Craft Skill Limitations

[Vold]

As a veteran crafter who has multiple mules edging ever so closer to 100 crafts, I personally see no reason not to lift the cap. As a matter of fact I welcome it because it would turn many synths into 11 31 51 tier HQs, specifically synths that are held back by their subs from attaining certain HQ tiers. That's exactly what I would do with my character, and not go with 2 100 mains.

I really can't see any down sides to it. Crafting is alive and well where I'm standing. People are just bitter their gold mines have been cleaned out. Mines that were the only reason they bothered crafting. I wasn't happy either but I moved on. We all know how that junk went. You did wood for staves. Bone for Scorpion harness. Leather for sniper rings. Gold smithing for.. well, pretty much to be filthy rich. Cloth for verms. Cooking for sushi. Smithing for haubs. Everything else was a side bonus to the big synths. And I can't say I blame them, but it was headed that way anyway after the inflation period thanks to gil sellers. People bought a ton of gil and got those 100 crafts.

Whatever you guys choose to do though, I think I speak for everyone when I say let the crafts do their job and not so much synergy doing it for them. Don't give up on Synergy. Don't get me wrong here. I'm just saying, the crafts deserves some of that fancy new gear that rakes in some serious gil to replace the ruined money makers of old. And I say that as a 80 synergy atm. I'm not wanting the synths out of self need. I just think the crafts deserve better and I see no reason a 100 craft can't produce level 90+ gear and with HQs to go with it instead of not at all. Wood in particular is in dire need for something worthwhile as magian has destroyed it's HQ market. Nin tools are not an acceptable replacement, nor is warp clubs, nor is HQing lumber...

I'm tired of seeing new synergy gear being a monopoly by a handful of players for several months after it's released. Hey they did the work, they deserve the payout, but still. Even if I were one of those making a ton of gil thanks to synergy, I still would feel that crafting deserves better and the players that have taken the time to raise a 100 craft darn sure deserve better than a handful of people on an entire server making out like bandits after every update for months. You shouldn't be forced to level synergy to compete. It needs to be a side bonus to crafting, not a necessity, no matter how easy it is to level. In other words, mix it up. Don't play favorites. Give crafting some big synths and synergy some big synths.

One worthy note to make about all of this, Ebon gear was sorta in the right direction. It used the crafts to form the base gear and used synergy to enhance it. I would like to see more of that in the future and less of the 'let's give synergy everything worthwhile' approach.

[Cljader1]

By the way lets bring back Aern Weapons (for ex: like the galatyn, machismo etc.) I would love to see a second tier for these types of weapons and would like too see a Aern scythe and shield added in too. I always considered these to be crafted relics, it would be my crafting dream for you guys to add a second tier of these that could complete with emyphean weapons. The Aern weapons set should have there own unique WS, maybe that could be installed in the form of powerful evoliths. I have no problem with the second tier of these weapons being very expensive or hard to make, but Aern weapons and maybe even Aern type armor can be the shining beacon on what crafting can do.

Btw I have around 100 mil gil on my character, the reason why is because all the gear on the AH sucks and cant be compared to the rare/ex stuff you can get in abyssea. I would love too sink this money back into crafting to create or purchase new POWERFUL crafted armor and weapons. Gil has become unimportant, the only thing i can use it for is bribing people to help me gather seals and coins for af3. Put the gil back into the AH, I would like to use my finances too purchase top tiers gear on the AH, by doing this that would recirculate my gil into other crafter's hands and the economy would be overall improved.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I'm convinced that all the people who hate synergy.. have never actually tried it...

they were so use to the old system they instantly hated it because it was new...

I really don't see what's to hate about it..

you can cap it from 0 skill in a few hours....

you don't lose mat's if you botch a synth up...

you actually have a degree of control over HQ instead of mindlessly doing the same synth over and over waiting for your lucky day.

and you generally get more product from the materials.. ie a NQ synergy synth would give you 6 items whereas a NQ regular synth might give you 4.



I also don't see a huge problem with people being able to have 2 lvl 100 crafts or even all level 100 crafts on the same character...

As others have said.. serious crafters just end up making crafting mules anyways... would save them a bit of a headache muling each time they wanted to change craft professions.

[fyhah]

Just let everyone level all the crafts to 100 already. I never really understood y all those limitations were there in the first place. And stop this incremental stuff. should be like a bandaid.

[Ezekieal]

i personally would prefer to see 80 lvls to share with the cap remaining 60 rather than raising cap to 80 and keepin the 40 lvls to share. as with skill+ gear and adv support its possible to have lvl 85~ skill making it almost possible for someone to craft everything albeit with breaks.

also think its probably time to knock the evolith system in the head. it was desicively underwhelming @75 and now its just plain pathetic as any small niche of usefulness it had died along with the lvl cap.

[Unctgtg]

I say go for it, I hate nothing more then having to mule to craft something to then have to send it back to my main to craft again.

[fredtma]

I couldn't agree more, synergy has mess up the whole crafting system

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Pleas do not go to fast in your implementation of this.

Raising the cap from 60 to 80? not needed
Allowing two crafts to 100, yes this would be nice
Allowing more then two or all crafts to 100? no this is to much and should not be done.
The main thing though, something you do not have listed, is to make craft just alittle easier, the fail rate and/or skill gain rate is still bad.

[Cerelyn]

I'm excited about this adjustment. Now I can get a 2nd 100 Craft on my main instead of having to level another 100 on my mule accounts

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Pleas do not go to fast in your implementation of this.

please do, now I wont need to lvl my mules crafting up, I can do it on my main account.