Quote Originally Posted by Verdan View Post
They're trying to discourage Omni-crafters. The best way to do it would be to lock everything behind specializations, but instead they're making it take a long time to gear up, just like how fightman classes gotta. I think it's a potential misstep, cause omnicrafting makes it easier, not harder, to get scrip. I'd rather they put mastery books behind specializations and reduce the amount of scrip for reagents.
It's not discouraging omni-crafters though. In fact, it pushes everyone towards it. The specialization skills being worse than omni is just the start.

The biggest thing to discourage omni-crafters would be to not have nearly every single piece of gear require 4 professions to make.