Do you guys find crafting fun?

[thunderbreak]

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.

[Cherryblossoms]

I love all the DoH and DoL classes. Im 4 star on all except culinary and armorsmith. Havent needed the recipes yet so just havent taken the time to get their books.

Im in a very small fc with real life family members. Crafting helped us get a mansion we never would have been able to afford otherwise. My daughter enjoys decorating it and its pretty cool to know that everything in it was made my me

I dont sell a lot of stuff normally, but when there is something any of us want, its usually funded from my crafting.

[Cherryblossoms]

Oh and im over the moon with my pink tools! Thank you devs!

[Bubblegum01]

4 star crafter on all classes with 6 lucis. I love crafting in this game. It does depend on luck but it is more like 80% skill and 20% rng. People complain that there are too much rng but actually they just don't have the skill to adapt to a changing situation. Crafting with macros gets boring very fast, so i am quite happy with 3 star and 4 star recipes. I can even reliably hq 3 star recipes without food. The rng is really not that bad especially with lucis mainhand where 9 stacks of inner quiet is already enough for 100% hq platinum nugget with all mats nq, no food needed.

[Nashred]

I love crafting but I hate melding.. Rng plays way to big of a part in it.. Yesterday I spent the day spirtbinding so I can meld my artisan offhands. Not one stuck and wasted a whole day.. They need to find a better way to meld..

[Hayward]

Crafting up to 3-stars isn't too bad and can be fun if you're not trying to buy certain supplies at absurd prices. 3- and (especially) 4-star crafting is where I believe the devs created a monster. Crafting should be an investment, not a gamble, and the requirements to even acquire 4-star recipes runs well into the realm of gambling.

[Moqi]

I love it, and I haven't found the melding to be so bad (but on the other hand I never had to meld my ilvl55 gear because hit endgame crafting after artisan gear was introduced).

The RNG in crafting is probably the only RNG I do not mind at all. I will hit 3 star crafts very soon (just need to meld a couple more materias) and maybe my opinion will change, but so far I never got frustrated. I don't use macros and figuring out a rotation and how to adapt it based on RNG is part of the fun - it's a puzzle! I managed to craft some HQ artisan turn ins from all NQ materials and it's my proudest accomplishment so far - more than any turn of coil could give me.

The only thing I hate about crafting is how rare some of the mats are. Rare drops from maps/coil/ex primals... I hate them all.

[thunderbreak]

Yeah pretty much. I feel this game's crafting is its own entity. The time investment it needs exceeds almost the main game, that's probably why I'm having a hard time enjoying it.

[Hohoz]

Crafting is a game within the game , something you can do full time which I do now and love every bit of it ... though just now touching 2 star crafting

But they do need to work out a better method of obtaining materia to meld imo it's far to random , just watching market prices on these items is crazy.It's almost life a real life Stock Market how they keep going up and I see no crash in site ~

[Kerwin]

Ever since they introduced the RNG hell that is demimateria I have lost interest. I kind of liked 1.23' crafting system way back when.