NO! You will feel the struggle of crafting and inventory management and you will like it! :D
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NO! You will feel the struggle of crafting and inventory management and you will like it! :D
It's not exactly laziness when you look at the absolute amount of time and effort it takes to catch up if you haven't done any crafting and you're sitting at level 70 (soon to be level 80) and want to start being able to get leveled and geared to be able to craft. It doesn't have to be a full level up on everything, even just to level 50 so you can start doing moogle quests and custom deliveries would be enough to help people catch up without "ruining the economy" as some people are suggesting (personally I think people are being a bit too doomsday thinking that, and side with the idea that more crafters means a more vibrant market)
The real effort to making the high end items people are selling still means you have to farm Tomestones, scrips, and timed gathering nodes, so just being leveled on crafting won't automatically tank any market.
Nifty number - if that 300 is all ILVL 340 DoH/L or all ILVL 380 DOM/W, or some mix - that's impressive. I struggle to make a tenth of that on a daily basis, macros and all. The cool part is, production of that magnitude means I've definitely missed something along the way, which means there's a ton more to learn! Opens the recipe books...
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No thanks.
There is no "hustle and struggle". We have Moogle and Namazu quests. Those alone guarantee you can get max level in no time. That's why the "you should have to work for it" argument is invalid, because the current situation is you most definitely do not have to work for it.
The reason why it would be a bad idea is imagine the effect on gatherers that sell mats to levelling crafters. Granted yes there are rmt that gather a lot to make gil but there are a lot of players as well that make gil from gathering and selling mats to crafters.
Gathering and crafting are intertwined quite closely in the levelling process and so if jump potions were allowed, it could cause that entire market to evaporate. While yes rmt could make less by gathering, it would also make gil more difficult for newbie players that also make money selling gathered mats.
Chances are the number of DoL/H bots would explode if they ever offered level skips for them.
I see plenty enough as is when people have to actually level them and money is clearly no object to some of their owners (Possibly because they're involved in RMT themselves...) when they're oft running multiple bots simultaneously and some even Fantasia/name change them just for aesthetics.
I dont see why not. Even if they'd jump to the max current level they'd barely affect the high end market unless they put in effort and money for gear, and we're not even considering the missing omni crafter skills.
Hell, I have half my crafters on 70 (and the rest in progress) and I can only make some small pocket change due to laziness and lack of gear.