Thanks for removing all fun in crafting.

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

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Thank you for ignoring literally everything I said and continuing to be patronizing for absolutely no good reason at all.
No, my LTW isn't capable of 3 stars. Every other craft is. I decided not to Artisan my LTW because nothing LTW makes was appealing to me.
I want the Mastercraft Demimateria because I want the new Artisan gear and to get Supras for my CUL and WVR, which very much are capable of 3 star crafting.
So don't assume I don't need them, or don't want them, not that it's relevant anyway.

with an element of risk that means HQ is no longer 100%

It's not the recipes I'm complaining about, and if you had bothered to actually read a single post of mine you'd know that.
It's getting the demimateria to get the gear to try and get back on the steep crafting curve that SE has put in that I'm concerned with. Because after I hit 3 star on most of my crafts, I stopped caring and got behind with advancing them.
Now I would like to get back to it, but I can't because the implementation of the Demimateria and Desynthesis system was so horribly thought out by SE that it's created an awful wall that's a serious, expensive pain in the ass to get over with no signs of nerfing it appropriately like they do other content and I don't even know why I bother typing this because you're not even reading it anyway.

[scarebearz]

Now I would like to get back to it, but I can't because the implementation of the Demimateria and Desynthesis system was so horribly thought out by SE that it's created an awful wall that's a serious, expensive pain in the ass to get over with no signs of nerfing it

That the point, you *Can*, but you can't be bothered, which is fair enough, but why ask for "Master Crafting" to be nerfed?

FCIII did impact the ammount of Mastercraft demi's, because there used to be a lot more people desynthing the glasses in order to get FCIII, Mastercrafts were far cheaper than FCIII.

I do think some other classes should be able to get them, I don't think they should be handed out to everyone like FCIII's were.

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

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35 successfully desynthed Artisan glasses is what you call "can't be bothered"?
That's
pretty insulting, actually.

[Rocond]

35 successfully desynthed Artisan glasses is what you call "can't be bothered"?
That's
pretty insulting, actually.

I'm not gonna say it means you can't be bothered, but 35 is a pretty low number. Anyone that has supplied all their own mastercraft has probably done hundreds. I know i've personally done about 300ish give or take.

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

I'm not gonna say it means you can't be bothered, but 35 is a pretty low number. Anyone that has supplied all their own mastercraft has probably done hundreds. I know i've personally done about 300ish give or take.

If you're telling me I've gotta do hundreds of them just to get one Mastercraft Demimateria, because so far I've gotten none and that's what I was trying to get across in that post, then, yeah, I think I should probably just give up now because that's not in any way worth it.

[Rocond]

If you're telling me I've gotta do hundreds of them just to get one Mastercraft Demimateria, because so far I've gotten none and that's what I was trying to get across in that post, then, yeah, I think I should probably just give up now because that's not in any way worth it.

If that's how you feel, then yeah. I know I certainly don't like to do things that I don't feel are worth it.

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

If that's how you feel, then yeah. I know I certainly don't like to do things that I don't feel are worth it.

Honestly
The entire desynthesis system suffers from the same problems that the Atma drops had.
Granted, pre i70 it's not so bad.
It's easy enough to get tons of grade I and II demimateria because you can mass-craft and desynth that stuff.
But when it comes to getting these mastercraft demimateria, you get alot of people who have absolutely unrelenting bad luck with these drops. Then it turns into a giant and discouraging wall, and, frankly, if a game feels like it's going out of its way to make you feel like you've been walled off from content and actively discourages you, then that's just bad game design. On top of that, they keep adding more and more walls you have to scale to keep going on, so by the time you've got your Supras, now all of a sudden you have to get your Chanticlo Nexus to make any of the newer stuff. There could've been so many better ways to go about putting this stuff in, but they're so incredibly insistent on RNG that it's frankly ridiculous. If they're so adamant in keeping it like that, the very least they could do is make it easier to get this stuff as content goes on and on and on. You know, like they do with literally everything else in the game. But we've had these for like, what? Four months now? Probably soon to be five? And yet we have no indication of any plans to make it easier or reasonable, just that they're going to make a little less high-end recipes in the future.