Thanks for removing all fun in crafting.

[Ellatrix]

The time to capitalize on the 4* equipment market has come and gone, since the people who were going to buy it at high margins already have done so, and more crafters have also emerged. There's still 5? months left for it to be useful though and I expect 2.5 to bring new stuff for a short crafting boom again.

The barrier for 4* is also crafting the items for mastercraft book. The 50 HQ turn-ins is hit a 1&2 macro 50 times.

This so much.
I hope whomever came up with the Mastercraft demimateria idea gets fired and never again on his life gets another job.

So you wish ruin upon a person when his job was to design a grind to gate people to get about one craft per week up to 4* if they didn't throw gil at it? Ok.

Honestly if their goal is to keep people from being 8/8 4* I'd rather they just link the Mastercrafts to the class that obtained them (ex: Mastercraft (Blacksmith) is obtained by desynthing as a blacksmith and can only get the BSM supra) so that you'd have to advance the same crafts as your desynth, while also making Mastercrafts unsellabe/untradable so that people had to actually go through the grind themselves.

This is part of the problem with allowing everyone to level every craft while also insisting that crafted gear inferior to raid gear without sinking absurd amounts of gil/time into getting materia to meld them.



So if everyone is buying MCDs off the board then no one would be getting them from desynth. Your logic makes no sense.

So your solution to having people not buy stuff off the market as an optional exercise is to make it absolutely required if you want to craft multiple items (see: uses for Terminus Putty)? Also one of the cornerstone points of the game is the ability to do all classes on one character, and that completely contradicts that. So no, that will never happen and it's a horrible idea.

Also logic is fine. If the price on master demi went up to a point where it would take longer to earn the gil than it would be to make a batch of specs to desynth, then I would obviously go towards the desynth route and make them myself (then sell them too!).