Specialist Compromise

[Dzian]

To be honest. I think the specialist system is a joke. Should be able to specialise in everything. Or at least make it easier to change specialisations. Rather than require a full weeks red scripts. Just make it a thousand blue or something.

The point of the game is you can be everything. The specialist system is kinda contrary to that

[FoxyAreku]

To be honest. I think the specialist system is a joke. Should be able to specialise in everything. Or at least make it easier to change specialisations. Rather than require a full weeks red scripts. Just make it a thousand blue or something.

The point of the game is you can be everything. The specialist system is kinda contrary to that

This never was the point of the game. It was listed as a perk, and it still holds true as nothing is stopping you from being level 60 in everything. They just added onto it so crafters have to work together. It's a great system imo.

With 8 or 9 Souls of the Crafter in my bank somewhere, I'm holding on to my Red Crafting Tokens. I figure that they will come in handy when it comes time to meld my next crafting set sometime in 4.0.

Considering red scrips are basically useless right now, I wouldn't expect them to keep scrips in 4.0. They'll probably change the system completely.

[Nezerius]

This never was the point of the game. It was listed as a perk, and it still holds true as nothing is stopping you from being level 60 in everything. They just added onto it so crafters have to work together. It's a great system imo.

The point of the specialist system was to make it easier for crafters to stay competitive without having to become an omnicrafter. This system failed in 3.0, because few people cared about the specialist abilities. They saw this, so they added specialist recipes to force that system onto crafters.

Fortunately, they also saw that forcing crafters to work together isn't the way to go, so they've been applying bandaid fixes to the system, the current one being that recipes only stay specialist for one major patch.
At this point, they should just scrap the entire system and add something that encourages crafters to work together, perhaps through specialists needing less materials to craft something.

Considering red scrips are basically useless right now, I wouldn't expect them to keep scrips in 4.0. They'll probably change the system completely.

You can buy grade IV materia with the old red scrip tokens, which will likely still be used for overmelding in 4.0.

[FoxyAreku]

You can buy grade IV materia with the old red scrip tokens, which will likely still be used for overmelding in 4.0.

I'm aware, but there are so many other (better) sources for materia my statement still stands.

Not to mention they (and every MMO I've ever heard of) likes to do hard resets on everything when expansions come out. Even if scrips do stay, there is a 99% chance we'll have some new one so nobody is ahead of anyone else. Probably Green scrips? Lol.

[Nezerius]

I'm aware, but there are so many other (better) sources for materia my statement still stands.

Just because you find this way of obtaining them useless, doesn't mean everyone else does. It's still easy to stock up on for a relatively minor amount of effort.

Not to mention they (and every MMO I've ever heard of) likes to do hard resets on everything when expansions come out. Even if scrips do stay, there is a 99% chance we'll have some new one so nobody is ahead of anyone else. Probably Green scrips? Lol.

Which is unrelated to the fact that red scrip tokens that have been stockpiled up to that point will still be a currency that can be turned in for grade IV materia.

IV materia will still be the go-to for overmelding at the start of the expansion, just like grade III still fit that role at the start of 3.0.