2015-03-25, 04:48 PM
Sweetwater equipment is meant to be the ultimate upgrade for your end-game equipment, by allowing e.g. your fully-starred Tyrant Cape to be transposed and carry all the bonus stats over to the Sweetwater Cape, and in that process allow for an additional upgrade by reducing your star count by 1. The downside is that, after transposition, it is fully untradeable, so people don't like it. If you're just out for stats and numbers and care nothing about tradeability, then maybe this is for you. On the whole, though, the additional benefits come only with the full set, which requires too much of an investment in mesoes to obtain.
cRA equipment gives good value for money, ease of obtaining (if you work hard enough to get enough mesoes since they're relatively plentiful), and only requires 4 equipment to get all the set effects (Sweetwater needs 7, though it does give far more raw stats).
IMO, Sweetwater equipment would have been something that the non-NX player would get for purely the stats, since all the WA etc. would somewhat make up for all the %STAT you couldn't get from cubing. In the past, the greatest additional benefits from Stars can almost only be derived from spending NX to get Superior Protection Scrolls, or spending an enormous fortune for no-boom Advanced Equipment Enhancement scrolls for Tyrants, hence it reverts back to a pay-to-win issue. With the new Enhancement and scrolling systems (I haven't been keeping up to date so don't ask me for details), and the greater availability of Master Craftsman Cubes, there's very, very little reason to get Sweetwater equipment, even for non-NX players. For Anviling, just use the Commerci equipment, and for stats just save some money to get some decent cRA equipment.
Hadriel
cRA equipment gives good value for money, ease of obtaining (if you work hard enough to get enough mesoes since they're relatively plentiful), and only requires 4 equipment to get all the set effects (Sweetwater needs 7, though it does give far more raw stats).
IMO, Sweetwater equipment would have been something that the non-NX player would get for purely the stats, since all the WA etc. would somewhat make up for all the %STAT you couldn't get from cubing. In the past, the greatest additional benefits from Stars can almost only be derived from spending NX to get Superior Protection Scrolls, or spending an enormous fortune for no-boom Advanced Equipment Enhancement scrolls for Tyrants, hence it reverts back to a pay-to-win issue. With the new Enhancement and scrolling systems (I haven't been keeping up to date so don't ask me for details), and the greater availability of Master Craftsman Cubes, there's very, very little reason to get Sweetwater equipment, even for non-NX players. For Anviling, just use the Commerci equipment, and for stats just save some money to get some decent cRA equipment.
Hadriel