Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
Creating a reliance structure is not a very good way to create a social experience. It adds a scale of power.
In this game, reliance is not really the case. Everybody has equal access to the melding feature. TC is just lazy to do so and wants a quick way to access it without giving effort. Reliance is when the game itself limits you to do something such as materials only obtainable via specialization which a character can only have 3 max.

Why don't you level a crafting class?

Pick one of the below excuses:
- It's hard. (debatable, since it's really not if you use leves)
- Not interested.
- Lazy.
- Not my style.

There isn't even a stat requirement in melding.