How To Make Crafting More Appealing

[hordecore]

1-Add Book of crafting: which contains list of recipes of the items you can craft you auto gain recipe with each crafting level

2-Add repeatable quests from guild NPC which gives crafting materials

3-daily requests from NPCs for specific type of armors or weapon reward good amount of gil reward should be more than armors or weapons price in AH.

4-Special stat bonus for crafters:
for ex
requirements : smith x number of swords +10 STR
requirements : smith x number of armors type plate +10 VIT
requirements : smith x number of armors type cloth +10 INT
requirements : smith x number of armors type leather +10 DEX

[Zumi]

The reason why crafting isn't popular as of late is because you really can't make any good gear or anything with it anymore since all the stuff comes from abyssea now.

The only thing crafting seems to be good for now is food and ninja tools , ammo for ranged jobs.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Give us a series abyssite that lowers the wait time to repeate GP items from 24 hours down to 8. lol