o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[Ferth]

I'm not even really against the removal of nuggets Per Se. It all depends on what they change the ore:ingot ratio to.

And potentially ingots could be a nice streamline if ingots are then used in more parts.

Mostly, I don't think SE is giving us enough information on the changes... I think this discussion and the HQ discussion would lose alot of steam if SE made a Crafting Changes Blueprint like they did with combat. Crafting is a big enough portion of the game, I think, that it warrants one.

If we knew the overall plan we could comment more on the effectiveness of specific changes.

The first announcement for planned changes sent off a red flag for me because if you really look at the whole scenario of the lower ranks you'll realize that people aren't making these low level items for myriad reasons, most of which won't be fixed by the changes they've announced and some of which have little or nothing to do with crafting itself.

I'm the first to admit I'm a pretty pessimistic guy. And while I have a lot of respect for the Dev Team and Yoshida, that's not going to stop me from questioning decisions that don't make sense to me.

[Arcell]

Mostly, I don't think SE is giving us enough information on the changes... I think this discussion and the HQ discussion would lose alot of steam if SE made a Crafting Changes Blueprint like they did with combat. Crafting is a big enough portion of the game, I think, that it warrants one.

If we knew the overall plan we could comment more on the effectiveness of specific changes.

I 100% agree. Every time they release new info, it ends up not being nearly as bad as everyone thought it was going to be. People complained about the ease of making items, then they released info on the materia system which really sheds a lot of light on that decision. I'm sure there's a lot more info they haven't given us yet which would make a lot of this seem not nearly as bad as some people are making it out to be.