Sanity check - crafting job skip potions?

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Sort of. It depends on how you view Beast Tribe quests. My only interest in crafting is Beast tribe rewards. the hw and sb beast tribe mounts still feel pretty gated, since doing ixal only got me to level 43. so, i have to drag myself through 7 more levels of uninteresting button pushing while sitting in one place.

You would have a point if those quests didn't require crafting and gathering. But they do. So it's still DoH and DoL content. Not solely combat class content.

The only content that is solely combat based that DoL and DoH gatekeep is the final beast tribe quest you get when you have all beast tribes of that expansion on max reputation. So that's three quest-lines in the entire game. That's not much.