Specialist again? Really?

[Dahlinea]

Specialist could have been a great experience if it was thought carefully, in my opinion. Like, since the game story is currently on a war they could create instances (like our dungeon versions) for crafters and gatherers to queue where during the allotted time you have to turn in goods made by crafters with mats gathered on the same site by gatherers to help the people suffering from the war, for example. Each player would only be able to queue as a Specialist and restricted to only his skills (no cross skills allowed). Adjusting the current skills to work on par with with cross skills this would turn out to be very pleasant. At the end of the instance you would receive red and blue scripts and crafting and gathering gear to roll on. And gear that helps to craft the new recipes from the master books, for example. Make weekly drops that could be turned in for new MH/OH too would be a good thing, etc...

This would make Specialist meaningful as hell and would there be no need for locking recipes on the 'outside' crafting to make it meaningful.
But I guess they went the easy way with us this time just locking things up to make Specialist, as they made it, look useful... :\