whats the point of crafting...

[Hysterior]

Reason to level crafting now:
1/ To get everything to 50 for perfect game purpose
2/ To be self efficient
3/ Because you enjoy it (so far i do)
4/ To be actively working on housing and in the future building the airship
5/ Some crafting AF looks super sexy

[AnimaAnimus]

I gave up crafting and so did my roomie who is 50s across the board in crafts. You make more gil by selling your mats anyway and why waste the time and money leveling and gearing a crafter job that's useless anyway.

The actual crafting I find fun and my roomie absolutely loved but the lack of need, well, why bother? If you do want a crafted item, wait a couple days until everyone has undercut everyone else to the point that million gil piece of gear is selling for 50k. Doesn't take that long

[Uveck]

So Yoshi, if I started this game in 1.0 should I unsubscribe since I can't craft ilvl 90 gear? Because I don't want to play a game where the best crafting item is 20 item levels below dungeon drops. Why can't I just make my own un-tradable ilvl 90 gear with unique items from dungeons? Anyway, it seems like this will always be the case so perhaps I should quit now seeing as I wasted all my time getting all my crafts to 50 in 1.0.

You mentioned that FFXIV is adding a way to custom tailor dungeon drops in the future. Will this take any skill or will it be as simple as point and click?

[Feilina]

The HQ thing...
I would gladly be ok when I've used NQ mats and in the end will get a 50-95% (adjustable) to get a HQ. In germany we have a saying. It's roughly translated like: "There has no grandmaster fallen from the sky"
Sh*t happens, we all know it. Why on earth do we always have to have success? Sure I can plan ahead, real craftsmen do so too, but sh*t does happen.

I miss times in LotrO crafting (comperable with WoW) with a 30% chance.(? was it even that high?). It was easy to get mats for those crafts that's why I gladly accepted this percentage.

[Ooshima]

Well it goes boring to keep running dungeons and coil, so crafting can be an escape from dungeon too.

Crafting can be fun, I like to be self sufficient and also, I feel great being a "FC Crafter". It's like you're the armory for your FC, it gives me joy in outfitting them with crafted i70 HQ and prepare them for Coil and stuff

[Ranzan]

The more and more I read this thread the depressing it seems to have all crafts lvled. Well until I check my retainer. Lol

[Xel]

Le craft, no specialneez.

[Feilina]

Give us a NM and let us break his horn, breast plate or anything else. (I can't understand why they killed this cool mechanic) The lucky player can use the won BoA Item and carry it to a crafter who builds an item (ILvl 80-90) out of it for every class using the mostly not used repair window to trigger a synthesis. The HQ possibility is max 80%, of course it can be materia melded. Weapons will directly drop, i could live with that compromiss.

If the player isn't interested in the item he won he can trade it in at a NPC.

Claim wars? Maybe, but drop rate and respawn have to be fair thought about. Think, less people are crying about Odin bu a good chunk does about mytho stones.

[SchalaZeal]

Give us a NM and let us break his horn, breast plate or anything else. (I can't understand why they killed this cool mechanic) The lucky player can use the won BoA Item and carry it to a crafter who builds an item (ILvl 80-90) out of it for every class using the mostly not used repair window to trigger a synthesis. The HQ possibility is max 80%, of course it can be materia melded. Weapons will directly drop, i could live with that compromiss.

If the player isn't interested in the item he won he can trade it in at a NPC.

Claim wars? Maybe, but drop rate and respawn have to be fair thought about. Think, less people are crying about Odin bu a good chunk does about mytho stones.

Only good if they're item-pop NMs. otherwise no. This would make RMT worse, much worse.

[Xel]

As the number of 50 everything, full stat every suit increases....

The feeling of utter uselessness and desperate price wars/meld advertisements grows stronger.

Bored players will likely move to other games, I know development takes time...srsly though, we need some meat here not just bones.