Why wasn't the game designed like this?

[Aenarion]

So i level my Battle class to 50, battle my way through a hundred farm runs so i can buy a moldy hat that i then have to pay ridiculous sums of Gil to randoms on the Market Boards in order to get the materials needed to have someone else charge me more gil for the service of crafting my item.

Reading comprehension fail much? Or were you just intentionally leaving out the part where you actually GET said moldy hat during your farm runs for you to SELL to crafters?

Instead of doing the dungeons, and buying my gear with the resulting currency.

Yeah, that makes total sense.

If you can stop for a second and get out of the “ME ME ME ME ME” thinking mode, it will.

What you want is to swing the pendulum in the complete opposite direction.

Nope, what I want is a rebalance of the system. YOU are the one who claimed the current system is perfectly fine, and should have even more tome-dungeon and gear. Unlike you, I actually want both aspect of the game to be meaningful and viable, considering I actually do play both.

Give crafters the recipes for ilvl 70 gears. Hell, give them the ability to MAKE the Darklight gear.* I have no problem with that. But you'd better damn well make sure the requirements to make it are just as time consuming as running AK/CM/TP/WP/AV/DD

Eorzea to Sylve, Eorzea to Sylve, there are already ilvl70 crafted gears, just that they can only be bought with tomes(oh the irony), most of the time taking 2X more tomes as their DL equivalent, or up to 7~8x more in the case of accessories.

Seriously, welcome to a month ago.

Bad enough with how it is with relics, people wanting huge amounts for clicking a freaking button. I'd rather wait and level the class myself.

Find some friends? It IS only clicking a button,

For the other side, how about a thing that you can only get if queue up as a dps in the duty finder, solo, no friends or anything with you, with people who are far undergeared for the instance and have never done it before and don't speak the same languages? Without doing it, you couldn't level up your crafter.

for an actual accurate analogy, how about where you level up your battle class, and suddenly discover the rest of the game is nothing but crafting, leaving your battle class utterly pointless? Because that’s where DoH/L is at right now.

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