Redo the Crafting system.

[magnanimousCynic]

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But it still shows the issue that if you want to do end-game crafting you need a majority of crafting classes at 50 or higher. If you want to make end-game CUL food then guess what; you DO need all 8 classes at 50 or higher!


I doubt that DoH/DoL will get something like Cross-Role, due to all Crafters using near-identical toolkits unlike DoW/DoM, but something HAS to be done. One example being WVR's 50 skill, Careful Synthesis II, increasing progress by 120% for 0 CP. CS2 is so powerful it replaces Basic Synthesis for nearly all situations.


On the opposite spectrum of powerful skills, all crafters have the skill Observation which does... literally nothing, moving the craft forward one step for 14 CP. The only reason this skill has a CP cost is to prevent the players from having infinite CP by maintaining CZ and fishing for procs for TotT. I'm sure people wouldn't mind this skill being replaced by something more useful or outright removed.


One last example, sticking out like a sore thumb, is the Specialist System. Originally planned as an alternative to leveling all crafters for Cross-Class, the skills were considered so reliant on RNG the system basically ended up becoming a stat-stick and temporary specialist-lock for new recipes. Specialism could've had potential, but the RNG required for a good pay-off was simply too high, along with Specialist skills increasing the time a craft took.

Crafting may not need a massive overhaul, but there are definitely issues that should be looked at.