So Specialist Recipees are in the game.

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You can be a specialist for all 8 crafts now, it just takes a few weeks of red scrips. Being able to make every item in the game shouldn't be easy (though ironically, having 8 specialists is still easier than getting every master 2 book was before heavensward).

I'm not sure what you mean by having 8 specialists is easier than getting every master recipe book 2 before HW. If you want 8 specialists at the same time, you're going to need two alts as far as I know, which is quite a bit of grinding. If you want to make use of all 8 sets of specialist recipes using a single character, it'll take over 1 week worth of scrips to change one specialization. It isn't something you would do unless you believe that you chose the wrong specializations.

On the other hand, the 2nd master books were quick to do and once you figured how to effectively build 11 stacks of inner quiet (not difficult, but I suspect most crafters were not effective at it), you just spammed the same process over and over.