How would you change Specialization?

[Alistaire]

Not gonna go back and dig up a thread from that long ago, but I distinctly remember getting into an argument with someone on these boards about the value of the Specialist Only actions. The long and short of it was, they add an extra layer of RNG and require higher stats to achieve results that might, charitably, be within the same ballpark compared to (yet not as good as) what an omnicrafter can achieve using the cross class moves.

As an above poster said, if they were as good or better than the cross class moves, that would be one thing. They do not come as close as they should, so removing them in favor of getting all of the cross class moves can only help people.

Are the Specialist-only actions bad? On their own, no - though there is a lot more RNG with them, which may be considered bad. Compared to the cross class moves? Higher stats needed and more RNG for lesser results means that, contrary to your opinion, they ARE bad, compared to the cross class moves.

Oh I'm very aware of how few people realise how good they are. One other person saying they don't make a difference doesn't do a thing to change my experience with it. And that's having all specialists, and crafting gear for scrips for quite a while on the same gear with characters that had the specialisation, and the ones that don't. It's actually kind of baffling how underestimated they are.

[Solarra]

Oh I'm very aware of how few people realise how good they are. One other person saying they don't make a difference doesn't do a thing to change my experience with it. And that's having all specialists, and crafting gear for scrips for quite a while on the same gear with characters that had the specialisation, and the ones that don't. It's actually kind of baffling how underestimated they are.

It's not quite clear from your post but I have to say, if you have all the Cross Class skills available but you prefer the specialist Skills, then I'm baffled. I don't see anything better about them at all.
I do appreciate they are useful for people who have only levelled 2 or 3 crafting Classes, but I still think the present system leaves those players at a considerable disadvantage compared to an omni-crafter. Given the choice between my Specialists getting access to all the cross class skills or getting the present specialist skills (even tweaked slightly), I'd definitely take the former.
It's a simple, elegant solution to the problem of people not wanting to level every crafting class but still wanting to do endgame crafting.