Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
Um yeah, they've always been support classes.
That's fine if that's where the dev team wants to take crafters now, and i understand why they would do that. But they have not always been support classes. DOL/DOH used to be talked up as an actual class, that would be able to participate in missions/quests just like their DOM/DOW counterparts, and have abilities that were to be used in battle.

As i've already posted in this thread before, the role descriptions for blacksmith and miner on finalfantasyxiv.com still detail battle abilities that they were intended to have.