Mastercrafts are a pain in the butt to get and run for about 1 mil a pop on my server. I think it is dumb that such an essential item can only be obtained by making 10 items to buy artisan glasses, desynthing with GSM, and praying to RNGesus for a mastercraft instead of a piece of garbage. It's almost as dumb as the other essential ingredient, ehcatl sealant, being time gated behind a beast tribe that many high level crafters didn't do because it seemed to be geared towards low level crafters.

I hope Square does "destroy" the status quo. I enjoy crafting and took everything up to 2-3 star before the patch, but have not gotten into 4-star because the amount of cost and/or grinding to obtain all the mastercraft and ehcatl sealants is too ridiculous. Gearing up for 4-star WVR and LTW would cost about 16 mil in mastercraft and sealants alone. All that so I can spend 1-3 mil a pop on mats to make i110 equipment when I could be grinding poetics for 120?