Yoshi P & The Dev team, the players have spoken and you should listen!

[Evergrey]

OP, I never gave you my vote. Hush you.

[Ashkendor]

Wait, I missed a playerbase meeting? When was this? Can I see the minutes for this meeting?

Wait... did I miss donuts...? D:

[Gilthas]

They need to relax and put more time into the crafting and gathering, build a better hunt / fate system, and other content that everyone can enjoy and not just this highly selective super hard group content. Especially given the problems with player filtering as time goes on.

Crafting and Gathering has been turning slowly into hardcore content during the 2.0 series and got a major push in that direction with Heavensward. Crafting and Gathering hasn't been something that everyone can enjoy for a very long time now and I hate it.

How is it hardcore? Anyone can craft, all you do is a 1 min quest in one of the starter towns and you can start crafting. I'm really curious as to why you think people are not able to participate in crafting and gathering.

Leveling DoW and DoM is also easy, yet we can all agree that they have hardcore content too.

The problem is that once you got to 50, and unlike DoW and DoM, the majority of new gathering spots and recipees (2 star and up) required you to grind gil to overmeld your items. This issue has been exarcerbated in Heavensward with recipees for items in the 50-60 range requiring a lot more items and items from hidden and unspoiled nodes. People that want to gather their own mats now need a lot more time to do it.

Anyone can craft, that's true. But once you get to 60, any items that you want to craft are locked behind a gil grindwall.

DoH and DoL should be a side activity to support your battle classes, which is how they were when ARR was released. Now they're a second job instead of being fun.

[SendohJin]

Would you mind giving some examples?

Enochian +
Swiftcast +
Astral Fire +
Umbral Ice +
Jump +
Aetherflow +
Galvanize +
Unchained +

*shrug*

Never understood this "exciting stat" thing. There's always a BiS, it doesn't really matter what each stat does.

maybe but if you don't have the Astral Fire +2 Gloves to go along with the Astral Fire +3 Hat, you can't fit an extra Fire IV in your rotation so you might as well just use the Enochian +5 gloves instead.

maybe some fights the SCH really wants the Galvanize +3 Succors but other fights like expert dungeons where it doesn't matter they want the Aetherflow +5 so they can Energy Drain more often just for DPS.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Crafting and Gathering has been turning slowly into hardcore content during the 2.0 series and got a major push in that direction with Heavensward. Crafting and Gathering hasn't been something that everyone can enjoy for a very long time now and I hate it.

How is it hardcore? Anyone can craft, all you do is a 1 min quest in one of the starter towns and you can start crafting. I'm really curious as to why you think people are not able to participate in crafting and gathering.

[Illya]

I also want to cast my vote in opposition to the OP who absolutely doesn't speak for everyone or even most of the players.

[Colt47]

Crafting and Gathering has been turning slowly into hardcore content during the 2.0 series and got a major push in that direction with Heavensward. Crafting and Gathering hasn't been something that everyone can enjoy for a very long time now and I hate it.

Yeah, I've sort of noticed this myself. That is why I said they need to put more time into crafting and gathering. The reason it is hardcore is because they aren't coming up with anything better to do with it.

[papichulo123]

its a reskin but i think they are dyable. other things to do on maps treasure hunt or hunt ranked monsters

[saber_alter]

disagree with everything but number 4.

shush, op.

[Asierid]

While we're demanding things...

I would like my manly buns to stand out more in my outfit. Please give the male Roe more booty. Mine doesn't quite fill out this...thing.

BTW, don't listen to OP. He's blind and delusional.