Do you guys find crafting fun?

[baopee]

I started leveling my first DOH after 2.4, I am currently working on Lucis for rest of 7 jobs but CRP, I completely stopped raiding after I picked up crafting.
Fun? Yes, Gil sinker? Hell yes. But beats waiting for hours or days even weeks for all 8 of you static to show up and raid for 2 -3 hours.

[Stihllodeing]

I find before 2 stars is alright, after hitting that meld and rng wall I feel crafting is sucking my enthusiasm out fast, and sucking my cash out faster.

I felt the exact same way. Do I find crafting fun? No, not at all. I have 6/8 crafters at 50 and can 2 star those with no food. I stopped. I used crafting to progress my wife and I's character more easily and make some gils.

I however do feel that crafting is rather well done in the game. I'm not a big fan of RNG, but we all know we only notice we hate it when it's not going our way. I try to remind myself of that all the time and it's paid well. Imo, crafting is done well enough that a player can easily-moderately achieve their goals. I'd like to see some changes like a frekin tackle box for example xD, but it's adequate.

+1 good question

[Haprimac]

Generally I like it, I can help friends by crafting as I don't really raid anymore. But when I get semi-strangers or FC people asking me to craft stuff, that's when I start stressing. Everytime someone shouts "Happy!" in the FC chat, I'm tempted to take cover and queue for something quick to get off the hook. But thankfully most of the time they just want furniture or when they want that crazy 3/4* craft, they don't have the materials quite yet and I can breath easy for another day. There's nothing more stressing than fighting RNG when you know the person asking won't accept anything less than HQ.

And then there's the matter of those mastercraft recipe book II's. Those always make my blood boil. I'm in need of anger management everytime I get it in my head to try get another craft class' book.

[Yumi_umi]

Really dumb tho how npcs won't except HQ versions for NQ.
Like HQ i better than NQ thus should be allowed to be counted too but i guess they r seperate turn ins due to the simple factor of them both being of different status.
Honestly at this point crafting is a killer if u wanna try and catch up from fresh 50 crafter as the expac is months away so all the fun of taking it slow is gone lol.
Cuz in 3.0 lucis is gonna be obsolete as new shiny stuff will be easier to get.

[JonBigwood]

I like crafting because you obtain items from the materials, you feel you have done something. You earn gil that you may need for other things (though except melds for relic and houses, big quantities of gil are not needed, most gil goes to crafting.) You also help people that need or want the items (while earning at the same time.) And eventually you make the gear for the new classes you level, for housing etc.

I don't find leveling the crafters fun, it's a grind I did because I wanted the cross-class skills and maybe use that crafters later to make items for my own use or for sale. Edit: leveling desynth is also not fun at all, but you need the demimateria and can make gil selling it too.

The effort for gear and melds is not fun for me, but grind for relic or primal mounts or Coil drops are not fun either. If you want the best gear and be able to make the best items there is usually a very big grind to get there. Supras were a huge grind some time ago, now they are much easier. You don't need the best gear and making the best items to earn enough gil for most goals. There are people who like the grinds or who value a lot the sensation of having overcome a big grind. Usually people value if the goal compensates the effort and decide.

[Flipside101]

Crafting 3+ stars will play with your emotions.... Especially the 3 star master books, and you'll spend hours on crafting, but it'll be satisfying after you're done because you know you won against RNGesus/RNG Gods. In the end its a lottery, with a very mathematical approach. If you're a number cruncher and/or a statistician you'll love it.


..... I'm neither of those and I still like it. :P

[baopee]

This is the best master book II token rotation I have found just in case someone still need it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzO43-1-EPg

I get 3 out 4 HQ once i get the rotation down, my stat was 394/ 387/ 392 with food

[Kael_Raiju]

my stat was 394/ 387/ 392 with food

Wow, those stats were much lower than mine. Nice work. I was at 446/406/392 (or 394) when I did mine.

[Sadana]

Yes... but not having to make something HQ, especially the 40 durability stuff. That makes me angsty.

[Zohar_Lahar]

What bothers me most is that outside the Ixali Beast Tribe quests, crafting doesn't really have any other content available (besides upgrading themselves and gatherers).