Will 5.0 ShadowBringers make crafting hard again?

[KageTokage]

Has it actually been said that there will be limited rewards tied to ranking on the leader board? If so, that would be the worst thing they've ever done in the game. The solo-centric Crafting system and time-limited ranked PVP rewards are two things that should NEVER go together. In any shard.

I don't mind Ultimate-level prestige rewards being tied to skill and dedication that any crafter can eventually get if they've got what it takes (and it should take ALOT). I DO mind them being tied to a ranked, time/quantity-limited system that only exploiters and no-lifers who play the game 18+ hours a day will ever be able to get.

They said the system is going to have "seasons" akin to the Feast where the top players get special rewards, though they also considered locking previous winners out of taking a top spot again for the sake of preventing a monopoly.

Depending on how long the seasons are and how many top ranking spots there are, it could still take a very long time before the players who actually deserve the rewards get them instead of cheaters, though...

I hope if they do that will be something like the glamour "contest". You have a few tries each week to prepare and get the best possible score. If you can just turn in, whatever is requested, non-stop... oh boy, what they have done?

My hope is that you'll be given an item to craft that has no limit to how high its collectability can be raised and the players who turn in the items with the highest collectability will get the top spots.

Such a system still wouldn't be 100% bot proof (Since you can bet people will just automate crafts until they get an unreasonably good streak of luck with multiple excellents), but it's still way less exploitable then a quantity > quality system.