jumps at that point. It's nowhere near as much for crafting as for combat, but still significant. That's the reason why shortcuts were added in to ensure new players didn't have to go through the whole thing the long way, like Artisan gear that could be had for trading just a 2 star mat rather than requiring much harder 4 star crafting. (Of course, even that "simple" 2 star isn't going to be simple if they haven't even bothered leveling their crafters. They'll need enough of them leveled to have the skills for a decent level 50 rotation.)

It really sounds like your friends just want to automatically craft the best possible stuff without putting any effort into developing the ability to craft stuff. Crafting is a main focus of this game for a lot of people precisely because there's some complexity to it. Handing everything out for doing nothing would mean destroying that complexity that makes it worthwhile in the first place.

(And given your concern over whether you're talking about yourself or other people's issues, I'm also talking mostly about other people here. I haven't gone through the Heavensward portion of the leveling yet. I'm still at 50.)