Worst fears about specialist crafting are realized

[Felis]

Until gear improves to the point where you can (or be carried through it).

Then let me say it in another way.
Except the highest raid.

[Gyson]

Then let me say it in another way.
Except the highest raid.

Then let me say it another way: why are you comparing our complaint of not having access to all the crafting content because of specialist restrictions to your complaint of of ilevel requirements for the newest raids? Do you not understand that crafting (on top of everything else) also has to deal with its own gear-walls and "tomes" (scrips) caps?

Look, I get your complaint: you can go to raid-X with class-A but not class-B because weekly tome caps prevent you from gearing both up before the content is no longer "new". Hey, guess what? A crafter has the exact same problem with crafting classes - they must decide which class to focus on, which class to advance and gear up and spend their weekly allotment of scrips on, and that's before specialization ever came around to make things even worse.

So don't pretend like it's the same darn thing. If you want to make direct comparisons, then start making them. When the developers come out and say they're changing the game in such a way that players must choose a maximum of three DoW/DoM jobs to own soulstones for, and the community explodes in a fit of frustration, then maybe you'll understand. Or, maybe you'll be here on the forums trying to convince everyone about how that's also a good change.

[SendohJin]

Then let me say it another way: why are you comparing our complaint...

Cause these two started it ...

Time to force battle classes into specializations too - only fair.

I wonder how well people would take if they could only utilize three job stones at a time for combat classes. Sure, you could trade them about, but it'd probably require the current high-end tomes to really hammer it in.

If you want to make direct comparisons, then start making them.

i can do Red Crafter Scrips on every DoH job without specialization. i can farm Esoterics on any DoW/DoM job as well without Savage or Esoterics gear.

anything more advanced than those, if you need to gear specifically towards those for the 6 month patch cycle, so be it.

that's the direct comparison.