If crafting was still inaccessible and difficult like Heavensward Patches, you’d quit

[Driavna]

Crafting was inaccessible?

Inaccessible is a strong word but during HW we had to deal with:

- Specialization was a thing, you could only had access to all recipes if you level multiple characters.

- Capped red scrips needed for important recipes.

- Basic materials, like leather, got a jump in the number needed to produce 1. At that time any material coming from a monster was harder to obtain.

- Desyn was way harder to level and the amount of points you could spread around were also limited.

- RNG materials like titanium ore.

- Basic recipes to level up required materials from timed nodes.

- Way less XP sources.

- First ILvL170 set was class specific, fun times getting all and melding all if you wanted to be an omnicrafter.

- A very obnoxious system to obtain certain materials I don't even remember now.

Probably more stuff I just forgot. Anyway, back then YoshiP mentioned not being happy with current crafting/gathering participation and since then has slowly become more and more accesible till today situation.