One of the things that has bothered with XIV having a greater emphasis on crafting is the rank required for certain recipes relative to the rank of the class that can use those recipes..

What do I mean by that? I'll give an example. A lot of people have a particular DoW they may want to focus on. I want to focus on MRD for example and I want to make a lot of my own gear for that job as it increases in rank. So I also focus on DoH like ARM and BSM. So as I'm ranking up my MRD I start looking at what gear I need to upgrade. I want to upgrade my armor to Bronze Scale Mail let's say. So I check and see what I need to do that, bunch of materials, shards, etc......WAIT...ARMORER LEVEL 30? Someone explain to me why that makes sense (this particular piece of equipment is not unique in this sense, btw). Why is the DoH rank I need to make something almost always higher than the optimal lvl of the DoW class that is going to use that item? I have to be a lvl 30 ARM before I can make a piece of armor to use on my lvl 20 MRD?

This perplexes me for lot's of reasons. If this relationship is intentional, it means SE wants us to focus MORE on DoH than DoW. I will have to put in more time as an ARM to make the thing for my MRD than I will actually getting to play MRD. But maybe that's not SE's intent. Maybe they don't want that lvl of self sufficiency. That is, maybe they don't want people to isolate themselves in the community to the extent that you can easily make your own gear for the DoW jobs of your choosing. The problem with that is then, that practically speaking the only reason anyone should get into DoH is for selling what you make for gil. It's not practical to make equipment for yourself since your DoH jobs have to be so much higher than your DoW jobs to do that.

Long story short SE it would be great if you would look into scaling back the DoH rank required to make certain items. In my opinion, to make armor for a lvl 20 or so MRD I shouldn't need more than say a lvl 21-22 DoH rank to do that. Maybe there is a good reason for this disparity and would love to hear it, but right now it frustrates me that I have to spend so much time ranking up DoH jobs just so I can make and finally get to use them on the DoW jobs I really want to spend my time on.