The Exarchic crafts are significantly too hard.

[Arkevorkhat]

The minimum requirements to craft Exarchic gear are frankly too high. I have head-to-toe Aesthete gear, some of it melded, and I can't even attempt to craft any of the gear, nor any of the pre-crafts. I understand that Exarchic basically exists as a way for pentamelded crafters to try and make back the tens of millions of gil they burned to meld their gear, but it's frankly ridiculous that there should be crafts that are sequestered to the top 1% of crafters.

This is frankly just a transparent attempt to make the rich get richer in this game, to the detriment of those of us who don't enjoy putting on a movie and pressing a macro over and over.

[Greyhawk]

Don't forget your food buffs, then you might actually pull off a successful HQ craft. :P

[Bacent]

It's not really the 'top percentage of crafters'? If you got up to date with your crafts then it'd be leagues easier.

Also note you said 'some of it melded'. Melds add on a ton of stats, as well as food and medicine buffs (Hell there's even 10 more points you can get from FC buffs for craft/control).

But a lot of this seems to be some assumptions and anger for it not being easier.

[Wrestlefire769]

They're meant to be.

[LisSquid]

I was under the impression crafting was easier this expansion. Who knew?

Meld your gear and then overmeld it. Make sure your tools are HQ, too. You'll notice a night and day difference.

[Arkevorkhat]

I was under the impression crafting was easier this expansion. Who knew?

Meld your gear and then overmeld it. Make sure your tools are HQ, too. You'll notice a night and day difference.

So basically the answer to "I don't want to waste all of my gil overmelding gear that will be outmoded in 6 months" is "Meld your gear, waste your time and money like the rest of us did."

[Sirweed]

Don't play MMO then

[Arkevorkhat]

Don't play MMO then

That's super toxic to say. If I don't want to waste heaping piles of in-game resources on something that was intentionally locked behind a significant time and money investment, I should just cancel my sub and stop playing at all?

On the other hand, I guess I shouldn't expect anything else from someone who plays a Lalafell, you are the bloodthirsty capitalists in the lore after all.

[HyoMinPark]

So basically the answer to "I don't want to waste all of my gil overmelding gear that will be outmoded in 6 months" is "Meld your gear, waste your time and money like the rest of us did."

If you don’t want to overmeld your crafters, then either buy the crafted gear you desire from the marketboard (they aren’t that expensive anymore due to ease of crafting them), or wait for the final round of scrip gear. Those are your options now. Keep in mind that pentamelded crafted gear will likely be enough for you to power through 6.0 leve-leveling to level 90, so you will still get additional use out of them after ShB ends.

Max level crafts should be more difficult than leveling crafts. They should require effort, and actually make HQ mats valuable instead of unnecessary overkill. They certainly aren’t nearly as hard as they used to be pre-SB, but they shouldn’t be click-a-button-and-win, basically.

[LisSquid]

So basically the answer to "I don't want to waste all of my gil overmelding gear that will be outmoded in 6 months" is "Meld your gear, waste your time and money like the rest of us did."

Yes. Good luck!