whats the point of crafting...

[Xel]

If the dev's truly think they have all the time in the world and no competition to their game, and therefore no reason to improve crafting...lol...

SE has been having financial issues for most of this year, and even as great as the sales have been for FFXIV so far unless they KEEP their playerbase and continue to expand things are bleak.

Right now is NOT the time to be pissing off crafters with crappy bones, and putting on band-aid dungeons with worse loot then currently available.

They need to make some major plays and make them fast or newer brighter toys comming out near christmas/2014 will rob them of the sheep sales and doom them.

[Cromstar]

scarebearz


Originally Posted by Cromstar
What is going to be the "Great Motivator" for us crafters?
So far it's gil and it's a pretty big motivator! lol

Gil is one out of 4 money Systems FFXIV currently have. The other are Grand Company Seals, Tomes of Philosophy, and Tomes of Mythology. Everybody gets gil, not only the crafters. You go and do a Leve, you get gil, you complete a quest get gil, most drops can be turned into gil.

What's so great and motivating about gil, NOTHING!!! All the Best Gear can only be obtained with Tomes. What's the Best Item A Crafter can buy with Gil? In my opinion, that would be the Double Star Multiple Melded Gear (Which btw we crafters already do), and that STILL is not the best Gear!!! So I ask again, what a Crafter can buy if he had all the gil in the World?

The FFXIV jobs are: 5 Disciples of War, 3 Disciples of Magic, 8 Disciples of the Hand, and 3 Disciples of the Land. So who gets the New Toys and the Best Gear?? Our "Blue" jobs, who gets Diminished and and Punished for the sake of Our guys in blue? Crafter/Gatherers are !!
Yoshi P and his Devs are doing a POOR job dealing with RMTs, and what's their Bright Idea? To Punish and diminish more than Half of its Jobs for the sake and enjoyment of the Disciples of War and Magic. So the OP was right when He asked: What's the point of Crafting??

Why Crafters have to be "Forced" into going to Dungeons (in order to gather Tomes for Double Star Crafting Materials)? The other choice is to buy those from DoW or DoM, who already get the best gear and get to exploit crafters for those materials, and most likely RMTs are selling those now, adding to the problem. I don't see DoW or DoM being forced to do level 50 crafting or gathering in order to experience and enjoy End of Game Content!! If DoM and Dow were forced to do Level 50 Crafting or Level 50 Gathering in order to "Become Powerful (The Great Motivator)", you will see postings 10X the size of this one. A Disciple of War or Magic can get to right to the End of Game (Best Gears and Rewards) without EVER doing any Crafting or Gathering, may need some Melds in order to get Relic (But for that a CONVENIENT service is provided) so still are not Forced to do Level 50 Crafting or Gathering. Again : What's the point of Crafting?? What will be Crafters "Great Motivator"?