Crafter raids!

[Zumi]

This was tried before in 1.0 it was called hamlet and almost everyone disliked it and it didn't come back for 2.0. Yoshi P said they wouldn't make the mistake of having crafters in battle again.

[Volsung]

This was tried before in 1.0 it was called hamlet and almost everyone disliked it and it didn't come back for 2.0. Yoshi P said they wouldn't make the mistake of having crafters in battle again.

Realistically though, that's because of the godforsaken system they did it with.
It pretty much required the gatherer/crafter AND you needed someone to place
in that ranking system to have a decent chance of a drop. The implementation
was way off.

I believe this thread isn't stating to bring crafters into battle content. But for content
for crafters. Almost two sides of the same coin but different. I personally wouldn't mind
either way so long as they at least think first lol (which this is SE so... )

[Violyre]

This was tried before in 1.0 it was called hamlet and almost everyone disliked it and it didn't come back for 2.0. Yoshi P said they wouldn't make the mistake of having crafters in battle again.

I missed that part of 1.0, did they actually fight? I vaguely recall they had a weak attack for protecting themselves but that's it.

My idea is more akin to crafting an item to negate a boss's abilities while NPCs battle it out. Like for example, have a blacksmith, an armorcrafter, and a carpenter have to make a ground to negate an electric attack. The crafters would be locked out of the battles.

I'm actually kind of surprised to see mostly comments of liking the idea. o.o I figured I'd just get a lot of people complaining we didn't earn the story properly. Think I may take out the bits of it being a joke. XD

[Felis]

This was tried before in 1.0 it was called hamlet and almost everyone disliked it and it didn't come back for 2.0. Yoshi P said they wouldn't make the mistake of having crafters in battle again.

Yoshida said this about crafters and gatherers in main story battles. I hope they bring back hamlet defense or something alike. Where you can get good tools for DoL and DoH and good gear for DoW and DoM as a reward.

Only problem with hamlet defense was that it became a bottleneck for the relict quest, like the ATMAs here in ARR. If you do something 20 or more times to farm something with low droprate, you start to dislike it.

Information about Hamlet Defense for people who don't know it:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...mletdef01.html