Specialist System in 3.0

[Ranzan]

This may be a noob question but when you guys make your crafting alts do you go thru the story any?

[Gillionaire]

This may be a noob question but when you guys make your crafting alts do you go thru the story any?

I've been doing the story just up to the retainers.. I may do a little more for chocobo later if I feel like it.

But I'm hoping that SE wouldn't impose a storyline pre-req for crafters without a warning in advance.. Otherwise, most of the full time crafters I see wouldn't be able to do anything without going through so much of the main story, it would be a really bad move on SE's part if they did that.

[Aeyis]

This may be a noob question but when you guys make your crafting alts do you go thru the story any?

The first 20 levels worth, untill all the features like GC and retainers are unlocked. It's also worth picking up either a tank or healer for faster queing, but as you will spend a lot of time crafting anyway it's not needed per se.

As for story related gating into Ishgard, I suspect it will be required for all characters, crafters or not. So it's probably a good idea to get those out of the way if you have the time/will to do so.


Note on the alts: if you plan on leveling multiple ones for Heavensward, its a good idea to get the above features done on all of them first. That way you can do Roulettes/GC and save up leve allowances on all of them at once, which will save you a lot of realtime. The leve allowances especially is important to get started asap.


Also it's worth noting that you need to unlock each levemete you plan on doing courier leves at.