Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
Next patch everyone and their mom is going to be a 4 star crafter and it's going to destroy the economy.
I'm pretty sure the economy will be fine. The Ironworks sets aren't particularly more difficult to make than the i60 Artisan's sets were, and they're also more difficult to meld (since you didn't need to fully pentameld some of the left side Artisan's to cap it, IIRC). The economy was plenty healthy after the introduction of Artisan's, and it should remain healthy going forward. What we're seeing here is simply a return to form: the 3.0/3.1 crafting progression dealt a pretty heavy blow to the crafting community on my server, at least, and it's actually vibrant again, which is important to having an economy that works not just for the folks with the time/gil to omnicraft the i170 sets, but for midcore and casual crafters, gatherers, and even battle classes.