There's every possible combination of combat and quests required by the tribes.
There's fishing, gathering, and crafting.
There's HQ crafting.

What if the new beast tribe required you to turn in COLLECTABLE levels of items they have you make?

I've reached level 60 crafting without ever making a collectable, it's never been required for me. Adept level items where just as easily gotten from carved kupo nuts, yellow script is just as easily gotten from the Grand Company Squadrons.

It used to be an important mechanic, you used to need them to properly interface with the engame. Now they don't seem to mean as much, so maybe one of the beast tribes of the first should really really care about collectables? I would have expected the Kojin to want collectables, but they are just another combat tribe.


As a side note, could somebody tell me a bit about what it was like in the days when collectables mattered, what it was needed for, what you did with them?