112936-carbine-official-statement-regarding-nerfing-crafted-gear-does-a-statement-exist

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Other than the changes to max runeslots, have the developers made any specific statement on whether they will nerf crafted gear?
 
I understand there are 2 main ways to do it. The direct (and easy) way is to lower the 125 stat cap or to just make boosting stats much less efficient at higher amounts and much efficient at lower amounts. Changing the efficiency would be an ok fix.
 
The other way (and I'm sure everybody's prefered way because boosting a single stat is boring) is to make other stats scale better in comparision assault power and each classes AP boosting stat (ex. brutality for warriors).
 
 
The reason I ask about if an official statement exists is because I'd like to craft a bunch of gear right now and rune it, but I'm afraid the time and plat spent to get what I want will be in vain.	
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they will do
max stat 100(down from 125)
min stat 12~16
blue gear max slots 3 	
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			go play around with it on PTR they did just directly nerf crafted gear quite a lotStats max out on adventus with refined core at i believe it's 93While off stats can't go below 16with a luminite core it's a little better but still not goodalso crafted gear only gets 2 slots with a third added from eldan flux while world gear is 5 slotsCrafted gear will basically cap out at adventure quality, so make it while you can	
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also crafted gear only gets 2 slots with a third added from eldan flux while world gear is 5 slots
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The other way (and I'm sure everybody's prefered way because boosting a single stat is boring) is to make other stats scale better in comparison assault power and each classes AP boosting stat (ex. brutality for warriors).
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			I assume when this drop finally goes live current crafted gear will remain as is, right?  That would be a hard slap in the face the nerf already crafted gear to these amounts.	
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Current gear will remain as is.
 
New gear will have minimum and maximum thresholds that will bring crafted gear more inline with the expected progression levels of each tier of crafting. Which means that much of the existing crafted blues will fall between Veteran Adventure blue-quality and Veteran Dungeon purple-quality in terms of stats, but be (potentially) short one or two total Rune Slots.
 
Of course, as we introduce new crafting recipes at new itemization tiers (Archivos recipes, for example), crafted gear will become more powerful over time and allow players to gear up into higher tiers as we expand the PvE progression further.
			
				
	Edited September 11, 2014 by J-Tal	
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Of course, as we introduce new crafting recipes at new itemization tiers (Archivos recipes, for example), crafted gear will become more powerful over time and allow players to gear up into higher tiers as we expand the PvE progression further.
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Which means that much of the existing crafted blues will fall between Veteran Adventure blue-quality and Veteran Dungeon purple-quality in terms of stats, but be (potentially) short one or two total Rune Slots.
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dinwit hits on an important point.
 
It's hard to justify cw-4 being worse than dungeon blues when it takes so much work to be able to craft.
 
Before the rune changes it was only expensive to craft because we had to craft 20+ of an item to get acceptable runes. Now we will be able to get max rune slots instantly and can reroll the worst runes. So if it was still as good as it was pre-patch it would make dungeons pointless.
 
So we should nerf it? No. It should just be more expensive to craft. If it costed 2-3 plat to craft a single cw-4 piece, it would still be hard to get.
 
Or you can throw in a requirement to get dungeon drops to be able to craft it. Or you can make it like certain elder gem vendor items: add a requirement to equip it. No silver ssm? Sorry you can't equip this.
 
Right now I'm just going to craft as much of it as I can before the drop.
 
And then the drop will happen and you'll have people complain about our grandfathered crafted gear.	
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Or you can throw in a requirement to get dungeon drops to be able to craft it. Or you can make it like certain elder gem vendor items: add a requirement to equip it. No silver ssm? Sorry you can't equip this.
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What, then, is the point of research crafting?  It takes significantly more dedication to get that CW-4 Greatsword (54 Eldan Data Fragments) than it does to bronze any of the Vet Dungeons, but they can walk away with better purple gear with a bit of luck?  And its not like you need to know the tier 4 to unlock the tier 5, all the Archivos weapons are off in their own, disconnected node on the tech tree.
 
I was bronzing dungeons before I had my CW-4 Heavy Gun schematic, even with the open faucet that was data fragments at the start.  Enigma/CKN/etc were silvering the dungeons before people even had access to CW-2 weapons.  Yet it is the crafted gear that is to easy to obtain, because we are three months in and dedicated crafters have already put in the time to learn these schematics.  If we are letting the actions of others determine the potential power that someone can obtain, why are we not considering the carried group member?  He gets his purple loot because the other four group members know the dungeon well enough to silver it without him.  How is that any different than someone getting gear from crafters?
 
I guess the question I actually want to ask J-Tal is this.  If you could do it all over again and launch with the itemization scheme you are about to implement, where crafters need 54 days to produce something on the level of Vet Dungeon blues, would you?
 
If you're going to make blue crafted gear pointless, then at the very least put some purple weapons for all classes and specs in the Vet Adventures.
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Cant call going to the torine weaponsmith and back once a day "dedication".
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Btw, is  crafted gear only having 2 slots an intentional change? This is where it is at on PTR right now. it gets crafted with 1 then we can add another using the flux. The earlier statement was that it would be 2, upgradeable to 3?
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Yeh, they said on there video it was intentional, and raid items were going to get more slots again.
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