Do you guys find crafting fun?

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Originally Posted by Bubblegum01

People complain that there are too much rng but actually they just don't have the skill to adapt to a changing situation...

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Adapt to that.

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Oh wait, no need.

Granted these incidents are once in a blue moon, but it can get pretty damn frustrating when it happens to a high profile craft/commmission.

But yeah, outside of those incidents, I like how crafting is in this game; it is a beast of it's own which can provide alternatives or supply toward PvE.

Last night i was meaning to craft an NQ intricate silver brocade for my supra turn in. Was 4/5 for y turn ins and bam i got an HQ on my 5th brocade at 1%.
My face sucked in cuz i had to spend even MORE gil just to NQ something lol..
I just wanted NQ and the game decided to troll me multiple ways but hey thats rng, works both ways. At least i'm now 1/3 or 1/5 HQ intricate silver brocades :3 lol...

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Originally Posted by Yumi_umi

Last night i was meaning to craft an NQ intricate silver brocade for my supra turn in. Was 4/5 for y turn ins and bam i got an HQ on my 5th brocade at 1%.
My face sucked in cuz i had to spend even MORE gil just to NQ something lol..
I just wanted NQ and the game decided to troll me multiple ways but hey thats rng, works both ways. At least i'm now 1/3 or 1/5 HQ intricate silver brocades :3 lol...

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The same thing happened to me for the GSM turn ins. I had already made the three HQ cogs and four NQ ones. So I went to do the last one for supra at 3% I got a fourth HQ one... *looks in bag no more fc3's* I just started to laugh. :) RNG can be good or bad. ;)

Crafting and Gathering is my reason to play this game. I can make my own vanity dress, make many furniture I like, and I can make bunch of money with it. But yeah I really hate the meld stuff and those RNG to get demimateria that makes me really slow my progress to make all class into 4 star craft

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Originally Posted by MeridaQ

The same thing happened to me for the GSM turn ins. I had already made the three HQ cogs and four NQ ones. So I went to do the last one for supra at 3% I got a fourth HQ one... *looks in bag no more fc3's* I just started to laugh. :) RNG can be good or bad. ;)

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Oh wow, I hadn't even considered that that could happen. I made my intricate silver brocades last week or so (both the HQ for books and NQ for supra together) and just went ahead and NQ'd the last one because I'd already made all the HQ ones I needed. I was working with HQ silver brocades though. It never occurred to me that HQ ones wouldn't work for Supra turn ins. "Luckily" it didn't come up.

To the OP, yeah I find crafting (and gathering) fun. I try not to think about it too much though because it can easily start to feel futile. I realized at some point that I spend virtually no gil on any of the combat aspects of the game. I buy dark matter for repairs and I teleport. That's the extent of my gil expenditures for MNK and BLM. I apparently gather to get materials to craft... to make gear to gather and craft... and to make money to get more materials to make better crafting and gathering gear so I can be better at crafting and gathering!

I suppose having a house is in there somewhere as well, but I'm fairly certain that when I started crafting and gathering I had some notion of it being helpful for the combat classes I play (outside of repairs) instead of me just crafting and gathering instead of playing any of those combat roles.

I started leveling my first DOH after 2.4, I am currently working on Lucis for rest of 7 jobs but CRP, I completely stopped raiding after I picked up crafting.
Fun? Yes, Gil sinker? Hell yes. But beats waiting for hours or days even weeks for all 8 of you static to show up and raid for 2 -3 hours.

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Originally Posted by thunderbreak

I find before 2 stars is alright, after hitting that meld and rng wall I feel crafting is sucking my enthusiasm out fast, and sucking my cash out faster.

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I felt the exact same way. Do I find crafting fun? No, not at all. I have 6/8 crafters at 50 and can 2 star those with no food. I stopped. I used crafting to progress my wife and I's character more easily and make some gils.

I however do feel that crafting is rather well done in the game. I'm not a big fan of RNG, but we all know we only notice we hate it when it's not going our way. I try to remind myself of that all the time and it's paid well. Imo, crafting is done well enough that a player can easily-moderately achieve their goals. I'd like to see some changes like a frekin tackle box for example xD, but it's adequate.

+1 good question

Generally I like it, I can help friends by crafting as I don't really raid anymore. But when I get semi-strangers or FC people asking me to craft stuff, that's when I start stressing. Everytime someone shouts "Happy!" in the FC chat, I'm tempted to take cover and queue for something quick to get off the hook. :D But thankfully most of the time they just want furniture or when they want that crazy 3/4* craft, they don't have the materials quite yet and I can breath easy for another day. There's nothing more stressing than fighting RNG when you know the person asking won't accept anything less than HQ.

And then there's the matter of those mastercraft recipe book II's. Those always make my blood boil. I'm in need of anger management everytime I get it in my head to try get another craft class' book.

Really dumb tho how npcs won't except HQ versions for NQ.
Like HQ i better than NQ thus should be allowed to be counted too but i guess they r seperate turn ins due to the simple factor of them both being of different status.
Honestly at this point crafting is a killer if u wanna try and catch up from fresh 50 crafter as the expac is months away so all the fun of taking it slow is gone lol.
Cuz in 3.0 lucis is gonna be obsolete as new shiny stuff will be easier to get.

I like crafting because you obtain items from the materials, you feel you have done something. You earn gil that you may need for other things (though except melds for relic and houses, big quantities of gil are not needed, most gil goes to crafting.) You also help people that need or want the items (while earning at the same time.) And eventually you make the gear for the new classes you level, for housing etc.

I don't find leveling the crafters fun, it's a grind I did because I wanted the cross-class skills and maybe use that crafters later to make items for my own use or for sale. Edit: leveling desynth is also not fun at all, but you need the demimateria and can make gil selling it too.

The effort for gear and melds is not fun for me, but grind for relic or primal mounts or Coil drops are not fun either. If you want the best gear and be able to make the best items there is usually a very big grind to get there. Supras were a huge grind some time ago, now they are much easier. You don't need the best gear and making the best items to earn enough gil for most goals. There are people who like the grinds or who value a lot the sensation of having overcome a big grind. Usually people value if the goal compensates the effort and decide.