Defilberating the Dead Horse

[scarebearz]

Crafting, if you're at least patrician geared eco-melded (not penta melded), and you already have your materials and have a suitable craft, takes an hour. Literally an hour. I did it, and I 'don't know what I'm talking about', so clearly other people should be able to do it -faster-

If you re-read my post you'll see I mentioned the time required to farm the mats for the crafter hand-ins.

As I doubt a "casual" player is going to go and buy all the mats/pre-made mats off the MB (pretty expencive for a casual player).

So even the crafting side is a considerable time or gil investment for a "casual" player.

And it bears repeating: Dont compare i70 with anything after 2.1+, it was release and way more time was needed until enough people leveld their crafts to be able to craft one star besides the 1% that was racing to get there.

Because you make an excellent point about the state of a 'new' system that you should really, really reflect upon.

The crafts were introduced in 3.05, not 3.0, that 1% is already max lvl, the racing is over but now the high-end crafters are left twiedling our thumbs.