Discouraged Player

[BlackRoach]

I started playing when this game first came out, quit, and now started again. They have made enough improvments to the battlecraft lvling system with quests and story quests to keep anyone entertained. I have been having a lot of fun this second time around and the UI is much improved.

The only big problem that can be a game quitter is the crafing system. I'm not like most of you who like to buy there gear and skip around the full scope of the game. I take the time and lvl my battlecraft in conjuction with my crafting to be able to make my own gears, and if I cant make them, I do not use them. This puts you right in the middle of the game where I belive Enix wants you to be. I know if you buy gear, youll never see the true issue with this game which is....

There are not enough rewards for the time spent crafting, you can make gear at lvl 15 (rank 23gear), then nothing good until about lvl 26 (rank 33gear). Those 11 lvls of crafting, although they went the perfect lvling speed, there were simply not enough mid rank rewards. What I'm getting at is there needs to be more gear to craft period. To keep people "on the seat of there chairs" so to say, there should be new, better gear at every 5 rank increments give or take. You know appx. rank 5, 10 ,15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 gear at appropriate crafting rank increments. DONT THINK I MEAN TAKE AWAY THE ANYONE CAN WEAR ANY GEAR THING BECAUSE IM NOT, I REALLY LIKE THAT. Just need to have more of variety, lets face it, if you play it as you should this games about 65%crafting 35%actual battling. Since crafting is the majority of this game its should be your biggest issue to fix.

Second and quickly, get rid of that "your armorcraft is not high enough lvl" "your leatherworkers is not high enough lvl" to craft this item crap. There simply isnt enough inventory space to require your players to lvl every craft, it is impossible and just leads to headaches. As well as the issue that your going to ruin the interaction between different crafters because if everyone is required to have all crafts, why would you even bother buying anything.

Thanks for everyones time.

[Belial]

DONT THINK I MEAN TAKE AWAY THE ANYONE CAN WEAR ANY GEAR THING BECAUSE IM NOT, I REALLY LIKE THAT.

I guess you're gonna be even more disappointed with crafting once they phase out "optimal rank" gear.

There simply isnt enough inventory space to require your players to lvl every craft, it is impossible

False. Inventory management ftw. People were capable of it before extra retainers, before repair material changes, and before crafting dumb-down, so why is it impossible and why is not easier for you now?