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.
I think this could be a great idea to rank up with quests, each level with a different item/amount/quality required to advance to the next level. This would maybe halt botters as well since you need to run around a bit more and hand in quests.

I know there will be people that feels like it should not change because THEY had to go through it and THEY think the grind isn't that bad, and I will not name anyone, but those people should put their personal interest aside for the benefit of the game.