Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
My point is only that it's too early to tell how this is going to change things.
On the contrary, we've had two years now to see how crafting has gotten along without specialist recipes, and it's been doing just fine. And it could keep going on as it has been for another two years and nobody would bat an eye, much less be arguing about this nonsense on the forums. Whatever *real* issues crafting has, adding specialist recipes into the mix isn't going to fix them.

Reducing the amount of players that can create specific items, lowering potential competition on the market between crafters as a result of that, upsetting players who invested time into crafting for the purpose of being self-sufficient, forcing yet another form of "social interaction" on a community that can barely stand each other on the best of days and through an activity that was originally advertised as a solo affair.. you don't have to be a psychic to anticipate how this plays out.