Crafting requirements.

[NanaWiloh]

Umm the artisan gear is better then the 50 4 star and easier to get IMO. The chest has 107 craft. 35 control and 2 CP, better then the 51 gear which has 92 craft and 30 control even HQ it's only 105/34. IF you don't have every craft at 51 already you wont over meld it. Since it's I level 65 the best you can meld into it is a 4. Even if you meld 4s the best you can get is 107....So the 50 greens are better then the 51s Unless you can manage to get HQ and even then you don't meet the recommended crafting stats for level 51 crafts....... There is no level 51 arm for crafting BTW so the best you're gonna do (without having to grind through hours of content that you're better off ignoring because you can level through it to 52 faster then grinding to get the 90 arms) is the artisan. Yes you can level past it really quickly which is my point the I level 90 stuff is a waste of time. So streamline it. It's pointless and most new people ignore it.

Alright my mistake on something here forgot there are two types of Artisan gear. Crafted and the one from the vendor :P The vendor one I would not bother with better stats or not, as the rng at trying to hit HQ on the items required for turn in could end up costing you Hundreds of thousands of gil. Then again getting Master book 2 at level 50 can cost same if your not lucky or lacking on leveling up all crafting classes. The 51 gear is pretty much aimed at players who didnt get the Artisan gear or started the game after ARR. Fieldcraft 3 demateria on my realm is going for 27k a piece and you need 2 of them to craft one turn in item. For most new players that is a lot of gil too just be tossing out there in the hopes of success on the first try.

As someone already pointed out once you hit level 53 or so on any crafter the gear you find is better then Artisan, that is without crafting to HQ or melding.