What happened to GSM, CUL and ALC recipes? No changes?

[CrstyCaptin]

Oooooook. Now I'm more confused. For some crazy reason I thought 1.21 was a patch that was supposed to 'fix' culinary and alchemy? And by fix I of course mean 1) culinary recipes wouldn't be crazy with the amount of ingredients for food 2) food would be tweaked to give good stats and actually be something that people want to use and 3) do something with alchemy to make it worth something. As it stands now I feel like alchemy is more worthless than culinary if only because I can get some food that gives +magic acc. The only worth while stuff right now made by alchemy is like... glue? Maybe rubber? Having almost all crafts to 50(aside from cul) it just seems like I never have the need to pull out my alembic and make something.

[Alise]

In the past I think they said recipe change will come on 1.19 and finish it off at 1.20. Then the next time they said it will be 1.20 and finish in 1.21 instead.. and now delay to 1.21 to be finished at 1.22. At this point I wouldn't doubt it 1.23 1.24.

[Sephrick]

Oooooook. Now I'm more confused. For some crazy reason I thought 1.21 was a patch that was supposed to 'fix' culinary and alchemy? And by fix I of course mean 1) culinary recipes wouldn't be crazy with the amount of ingredients for food 2) food would be tweaked to give good stats and actually be something that people want to use and 3) do something with alchemy to make it worth something. As it stands now I feel like alchemy is more worthless than culinary if only because I can get some food that gives +magic acc. The only worth while stuff right now made by alchemy is like... glue? Maybe rubber? Having almost all crafts to 50(aside from cul) it just seems like I never have the need to pull out my alembic and make something.

It'll be like all the other crafts. They'll add a ton of new recipes but leave the old versions in.

I do hope they raise medicine potency to make it worth it. It was said that in XI potions were so worthless. ALC was one of my four I wanted to level.

I'm curious, how do you tolerate leveling so many crafts? I feel like I spend more time gathering than I do leveling my desired craft.

[Diyne]

This is kind of a silly question, but will old items made with Culinarian be considered 'Dated'? I don't know, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about eating Dated Meat Miq'abobs...That's just asking for trouble.

[Kinseykinz]

This is kind of a silly question, but will old items made with Culinarian be considered 'Dated'? I don't know, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about eating Dated Meat Miq'abobs...That's just asking for trouble.

We joked about this in my ls....we decided they should go with 'expired' or 'spoiled' rather than dated...and that you might need medicine after eating them :P....I mean if we're gonna go down that road, might as well take it the whole way

[CrstyCaptin]

It'll be like all the other crafts. They'll add a ton of new recipes but leave the old versions in.

I do hope they raise medicine potency to make it worth it. It was said that in XI potions were so worthless. ALC was one of my four I wanted to level.

I'm curious, how do you tolerate leveling so many crafts? I feel like I spend more time gathering than I do leveling my desired craft.

XI at least had potions you would use. Silent oils and prism powders were always needed to hide from agro mobs on the way to places. If you were trying to solo something elixirs had their place. Even Hi potions were somewhat useful early on for trying to solo the 3-3 dragon lol. It was a long time ago but I remember re-raise items being very useful - I think alchemy had a role in that.

As for crafting, I just watch tv and spam my X button. Or browse other forums. It's completely mindless for the most part and you just need something you can do while crafting to take your mind off it. I just started gathering, just leveled up making my own materials or doing synths that I would break even/profit off of by selling back to npc.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Yay! I forgot that I couldn't make rings with ingots, then got the frowny face after I used all my ore up.

[Mireille]

2) food would be tweaked to give good stats and actually be something that people want to use and 3) do something with alchemy to make it worth something.

I think its hard to finalize food recipes till jobs are finalized. They need to know what stats they are enhancing so they can balance it. Probably the same with alchemy. I think the existing new recipes came first because they were needed to introduce materia.

It will be interesting to see if they can work out some sort of materia augment for consumables like food and potions.

[Mireille]

This is kind of a silly question, but will old items made with Culinarian be considered 'Dated'? I don't know, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about eating Dated Meat Miq'abobs...That's just asking for trouble.

They should go with 'aged' or 'seasoned' in place of dated.