Square Enix, please think about both Casual AND Hardcore crafters..

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Breaking news: In a recent interview with Yoshida, he stated that they are going to “overhaul” crafting and gathering and it’ll be such a significant change that he’s dedicating an entire Live Letter (either part 1 or 2) for explaining it. Likely going to be Part 2.

This might mean that Yoshida has listened to hardcore and casual crafters and is actually planning on stabilizing the mechanics somehow. Maybe he’s even read this thread, lol. Or, it could mean he is making it even easier. If that is the case, then that’ll be unfortunate.

Source: https://twinfinite.net/2019/08/final...rview-yoshida/

I think by "overhaul" I think they mean smoothing out the bumps. Some simple changes that wouldn't be harmful:

1. Significantly increased experience from 1-60
2. Class quests give a full set of end-game approximate gear at 50/60/70 like combat classes get (and can get via poetics)
3. Further cleaning up redundancies and cross-class abilities

I'd like to see them fundamentally change crafting so manual crafting is the only reliable way to HQ outside of significantly overgearing, but I know a lot of people don't like that idea. I also happen to think they're part of the problem -- having thousands of people mindlessly popping a macro and not having any real gating mechanism ruins the market and also the interesting challenge. It's more fun to try to optimize ARR leveling atm than it is crafting 2* recipes.

I agree. Though, this is the first time Yoshida has made such a bold claim. I mean, “overhaul”? It must be a pretty huge deal if I’m honest. If it is what I think it is, it’ll actually balance out crafting to where it’s not ridiculously easy anymore, but also not ridiculously hard.

This is probably the first time in 3-4 years I’ve actually been slightly excited about a live letter lol. This would make so many hardcore crafters happy that they actually listened to them, and made it balanced. This could change crafting forever.

....But, let’s be realistic here. It’s probably just going to make crafting even easier than it is now, because Yoshida’s track record on meeting expectations isn’t exactly good.