Howdy,
I'm writing as a recently-turned level 100 Cook. One of the aspects of FFXI that has kept me playing (or returning) over six years has been synthesis. I love the variation, the harvesting crystals, the crafts and sub-craft, the guild points -- it's a really fun part of Vana'diel.
In my opinion -- not the susbstance of this post -- synergy is broken. If we were supposed to have "multi-player crafting," then synergy wouldn't have been a skill unto itself, and we could've gathered crafters of different guilds around furnaces without needing to worry about it. Now, there are plenty of recipes that require synergy and just one other skill (or very low levels of other skills), essentially making synergy a one-man activity. Which kinda defeats the purpose. Broken, broken.
But, my question, or suggestion, is: will we be getting any new synthesis recipes? Or is it all just synergy from here on out? It seems with each new update, new "synthesis and synergy" recipes are promised, and then only synergy recipes are announced. Even when sometimes some synthesis recipes are snuck in, the ratio of new synthesis to new synergy is awfully skewed. Has synthesis run its course? Would it be possible to resurrect it?
Thank you kindly.
Vazul
(Lakshmi)