Ok, I'm changing my mind about the synthing changes. Gimi the simplified changes right now please. I recently got some friends in the game, and that snowballed by getting a few more friends in. Yay, I can form light parties with friends to go do things now. Oh crap I'm the only one who can make anything in the LS...

Yep these changes are going to be a godsend to LS crafters if ever you get a sudden influx of newbies. Holy crap do newbies need a lot of equipment! And they cycle thru it so fast! I spent most of the last weekend either gathering rarer materials or crafting everything in sight. And most of it doesn't even give good progress but is critically necessary to help my friends progress.

So yea, although intellectually I like the realism of the existing crafting system, in reality, drowning in newbies, gimi the simplified one post haste! Even if it's a case of SE fixing the wrong thing (the lack of parts on the market was the market's fault not the parts fault), at this point I don't care.