Yoshida, The Creator: Savage is the worst tuning ever in an MMO

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Basically, you are asking it be made easier for only a few crafters to supply sixteen players with full ilvl 250 gear. Uh, why would that ever be a thing?

Because this whole method of economic control has proven efficient to make one thing and one thing only, make only a few crafters the suppliers of the market board and in general, making the richer even more and faster than ever richer while making the entry level to crafting much, much, much higher, thus, less competition, higher prices, more resources for a few. And considering switching specialists isn't something impossible, not even hard, hardcore crafters just rotate through the specialists crafting bulks of items to later list them. To not mention most have 1 or 2 alts, with other specialists ready.

You are right, it will never be a thing, is evident economics are another thing about this game that is completely above the level of the dev team, their fixing to the "omni-crafters" was making them "snowflake-crafters", limiting their productivity 3 times, but making everything they make 20 times more valuable. LMAO.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Because this whole method of economic control has proven efficient to make one thing and one thing only, make only a few crafters the suppliers of the market board and in general, making the richer even more and faster than ever richer while making the entry level to crafting much, much, much higher, thus, less competition, higher prices, more resources for a few. And considering switching specialists isn't something impossible, not even hard, hardcore crafters just rotate through the specialists crafting bulks of items to later list them. To not mention most have 1 or 2 alts, with other specialists ready.

You are right, it will never be a thing, is evident economics are another thing about this game that is completely above the level of the dev team, their fixing to the "omni-crafters" was making them "snowflake-crafters", limiting their productivity 3 times, but making everything they make 20 times more valuable. LMAO.

When BiS gear were locked behind red scripts, I would have agreed. Now, however, you have access to basically everything except the most recent recipes. And even those aren't technically gated as capping red scrips once a week essentially allows you to rotate your specialists how you fancy. I made 2M the other day selling furniture I could have done in baby leveling gear. If you understand the market and don't instantly run to the best crafts, you can make a small fortune. I've probably accumulated 25-30M over my year long play time. The vast majority of that came from selling stuff anyone could make just by leveling their crafters to 50. Hell, I even took months off crafting to boot. You do not need pentameld, BiS gear to earn a profit in this game.

OP makes me very worried about this raid tier. My group only did a couple of hours in A9S so far and it seemed extremely easy for savage content. If the last reason to raid (challenge) is taken away, I'm not sure what I'm going to do in this game.

Reasons to raid: Story, Gear, Challenge

RIP raiding, time to start doing min-ilvl challenges instead I guess.

Honestly, I want the devs to make this a viable option. Put achievements or even the primal mounts behind low ilvl thresholds. That way people who want an "easy" version can blow through it while those who want a challenge are also rewarded for their efforts. I feel this is where FFXIV lacks: gifting rewards to everyone because some people only want the easy way out.