Getting Gold in all Cosmic Missions is really not fair or fun at all.

[HappyTrees]

I gave Cosmo Exploration another chance when patch 7.3 came out – but honestly, it just annoyed me even more. All these idiotic restrictions, like no mounts, having to run everywhere, and the tight time limits… it’s just plain frustrating. I ended up quitting – my miner, botanist, and leatherworker are all still only level 4 (see my post: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...08#post6732508).

The main problem for me is that leveling up my gatherers and crafters just drags on forever and is really tedious. The B-level recipes barely give any progress points, special assignments with machines give nothing towards leveling, and I spend hours doing the same boring crafting over and over again. That’s just not fun anymore.

I’ve decided to stop doing Cosmo Exploration. For me, it’s just boreout: I’m grinding through leveling up and meeting the requirements for the next Cosmo tools, and I constantly feel overwhelmed—even with fully pentamelded gear for all my gatherers and crafters. Have you ever considered how expensive this is for us, Square Enix?

Modern gear with normal materia should be enough for Cosmo Exploration—with macros! These recipes are clearly designed for mass production in this content. Having to do all of them manually for hours is just stressful. I want to do this comfortably with macros, which I always set up and run for each recipe anyway. That’s what crafting means to me!

For the next planet, I hope EVERYTHING will be totally different!

Patch 7.3 lets you use mounts, increased the time limit for most stellar missions, gives you back all the GP that you used, and even resets your Cordial cooldowns. Outside of going from one area to the next, there's almost no downtime compared to 7.2.

As for crafting, a lot of A rank missions can already be used with macros, and they don't even need full pentamelded 720 gear. There are a few that can't, but that's the point of them. It's like Ishgard restoration; the expert crafts gave more points to reward the people who did them manually.

[hydralus]

Patch 7.3 lets you use mounts, increased the time limit for most stellar missions, gives you back all the GP that you used, and even resets your Cordial cooldowns. Outside of going from one area to the next, there's almost no downtime compared to 7.2.

As for crafting, a lot of A rank missions can already be used with macros, and they don't even need full pentamelded 720 gear. There are a few that can't, but that's the point of them. It's like Ishgard restoration; the expert crafts gave more points to reward the people who did them manually.

Yeah unlike what OP is implying, the vast majority of stuff is easily macroable in 720 gear. There's a reason the mount is so cheap, and it's because Cosmic Exploration is easy. Yes, I consider a roughly ~50% chance to get a gold star rating with even the most difficult of crafts (higher if you bother using specialist actions) as easy. That means on average you can spend 10 minutes and get gold for the achieve. Certainly a sight easier than getting the bunny blessed title.