Stats in FFXIV / Base Damage

[bobbygunz]

Blue Loot > White Loot.

Why would you be surprised when a craftable item doesn't match up to rare(ish) item.

P.s. We are getting high level craftables new patch, maybe you will find a weapon there suitable to your needs.

I think the point is that 3 slotting materia is probably more time consuming/expensive than just getting an item from a dungeon or someplace. Well, it depends on the drop, and the materia used, but it's a general rule of thumb all the same.

There's really no incentive or impetus to craft when the amount of investment to craft some of these items far exceeds the payoff. Crafting is basically irrelevant at the moment. Generally speaking.

[ValcKyard]

I think the point is that 3 slotting materia is probably more time consuming/expensive than just getting an item from a dungeon or someplace. Well, it depends on the drop, and the materia used, but it's a general rule of thumb all the same.

There's really no incentive or impetus to craft when the amount of investment to craft some of these items far exceeds the payoff. Crafting is basically irrelevant at the moment. Generally speaking.

Pretty much what im trying to say ... i would just expect it to have more impact on things since it take time and the ratio of sucess is really low

[fusional]

I think the point is that 3 slotting materia is probably more time consuming/expensive than just getting an item from a dungeon or someplace. Well, it depends on the drop, and the materia used, but it's a general rule of thumb all the same.

There's really no incentive or impetus to craft when the amount of investment to craft some of these items far exceeds the payoff. Crafting is basically irrelevant at the moment. Generally speaking.

so many levels of nope

[Enfarious]

Funny.

AF cannot beat most single-double melded armor for those wanting the best results (not even Warrior), and Ifrit/MogKing weapons require extreme amounts of luck to obtain.

I will agree on something though, which I've said before: crafting should be more community-involved. Ergo, this thread is barking up the wrong tree; I do think that Ifrit/MogKing/etc. should instead of dropping actual usable weapons, drop some something akin to the abjurations in FFXI that would require a piece of cursed gear that's only craftable by a DoH.

It's these very ?flaws? in equipment design that led to sooo much sidegrade gear in ffxi, 7 different body pieces depending on the occasion is a lil annoying. I'm ok w/ 2~3 but I really don't want to carry and Acc/Attk/WS/Haste/Crit/Eva/Mdef/Def/[ability] gear for one or more slots all over again. Imo this was one of the flaws in XI, and it's already present here too, getting AF just for swap ins is silly.

While 50 is the cap, the best gear should be, again just my opinion, AF which should probably be more challenging to get, then EG Drops which of course take ages to get. Perhaps triple melded crafted gear can be up there in those ranks since from what I understand, I'm no crafter, triple melding is not exactly easy to achieve. But really single melded gear outdoing AF, AF that doesn't provide substantial reasons to keep it on, these were the reason that AF/Relic was strictly swap in for most jobs in XI, it made me sad cause it looks cool, says I took the time to do this, but it's not actually worth wearing so really I just wanted to waste some time cause I was bored.