Upcoming Craft Changes

[KadeDoom]

One of my main points on this is the fact that someone that spends most of their time raising their crafts up to make the best gear you can for your character and Linkshell, is wasted time now, or will be after the update, basically crafting system after the patch will allow anyone without all the skills to make the same pieces as someone that did actually spend time leveling up the subs to make stuff. Prices are about to get retarded on items, alot of the mobs now will be over camped and some stuff will be just stupid hard to get because of the reducing of materials, so yes they give you more space in your retainer and inventory, but now your gonna have to fight other players for the reduced items your gonna need to make stuff.

[Reika]

One of my main points on this is the fact that someone that spends most of their time raising their crafts up to make the best gear you can for your character and Linkshell, is wasted time now, or will be after the update, basically crafting system after the patch will allow anyone without all the skills to make the same pieces as someone that did actually spend time leveling up the subs to make stuff. Prices are about to get retarded on items, alot of the mobs now will be over camped and some stuff will be just stupid hard to get because of the reducing of materials, so yes they give you more space in your retainer and inventory, but now your gonna have to fight other players for the reduced items your gonna need to make stuff.

Well, I too am above r36 in all crafters, plus 2 50's and 2 close to 50. Though, I'm not all that upset about it. Everyone whos been playing this game for a while should be expecting the way they've done things in the past to change. MMO's in general change a lot over time. The recipes may change again in the future, and maybe again after that. But this is one change that is completely necessary for the crafting system. It wont be as bad as you think. Crafting finsihed items was just way too time consuming. It sucks for the high rank crafters that put up with all the going to various cities for the right facility or dying the item with the extremely-specific dye and making all those stupid extra little pieces or parts that just consumed inventory space until you used them, but on the bright side, we wont have to put up with it anymore.

[Laeore]

At what point did grind=difficulty? It seems like a lot of long-time players are so used to things as is, and not looking at the greater picture. Spending four hours on a rank does not make it difficult, it makes it time consuming. When you play the same mini-game four 60+ hours to max a crafting profession, you're looking at tedious not difficult. Unless of course a lot of you are just saying its difficult to sit in front of a screen playing the same mini-game over and over, to which I'd agree. It is difficult to endure the mind-numbing pain of leveling a crafting profession.