Quote Originally Posted by Mortikhan View Post
Not sure if they meant for this to be able to happen but this would present an opening for craft bots to reemerge.

Piece by Piece (+30 Progress) 45 Armorer

By the Book (+30 Progress) 45 Goldsmith

Grand Design (+20 Progress) 30 Weaver

Tricks of the Trade (+20 Progress) 30 Alchemist

Unerring Hand (+20 Progress) 30 Woodworking

So what I am seeing is 2 crafts to 45 and 2 to 30 and you can auto-complete your way through all the rest of the crafts (including the remainder of those classes) without EVER failing or even losing a point of durability when/if you get the other crafts to a point where they can seat 4 actions...difficulty would be non-existent.
Who was failing these NQ, xp grind synths anyway?... Yes, if you level those FIVE jobs to those MED/HIGH levels, you can use those abilities to slowly grind thru the rest with no XP bonus whatsoever. You'll also use 6x the mats, which would cost "bots" 6x as much money or farming to level up. If anyone is actually dumb or rich enough to do that, so be it. What's the problem? With the XP bonus for quality you get now, there's no point whatsoever in botting or rushing synths. As far as there being "NO RISK?!?!".. before this patch you could just use HotG (ONE level 36 ability), and spam Standard and would break maybe 1/20 synths on a bad day. If there was a reduction in risk, it went from <5% to 0%. And that's only if you use this "new" (and also counterproductive) method. If anyone is breaking a lot on level up synths, they need better gear.