o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[darkstarpoet1]

Still think we need to focus on the part of this Topic that was blatantly dodged..

What are you going to do with Facilities?
What Are you going to do with Treatises?
What are you going to do about the Massive XP gaps that are going to happen do to the loss of Parts recipes?

the people that don't craft don't care is why it is being dodged. they want to know on their first try they go collect a few items and boom they get their HQ gear made. they don't care if it made crafting absolutely stupid in the process. they would be happy if when they registered they got hq gear all the way to top that never had to be repaired at all so they could feel as though they were something special.

[Okiura]

it is shocking with almost 900 posts on the diffrent problems in the current system and ideas how to improve with out such a huge dumbdown, and all he's tried to do it justify and not very well the reasons for the dumbdown. would have been nice if he had acctualy addressed the issues that the sposidly small number (though i think this is the biggest active thread on this fourm atm) have raised.

[NoctisUmbra]

the people that don't craft don't care is why it is being dodged. they want to know on their first try they go collect a few items and boom they get their HQ gear made. they don't care if it made crafting absolutely stupid in the process. they would be happy if when they registered they got hq gear all the way to top that never had to be repaired at all so they could feel as though they were something special.

This is that unyielding negative tone I was referring to earlier. It's posts like these that are filled with various presumptions about other players that serve no purpose other than to spark controversy.

Also, if anyone thinks the intense changes and variety of additions to the crafting system are due to any singular reason, then they are gravely mistaken. Just like the large-scale battle changes, crafting is going through some major changes as well. The entire game is changing, and we are part of its growth. The majority of the community signed up for drastic changes in the player's poll months ago, and now we are seeing the fruits of their labor.

If we don't have something productive to say, let's just not say anything at all, hm?

Still think we need to focus on the part of this Topic that was blatantly dodged..

What are you going to do with Facilities?
What Are you going to do with Treatises?
What are you going to do about the Massive XP gaps that are going to happen do to the loss of Parts recipes?

I remember in the letter he mentioned that they had plans to make use of both facilities and treatises down the road in a different manner - it is not something they are ready to officially announce at this point.

As for the massive xp gaps, that definitely wasn't addressed and I don't think it will be. It's one of those things we'll find out after the change are made. Just like recipes for parts are being removed, new recipes are being added in, and existing recipes are being adjusted (synthesis rank changes likely) so gaining xp may only see a change in what recipes you grind rather than whether or not you get to grind at certain ranks.