Please consolidate crafting in Shadowbringers

[hydralus]

Just wait until they release those gathering/crafting leveling boosts.

[BlitzAceRush]

I mean making so you need less buttons doesn't mean it will be easier, they could just make the buttons you do press more meaningful as opposed to tedious. If you were asked to press 100 buttons in order from 1-100 vs being asked to press 10 buttons but the order is random the only "skill" involved in the first is your patients.
I also find it strange a lot of the people defending how things are also (like most all of us) use macros, I mean would you defend a combat job if it's rotation was so long or overtly stuffed with buttons that the way to play it optimally was to macro its whole skill set?
As craters especially if you want to be self sufficient or make gil you're going to be crafting a lot of items but the way things are now, we're not crafting them, we're just automating the process and then watching videos or something.
I'd rather press less buttons but be engaged by actually doing the craft as opposed to the "skill" in crafting being to find the most efficient way to not have to do the crafting.

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure what kind of new skills they could even add to crafting at this point while keeping it from getting even easier.

The ability to use more resources to craft a larger amount of items in the case of stackable items would be really welcome, though. They didn't have any qualms about bumping up the time efficiency of DoL classes a ton with huge boosts to HQ rate/gathering yield, so DoH shouldn't be excluded.

[Barraind]

I'd love to be able to autosynth multiple items at a time.

It autos at 1 item every ~6 seconds, making 300 ingots/leather/thread/silk takes waaaay too long.

[Arrhin]

There is NOTHING in this game I canna make with no more than 2 macro's, I'm not even that good, only a couple to 70 (the rest to 50 odd or w/e I've done to get the proper actions). And FFXIV is praised heavily for it's deep and rewarding crafting game, and yes it is a game unto itself.

[K3KW4RCHILD]

As indicated in previous posts, if you're using so many actions and macros, you're doing it wrong. However, let's say it was so tedious, I don't mind it at all. Heaven help us if they make it stupid easy like World of Warcraft. I have to be honest, I hate "crafting" when all you do is press a button, let a macro do the work and then press the button again. Tell me what's fun about that? But that's just like, my opinion.

[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.

[New_Game_Plus]

I don't agree. Crafting is already stupid easy. Make a macro.

[Barraind]

I find it highly suspect you can do food and pots in 15 minutes unless you just dont use many.

The fastest rotation that can start with 0 hq mats is 30 steps...

[Odd]

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.

This sums up my feelings about it very well.

To the people telling me to just use macros, I stated in the OP why I don't. I get nasty lag spikes from time to time which mess up my macros. And maybe my rotation is less than ideal, but I'd really like to see the rotation for the Ala Mhigan gear that can be done in only two macros. Either way, I strongly dislike how long it takes to make one item.

I would much prefer if crafting actions could fire faster than every 3 seconds, and if quick synth didnt seem to take LONGER.

This would solve a big part of my problem with crafting.