crafting is gone

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

ingenuity is op now, it gives a massive boost to you, the element combo skill is a better version of the original piece by piece.

How exactly is the Element combo better than the old Piece by Piece?

[VenKitsune]

I feel like crafting is mildly more challenging now before 78...And then you get Delicate Synthesis...and then it becomes easy, easier than ever.

SE wanted to make it more approachable for new players, right?

...lol

[CookiesNCreams]

I feel like crafting is mildly more challenging now before 78...And then you get Delicate Synthesis...and then it becomes easy, easier than ever.

SE wanted to make it more approachable for new players, right?

...lol

Yeah, I think they need to understand there’s a difference between making things accessible, and just completely nerfing any sort of risk/difficulty into the ground endgame.

[RyuSaarva]

How exactly is the Element combo better than the old Piece by Piece?

it's not 1/3 of the total now always, the progress drop is much smaller now, you can only use the element combo and then finish the craft with 1 other skill.

[Tlamila]

Everybody complains of how easier it has become to HQ (and maybe at endgame it's true), but as someone who only recently returned to the game and has to finish levelling crafts I'm pissed at how they removed all the cross-class skills, now making them high-ish level skills. It makes it so much harder and frustrating, since I can't even imagine trying to HQ on levels where you now have 0 of those skills.
I guess nobody cares because now levelling is so fast that people level without even actually crafting, but for me it's a very negative change.

[Nabril]

I'm surprised at all the negativity. Crafting is not like raiding. It shouldn't be considered raiding. It's a profession, not combat. Crafting in this game has never required skill and we didn't need all those buttons. People are mad that "just anyone can do it". Well yeah. It's an MMO. It's multi-player. Want to make it super complex? Make each craft a complex algebraic algorithm that changes with every craft. THEN we'll cut out most crafters (including many of the people that are complaining that it's too easy now).

Crafting was never difficult. For me, it's just as easy as it has always been.

[Theodric]

My only real concern with crafting at the moment is the lack of armoury space.

[Glenfiddich]

To me, Crafting still is like a book written in Hieroglyphics. Especially HQ Crafting. SE couldn't change my mind with this Patch. I don't like Crafting at all. And I guess I'm not alone.
So, don't worry, there are still a lot of Buyers out there.

[DynnDiablos]

As someone who has only been crafting for a couple of months, the streamlining is welcome. Crafting shouldn't be some complex activity. I don't understand why people want to make it so hard? You afraid other crafters will now come in and threatened your stockpiles of gil. Some of you have so much gil you'd never use it all but can't stand the thought of more crafters moving up through the ranks and taking a piece of the pie.

[DumdogsWorld]

I don't understand why people want to make it so hard?

Because when it's easy enough that everybody is just casually doing it, there is no point to doing it anymore. When everybody is a crafter, nobody is a crafter. While we're at it, let's nerf all combat content that is somehow perceived as hard! Even when it isn't actually hard.

No thanks. Square Enix made it overtly clear that they're trying to kill crafting in this game, so I'll just find something else to do in the game. Something other than crafting.