Please remove CUL and ALC specalists

[Elamys]

ALC is going to be very valuable as long as it creates an item that is required for every end game gear craft in the game, like dissolvents/reisuis/fibers. I can't really imagine any point where it wouldn't feel near mandatory with how they've been handling craft balancing. Every single end game crafted gear set in HW required items ALC made - astral oil, luminous fiber, grade 2 and 3 dissolvents. Which is why I'm very strongly against specialists crafting components.

I also don't think "just switch your specialists" is the best solution as you're limited on how many times you can switch per week and again ALC is required for everything so you might as well keep it around if you want to be self-sufficient.

That being said, removing CUL and ALC specs would not be a good solution.

[Solarra]

ALC is going to be very valuable as long as it creates an item that is required for every end game gear craft in the game, like dissolvents/reisuis/fibers. I can't really imagine any point where it wouldn't feel near mandatory with how they've been handling craft balancing...
...Which is why I'm very strongly against specialists crafting components.

I also don't think "just switch your specialists" is the best solution as you're limited on how many times you can switch per week...

You are absolutely right on both points. I agree locking component recipes to specialists is a major issue. Being able to switch soul-stones is a work-round that is better than nothing and much better than what we had before but it is not a solution.

The problem that specialisation was supposed to solve seems far smaller to me than some of the problems it has created.