Quote Originally Posted by Styrmwyda View Post
I think you missed my point, I was wondering why they changed it from providing materials in Stormblood to make you find materials again in Shadowbringers. I mainly leveled my Crafters via Tribal Quests as well as Custom Deliveries. What I am wondering is why they don't have a vendor providing the materials like they do with Custom Deliveries.
But Crystarium/Studium Deliveries are NOT Custom Deliveries! So they didn't "change"! They merely turned the class quests into role quests in ShB, and kept them that way in EW.
EW has its own Custom Delivery, which is Ameliance. So you DO have a Custom Delivery that you can buy mats from a vendor.
As for Tribal Quests, the Lorporrits are on their way in 6.3... may be not immediately next week, but probably in 6.35.

Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
There's a lot of that going on. Back in ShB they also got rid of job quests and went with this role quest nonsense. Mind you, in ShB, the role quests tied into the MSQ very nicely. Also, part of their excuse was that it wouldn't make much sense for our job "mentors" in Eorzea to be in The First to give us quest objectives. That same excuse was valid for DoH/L classes.

However, in EW, they have no such excuse. Essentially, back in SB we had 55 DoH/L class quests and about 75 DoW/M job quests. That's 130 quests. Yes, it is a lot of work on their end. However, with the addition of 2 more jobs in EW, we only saw 24 role quests and 16 DoH/L quests. That's a steep drop from 130 quests (SB) and then adding two jobs and dropping the quests to just 40.

It is only a convenient excuse. SE's adds new jobs to get people subbed and buying expansions. If that requires more work on their end, they should be doing it. Instead of this role quest nonsense.
Partially laziness (which I don't blame... 130 quests are a lot of quests), but also partially to be consistent with the way that was set in ShB. It'd feel awkward to change back to class quests in EW after grouping them into role quests ShB.