Please recycle crafting materials in Shadowbringers

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Please reuse mats that we currently have for the 71-80 recipes and just add new stuff for the star recipes. It's stupid having so many names for mats i.e wheat when it's still wheat but with a regional name added on. This would also bring new life into the Market board and help lower level crafters too.

[AvenoMatt]

I agree. I don't craft or gather but what's the point of there being so many different types of fabrics, wood, pelts if by next exp they are going to be useless. Give them usage of some kind so they stay relevant.

[Shadygrove]

I agree. I don't craft or gather but what's the point of there being so many different types of fabrics, wood, pelts if by next exp they are going to be useless. Give them usage of some kind so they stay relevant.

Do you raid? Do you know about the gear treadmill?

Its the same darn thing for crafters and gatherers except the treadmill is materials and recipes.

[UserHere]

I agree. I don't craft or gather but what's the point of there being so many different types of fabrics, wood, pelts if by next exp they are going to be useless. Give them usage of some kind so they stay relevant.

You don't craft or gather but, an fyi. New materials in new zones don't make old materials obsolete. The old recipes don't go away and are still used even at lvl 70.

[Baxcel]

Yeah no, going to disagree. Keeping old stuff as the base of new recipes is a bad idea. The price on those items have already bottomed out over the past 2 years of people gathering them. Adding something new would refresh the market with new mats an items to keep the system going.

Keeping it the old stuff would be an insult to crafters an gathers. Would you be ok if when shadowbringers dropped and your class went from 70 to 80. Going all the way from 70 to 80 you never received a new skill or action? That's what it would be like for life skillers if they didn't give us new mats to work with.

[Kirika-]

However, I do like what they did with the current Master 6 / 4 Star culinary recipes by having one or two materials that are ARR or HW origin for each.
That gives value for low level players who sell materials and the need for high level player to go to older areas/content.

[Caitlinzulu]

Old materials have been mixed in with new for most recipies. As an example twinthread is made with twin coons from the peaks and effervescent water from South shroud (lv 25 or so)

[braxberry]

Plus, if no new materials were introduced in 70-80 content, there would literally be no need to level up your gatherers. However, it's mentioned having new mats for only the endgame recipes, but that's also a bad idea, and here's why: if the endgame is using new materials, but there aren't any new nodes to gather from that are level appropriate for your gatherers while leveling, all you are left with to level (efficiently) is leves at launch. This could work for a while, but at the same time, once you run out, you are basically SoL.

But, if we go with the removal of new materials because of different names, we had better get rid of new mobs and dungeons, because that's the rough parallel for battle jobs. </snark>

[Caitlinzulu]

While I think removing metals and lumbers isn't great, we could eliminate some other materials, mainly beast drops. Just group some together I to the lowest level.