Quote Originally Posted by Daniolaut View Post
The only thing I would like to see is expert recipes outside of Ishgard restoration.
Agreed, or at least a form of Experts with a little less rng (since losing expensive mats to failing 7 Centered in a row would suck)

Most of the positive points you're talking about are regarding Experts, which are rather insignificant outside of a few titles and a mount. You don't require crafting food, syrup or rotations outside of that. I can make Neo-Ishgard with no consumables on one button and all a new crafter needs to do is Ishgard spam to 80, buy a dirt cheap full Aesthete set on the mb's from the numerous bots, plug in materia and copy-paste an all purpose macro. "Master" Recipe's are dead and worthless and leveling is just a small bump in your path to churning out cheap items on a macro.

Rotations are quite bland now with very little room to innovate. Either a Reflect or Muscle Memory opener into Manip, Veneration -> Waste Not -> Groundworks -> Preparatory(s) -> Patient touches/innos to IQ 11 -> Brygots Finish. Pretty much every Master Recipe rotation is going to be a variant of the above, where in the past we were still theorycrafting and discovering new rotations a month into a patch. I already have my 4 star crafted set macro ready, 1-100%, even for the highest estimates.

I'm actually quite disappointed with the craft relics so far. Essentially each step is: macro craft x items with yellow scrip mats -> macro craft moar items with yellow scrip mats -> macro craft even moar of the same -> macro craft even MOAR again of the same. Weak story, no variation, just an hour or two chore to get a welfare purple.