Thread: Specialist System in 3.0

Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Most crafters will pick a specialization and stick with it, and not futz around with alts or multiple accounts, or anything of that nature.

Or stop crafting at all, or just stop playing.

Originally Posted by LineageRazor

For another, due to trade restrictions between alts, crafters will need to find other ways to exchange goods between their characters. There are several options, and all of them are pretty ugly in one way or another:

- You could pay for multiple accounts to Friend each other, one for each craft you want to specialize in. That costs a lot of real life money.
- You could become the leader of a Free Company to use the common-area storage. This prevents you from joining other Free Companies.
- You could join a linkshell that specializes in swapping goods between players' alts. This depends on the goodwill of the folks in that Linkshell - and to be honest, the main value of being a do-everything crafter is so that you DON'T have to depend on other people to craft, so this is a step back to square one anyway.

The second is done a lot nowadays anyway. Currently, the only reason I can think of to do it is for the extra storage space. That won't be the case anymore should specialization be forced upon us.

The first however, would not require one new account per specialized craft. It would require one additional account. You would make alts on that other account and friend your main and perhaps one or two alts on the primary account, depending upon what the actual specialization restrictions are.

This would be harder for the Ps3/Ps4 crowd. It would be child's play for the PC crowd. The only potential hassle would be leveling a combat class on each of those alt characters just so you could open up Leve locations in order to level their crafting as fast as possible.

I look forward to it and though this was needed for a long time. To many people can make to many things because it was to easy to level all crafts. Now if you specialize in Alchemy your alchemy items become way more in demand or what ever you specialize in because it gets rid of some of the competition .

It also creates demand. If a goldsmith recipe requires something from alchemy it creates demand for your alchemy items.
If it is like FFXI most basic items you can still make if leveling all. It also makes people work together.

There is a second option too:
I am guessing you might still be able to craft all things but it might just be easier on what you specialize in.

im assuming its similar to job crystals : gsm+bsm= machine specialty perhaps?

I'm sure SE is terrified of the lost subscriptions.

They surely were when 1.0 hit...

No way to friend alts. The only way to exchange items w/o aid of other players is FC chest

lol

while it does look like this system kinda geared toward XI version, these all were just speculation. Just hold yer horses. Maybe the new system would be totally different and might be fun and benefit players. XD