Please consolidate crafting in Shadowbringers

[Daniolaut]

As someone that couldn't be bothered to get crafting stats higher than the """""cheap""""" meld build, I honestly have no idea how you guys have the time or patience to do end game crafting.
When 99% of people are using macro rotations, I don't know what more proof you need that something is wrong with the crafting system.

And for the love of god make auto crafting consumables and low level components allowed to be made in bulk.

It’s extremely cheap and easy to do collectibles every week and amass tons of materia this way.

I also am super lazy and only really craft HQ raid food and potions, which are 4star. With NQ materials. I don’t use macros. It doesn’t take long, maybe 15 minutes a week to reach 99 food and 99 potions. (As just an example, obviously you can have more than 99.)

I make my retainers gather the materials so I don’t even have to do that.

I also skip 90% of entire crafting sets. I went from the entire HQ 290 gear set, only made 2 HQ pieces of the 320 set then crafted the HQ 340 set myself.

Can’t be more lazy and cheap than that.

To me crafting is fun, and in fact one of the main reasons I even play this game. I tried itnin FFXI and immediately quit. I hear every other games system is the same. “Click an item, and craft it.” Just you can level faster. Which that is horribly boring. I mean unless you hate crafting, then I can see why you would want a point and click system. If they changed it to point and click, I would likely quit crafting or the game entirely.

[Colino]

I also am super lazy and only really craft HQ raid food and potions, which are 4star. With NQ materials. I don’t use macros. It doesn’t take long, maybe 15 minutes a week to reach 99 food and 99 potions. (As just an example, obviously you can have more than 99.)

Same here to be honest. Getting the materials together is by far the longest part (and I guess it should be that way).