Yo those QOL for DOH & DOL

[frostmagemari]

How easy it is to craft HQ stuff from non HQ mats? For who? The beta testers who have been maxed lvled on everything? This update is for newer players who dont have anything leveled to engage them into the game and hook them on a Sub.

You realize that outside of the original ARR (which was several years ago now), they don't actually allow any of us to beta test anything, right? Square keeps everything in-house until it's eventual release; which, frankly, acts against them more times than naught because they get no useful feedback on what it is they're doing.

As for who i was talking about, i was talking about myself (as if it wasn't obvious by what you quoted). It has become ludicrously easy to craft things into HQ from zero HQ mats if you keep your gear up to date; especially within end bit of Stormblood and all of Shadowbringers that i've done. If they are just making it easier to get INTO crafting, then sure, that's great; but they're not, they're doing a whole revamp that is going to affect would-be crafters and people who have spent a lot of time in crafting already.

It's not for you, I know that's hard to grasp.

Sure, but it affects me, so i'm going to toss in my two bits.

[Zfz]

Unless you're seeing something different than me it says "New content for avid crafters", with nothing said about the difficulty of said crafts. That could just mean that they've added more things, not that the things they add will be more engaging or rewarding to do.

Starting 29:15 of the Live Letter, YoshiP talks about the current situation of the crafter balance where you'd sit down (referring to the kneeling down action when you start a craft) and the item comes out HQ, making your efforts on preparing all the best crafter (and gatherer) gear all pointless. He says they want to make changes to this to make harder recipes.

[frostmagemari]

Starting 29:15 of the Live Letter, YoshiP talks about the current situation of the crafter balance where you'd sit down (referring to the kneeling down action when you start a craft) and the item comes out HQ, making your efforts on preparing all the best crafter (and gatherer) gear all pointless. He says they want to make changes to this to make harder recipes.

That's encouraging, but i'm still going to be skeptical until we actually see what they've done. There's been too many times where the dev team has wanted to do something, but it falls flat of what they wanted to do because they're only ever internally happy; as they never let people see what they do until they've gone and done it and then they spend the next three patches chasing to fix something.

[Rasikko]

I like the crafting system as it currently is, but the thing with skills...not so much. So I'm probably not gonna like this tree business, but whatever, I didn't ask for that, yall did.

You really need to understand that you’re not the only one who pays for this game.

The majority of you here haven't figured that out yet for yourselves either.

[Liam_Harper]

How easy it is to craft HQ stuff from non HQ mats? For who? The beta testers who have been maxed lvled on everything?

Very easy. You can currently craft 2 star from NQ mats, with vendor food and no tea, without paying a gil for materia, within a few days of hitting level 80. I'd be happy to share the rotation and meld set. It's never been easier than this.

That said, I'm not complaining yet. I'll wait and see for more precise details. If they're making leveling smoother and don't touch endgame (besides adding new challenges), it's something. We'll see.

[Saintly]

By 5.5 crafting will be:
Pick the item you want to craft > press 1 button > get HQ item.

I wonder what else they gonna ruin in upcoming patches by simplifying/casualising to no end.
Savage and ultimates by greatly turning down the difficulty?
PvP by removing even more skills?
Melee classes maybe?

[ForteNightshade]

While I agree with you I think alot of people will be upset about the crafting changes.

It depends. If they make the 1-50 leveling process easier. It's whatever. That entry gate is a little annoying for newbie crafters. If they make the actual rotations at max level easier or make abilities more overpowered. That's where complaints will come in hard as it kind of stomps all over the crafter end game. Maybe Ishgard Restoration will be "harder" but I'd be shocked considering they want it to be accessible for everyone. Not to mention, Yoshida likes to overhype difficulty. I'll never forget when he warned tanks about pulling too much in Xelphatol, arguably the easiest dungeon in the whole expansion at the time.

How easy it is to craft HQ stuff from non HQ mats? For who? The beta testers who have been maxed lvled on everything? This update is for newer players who dont have anything leveled to engage them into the game and hook them on a Sub. It's not for you, I know that's hard to grasp.

I can HQ every item currently in the game with zero HQ mats and no overmelds higher than grade IV with nearly 100% efficiency. It doesn't take much above that to guarantee it or you make one HQ mat like Dwarven Cotton and bam.

[IntrovertAnt]

You really need to understand that you’re not the only one who pays for this game.

Give it a rest Cookies. You say you want more challenging crafting, but when given a challenge you refuse to do it saying you want to remain "competitive with the market."

[Callinon]

I'd be very happy to see some consolidation of crafting abilities. I have four hotbars for them, currently VERY full. The worst part is that I only use a small handful of crafting actions but there are so damn many of them at this point I've basically just lost the will to try to pare them down and figure out which ones are useless. I'm just drowning in buttons, most of them useless.

As to the other thing, I don't mind necessarily being able to HQ things with NQ mats. I think that's a good reward for putting in the time to perfect your gear and melds. I don't necessarily buy that someone can do that with no overmeld above grade 4, vendor food, no syrup.. that claim seems fishy to me just because of the stats I needed in order to make that happen. But someone who has taken the time and effort to do their melds.. sure.

[Deceptus]

I can HQ every item currently in the game with zero HQ mats and no overmelds higher than grade IV with nearly 100% efficiency. It doesn't take much above that to guarantee it or you make one HQ mat like Dwarven Cotton and bam.

You shouldn't have to spend millions of gil overmelding in order to make something. That's been and insane part of the game since HW.