Gearing in this game as melee is horrible

[grinkdaboy]

hmm today i will log onto final fantasy xiv: online dawntrail and try to raid. but first, i need gear!

but the bad news is that i play melee! i will now need to save up months worth of tomestones, grind nuts forever to buy the tomestone augments while also hoping i get the coffers i need so i don't have to use the pages i'd prefer to use and save for another job's left/right side gear if i want to play more than just 1 armor type!

oh but wait! they added a cool new melee job this expansion that's pretty fun! but unlike the other melee, it shares right side equipment with a role i have absolutely 0 interest in playing whatsoever! can i get a POG?!

[Collin_Sky]

Gearing in this game is horrible, the melee specification is not required.

[mallleable]

Why does it take 3 weeks of tomes to get 2 pieces of gear?

W H Y

Please cut the price of capped tome gear in half.

[grinkdaboy]

Gearing in this game is horrible, the melee specification is not required.

getting hamstrung by substats isn't as bad as having to invest boatloads of tomestones into 3 different armor types

[AnnRam]

hmm today i will log onto final fantasy xiv: online dawntrail and try to raid. but first, i need gear!

but the bad news is that i play melee! i will now need to save up months worth of tomestones, grind nuts forever to buy the tomestone augments while also hoping i get the coffers i need so i don't have to use the pages i'd prefer to use and save for another job's left/right side gear if i want to play more than just 1 armor type!

oh but wait! they added a cool new melee job this expansion that's pretty fun! but unlike the other melee, it shares right side equipment with a role i have absolutely 0 interest in playing whatsoever! can i get a POG?!

Why do you need gear? even grey/green ones are enough to clean everything with little to no effort unless Savage.

[Remarus]

Just buy crafted gear and grind blue tomes to upgrade it. It's not expensive and not difficult. Sure, it won't be BiS but BiS takes time and effort to do, as it should.

[Ephremjlm]

Just buy crafted gear and grind blue tomes to upgrade it. It's not expensive and not difficult. Sure, it won't be BiS but BiS takes time and effort to do, as it should.

To be fair "not expensive" depends. For 7.1 I bought the crafted gear and it cost me almost 2 mil and that wasn't even every piece. Some people have it and some people don't. I could see the frustration if your two options were locked out tombs, or gil that you didn't have.

[BigCheez]

If you clear savage, gearing melee is as easy as any other role. If you don't do savage, you don't need BiS item level gear.

Augmented crafted gear, unaugmented or augmented tome gear is more than enough for any other content.

[BigCheez]

Why does it take 3 weeks of tomes to get 2 pieces of gear?

W H Y

Please cut the price of capped tome gear in half.

Because savage bosses would die in 6 minutes on day 1 otherwise.

[Remarus]

To be fair "not expensive" depends. For 7.1 I bought the crafted gear and it cost me almost 2 mil and that wasn't even every piece. Some people have it and some people don't. I could see the frustration if your two options were locked out tombs, or gil that you didn't have.

Universalis and server hop. If you're trading up, you don't even need to trade in the gear you're planning on using as the vendor gives you generic certificates. My accessories weren't more than 40k each as I bought off-role pieces and then turned them into augmented in-role pieces. Shop smarter, not harder.