crafting is gone

[Dirwen]

If they make crafting easy for casuals to get into I might actually try leveling a craft when the ishgard restoration stuff comes. Not interested in making gil or anything just a single craft to do content would be enough. Might choose black smithing since I wanna play with a hammer.

[NotSuzyHomemaker]

Crafting has been nothing but a bloated mess. Not to mention, not even being able to just 'pull' materials from retainers/chests without actually taking items out. It should not be required to pull 2394^112 of materials to level two classes and fill up your inventory just to make a robe. It's ridiculous. Even some of the older, craptastic games have a better system in place. So, I welcome any changes they make. It has to be better than what's in place now.

Even ESO (a game I loathe) has a WAY better crafting system. And your materials pull right from your bank.

[Avenger]

With multi stage crafts you can end up pulling 18 different base materials out of storage even if the recipe you are working on only has 6 ingredients - it would be nice if you could use them directly, though the current retainer system seems to disable selling items while you have access to a retainer’s inventory, so they would need to fix that first probably.

[Avenger]

Even ESO (a game I loathe) has a WAY better crafting system. And your materials pull right from your bank.

That would definitely be nice to have.

[FoxyAreku]

Like all of those greyed out ones are cross class abilities, and cross class is getting the axe.

Go figure.

[Missbone]

So much hate about crafting in this thread -_-

[Xlantaa]

Another thread saying XXXX is death/gone? Forums never change.

Let's be real. Craft jobs had way too much skills, and you use only like 10-15 or so. It is about time a clean in skills list. Also, I think those are just cross class skills, that they will remove (at last). So I expect a clean up of craft skills and reduce the list. There is way too much of them, mostly useless in end game crafting.

[Alestorm]

So much hate about crafting in this thread -_-

The issue for a lot of people is how skill bloated it is and how it basically requires macros in order to get HQ reliably at end game. It's well past due for an overhaul and with the cross class going away it might get people to level a crafter for the beast tribe rewards at least or at minimum make it less intimidating for newer players.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

For earlier levels, crafting remaining easy and simple is fine. Making crafting at endgame easier, though? Absolutely unacceptable, unnecessary, and makes no logical sense. It’s called “endgame” for a reason. To test what you know and have been through.

(Late Reply)

So...its not being Butchered then. Nothing bad is happening to Crafting, people just dont like its being made easier because it eliminates some self Gratification?
Ive done crafting, unless it SERIOUSLY changes in Specialization (My highest is lv 30-ish on GSM) I dont see what exactly your applying to High Level "Endgame" crafting.

[Vahlnir]

The issue for a lot of people is how skill bloated it is and how it basically requires macros in order to get HQ reliably at end game. It's well past due for an overhaul and with the cross class going away it might get people to level a crafter for the beast tribe rewards at least or at minimum make it less intimidating for newer players.

Yeah. I've always thought that crafting was just complex for the sake of being complex. Personally, I don't really like that, but I understand that others do. I'm glad that they are making all these changes though.