K so, Resplendent!

[Jojoya]

Which I addressed. They'll literally be 2 button crafts come Endwalker. So they're not hardcore at all. I know you didn't make the comparison, but they're not like the Ultimate version of crafting.

We don't know that they'll be 2 button crafts in Endwalker. SE might not continue Trained Eye or increase the effect to include level 80 recipes. They may intentionally exclude its use on Expert since that would trivialize what Expert is intended to be - hardcore crafting.

But for the rest of this expansion at the least, the recipes for Resplendent materials are very much hardcore crafting.

[ForteNightshade]

The Resplendent tools aren't intended to be best crafting tools. They're intended to be bragging rights for hardcore crafters so they can prove how hardcore they are, which is something many were asking for.

I doubt very much that SE is going to create rewards that will give a tiny group of players a serious market advantage over the rest of the community considering the changes they've made to crafting/gathering this expansion. If the Resplendent tools don't appeal, then the community needs to offer other suggestions.

Technically, they do. Ultimate weapons are better than their Savage counterparts due to that extra materia slot. It's meaningless but they are better. Which is more than the Resplendent tools can climb.

Nevertheless, the issue is for many hardcore crafters, they aren't after some "prestigious" tool. They're interested in simply making gil either to spend on glamour and such or simply for the sake of having it. I fall in the latter category myself. Additionally, I personally don't feel these tools carry any "status" beyond "hey, I beat RNG!!" Which is the essential problem with crafting grinds like this. Unlike battle content, where you can solve a problem either by learning the mechanics or helping raid mates learn, there's no sense of control with these higher tier Expert Recipes. You can progress all the way to the needed craft only for RNG to say "NOPE!" and back to the beginning you go throughout no fault of your own. That alone ruins any prestige for me because it doesn't feel earned so much as lucky.

Either way, I sincerely doubt these tools will have the desired impact. Hell, even the likes of Ashe10 isn't touching them until Endwalker simply because they aren't worth the effort.

[TarynH]

"hey, I beat RNG!!" Which is the essential problem with crafting grinds like this.

This has been the crux of the issue since the beginning. Almost every single elitist crafter post I've seen has wanted to go back to the ignorant ARR RNG crafting method. Where they claim it was pure skill and know-how that got them to the elitist crafter position they came to love. No, it was purely lucky dice rolls. There was no "skill" or "know-how" to rolling a natural 20. It was simply a longer grind, having to redo the ones you failed to get good rolls on.

This is what "expert" crafting is now. You can still macro craft the crap, and battering ram your way through it. Just be prepared to redo a lot of them. It's not "special." The tools are worthless. Their glow isn't even as nice as the Ishgard ones. They're simply a waste of time. I can't believe the devs had to waste their time on making this a system, because a small vocal minority wanted to show how 1337 they were. We could've had more Fêtes!

[Vyrerus]

Their auto attack delays are the same at 2.80 >_> You're looking at the auto attack damage rating, which is lower, due to having lower iLvl.

[Wolwosh]

Oh shit you're right. I will not bother crafting it now then.

[Liam_Harper]

To be fair, even a decent bump in stats probably wouldn't let you skip the HQ mat in 4 star crafts. The most advantage extra stats would give you is knocking a step or two off your crafts or using cheaper food. Which I'd be fine with personally. That said I'm also fine if they don't have stats since the Blessed Tools have always been glamour and these look good. I don't think it matters either way, but it wouldn't have hurt for the relic or Blessed to be BiS by a small margin.

I don't think they're worth the bragging rights though. There's far less prestige in crafting, no one really cares if you're "hardcore" and these have an immense grind. Life is too short. But that's just personal opinion.