Sedres said:
Winterlight said:
All I have to say to this is: Am I glad I leveled cooking!
All the unlucky crafters of gear will wind up being poor and destitute on the mean streets of Al Zahbi and Jeuno!
I wonder if there will be an augment that puts "Will work for gil" on the chest of your character...
How'd you work that one out? If anything people are going to be requesting pieces they can augment, which opens a bigger market for those crafters...
HQ prices will certainly go down since NQ gear can now be augmented. Kinda depends on how much you can augment them though. A lot of gear crafters seem to focus on HQ stuff to make money and sell NQ at a loss or breakeven and chalk it up to the cost of doing business.
I'm not sure that people will buy new NQ to augment though. They'll probably try it on gear they already have first. I don't know how many ppl out there hold onto gear they're no longer using though, kind of depends on this.
Augmentation will only introduce more crafters for NQ gear since it's easier to do and in general profits from that gear will probably go down since competition has gone up.
Lastly, I can't remember a crafting update which enriched crafters tbh. Everything SE has done has only nerfed crafters. This augmentation system seems like it's an attempt to reduce prices of HQ and let more ppl produce more NQ gear that ppl will actually want.
In order for crafters to become richer as a result of this update the number of crafters will need to remain the same, which I don't think will happen since the path to more desirable, lower level gear is now easier.