Enter Spamming (crafting)

[Raikki]

I have no problem with the crafting system when I'm, say, making a piece of armor I need. The problem is that the system is completely horrible for ranking up. Any solution needs to accept the fact that a lot of people are going to bot and get away with it if it gives them an advantage, and be designed to level the playing field so that legitimate players aren't screwed anymore. Otherwise, crafting can never be a major part of the economy without there being major issues of fairness.

I would personally vote for an auto-synth system with the speed of Hasty Hand, the success rate of standard spam, and maybe 20% less SP. We'll still be limited by materials, so I honestly don't think that's unreasonable. I realize lots of current crafters would look at that as trivializing that for which they worked hard. I can relate. I grinded my way to 3 rank 50 crafts before the SP buff, and about half of that was also before the shard cost reduction. Those changes made crafting a lot easier for the people who followed, but they were necessary changes. I believe this is also a necessary change. Let's face it, the alternative is that botters continue to AFK their way to 50's unchecked while we struggle with a tedious system, and there will be no hope for a legitimate fair crafting economy.

Edit: To clarify, I would want the regular craft system to remain in place and be necessary to be able to complete difficult synths or to HQ.