Yoshi-P explains the current and future

Yoshi-P explains the current and future states of Final Fantasy Xiv Gil . If you’ve leveled FFXIV crafting in 2.0, you know it can be a bit time consuming, expensive (if you don’t farm your own materials), and in the end can sometimes feel like it doesn’t yield much. That being said at least you didn’t have to do it in version 1.0. Trust me, ask a 1.0 friend if you didn’t level FFXIV crafting back then.

Yoshi-P also wants you to know that FFXIV crafting is intentionally a bit sparse right now but the development team intends to open up more and more avenues for fun and profit in the future. That may all be well and good but many players have been a bit upset that crafters cannot make the highest level gear in the game. Yoshi-P weighed in on why that is in his official forum post.

“In contrast (to gear obtained in dungeons), the highest-item-level gear that is currently craftable is item level 70. Looking simply at the difference, this appears to a very significant gap. That said, the materia system (including advanced materia melding) allows for the crafting of gear more powerful than its item level would suggest, gear that can—when augmented with effective materia combinations—serve players well even in the most challenging battles. That said, it is impossible to craft higher-item-level gear, or gear that is completely equal in power to the highest-item-level gear available.”