Crafting in FFXIVFollow

I dont believe anyone can answer you due to NDA. But im pretty sure they have worked out most the kinks with crafting to make them all useful. Also with the Market board it will help sell/buy so will be much easyer to sell alch items.

The little time i played 1.0 i lvled alch but with the bazaar system the only way i could make money was selling stuff to my friends or stand near the crafting area and shour and hope ppl needed things. At high lvl i ahve no idea how it went but that was my 1.0 experience with alch.

I couldn't get into crafting in 1.0 because it was so damn confusing.

Based on what we've seen in officially released info alone, they've improved the crafting system greatly and alleviated a lot of the confusion.

Alchemy was ok, not great. I imagine it will have a much larger impact in ARR.

I don't think this is breaking NDA, but if it is I'm sorry. But as part of the early questing around Gridania, you are given Potions to help with your soloing, as well as ethers, etc. In 1.0 this wasn't a viable means of sustain in fights, but they seem to emphasis consumable much more in ARR.

The best crafts, for money, were Clothcraft, Goldsmithing, and Armorer. Mainly, this was because these items were commonly used to either create the best materia, or socketted with double and triple melds, often resulting in blowing up everything, making them pretty consumable..

As a Bsm, I could only make gil by creating ingots for Armoring and selling them, as Most people would use Primal Weapons, or Grand Company Weapons. Though, the Relics come from Woodworking and Blacksmithing.

Cooking got the shortest stick though... early food in the game's life, food was useless so it never quite stuck as essential even after it was hugely buffed.

Woodworking did well with Arrows but since arrows are now infinite, that craft is in Limbo..


I made all my money with Mining. I heard Botany was pretty good though. But Mining was a license to print gil, and print I did. I leveled mining strictly for Hamlet, to work towards a relic, but I'm so happy I did.

Edited, May 1st 2013 11:42am by Louiscool

Good point there. I forgot about that. I actually used this method sometimes.

And yeah, WW will have a use, I just meant that we have no idea what it will be or how successful.

WOW.

That's actually why I started leveling Blacksmith, as I planned for Drg Relic but now I'm undecided.. It will depend on how Summoner tickles me, as I love Pet jobs.

Let me get this right... In order to get your relic before you had to have mining lvled? Unless you bought the seals?

Was that back when item-breaking meld mechanics had the servers burning through mats like crazy? I don't think I've ever played a mmo with that high a native production and consumption level before, it was nuts. Will be interesting to see how they balance gear not going *poof* when they don't meld, and what that does to blacksmith and goldsmith crafts.

Based on dev comments, crafting is now meant to ease transitions into the next tier of content so you don't have to spend so much time repeating the current one to fill out your gear. This is where crafting settled out in rift. You'd use it to speed your twinks up or for new players to catch up to the progression curve of the game faster. With that style of design, it's hard to really make solid money with it because the people with all the money don't need the crafted gear.

I'm wondering if the consumable crafts will be where it's at initially. Food and potions?

XI botting is still super easy, they send the rod motions in the data coming from the server, it's easily picked out and translated. I haven't played in a while but fishing in Beaucedine Glacier is a joke, there are SOOOO many AFK'ers there. I'd shoot random tells at them to see if anyone would respond.

Do you think yoshi is planning ahead for botting? Cause I really frown apon that bs! ?

Trying to combat botting with complexity is the wrong direction for sure. If it's in the code, you can decompile it and find it. People are very good at it, and only get better. I think Louiscool is right.

I'll never understand botting. Must be fun letting your computer play the game you bought ;)

Botting is usually a symptom of poorly designed progression features. People don't use bots to play for them. They use bots to work for them. The moral of the story for designers should be that if you're going to add a feature, do it right. Granted, that does present a danger of feature creep.