Quote Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd View Post
How about a different way of ranking your crafts something along the lines of quests or something. So say you would go somewhere for each level and have to fulfill certain requirements. So at R30 for example you need to crafts someone 10 of this item and 20 of another and they have to be over a certain quality to advance to the next rank. I really don't think crafting should be about a mindless grind in FFXIV, you shouldn't need to churn the same synth over and over. It should focus on being able to produce high quality goods, that should be your form of progression.

I don't know but something needs to change even in FFXI which many consider a grind it was a lot faster to get levels. I took cooking to 50 in just a few days when I really focused on it in FFXIV that wouldn't even make a dint in the SP required to get to R50.

Also when the level cap goes up I shudder to think how much SP you will need to get to 60,75,99 and so on 98-99 could well be 1 million SP.
the grind isnt as bad as some people make it out to be

HOWEVER, the final grind is pretty bad, but for reasons other then the fact its a grind

as you rank up, throughout all the levels, you can always go to the next best recipe to grind on whenever sp starts getting low
as you approach 50 you just do not have that option, so along with the sp needed going up, the sp earned goes down, something you only see in those final few ranks that you cant do anything about

i predict the sp needed to rank up to 60 will be horrendous(we already know there was a 10k jump from 50-51) but ill be looking forward to doing it no matter how bad it is just for the sake of doing it