Craft Skill Limitations

[Bhujerba]

if your not in Abyssea, you hardly even see another player. The entire world is a ghost town. You can''t find a non-Aby party. Nobody is crafting. The AH is bare. Linkshells are dying.

Abyssea was(is) a HUGE mistake IMO, especially from a game-balance perspective.

you seems to know much about game design...
Its "mostly" the level cap increase that affected the game, Abyssea is merely a place to level and obtain the new items, specially the latter, they cant put all the new items on old monsters/areas (they need new outlet for items, to avoid cluttering/etc), plus any level increase will ALWAYS throw any game off-balance, whether its drastic(Abyssea) or not, what was at level cap before will never be the same after, welcome to change.
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As for crafting (~750), I don't mind the the extra skills at all, (finally I would be able to make the dreadful darksteel cap by myself ), anything to crafting these days would be good, one suggestion tho, could you look into guild point items? a way to increase the daily cap per item or something would be very nice.

[WilmaFlintstone]

Its "mostly" the level cap increase that affected the game, Abyssea is merely a place to level and obtain the new items, specially the latter, they cant put all the new items on old monsters/areas (they need new outlet for items, to avoid cluttering/etc), plus any level increase will ALWAYS throw any game off-balance, whether its drastic(Abyssea) or not, what was at level cap before will never be the same after, welcome to change.

I think some of the balance can be regained if they make Abyssea a level cap area where you have to be level 75+ to enter intstead of the current lvl 30. This would force people to go back to partying in the older areas as well as having to use items from the AH of consumables and gear. Yes, welcome to change, but with change you should be able to fix your errors.