Quote Originally Posted by Espritduo View Post
The massive buff to Innovation, the removal of the 3000 Control buff cap, as well as the change to the difficulty penalty for doing higher level recipes (which is what starred recipes are) and the reduction of quality requirements across the board will likely make crafting significantly easier than before. Ingenuity wasn't removed so much as its underlying reason for existing was nerfed (lowering recipe levels) and its effects rolled into Innovation/Veneration. Just more simplifying of the crafting system, for better or worse.
I didn't notice that they lowered the difficulty on higher level recipes. Ok, so it definitely won't be that bad. Really surprised they did that, though. I wonder what kind of mechanics the Ishgard recipes will have to actually make us have to think about what we're crafting. It would have to be significant to make them difficult and more than just increasing difficulty to unreachable levels.