whats the point of crafting...

[WhiteGarden]

Gonna say, my enjoyment of FF14 went down after 2.1. Before there was an interesting crafting system that's fairly unique, compared to what's available in most other MMOs, to go along with the combat system.

Now it's basically just another tab target MMO with very little else. Been there, done that. Repeatedly. My friends aren't hugely into crafting though, so if we're still around for 2.2 maybe I'll get to see something interesting again.

This is so true. The crafting system in FFXIV is very unique and has a lot going for it. It could be built up to be a major focus of the game. Instead its increasingly becoming irrelevant. Earlier in this thread there is a post from Yoshi that said Furniture would reinvigorate crafting!!! I thought that was funny because people will only buy furniture if they can buy houses -- and as we all know, that is not happening. Even if it was, I don't want DoH to be furniture focused. I want to make cool gear!!

[Kiyan]

sorry for necroposting still new to the forums
why not implement a system that makes crafters more important...intertwine both dungeon and crafting systems...for example u get unique material drops that cannot be traded if u beat say T5 or a Primal EX which would only drop if u had a certain lvl 50 DoH which in turn can be used to make unique weapons by using 2 or 3 unique materials and at the same time preserves the unique rarity of such weapons and still gives importance to the dungeons/raids/trials and boosts the need for a DoH to make unique and perhaps better weapons
i know that relic weapons has a similar theme but there is only the need for the crafter to meld the materia...and that's all, but by adding such a feature ..people will have a variety of weapons with different statues the best suits their playstyle..

i hope someone reads this and sorry again for necroposting

[NJA]

why not implement a system that makes crafters more important...intertwine both dungeon and crafting systems...for example u get unique material drops that cannot be traded if u beat say T5 or a Primal EX which would only drop if u had a certain lvl 50 DoH which in turn can be used to make unique weapons by using 2 or 3 unique materials and at the same time preserves the unique rarity of such weapons and still gives importance to the dungeons/raids/trials and boosts the need for a DoH to make unique and perhaps better weapons

The idea of having a high level DoH (or DoL) cross-class skill which causes rare mats to drop in dungeons is actually pretty cool - set it on your DoW and look out for unusual dungeon features to use it on. This would be a nice application of the 'everything on one character' concept.