Thread: 5.5 Patch Notes are up!

I know what it is... We will be equipping the Ish DoH MH relic, and glamouring it with the Eulmore Resplendent version. Then, we can sit in Kugane, flashing MH like a neon sign on Route 66... "Eat at Joe's"... "Eat at Joe's"...

Sorry, one of those days -

Shooter

Originally Posted by Mansion

I guess... what's bad about it?
Relics were the "hardest" crafts along with the Ishgard things, but you can craft pretty much everything else with basic melds on a crafter gear. These additions are just bonuses to collect. We don't need stat improvements at this time of the expansion.

It depends.

1) If they have stats on them that are better than the relics, they invalidated months of work for the DoH relics.

2) If they don't have stats on them: Pentamelded Neo-Asthete's weapons are better than the current relics so that basically invalidates the relics (they were obtainable a while before the current relic step)

So your options on the relic are either

A) Spend time creating a relic that is subpar to a fully penta melded craftable item. This is counter to what the relic is supposed to be. At the end of the expansion the relic is supposed to be the best weapon you can have

B) Spend millions of gil attempting to pentameld a crafted item.

C) Don't really care either way and just buy the white scrip gear or buy /craft the Aesthete's and don't penta meld it. You don't NEED to anyway to make current crafts.

IMHO the crafting relic has been underwhelming the entire expansion. I hope the do better (if they do) next time.

Originally Posted by Mansion

I guess... what's bad about it?
Relics were the "hardest" crafts along with the Ishgard things, but you can craft pretty much everything else with basic melds on a crafter gear. These additions are just bonuses to collect. We don't need stat improvements at this time of the expansion. So they can only provide glamour / achievement in that respect.

But I do agree that the off hand tools could have got some attention too.

What came across to me as bad, was that unless something startling in terms of Resplendent specs appears tomorrow, the Resplendent series seems very much like poor use of developmental resource; almost like it was forced for some reason. Put another way, why on Earth muck with your settled top class (relic) slot, just before the next expansion? Ofc, many times in the past we've been surprised by things of this sort, so for now, Tuesday holds the answer. I just hope like the dickens it does not turn out to be a stuck pig; wrong about this is a good thing!

Shooter

Originally Posted by Maxcrafter

What came across to me as bad, was that unless something startling in terms of Resplendent specs appears tomorrow, the Resplendent series seems very much like poor use of developmental resource; almost like it was forced for some reason. Put another way, why on Earth muck with your settled top class (relic) slot, just before the next expansion? Ofc, many times in the past we've been surprised by things of this sort, so for now, Tuesday holds the answer. I just hope like the dickens it does not turn out to be a stuck pig; wrong about this is a good thing!

Shooter

It seems like the equivalent of implementing Blessed tools and putting them behind something meaningful and reasonable to achieve other than doing an obscene amount of unique recipes in your crafting log. These tools got more and more obnoxious as time went by; so with some luck, these will be the successor to the Blessed Tools. Especially as exhibited by the absence of "I Made That VII"

New achievements and titles have been added.
If you have already fulfilled the requirements for the new achievements prior to the release of Patch 5.5, they will be awarded upon accessing them in the Achievements menu.
I Found That: Miner VII
I Found That: Botanist VII
I Caught That VII

My only issue is why not incorporate something like offhand glamour, or bench glamour, or even emotions associated with the class as opposed to doing another series of flashy tools.

Don't expect much. .i500 scrip equivalent tool.