How will Endwalker make crafting more of a brain dead activity like Shadowbringers?

[Shadygrove]

I'm confused... what about it was difficult in the earlier versions? ...

The difficulty was never in the crafting, the difficulty was in getting to max levels. Materia costs for the pentamelding you so despise was a significant barrier as well.

[Nabril]

The difficulty was never in the crafting, the difficulty was in getting to max levels. Materia costs for the pentamelding you so despise was a significant barrier as well.

Pentamelding isn't that expensive. It really isn't. One makes money so easily by selling low level furniture or workshop housing walls that pentamelding expenses are a joke and you know it. If you're half the crafter you're claiming to be then you know that. You know that as well as every other crafter in this game. I can earn the money to pentameld in a single day's work.

So what exactly is this barrier you speak of?

And I don't hate pentamelding. I'm just pointing out that it's not hard to do and doing it makes crafting an absolute joke as far as getting that 100% every single time.

[Jojoya]

Pentamelding isn't that expensive. It really isn't. One makes money so easily by selling low level furniture or workshop housing walls that pentamelding expenses are a joke and you know it. If you're half the crafter you're claiming to be then you know that. You know that as well as every other crafter in this game. I can earn the money to pentameld in a single day's work.

So what exactly is this barrier you speak of?

And I don't hate pentamelding. I'm just pointing out that it's not hard to do and doing it makes crafting an absolute joke as far as getting that 100% every single time.

Pentamelding isn't expensive now because extraction changes have made materia plentiful. It was very expensive in the past when it was hard to get, making it a barrier to entry for end game crafting. When you're going to need over 600 materia to pentameld a full set and the materia you need is selling for 100-500k each, it gets expensive fast.

Crafting becomes an absolute joke the moment someone figures out the solution to the math problem and shares it online with other players. Pentamelding has nothing to do with it.