Spiritbinding = Ex?

[Reika]

This will make fail finder alot more fail, due to people being really gimp.... Either that or SE is going to have make all content pre-endgame crazy easy so gear does not really matter, like every other western mmo does.

Going to be so many gimps around because they do not want to spend 500k for 5 levels.

You wouldnt be able to use 'fail finder' if you dont have the right Ilvl for the dungeon (if they are correctly doing it that way) and having the right ilvl requires you not still be wearing lvl 1 gear because youre trying to avoid buying anything until max level.

So basically we have 1 of 3 scenerios now

1) The crafters are screwed over... because everything will be next to worthless so people can afford it. Aka the 50k for a set of armor good enough not to hold back a group in dungeon.

2) Dungeons will all be laughably easy so gear pre endgame does not matter... aka like in WoW pre-endgame

3) People will just go into everything gimp because it is not worth the cost for good gear until you get to endgame.


all 3 of those seems pretty epic fail to me.

People wont do any of those for the reasons I stated above. We haven't really gotten a look at what the stats of gear looks like in ARR. its possible that as gear level gets higher, the attribute increases on them become much higher than what we saw in 1.0, making better gear important to have even as you level up.

here's the fun part for the non crafters. if you don't craft then the gil changes actually did lower your buying power. with them removing reselling gear once it's used they lowered the supply in the market. when the supply drops and the demand stays the same prices will increase.

who will benefit from the price increase? the crafters.

who will be punished by the price increase? the non crafters.

i am not saying an item that sold for 500k in 1.0 will still be 500k in arr, but i am saying with the same demand and less supply it will not drop to 10% of its previous cost. now an item that sold for 500k before you will likely be looking at 100k after. that has effectively decreased your buying power.

I don't think there will be much reason for prices to increase all that much, at least not on lower level gear. And honestly, those non-crafters should just become crafters so they wont have to cry rivers of tears because of prices. Leveling crafting will be crazily easy now that there will be an in-game recipe book too, and it will be simply click recipe and start. no more tediously going to fansites to find out how to make something. If people that 'dont have the patience' for crafting still refuse to craft even with that change, well the crafters deserve all their gils.