Is it me or is the Crafting market going to die?

[Liam_Harper]

If I may ask, what is wrong with this happening? Shouldn't the game be more accessible to others so that everyone can enjoy end-game content? Why should you be the one to dictate who gets gear and who gets to play end-game content?

Because what are you leveling towards, gearing, practicing rotations, reading guides, mastering your class or chosen activity ...if when you finally reach that endgame goal it's simply handed over to you without putting any of those skills to use? Done and over just like that. What are you working towards? There's no goal anymore, no prestige, no accomplishments to achieve, nothing. You'll never be a great crafter. There's no such thing now.

As for master recipe gear, you're completely off track if you think being unable to craft it means you cannot enjoy and play endgame content. You normally get PvE combat gear by doing PvE combat. You know, farming tomes, clearing dungeons, beating Nier, beating Eden Normal, beating Varis and Ruby EX, maybe even stepping into Savage. Now? You simply spend peanuts in gil at a MB and bam, you're endgame geared, most of that content is invalidated and you can go back to being afk. How is that great game design? Why does Master Recipe gear need to be handed out free at the expense of our crafter endgame, when DoW/M has so many sources for it?

As for 100k not including mats being "huge profits", it's sad new crafters don't realize just how badly they have it. We really don't care about gil anyway, it's not hard to make, we have plenty. It's crafting itself that we miss.

Once 5.3 hits it will be time to make money again... for like two weeks until the bot makers update their scripts and the people who focused on the story and other content first finish up and move onto crafting.

I predict the gil making window will be less than a week. Neo-Isguardian gear was below 1 mil within 3 days and crashed entirely within the week. They sold very slowly too. The materia markets barely change with patches. We'll have macros up day one for the 5.3 gear.