Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[Lobotomite]

After blowing up both of my 2 attempts at 2* DoL offhands because of horrible Hasty runs + Reclaim failures, I can confidently say that I'm done with this Kafka sideshow until such time as when it's fixed.

I was 6/8 Lucis and wearing full self-crafted Artisan pre-3.0. May not have been one of the handful of elites on my server, but I was in the upper tier. I don't care about making gil, I just care about self-sufficiency, helping friends with requests, and being able to experiment with challenging crafting propositions.

The system was billed on making crafting more casual, but it's done the opposite--it's widened the gap between casuals and hardcores. Casual omnicrafters like myself are getting discouraged, while the Scrips are doing little to nothing to hamper the hardcore omnis who have the gil to buy out DoL mules for Favor mats. Casual omnis act as brake pedals on the prices of things because we're doing it more for the love of the craft than looking seriously at margins. How are nearly empty markets without competition healthy for the game's economy?

[Katlyna]

The system was billed on making crafting more casual, but it's done the opposite--it's widened the gap between casuals and hardcores. Casual omnicrafters like myself are getting discouraged, while the Scrips are doing little to nothing to hamper the hardcore omnis who have the gil to buy out DoL mules for Favor mats. Casual omnis act as brake pedals on the prices of things because we're doing it more for the love of the craft than looking seriously at margins. How are nearly empty markets without competition healthy for the game's economy?

I concur with you 100%. It just sucks. All I can tell my casual linkshell members is to level their DoH to 60, and either sell favors, or use them. They have to gather them all to have any chance to function.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Then we crafted our own 3 star Artisan offhands, and took on freaking 4 star challenges while we were still wearing our old school i55 AF gear... haha! And then once again, raiders come seek us one after another for 4 star i110 gear for their powers and glamor.

Damn, those were glorious days that we can only look back right now...

Right now, we grind hard (mostly gathering grind) each week for some i170 / i180, and not sure exactly why we're doing it... feeling so lonely making Deep-fried Okeanis Collectables (without the glorious HQ hand-gesture) with 2 macro buttons, then dumping into NPCs... nobody come contact us for anything except Thavnarian Bustier or Hive Barding! LOL! So many skilled hands now idle at Idleshire... wasted talents.