Even if they removed red scrip caps, crafting would still be dead.

[Yeldir]

Crafting to aid progression was murdered by design. SE has even said as much.

Good luck selling those i180's to battle classes. I'm sure they'll totally pay you gil proportionate to the amount of effort you spent to produce red crafter scrip materials and aetherborne sands. Also favor items from red gathering scripts! You're using gatherer red scripts too. Yikes!

No one is going to want your i180 crap that takes pentamelded Materia V's (which don't exist) to get good, when Alexander Normal throws up i190 gear into the open mouths of the many hungry baby birdies who just hit 60 5 days ago.

"But it can help them skip the law phase of gearing!!" You think to yourself, desperately. Then you remember that the "law phase" takes all of those five days I mentioned before. Then you remember the gear takes red crafter scrips to assemble. Then you remember the aetherborne sands, and that's when you really begin to feel sick. Then you notice the gatherer red script items you need, and you quickly destroy your keyboard/controller with streams of tears and vomit.

Are you a Goldsmith? Oh. Ohhhh. I'm so sorry. I hope you sold lots of platinum jewelry before 3.0 came out, because that's the last fortune you're going to make.

The New Craft has one market: other crafters/gathers. Crafters crafting things for other crafters so they can make those really tricky crafts for... For who? Nobody. It's a dead end - a money hole. The gil you're spending on materials and melds now is never coming back.

...

Well, airships and housing are pretty neat. Not like you're allowed to have them, of course.

Wait!!! ... I see it!



My god! It's full of gils!

[XLauncher]

But at least I'll look pretty in my crafter AF!

[Katchoo]

Good luck selling those i180's to battle classes. I'm sure they'll totally pay you gil proportionate to the amount of effort you spent to produce red scrip materials and aetherborne sands.

This. So much. Just think about the total worth of items you will trade in to get Red Scripts. All that worth just so you can GEAR ONE, YES ONE job.

[scarebearz]

If they removed the scripts caps, it would probably solve most of our problems.

[Kenji1134]

So you can buy a Soul of the Crafter for 460 Red Scrips, does that add to your existing 3, or replace 1?
Basically can we eventually have everything as a specialist?

[NJA]

So you can buy a Soul of the Crafter for 460 Red Scrips, does that add to your existing 3, or replace 1?
Basically can we eventually have everything as a specialist?

Replaces. You're capped at 3 specialisms.

[BalthierDragoon]

I don't think they should remove caps. Instead, they should reconsider prices for red scrips staff.

[DarthBuzzer]

I don't think they should remove caps. Instead, they should reconsider prices for red scrips staff.

That would hardly help at all. The favor nodes are gated behind red scrips. Remove the limit period.

[Joronas]

Drop this entire colossal mess of a 3.0 crafting "re-imagining". No scrips. The infernal master II books from ARR were better then this.

[Snugglebutt]

If they removed the scripts caps, it would probably solve most of our problems.

Not going to happen. Specialization is SE's effort to 'promote' cooperation as beneficial in gaining an advantage and that is a good thing in an MMO, red/blue scripts are merely an extension of that premise of which while I would like the cap raised or material cost lowered a bit...overall specialization and such systems like scripts which promote cooperation is the way forward just like they have done with FC crafting getting people to cooperate with each other to create airships and other such things that benefit the FC. So no scripts will not go away and neither will specialization, SE might tweak red script costs or raise the cap but you have zero chance of them removing completely.