Thread: Specialist System in 3.0

Originally Posted by Ranzan

First off the current system let you specialize if you CHOOSE to. It doesn\\'t twist your arm into doing so.

Make a 4* BSM without leveling any of the other crafters then come back and tell me that the game doesn't twist your arm to level everything to 50. DoW/DoM does this to an extent too, but at least there you only need to do two other classes and generally to level 34, tops.

Originally Posted by Gillionaire

Can you imagine how hiked up the prices will get if certain items were only crafted/desynthed via a SINGLE method?
Just think back before 2.45 when you had to desynth artisan's specs to get mcDs.. They were over a million gil each! As soon as they released artisan tools and it allowed 3 desynthing classes to obtain them, to a varying degree of effectiveness, it dropped the prices.

Other desynthers always had the option to acquire MCDs, it was merely higher risk for potentially higher reward. So no, this is completely false. They were expensive because it was/is a tedious task no one wants to do, plain and simple.

Originally Posted by Gillionaire

Competition will create a healthy market. By forcing people to specialize, that reduces the competition.. Prices will only go up from that.

If specialization draws more people into crafting by making it feasible to level 1 or 2 crafters to 50 without requiring the player to level the all of them then this would create a larger pool of specialized crafters and increase competition overall. We can cherry pick scenarios all day and we will still get no where, which is the point I was trying to make to you earlier in the thread. Wait for more details before you cry a river. It's anecdotal but a common complaint of non-crafters that want to get into crafting is that they don't want to level 8 crafting classes to 50 just to push 1 crafting class to 4*.