Cosmic Exploration Opinions

[Supersnow845]

It's not about liking. Like everything else it always comes down to how you play. Are you casual about it or are you hardcore.

Me, I'm a casual crafter and gatherer. I enjoy leveling them. I enjoy using my crafter to make money. I enjoy using my gatherers to get mats for my crafter. I've never in my life done an expert craft. But I have the newest crafting and gathering gear. That's how I enjoy crafting and gathering.

Apparently, Cosmic Exploration is not designed for people like me. So far, I've only been working on my Botanist. I don't have a ton of time to devote to this. At first I was like "wow this is fun!" Then I got to the A rank missions. Not ALL of them are terrible. There are some I can get gold on. But there are a lot more I can't even get silver on or can't even complete at all. Right now if I get bronze I earn around 5 or 6 points toward Cosmic Research. I'm progressing at a snail's pace. No, I'm not pentamelded. I'm not at max efficiency. I have trouble remembering how collectibles work when I haven't done one for a while. I'm just a casual crafter/gatherer. I just wanted to participate and have fun and not be frustrated all the time or have to spend 5 years to get a relic.

As a casual player of FFXIV, I'm beyond disappointed.

That’s literally part of what you quoted on my post. The A ranks have hard walls on competency and breakpoints. I’m not necessarily saying that’s a good thing. Just that it exists and it’s causing frustration for people. If you want to consistently do A ranks you NEED pentamelded gear and likely food. And you need to know what you are doing with the job, that’s just how A ranks work specifically, but A ranks aren’t the be all and end all of cosmic

One thing to note is that starting with a gatherer relic is a really bad idea, they naturally level slower than the crafters and completing relics increases the experience you gain from other relics, if you made 5 crafter relics as an example (I know it’s a lot I’m just using it as an example) then all your gatherers would get 4 times the experience they currently get. So B ranks give totally viable amounts of experience. The only time you HAVE to do A ranks is for rank 4 experience which only comes from A ranks but gatherers have special cross fates with crafters that have low requirements in both and give lots of XP

your method of enjoying crafters and gatherers is totally valid, it just doesn’t jive with A ranks specifically, but cosmic is designed so you don’t need to do A ranks if you don’t want