Specialist Recipees: Why do the developers keep listening to bad requests?

[Waeksyn]

They need to give specialists real abilities (not rng bs) that provide an advantage to crafting. They do not need to give specialists unique recipes that will automatically exclude 5/8 of crafters. This is just lazy design.

To put this in perspective, if SE applied this same design principle to other aspects of the game, they would be releasing dungeons where only specific jobs may enter and then have unique drops in that dungeon. I'm pretty sure that would not go over well.

[Dante_V]

They need to give specialists real abilities (not rng bs) that provide an advantage to crafting. They do not need to give specialists unique recipes that will automatically exclude 5/8 of crafters. This is just lazy design.

To put this in perspective, if SE applied this same design principle to other aspects of the game, they would be releasing dungeons where only specific jobs may enter and then have unique drops in that dungeon. I'm pretty sure that would not go over well.

This is completely disingenuous. Battle classes already have things that other classes cannot use, this is not the same as blocking content. By that metric the fact that a weaver can't make armor is blocking content to a lesser degree. This game absolutely needs forced specialization decisions. Being able to max everything is ridiculous and redundant.