Please remove CUL and ALC specalists

[Caimie_Tsukino]

For these reasons, I believe removing these two crafters from the specialist formula will better balance crafting as a whole.

It doesn't make any sense to suddenly remove specialists for CUL and ALC just because one is making more gil than the other. Don't forget specialist status comes from the Soul Stone, which adds extra stats. And the stone allows some very neat skills to be performed by the class. Don't you think removing it from CUL will only make it further suffer? And how about fairness? You can't have 2 classes which have no specialist status! That will be extremely unfair! Despite CUL having so few high level recipes, it's actually a very profitable class. Persimmon Leaf Sushi and Jellied Compote are still extremely popular among raiders. Perhaps they don't make as much money as the potions, but they are still making a lot of money.

If not, better balancing needs to be considered to increase CUL usability, while decreasing ALC demand.

Balances change every patch. Once in awhile, certain class(es) will be having an edge over the others. It's normal. Yet, I do agree that CUL is being a big neglected since the beginning of Stormblood though. I do hope they will adjust it by providing more food choices and more high level recipes.

[Sepher]

Don't forget specialist status comes from the Soul Stone, which adds extra stats.

Despite CUL having so few high level recipes, it's actually a very profitable class. Persimmon Leaf Sushi and Jellied Compote are still extremely popular among raiders.

Balances change every patch.

Neither Persimmon Leaf Sushi or Jellied Compote require a specialist, which strengthens my point that specialist for CUL is currently close to worthless.

The specialist's moves are mostly pointless. I have crafted everything including the new 2 star without using any of them. I see your point though for people that may rely on them, but they could just be given the specialist status but the status does not count towards your total.

Balancing does change every patch, but ALC does not. It is always needed and could be considered the OP class since you literally can't make new stuff without the mats it makes.

[Vidu]

Balancing does change every patch, but ALC does not. It is always needed and could be considered the OP class since you literally can't make new stuff without the mats it makes.

For this patch-cycle, yes. I dont expect ALC being the only one again to provide base-mats when it comes to crafting DoW/DoM-gear. We'll most likely gonna see metal, leather, wood and fabric spread over all crafting-class (except CUL). ALC will probably still get those dissolvents, so technically it will always be needed, but it will even out more again (considering that dissolvents often use much cheaper mats or are at least crafted in quanteties of 3 already they're often cheaper on the marketboard than other basemats - you cant craft everything yourself anyways)

I agree that CUL does need some more and better recipes but neither needs their specialist status removed - specially not considering that specialist-exclusive recipes only stay that way for a certain amount of time. So you want always need a ALC specialist to craft the mats for the current crafter/gatherer gear. My guess would be that for the next crafting-patch ALC mainly gets dissolvents - making it a potent crafter, but not as OP as it currently is.