Request for better challenges and better rewards (Formal Letter/Megathread)

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Thank you everyone for your comments and kind support!

Hello, Ashe10 from Youtube here. I really miss the crafting in Heavensward, for me personally what I most enjoyed about it was getting nicely rewarded for my hard work on the market board, nowadays when you can Macro the craftable battle gear 100% HQ with NQ mats that defeats everything I loved about it in Heavensward. It's kinda sad when the prices of gear drop so low that you are not even making any profit if you were to buy the materials. Materials should also be limited like it used to in Heavensward with Weekly capped scrip and the favor mats. I really loved doing favors it really kept the market board healthy for those who wanted to put in the effort to make Gil, and it made gatherers way more important with their weekly Scrips that they could get favor mats and sell them to crafters. It might be selfish but mounts and glamour are not gonna fix it for some of us. A crafting leaderboard isn't the way to go, personally I wouldn't care about it.
Really loving the suggestions from the Original Poster here though, thank you so much!!

Hi Ashe! It's an honor to have your here!

You seem to be one of the few people who actually enjoyed favors back in HW! That content was quite controversial. It was either big love or big hate for both crafters and gatherers! I remember it took 50 Weekly Red Scrips just to get 5 of those favors to reveal the notorious concealed nodes. Before Patch 3.07, each favor was 15 min. So that took away 75 min of our precious time just to get minuscule amounts (about 10-15) of those ooids. After Patch 3.07, favors were reduced to 5 min to get about the same amount, but we had to rush like it was the end of the world! The 5 min timer for gathering gave heart attacks to many people. LOL! While some saw it as a wonderful opportunity to make good gil (the raw mat sold really well), it was nightmare for others.

I personally don't really care much about a crafting leaderboard either, and I do enjoy good gil as reward too. But as we can see that the general direction of where the crafting game is going... the developers are trying to encourage more people to craft by lowering its difficulty and increasing supply of crafted endgame raid gear on the market. It would be a difficult task to go against their will. But if we are requesting things that do not have conflict with that, then we may have a better chance of getting our wish granted.

In this letter, I tried my best to request for things that most crafters have a consensus on (of course, ultimately, no one can get everyone to agree on something). But at least, I need the majority of crafters to agree on what I have proposed. This way, we can get more support for the letter, and hopefully get the developers' attention and consideration.

[Nezerius]

Before Patch 3.07, each favor was 15 min. So that took away 75 min of our precious time just to get minuscule amounts (about 10-15) of those ooids. After Patch 3.07, favors were reduced to 5 min to get about the same amount, but we had to rush like it was the end of the world! The 5 min timer for gathering gave heart attacks to many people. LOL!

Not sure what you mean with this. Reducing the timer to 5 minutes didn't change it to be a rush, it was always a rush to get as many nodes cleared as possible. The change simply meant rushing for 5 minutes at a time, instead of 15 minutes.