Cosmic Exploration is Bad

[Kohashi]

And people wonder why devs never listen and read forums.. yikes

There are plenty of guides on how to gear up, how to level crafters and which stuff to craft for minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Many of them also give you a crafting rotation macro if you don't want to discover your own. What more do you want?

Doing your weeklies alone will not only provide you with levels but also with enough purple script to consistently gear up. If you add the class quests (class quests, crystarium, studium, wachu) you get TONS of purple scripts. enough to buy tome gear of your level. It might not be BiS but it's more than enough to get you started.
While the Class quests are a bit annoying to do because they are time consuming having to farm all the mats, however, you can find every single item and that you need for each, with all of the mats required listed. You can do a massive collect and do everything in 1 go if you wish.

[Ekymus]

And people wonder why devs never listen and read forums.. yikes

There are plenty of guides on how to gear up, how to level crafters and which stuff to craft for minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Many of them also give you a crafting rotation macro if you don't want to discover your own. What more do you want?

Doing your weeklies alone will not only provide you with levels but also with enough purple script to consistently gear up. If you add the class quests (class quests, crystarium, studium, wachu) you get TONS of purple scripts. enough to buy tome gear of your level. It might not be BiS but it's more than enough to get you started.
While the Class quests are a bit annoying to do because they are time consuming having to farm all the mats, however, you can find every single item and that you need for each, with all of the mats required listed. You can do a massive collect and do everything in 1 go if you wish.

Who cares about crafters? I'm complaining about the gatherers, specifically fishing, and how terrible it is.

I shouldn't need a guide on how to fish in "casual" content. I couldn't care less about a relic tool and since my server seems to get the server-wide events done with in the first few hours of release when I'm at work, I don't care about building the base up because I'll never be able to participate in that.

And if Cosmic Exploration wasn't meant to be a leveling experience, then they shouldn't have allowed people in at level 10 and just made it level 100 only.

If you can't see that, then that's on you. Please feel free to enjoy this hardcore only content with all the other hardcore players. But don't try to tell me that this is "easy" or "casual" when it's clearly Savage for crafters/gatherers.

[Kohashi]

Who cares about crafters? I'm complaining about the gatherers, specifically fishing, and how terrible it is.

I shouldn't need a guide on how to fish in "casual" content. I couldn't care less about a relic tool and since my server seems to get the server-wide events done with in the first few hours of release when I'm at work, I don't care about building the base up because I'll never be able to participate in that.

And if Cosmic Exploration wasn't meant to be a leveling experience, then they shouldn't have allowed people in at level 10 and just made it level 100 only.

If you can't see that, then that's on you. Please feel free to enjoy this hardcore only content with all the other hardcore players. But don't try to tell me that this is "easy" or "casual" when it's clearly Savage for crafters/gatherers.

At least we agree on one thing FSH sucks..LOL. I have maxed gathers + crafters but didn't open FSH.

Why should they not allow people to level up? It might not be the best way, but it's surely a way to do it. Having more options, even if they are not optimal, is better than not having them.

I cannot say I am a dedicated crafter, but it does not feel savage. It feels more like playing a gacha game than anything. Will it proc? Will I "pull" HQ? Hocus Pocus...