Easter pt.2 was alright.
Did the Skysteel tools tutorial. The grind isn't terrible. For a DoH the items aren't harder to craft than the custom deliveries, but crafting 40 HQ of them (20/20) to get the i475 tool is probably a good 40-50 mins of crafting if you don't use macros like I don't, plus buying the mats if you don't have them look to be a couple hundred thousand gil, all for a tool that's only 5 ilvls higher than the white scrip i470 gear. Doesn't seem worth it.
Although considering there's no more white scrip gear until next expansion (besides belt and accessories probably patch), if the tools keep increasing in ilvl every patch, they could end up like i500 by next expansion while the scrip tools are i470.
Still, roughly an hour of time + say 200k gil per tool x 8 and then the time for the gathering ones and I don't even want to think about the time grind for the fishing one...eh, not worth it. I mean it's sure better than 200 hours of gathering light on some relic weapon or something, but still just seems like a waste of time unless you're crafting current patch HQ endgear. I generally am crafting lvl.70 or below items because I'm lazy and auto-HQ button for 70 and below is nice, so don't care.
Gonna go do the relic run next and get my weapon. My job trio are just about full i480 gear, so I wonder what my ilvl will be with i480 gear + i485 weapon. Just need to get all 3 above i485 for 5.4 raid tier #3 and next expansion.
Someone in the chat today said 5.3 is delayed because of COVID slowing work down at the team. I wonder if it'll effect the launch of the next expansion since it's only a year and a couple months away.