What's in the future for Crafting?

[Kagato]

Let's be honest here. Crafting is all but dead thanks to Abyssea. Most people can just grab whatever cheap NPC-buyable armor they can and a few crappy weapons and solo to 30, then leech until they can get Abyssea armors and weapons.

There's a major gap between 30-70 as far as any gear or consumables, such as food or medicines, that just aren't needed or useful anymore. This, in turn, makes a lot of craft items useless.

So, what's in the future for crafting? I'm sure there are many crafters out there who wish they could still craft useful things.

[RAIST]

I would like to see them lift the cap on secondary crafts....never really understood the limit they put on that system. I would gladly craft things for people, but my main is cooking, so I'm limited in what I can do on the other crafts. So, I usually just stick to what I need and then sell some on the side.

[Chronofantasy]

Synergy - I think that's all SE might update and use in the future. The rest of the crafts get the shaft.

[Haldarn]

As a CC97 I've not noticed any slowdown on ppl buying Cursed equipment and upgrade mats for AF armour off the Auction House (I think there are people who are just interested in getting full sets and storing them^^) and there's still a profit to be made from tools and ammo.

Also, a few ppl have sent me /tells ingame asking for pieces of low-level armour to be crafted if they supply the mats (which has been a nice way of making new friends). I guess now that XP is easier to get hold of, more people are levelling multiple jobs. Sure, there are some people who feel the need to get from 1-90 in the shortest time possible (more power to you, bro!), but I think the majority of the playerbase are happy to gear up, party up with LS mates and actually take the time to enjoy the game they're playing.

So I don't agree that it's dead, and I do feel that I'm still crafting useful things for some people..!

[annewandering]

Crafting isnt exactly dead. It is specialized maybe? Shehei is doing really well. Foods do well. Or seem to from this consumers side. Gear doesnt seem to be hot but then again it never really was. I never seem to have trouble selling off my surplus WW supplies.
Synergy gets way to much love from SE in my opinion but thats because I detest it.

[Rie]

I have CC100, and I've made approx 30M~ from crafting over the past couple of months. I wouldn't say it's dead, just gotta know what you're doing.

[annewandering]

I have CC100, and I've made approx 30M~ from crafting over the past couple of months. I wouldn't say it's dead, just gotta know what you're doing.

I agree with this. Oddly enough that is the way it has always been, at least for the six years I have played the game. Crafting is a lot like real life. You cant just produce something and expect to make money/gil on it. It has to be something people want. Unless you just NPC and that can be profitable but honestly a bit boring.

[Yarly]

Crafts are great to have but making a lot of gil is not easy and requires plenty of your time but profits are definitely tangible. Over the last few months I have made almost 10mil gil without even trying. Just looking for crap at the AH to buy/craft/resell whenever I'm free. No AH camping required. It did, however, require a ton of synths and a lot of running around towns to buy other mats, etc. Not something that's super fast.

[Byrth]

Crafting is still profitable if you know what you're doing, but there's no need for profit. Heck, I can even make decent gil pretty quickly with Alchemy.

I'm getting my mule 98->100 Clothcraft anyway just because! Maybe some day we will need gil again!

[Ilax]

@ CC99.3 and never do much with it, i guess i could do toolz but i am too lazy :P Sell useless gear you find in gold chest sell fast to npc and do as much gil i could do with my CC99. idk imo is pretty dead compare what it used to be.