Quote Originally Posted by Rath View Post
We are both on the same server, just an fyi. There are daily shouts from FC leaders that are craft-heavy FCs. You also see PFs from Omni-crafters offering their services for below MB rate. Most of those PF posters also have crafter LSs that they constantly recruit for. Also, a lot of the Omni-crafters place items up with their signature on it (some hide behind "obtaining signature" to undercut). I have gotten many requests from people reading my signature, as I am sure others have as well, you just need to try.
I've seen those same PF things, too, but they're usually few and far between (as in I can easily go a couple of weeks before seeing another). I also saw them before 3.0 at basically the same rate. If the point of specialization was to somehow increase socialization between crafters, it's certainly not working then. Besides, it's not finding an omnicrafter that's the problem, it's finding one that specializes in something other than what you do. Especially given how uneven certain things are, you'd probably have a much easier time finding a weaving specialist over an alchemist one.

And thinking of it, I don't think I've ever seen a shout from a craft-heavy FC (at least not in a very long time), but I wouldn't leave my current FC for anything anyway.

Also, I like to keep myself available for helping my FC mates, so many of these forced interactions are a no-go for me. My crafting/gathering activities need to be something I can do randomly and quickly with frequent interruptions. If I spent time trying to socialize over crafting, I'd be seriously cutting into my ability to socialize with my own FC.