"You can only equip one Shadowlands Crafted item at a time."

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I thought I was going to be clever and equip some better gear by just replacing all my 239s with crafted 262s.

Haha. Lol. You got me.

So not only was crafting a complete joke to begin with in Shadowlands except for food, but it’s pointless too.

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It was almost good… almost… they detected fun, therefore they made adjustments to kill the said fun.

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There is always a catch when things are too good to be true.

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Indeed. :frowning: lol

Just grumpy I spent so long grinding rep for some reason on my human paladin so I could make the Crafters Mark only to find out you can only equip one item. Had I known this I would have played better games this weekend.

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Did you not read what the item said before you made all of that?

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I mean it’s a piece of almost Heroic ilvl gear that you can make for extremely cheap.

It’s a nice leg up to start gearing or back luck protection if you can’t seem to find a piece to fill that slot. Crafting isn’t really meant to replace the entire gear progression system, and if it was it certainly wouldn’t be for that cheap.

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I’m a bootlicker for suggesting you could have read the item before overcommitting?

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Reading is hard who plays a game just to read

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Why would they implemented crafted gear that way?

Are the pieces that powerful?

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The current state of Shadowlands:

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It’s the same way the 230s in 9.1 worked. It has that note on the tooltip.

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It’s a library for ants!

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The crafted 262 socketed rings/necklaces are probably going to be the best until you get 278 socketed, which is pure RNG.

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Dont fret too hard, friend. When heroic/mythic SoD was going strong, this popped up with the 200/233 crafted gear as well. Bunch of people bought some 200 gear, equipped it, then though they could do the same with the 233 crafted, only to have a full set bought/crafted and only can equip one of the 233’s.

People is me. I am people. But when I did that, then came to the forums… I was not alone haha.

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They never miss an opportunity

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What’s “good” crafting to you?

Gathering some ore from the world for a couple hours and crafting Heroic Level armor in every slot?

Crafting has to keep actual content in mind.

Either it can produce good gear, but in limited amounts (see: the Crafted-Equip limit, or back in the day when you could only actually get 2 recipes… and they dropped in the appropriate difficulty of Raid for the ilvl).

Or…

It can have no limits and function as alt/returning player/new player gear catchup.

We have both right now. You can use crafting to fill a slot you’re struggling in with a high ilvl piece, and you can use crafting to get up to a strong baseline ilvl to start the current patch.

I don’t see that as a problem. Crafting being too strong is one of the most demotivating design choices to me. I don’t give a single damn about gear in FFXIV because I can spend chump change on the AH for 2nd BiS.

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I’d rather be able to equip double crafted than double legendaries.

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You thought you were going to be able to equip a full set of heroic-raid level gear just from stuff you can buy on the auction house? Fascinating. Tell me more.

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I mean it does say you can only use one.

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I did this exact same thing, bought a couple of items without recalling (reading) that I could only wear one.

Why do you feel that they ‘got you,’ and not that you ‘got myself?’

I mean, if the coffee cup reads, ‘caution, contents hot when heated.’ and you still get burnt…