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Holy crap I can finally break down the primal junk I've been holding onto for some ungodly reason. My inventory rejoices.

Looks like we can only distribute 300 points across 8 crafts. That is 37.5 per craft if we are averaging. Personally, blacksmith, leatherworker, and weaver are going to be high on the list for me. I've got a ton of green and blue junk I need to desynth.

And the rare rewards for desynthing the hm primal wepons are going to be used in the new crafts in 2.3.... My guess is that those are going to be used to craft the glowing versions of the ilvl 90 crafted gear. Interesting.



Edited, Jun 27th 2014 8:39am by Valkayree

Especially if it meant that you would lose your melds. Now if it was ilvl 100 glowy gear (similar to the weathered to unweathered transition) I'm more inclined to go with it.

But on the official forums, people are already complaining to devs to have the ability to turn off the glowing effects so FFXIV doesn't look like a pay to win game. I personally think the effects are subtle and well done.

I wouldn't mind a glowy effect toggle, but it's definitely not over the top as you see in other MMOs. And damn, I never even thought about how I'd lose all the accuracy melded to my Heavy Wolfram gear if I did have to use it as a base material. But yeah, if it bumped the iLvl up by 10, then I could roll with that if it means an alternative to weekly Second Turn drops and headaches over splitting where my Soldiery goes. I just want to avoid re-making the armor itself from scratch if possible.



I mean I guess you could change which desynthesis points you have in each crafting class. I'm actually reminded of back in the day with Ultima Online and their general stats and aptitude system, where you could set some stats to go up, lock them in place, or to go down if others go up so point allocation is moved around. Obviously it's not convenient like leveling everything up at the same time is, but it's an option.

And I think it would have been a great idea if they had gone that route from the start with crafting. But instead, you're practically required to level every craft because of the significant advantages of cross class abilities. You don't even have to be someone who wants to be self sufficient. Want to compete with other Weavers? You need to level everything. Want to be the best Armorer you can be? Better level everything.

And now, you have to focus on a limited number of crafting classes, but only for desynthesis? That just seems very strange to me.

I'm a little annoyed by this part.


So you don't actually get 300 points because 8 are used up automatically. Why not just make that first point not count towards the total?

Even with the changes from patch 2.2, you can still "max out" all 8 crafts. It just takes a heavier investment than before.

The 300 skill cap quickly ruins what could have been a great idea into absolute and utter rubbish. Not so much that you have 300 points to spend, but that the 1 skill you get on any level 30+ crafting class counts towards the 300 cap. So realistically, what could have been a great idea plummets into Two crafts at 100, one craft at 95 and 5 more crafts at 1...

So because they give you one point and count that towards the cap, you can never cap out 3 skills. But let you come so close that it's no longer funny, good going SE. Once again taking what is a good idea in theory and turning it into crap....

This. People may use them all for certain things but let's be real, unless you found a secret most people didn't, most people fall into 1-3 crafts "mastered" with culinarian usually being one of those 3 because it's ALWAYS consistent money. So I don't see anything ruined other than allowing 1 person to flood the market, which isn't a bad thing with that being ruined.

Remember: As much as someone may want to cry foul, Yoshi stated himself he checks what players does and it's VERY obvious he realizes what most people do in terms of crafts. I remember people stating Yoshi would never impose restrictions on us like Tanaka and Matsui and he'll give players absolute freedom to do whatever they want without regards of balance.

Good times. .

Right now we have no idea how having a 95 versus a 100 has any affect on the process of desynthing, so until we do I think we should maybe hold off on passing judgement. For all we know there's no real difference between being a 90 or a 100 (yet), or if any difference is all that meaningful. It might not matter at all. It's a little early to start complaining IMO.