Redo the Crafting system.

[magnanimousCynic]

Let's just let this thread die. OP has only 3 posts and clearly just wants FFXIV to be more like FFXI when the two games shouldn't be compared.

And to answer the person above me.

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Why? How would this improve or make the Crafting System better than what it is, besides replacing the interesting part of crafting with pure RNG? Your proposed system would just default to people using Google or a recipe-dedicated website to search what items a recipe needs, which makes hiding the recipe obsolete. It sounds neat in a single player game but not in an MMO for this day and age.

[javid]

Why? How would this improve or make the Crafting System better than what it is, besides replacing the interesting part of crafting with pure RNG? Your proposed system would just default to people using Google or a recipe-dedicated website to search what items a recipe needs, which makes hiding the recipe obsolete. It sounds neat in a single player game but not in an MMO for this day and age.

he's just thinking out of the box!

But also your suggestions does tell us you're not a TRUE crafter, the kind that likes to manually HQ recipes and sell them on the MB for a premium.... that's ok.

But if i remember correctly back in 1.x recipes where given; but you had to select mats into a crafting box...it was tedious and lame.......godsend to have all mats preselected (if u have them).

[magnanimousCynic]

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I haven't made any suggestions? I'm giving feedback TO a suggestion. Please show me a quote of me giving a suggestion in this thread, because obviously you're seeing words that I didn't type.

And don't try to use the No True Scotsman fallacy on me. You don't know how I craft or how much I sell my items for. Maybe I do fit your definition of a "TRUE crafter" and you just assumed I didn't, making you look like a fool instead.

[Nezerius]

Why? How would this improve or make the Crafting System better than what it is, besides replacing the interesting part of crafting with pure RNG? Your proposed system would just default to people using Google or a recipe-dedicated website to search what items a recipe needs, which makes hiding the recipe obsolete. It sounds neat in a single player game but not in an MMO for this day and age.

They're poking fun at the OP's statement of XIV's crafting being worse than XI's, since they described crafting in XI.

[magnanimousCynic]

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Oh okay.

But I still can't figure out how FFXIV's system CAN be worse than "figure out or look up the items used in this craft and pray to RNG because you can't do anything about it." I'm probably thinking too hard about this.

[TarynH]

They're poking fun at the OP's statement of XIV's crafting being worse than XI's, since they described crafting in XI.

This. FFXI's system had no ingenuity behind it whatsoever. It was literally putting stuff in a personal mail/trade box, and hitting "OK" to craft. Then you'd sit and wait for the synthesis to either break, finish normally, or high quality the item. They didn't even have a recipe list in-game, unless you talked to an npc. (Maybe they added a personal list since I quit?) But there were websites devoted to having lists of FFXI crafting recipes. It was like "quick synthesis" only one synth at a time, and you had to put the ingredients in every single time.