Drop/NPC Equips vs. Player Made

So I'm seeing quite often that people are recommending player made staffs and armors with +7% INT +7% MATK (for mage). It seems to me that those stat increases are not as good as some of the dropped or NPC made equips. Am I wrong? Am I underestimating how strong player made equips are?

Same thing with all the crit gear. It seems like grabbing a dropped +75 or more crit item (for example Carbuncle Edge) would be more useful than putting +crit and +crit% on a player made sword and armor.

Thoughts? What am I overlooking?

 

There are different situations where player n npc crafts both have their own advantages,
While player craft is indeed stronger according to many, they dont provide stats like Hp, Mp, Phy/mag/neutral resist, Crit(mostly) etc..

But armours like heaven feather arm, elfin arm, etc have some stats almost equal to player craft aswell (in terms of atk% n matk%), while providing other stats alongisde aswell :3

Simple words..?
For arms?
Want to increase main stats n dmg? Like Str, Int, dex, or crit etc?
Go with player crafted n refined :3
Want hp, mp, resist, etc?
Go with npc arm~

For weapons?
..recommended to go along with Player crafted(+ refined) unless u got slotted Hell reaper set, or (optional 2s) Npc 4th anniv XI gear..?

Thats my opinion x3
Others opinion might vary ^^)

 

Drop gears are for us low budget players (or maybe just me here lmao). Damage wise, player crafted would win most of the time. However, dropped ones often offer different advantages, like high crit rate, resistance, etc. That said, sometimes the stats aren't really advantages due to reasons like the stat is not suited to the weapon. There's not a lot of good dropped or NPC gears, but some are pretty good.

 

We can resell the player crafted items.
To deal more physical damage, critical rate + critical damage + attack power are necessary.
As of currently, mage can find better NPC gears than player crafted. But tomorrow may be different.

 

Just depends on player's preference tbh.

✓Damage Dealer Class:
Player craft> Boss Drops/NPC made.

No doubt player craft deals more damage and is mainly used by GLASS CANNON builds.

Damage dealers who wants more survivability on the other hand prefers Boss Drop equipments which player craft lacks because drops and npc npc gives survivability stats like Hp/Resistance/Barriers and etc.

Tank Class will always prefer Boss Drop versions or NPC ones, no doubt about it. Hardly see people use player crafted equipment for tanking.

 

I can only hope for a...
+10% Atk/Matk %
+10% Stats/Critical Damage %
+20 Critical Damage
+20% Critical %
+20 Critical
-10% Atk/Matk %
-10% HP Recovery
-10% Attack MP Recovery

In one gear hehehe

 

It's all about damage. The IM7% armors aren't certainly best example, since there are NPC/boss armors with 6%+ MATK and better stats (e.g. heaven feather garb), while the extra I7% of statted armor barely affects mages' main damage sources. A better example IMO would be I7%Elemental14%. Also, another point for these armors still be appealing anyway is because they can be crafted on low pot armors, so you can buy a cheap 35+pot 2s adv garb, put these stats and further increase your damage/survability with xtals.
About your carbuncle edge example, it's pretty clear to me why choose a 4th Anniv Greatsword A7%FC19-20 over it: It has less base atk (it worses if we compare both at +S) and will lose crit damage. 2H often plays at DPS role, so I can't see how magic barrier and resistance would help if you don't already have some bulk hp.

 

Having more resistance is good. More resistance, the less eb or revs consumed and the probability to get 1 hit is lessened even more pair it with high hp.

 

Well obviously Carbuncle Edge is pretty outdated now, but at its time it was pretty great. Also most people have less than 10k, most stray magic attacks would severely injure them, or just kill them lol

 

Resistances, if not paired with HP, aren't a big deal. Let's say you take 5k raw magic damage, it gets reduced by 25% magic resistance, then you take 3.75k with your measly 2-3k HP. In carbuncle edge's case, it has barrier as well, but barrier has 30s cooldown, so you can die anyway by that magic damage in next 30s.

 

No one said barriers were good. Most of the time they're garbage, and gets used up even if you are invincible.

 

Yes, no one, that includes me as well.

 

Only exception is 4th anniv ktn in terms of dmg compared to p.made

 

I doubt dps has low hp like that atm, average hp nowadays imo is 5k.

Anyway, better than nothing. People do all out damage but sucks at dodging attacks and reading patterns will always be a bad dps. If they still atick to get hit and hit then they need those resistance and whatnot even more.

 

you are forgetting the level requirements.
to get those awesome op playercrafts, the crafter always had to be at the level cap, while the npc gear was like 30 levels behind.

this might change now that profiency plays a role, but previously a lv100 smith could not compare to lv100 npc crafts.

 

Ah btw, since the release tier 4 BS, there's a chance that player craft tank gears will appear more often

 

I don’t think so, with tier4 bs skill still can’t have higher resistant stat like NPC gear, guard rate, ailment and HP plus also same.

Player craft gear is more toward on DPS, for defensive and survivability stat NPC gear still won.

 

Yes, it is for now, but later i think we could have a more optimized weapon for tank like adding resistance with the aggro and a small amount of ailment resist (until the stat limit being capped). But well, it's just my hunch.
Btw, guard rate is shit until they release a proper rework and in the first place the one that give the most guard rate and power are from the shield and dagger

 

I get that player made stuff has higher dmg....but I like the boss drops better...not spending a fortune and they can be fun to farm.....sometimes....I have yet to have a player made weapone rival what I got from a boss...so I can't use any potential...so what....I have gotten better stuff stat wise from bosses...but that's my opinion and the way I like to play...lol...you do you