An educated rant: Why pentamelding is %@$&*!-backwards

[SnowVix]

Got savage on the brain. P2S hates me.

wait until you hit 3 and have to end instances early due to eyestrain, because the devs learned nothing from the feedback about E6.

[IckeDerTyp]

" [...] It's just a timesink that punishes people who want to do real content instead of blowing away their subscription time on garbage."[...]

You seem like a fun and nice guy!

Amazes me that you're judge, Jury and whatever the 3rd one is and yet have time to play the real content aswell!

Amazing.

[Catwho]

The game also throws gil at you just for playing the game without the intention of making gil. Do a dungeon? You'll walk out a few thousand gil richer, as much as 20K for expert dungeons. Even more for roulettes. Challenge log has the potential to throw almost 100K gil at you once a week. WT is like a guaranteed 30-40K if you sell the map you get from it.

If all you do is log in and dance around the Limsa aetheryte, then yeah, you're gonna be broke all the time.

[AtlasS]

Crafting is boring every game. I only leveled one for the beast tribe mounts.

[Colten822]

Knowing how to play the violin is actually a very important skill to know for driving, there's a lot of cross over knowledge there. In my country we make sure people can play the violin, drums, and at least two wind instruments before allowing them to apply for a license, but the catch is you also need to know guitars to get any car insurance that's worth something, most places any guitar is fine but some places INSIST that it's an acoustic guitar.

In the end, it's all worth it, it makes driving a much more rewarding experience, but hey, you can always ride a bike around for free!

[SirKampalot]

i dont like levelling my crafters and i dont have a lot of gil to pentameld or buy gears. but i fully disagree with your post.

Pentamelding is not being gatekeeped by anything, nor is it a timesink. if you dont wanna level any DoL/Doh to earn gil then dont blame the game.

[GomezAddams]

To make that gear you're trying to pentameld, the crafter had to pentameld their own gear almost completely before they were even able to craft it for you. They had to spend the time and the money. They put actual effort into it. Something you actually stated you are opposed to. What you're asking for is to bypass the grind because you want to win right now. My kids sounded exactly the same when they were 5 and I wouldn't give them ice cream before bed. And if you were a crafter right now, you'd know that the market is steep and nothing is selling because of having too many crafters and too many whiny players like you who want everything handed to them for free. You already got ten levels and a free set of 90 gear just for watching a 14-hour-long movie. Now you want free raid gear and materia as well. Would you like someone else to push the buttons for you as well?