Gridania needs a 3rd crafting class

[Reaperking386]

Just because one city lacks a crafting class does not justify a reason to make one, but I can tell you that in future expacs they may consider adding one in Gridania.

[Gunspec]

............What?

What I mean is, if you add an entirely new craft, you're going to have to add the entire system that goes along with it. You need to add unique materials and recipes for 60 levels, so that a player can level up the class properly. Are you going to spam paintings or low level enchants to get to that higher level? How can you flesh out these ideas to encompass the range that the current classes possess?

Its better for them, game system wise, to add new features to the existing crafting classes, rather than to add an entirely new one to the game at this point. If they did add a new class, especially one that was just for fun, it would be 99% busywork to level, and 1% fun when you got it to the level cap and geared it up.

Compare that to postmaster moogle questline, where you complete tasks and "level up", even receiving glamour rewards, but you don't have to sit there for hours spamming "letter delivery" levequests just to get the next quest. Or sightseeing log, which could have been developed into a gathering class of sorts, is instead a fun little activity you can jump right into without spending days spamming macros.

People have good ideas here, but I'd rather see these ideas implemented in a way that doesn't come across as more chores.

[axemtitanium]

It really doesn't.

The lv 50-60 quests don't even stay within city lines. There's no need to add another DoH.

[Stormfur]

Enchantment? Enchantment!

(Sorry, that immediately pops in my head whenever someone mentions enchanting but I agree with you I think it would be great to have!)

[Khalithar]

I kind of felt like the advent of Mch should have lead to some sort of engineering profession, but there aren't really enough things to warrant making one, plus it really wouldn't fit in to gridania anyway.

[Gamer3427]

I could see some sort of enchanting system being added as a "crafter", that works as a version of materia that stacks with it without taking a slot.....

Also, maybe it requires fish souls to do the enchanting. Just because as a Fisher, I find that nothing hardly requires fish aside from a very small amount of CUL and ALC recipes, so most of what I can catch is completely worthless since I can't even sell it to vendors for the price of the bait used to catch it.....

[Gunspec]

as a Fisher, I find that nothing hardly requires fish aside from a very small amount of CUL and ALC recipes

oh, the fish I have smashed into sand, and the shards and crystals I have extracted from their bodies...
Fisher works well with culinary desynth, if you have the patience to smash through mountains of fish. You can even desynth in mid-fight, so probably more than one person on this forum has witnessed me tanking a dungeon and breaking trout between global cooldowns.

[Gamer3427]

oh, the fish I have smashed into sand, and the shards and crystals I have extracted from their bodies...
Fisher works well with culinary desynth, if you have the patience to smash through mountains of fish. You can even desynth in mid-fight, so probably more than one person on this forum has witnessed me tanking a dungeon and breaking trout between global cooldowns.

Yea, I've leveled my CUL desynth some, but right now I'm at the point, (desynth level 80 or so), where it's insanely expensive or time consuming to even barely level it. Honestly, desynthing is the only reason I even leveled my CUL to 30. I'm still leveling it a bit from the fish my retainer brings in from Ghestal ventures, but between needing time to rest and having a lot of other stuff to do in game, leveling it otherwise is problematic at the moment.....

[Gunspec]

leveling it otherwise is problematic at the moment.....

Soon to be remedied in patch 3.1. I'm in the same boat with my armorer desynth.

But hey, you can get an item called "better crowned pie" from the guy in mor dhona that trades lucis tools. You trade for them with the lv45 levequest mats and moonstones. I had a stack of moonstones reserved for lucis weapons I never made, and dumped them into pies. The pies are desynthable by culinarian, and are equivalent to roughly ilevel 90. That was the item I used to get myself over the culinary hump.

[Gamer3427]

Soon to be remedied in patch 3.1. I'm in the same boat with my armorer desynth.

But hey, you can get an item called "better crowned pie" from the guy in mor dhona that trades lucis tools. You trade for them with the lv45 levequest mats and moonstones. I had a stack of moonstones reserved for lucis weapons I never made, and dumped them into pies. The pies are desynthable by culinarian, and are equivalent to roughly ilevel 90. That was the item I used to get myself over the culinary hump.

Thanks for the tip. I thought they only took the levequest items, so I hadn't been worrying with it due to the low chance I have of desynthing those right now, but I have a nice large stack of moonstones that are just waiting to be thrown at something.....