(07-21-2015, 04:31 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote: So we're finally seeing the new crafting sets added. ilevel 170 versions that are craftable (and HQ-able), and ilevel 180 versions that are purchasable with red crafter scrips... and both sets are palette swaps of each other. Actually they look more or less identical (not even different colours) from the little bit I saw before I left for work. This could just be the CUL set though, that's the only one I looked at. It didn't occur to me to check whether both the craftable and trade-in sets were meldable, but that's obviously the real deal-breaker.
I'm not sure what the rationale is behind making the scrip turn-in sets slightly better than the craftable sets. Maybe red scrips are going to be prohibitively hard to come by, so the new grind is going to be upgrading your crafted gear to turn-in gear. But it does seem like it's going to lower their marketboard value significantly. Which is good for people who don't have all their crafts leveled, but bad for people like me who are opportunistic capitalists.Â
I believe it was said in an earlier interview that the purpose was to provide a way for both hardcore and non players to work their way up to having viable crafter/gatherer sets. Those who are really gung-ho about it can go right out and get their crafted set, hq it, max meld it, and be done in a day and several million gil. But for players who are unwiling or unable to do that, they can go the slow route and get the red scrip items instead, which are non-HQ and cannot be melded.
Interestingly... there are no craftable versions of the red-scrip sets for Gatherers! So... all we have available to us right now are the purchased red-scrips sets. Which again, are not HQ and cannot be melded. But holy hell their stats are beautiful and blow the current serpentskin set way out of the water. (For those wondering, the math comes out at it taking 9 weeks of capping Red Scrips every week to obtain a full set for a single Crafter/Gatherer.)
It's interesting though that crafters got a craftable set while gatherers did not though...
