Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
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Accessories overmelded and base melds for other gear (i55), which I would say is the reasonable entry level requirement for end-game crafting at the time. It was pretty easy to HQ 2* crafts because of Hasty Touch and BB, even with less than 7 Inner Quiet stacks. The game relies heavily on the player maxing all the other crafting classes to be at all relevant, and in that regard I think it's significantly worse than any other MMO crafting system. If they are going to treat crafting like secondary content then just do the WoW crafting style where you only need to level the two crafts you want. They are throwing so much pointless grinding in front of the players that they are driving away the player base that plays for the crafting.

Mastercraft Demimateria, Master Books, Sealants, Desynthesis. These grinds are atrocious compared to any coil raid.