Island Content Gated behind Expertise Crafts

[Skivvy]

It makes those clases useful. What is the issue?

I'm an omnicrafter, but I still would have preferred to have the island be 100% self-sufficient. Take out the green cowrie items if people are having issues with that crossover into the "outside" world as well.

I personally don't consume a lot of FF news, although I will typically catch a LL now and then. The slides they showed in the LL made it seem like it would be completely solo play and you could do everything on your own, without the need of DoH/Dol jobs, and I think a lot of people were looking forward to that.

Now obviously there were other interviews, such as the one posted earlier in this thread, and they did expand a bit on IS and hinted that outside help would be needed at higher levels. So as far as the advanced warning, it was there, if you saw that interview (I didn't until now).

But with all that said, this was still SE's choice in how they designed the entire thing. Island Sanctuary very easily could have been 100% solo play, no DoH/L required as the slides make it seem. Why did they need to involve the DoH/L jobs? Do we not get enough fun making bank off of people leveling jobs, raiding, glam items & new patch gear? Why did they feel the need to link this insanely casual content to crafters as well?