G.F.G from the Shopfarer's package

[ShelixAnakasian]

Hey folks!

The G.F.G from the shopfarer package is the "big" recipe: L48 gun with Fastidious II (Lower the chance of breaking a piece of equipment by 30%).

I haven't attempted to make any of these yet because I've been solely focused on Balmungs - but now that all my sword wielders have one, I was looking again and...what am I missing? The Balmung has Support II, which is quite useful. G.F.G is the final unlock and...30% less chance of breaking a piece of equipment?

Clue me in here.

[Shiroe]

Simple.
(most of) those non-seasonal packs got released with a good skilled blueprint @ legendary.
Then max levels of blueprints, heroes, buildings got raised (I think it was the shift from 40 to 50).
Hmm, now those packs have an end blueprint 10 levels below the new level cap, which is a bit silly, so they added extra blueprints, but I guess they didn't want the already best pack to be even better, so the Advanced Shopfare pack had the high level one of the 2 added BPs be an underwhelming one.

TL;DR Balmung was originally the end-blueprint.

[ShelixAnakasian]

The Wisdom Ocarina by comparison (at L47) looks pretty sexy - was the wizard package underwhelming before it was added? Was it added when the level cap was raised too?

[Shiroe]

The Wisdom Ocarina by comparison (at L47) looks pretty sexy - was the wizard package underwhelming before it was added? Was it added when the level cap was raised too?

I dug up the timeline:
october 2015: the 3 packs went from 3 to 5 blueprints (all lvl 40 and below)
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2249&p=6262
december 2015: advanced shopfare pack added with 5 blueprints (all lvl 40 and below)
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3642
january 2016: max levels (for items etc) raised from 40 to 50
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3641
february 2016: the 3 packs and advanced shopfare went from 5 to 6 blueprints (the lvl 47/48 ones added)
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5089&p=17114
Not 100% sure, but I think before the feb 2016 changes the player advice was that getting 2x a fountain of gems might well be a better investment of $20 than getting one of those 3 packs...
While since then the wizard pack's Wisdom Ocarina has been a decent non-RNG way to get a moneymaker. (though if you can farm your own Primal Horns, Dragonfire Potion from raid, that was added quite a while later, now kind of matches it for people without the wizard pack)