Botanist and Miner revamp; trees and sculptures

[Ryaze]

For Copperbell Mines in particular, I was thinking more about a difference between "You take the normal, long and winding path and take three minutes or more per blocked passageway" and "Your miner blasts through shortcuts like they aren't even there, and also gets unique nodes on the way."

They did this in some of the SWtOR dungeons. If you had certain professions sufficiently leveled you could activate shortcuts or objects that would help you for a particularly difficult pull or something. I’m not sure how well it would work in ffxiv because everyone who touches DoH/DoL is an Omni-crafter and specialization is a rather minute difference. But a good idea nonetheless IMO.

Maybe FFXIV needs a more robust and limited specialist system than just “soul of the crafter”.

[Daralii]

They did this in some of the SWtOR dungeons. If you had certain professions sufficiently leveled you could activate shortcuts or objects that would help you for a particularly difficult pull or something. I’m not sure how well it would work in ffxiv because everyone who touches DoH/DoL is an Omni-crafter and specialization is a rather minute difference. But a good idea nonetheless IMO.

Maybe FFXIV needs a more robust and limited specialist system than just “soul of the crafter”.

People don't want more robust and interesting crafting and gathering; they want further simplification so that they can rush through it as quickly as possible and jump to getting gil. If SE made crafting a pure stat check, where you could instantly make any HQ item if you hit a specific Craftsmanship/Control threshold, the reception would probably be overwhelmingly positive.