Japanese to English translation - Discussion Thread

[Reinheart]

This is pretty normal for MMOs. It's very close to what WoW has been doing for a long time, even. I'm not sure of the problem?

Anyway, Rein, are they ever going to let people craft decent (not top-tier, but not crap) gear for level cap? Or is crafting seriously meant to be pointless in the long run?

Yep, it's the norm in most, probably all MMO's. In order for MMO's to keep the game fresh and to keep the players come back for more they have to place a system like this.

There will be new high-level crafted gear, YoshiP did mention during the live that once 2.2 goes live, for players that want to get to the highest gear level, quickest method first would be crafted new gear + materia. Then like usual dungeon gears. He has mentioned that crafted gear will never be the highest gear.

Crafting will boost the economy when patches goes live, as new gears are introduced but towards the end of current patch and near the next patch, the economy is supposed to decrease, just like how it is now and restart again with every patch. So crafted gear won't be the best gear, but won't be crap gear during that first phase of patch release.