Future of Crafting In 3.0 - Trends and Value

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I recall in one of the live letters they explicitly stated they wouldn't be making recipes more difficult than the 4*.

Also, I agree about the crafted gear not being on par with raid drops. I'd honestly be content with the gear being introductory if it weren't for the materia investment required to utilize it. The gear itself is a decent investment for something that will be replaced be a coil drop and is easily replaced in 1-2 weeks worth of tome capping. This was really my lack of motivation for getting to 4*. Even when you get the recipes you are still going to need to dip a decent amount of gil into a pentamelded off hand if you plan on using CP food.

Couldn't an alternative be to make BoP crafting mats drop from coil that would be used to either upgrade or craft a piece of gear and implement a "Request Craft" feature similar to melding so that the raider that won the drop wouldn't be required to be a geared crafter to make or upgrade their loot? This would prevent people from selling the coil mat drops on the board similar to the BCoB mats and it would make crafters relevant for something other than making niche raid gear and DoH/DoL gear. The icing on the cake would be that the best gear would still require you to clear the raids which is what Yoshi has stated is the reasoning behind not making crafted items BiS.