The grind is real

[Borland]

Not to mention that the crafting materia market in completely dry now, there are just close to none available on my server anymore...

I feel like SE had to have wanted this to happen to some degree. If they had lower requirements on stats or a wider selection of crafting gear with a higher ilvl then it would still be perfectly simple to master crafting for every crafting class which would remove the need for some of the people trying to craft to really interact with other crafters. As it is you'll kinda have to try interacting with other people to get most recipes done instead of just feeling like you can go to some one stop shop guy.

[ImDingDing]

I feel like SE had to have wanted this to happen to some degree. If they had lower requirements on stats or a wider selection of crafting gear with a higher ilvl then it would still be perfectly simple to master crafting for every crafting class which would remove the need for some of the people trying to craft to really interact with other crafters. As it is you'll kinda have to try interacting with other people to get most recipes done instead of just feeling like you can go to some one stop shop guy.

If they really want this they need to raise the grind from 50HQ to 500 or even 1k HQ turn in for the tools, in this case I may group with other top crafters in my trading/crafting LS to get the HQ 3-star out asap.