[3.0] Craftsmanship and Control bonus parameters will be added to Souls of the Crafte

From the Preliminary patch notes .

Also, retainers at L30+ can now have Jobs. :)

I'm not a fan of the bonuses... because personally I want this specialist nonsense to go away (because SE still has just done a piss poor job of executing it). Depending on the size of the bonuses its just going to make my gearing potentially confusing due to differences in classes. ASSUMING I can make anything worth while with my other crafting classes, as SE continually neuters non specialist jobs.

Hi Kat! o/

I'm just happy my wife and I weren't wasting our time leveling omni-crafter alts to complement the Specializations we have on our omni-crafter mains.

Although now we will gear them for 2-star rather than just for the 1-star Specialist recipes. which means more Favor node and Ephemeral node running, and something to do with our stockpiled red DoH/DoL scrip. And more melding of course.

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Originally Posted by Katlyna

I'm not a fan of the bonuses... because personally I want this specialist nonsense to go away (because SE still has just done a piss poor job of executing it). Depending on the size of the bonuses its just going to make my gearing potentially confusing due to differences in classes. ASSUMING I can make anything worth while with my other crafting classes, as SE continually neuters non specialist jobs.

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Second this, also, anyone willing to take a guess how they will lock masterbook 4's out? 480 red scripts each is my guess. (I truly hope they do not do something like that, but at this point...)

They also killed the only market crafters had to sell back to gathers with releasing right side i180, and gathering materia is going to drop even further like a rock.

That they way it should of been from the start giving specialists bonus stats otherwise besides some of the locked items there was really no reason to be a specialist.

more specialist thingy, yay :|

bonus parameter for specialist is all good for me, better specialist skill is fine too, as long there is no specialist only recipe again for the future, just limit the omnicrafter with status requirement, or harder craft with less skill or whatever, make them as hard as possible, but not impossible, no need to limit the craft as specialist only...

I hope this is step one in getting rid of specialist recipes. I think everyone all along had been wishing specialist made non-omni crafters viable. Boosting their stats is a good way to do that, they can use simpler rotations, without needing ask the cross class skills. Yes specialist as a whole as currently implemented can DIAF, but this is a reasonable tweak back towards sanity

Personally I'm fine with Specialists getting a stat boost, as long as it isn't a huge bonus and they keep Specialist only recipes to a minimum (Or if there are more at least make them cosmetic only). I think it compliments those who don't have the original cross-class skills and is a nice bonus for those who do. If this had been added along with the Specialist skills on release I doubt there would have been as many complaints for Specialists being useless (Which is part of the reason people requested Specialist recipes in the first place).

Yay more specialist bonuses! \o/

I hope they keep adding such things. Makes the economy amazing, I have more gil than I've ever had thanks to this system.