Quote Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams View Post
This crafting revamp is very exciting. I’m so glad they are finally listening to hardcore and casual players and giving us all what we want. This is how it should be, rather than catering to just one audience. 5.1 will probably have me in love with FFXIV again.
I'm skeptical, but I'm mostly happy about cutting down action bloat and Ishgard housing basically being confirmed. Ishgard being another venue for crafter progression alleviates my concerns from the other side of the fence, as it'll likely be the source of Crafting progression and won't be tuned to difficult extremes.

However, moving on from there, if they then make the actual crafting recipes outside Ishgard more difficult, they have a progression road in place for all crafters through Ishgard. If newer recipes also additionally use materials provided through ishgard, it provides a meaningful route to catch up for all Crafters (Sell the end game material for gil, use gil to meld materia).

Plenty to be excited for, but I'm still in a wait-and-see boat.