So that's disappointing...

[Sotek]

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...751aaa942cb4fd

New Crafting Facilities
Players will have access to crafting facilities in their estates. With eight types in total, these facilities can be used by crafters level 40 or below to increase their CP for a fixed period of time.

So... It's something for people who'll reach Lv50 in a day or two through Levequests? yay...

At least we're getting new tools, I guess... Odd that we're getting new main hand tools, rather than getting a off hand "relic" for crafting.

New Crafting Tools
After completing the quest "Just Tooling Around," players can speak with Talan in Revenant's Toll (X:22, Y:6) to receive a new main hand tool in exchange for goods crafted or materials gathered.

[Reishi]

It increases CP, not Exp. Personally I got no problem with my amount of CP, so no use for that. You can always leve yourself to 50 in one day if you got the tine and money, nothing to do with those news.

[UlricCraft]

I'm not bothered by the new CP facility, it doesn't give me the impression it's easily accessible, much like having a Free Company buff.
Join a free company, convince them to put Chocbo Rates on.
Something like that, unless I'm completely missing the mark!

As for the main hand tool... I'm quite upset about that really.
8 DoH classes.
8 Main hands.
Each took some form of gil investment to obtain (Materia melding) and now they're being replaced by some kind of Grand Company exchange system?
Here's some materia, give me new MH tool.

Bummer.

[Sotek]

For something that's not easily accessible, it's pretty damn worthless though. Sad thing is, this was in 1.0; the crafting Guilds offered a similar service. That would be much better than "Hey FC, can we waste materials and space on our house to have this thing that'll be worthless once I'm Lv.41? Which will be in about five hours.". I seriously do not see the purpose in this, it's pretty useless in every sense. Would have been nicer to have a boost to Control/Craftmanship, then at least you can have Lv.50 crafters making something to ease newer crafters into the star recipes without materia...

Granted, I only have one Disciple of the Hand left to level, so maybe I'm struggling to look at this objectively, but yeah... I can't see the point in this, it's a complete waste of developers resources, and when its in game it'll be a complete waste of a Free Companies resources... Hopefully it'll be like the Manor Fireplace and we'll get a Deluxe version as well, but I think they'd have mentioned that as well... /sigh

[Theonekitten]

SE seems so out of touch with what we players need and continue to put out stuff they THINK we need....it's really disappointing. I'm sure some people will like this, but the majority have no use for it. Endgame crafting is where the focus is needed, not pre-41.

[Feilina]

Now I'm willing to give them a grace period, I'll take a closer look at these changes when it comes online.

I indeed expected nothing but craftable iLvl90 gear and some kind of fluff. Which would have been obsolet after around 2-5 weeks. Some of them even after hours.

Let's us look forward to and then react accordingly.

[Sotek]

SE seems so out of touch with what we players need and continue to put out stuff they THINK we need....it's really disappointing. I'm sure some people will like this, but the majority have no use for it. Endgame crafting is where the focus is needed, not pre-41.

I'm guessing this is the Crafting equivalent of Crystal Tower; "It looks nice in your House though !". Guess that's the reason they lumped this with Fishing and new vanity gear...

[TheUltimate3]

Devil's Advocate.

Assume one doesn't have the money to to grind to 50 in a single day. How does this effect people like them?

[UlricCraft]

Purely from an aesthetic side, I cannot wait to have a crafting system implemented into our FC house!
The practicality is yet to be seen, but come on...

Group crafting in your house?
Adorable little apothecary posters and crafting benches?
Diagrams of the interior workings of the Chocobo?

Cannot wait.

Activities in the house currently are very limited, and I have only ever been once to see what it was like. Since then I've had no desire to check again. With gardening and crafting bonuses, I can really see the appeal in socialising with a group and utilising our hut!

Just think... This is the first step into mega-crafts
Eventually... We'll have a dock... And Armourer Piece by Piece skill will be useful!

[Sotek]

Devil's Advocate.

Assume one doesn't have the money to to grind to 50 in a single day. How does this effect people like them?

Grinding to 50 through Levequests generally makes you money. The only way it wouldn't is if you're buying all the items instead of making them yourself, in which case a CP bonuses isn't going to help anyway...