Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[Aeyis]

P.S. I haven't seen a crafting decision this bad since the 1.0 launch craft system.

Then your memory is pretty bad. There is only one crafting change that was worse then the 3.05 one, and that was the one where they changed the 1.0 system.
The crafting at 1.0 launch was the one of the most interesting crafting systems I've ever seen.

[GunnarWolfram]

Then your memory is pretty bad. There is only one crafting change that was worse then the 3.05 one, and that was the one where they changed the 1.0 system.
The crafting at 1.0 launch was the one of the most interesting crafting systems I've ever seen.

This times a million.

Recipes were gated behind leves where you had to actually learn them. So crafters had to work hard to figure out how to make the recipe through rng or research. I remember my links hell bringing me back tons of different wings to make wing glue, and it was glorious and required a ton of cooperation.