Crafting question after reading patch notes

[silverhope]

[2.0] New recipes have been added to the previously existing master recipe books.
If a player has already used these master recipe books, the recipes will be automatically added to the crafting log upon the release of patch 3.0.

soo do we need to lvl up a craft and get all the master books to get heavensward items? i have all crafts lvled but never bothered with the books since it was so close to the exspansion.

[Nghthawk]

I'm sure you will get recipes for the basic craft 50-60, I take that part as making starred items 3/4/5 star items

[stuscott]

It's saying that if you already bought the master crafting books from Talan, you will see some new recipes in your crafting log. If you don't have the books, you need to buy them to access the new recipes.

[Mature]

Sorry to be a pain but if I got shall we say master book 2 in goldsmith already the patch will add more automatically?

[stuscott]

Sorry to be a pain but if I got shall we say master book 2 in goldsmith already the patch will add more automatically?

Correct. /10char

[TheUltimate3]

As this is a post about crafting based off the patch notes, I have one of my own.

The specialist abilities, I keep hearing that these will all but eliminate the need to level every job to certain levels to be an effective crafter, and I see Heart of the X gives you six new skills for just that job.

Is it safe for me to believe this is now accurate?

[stuscott]

As this is a post about crafting based off the patch notes, I have one of my own.

The specialist abilities, I keep hearing that these will all but eliminate the need to level every job to certain levels to be an effective crafter, and I see Heart of the X gives you six new skills for just that job.

Is it safe for me to believe this is now accurate?

You won't be able to specialize in more than 3 jobs at this time.

[TheUltimate3]

You won't be able to specialize in more than 3 jobs at this time.

I may have not made myself clear, my apoligies.

What I was questioning was, with these six new skills that specialization gives you, you no longer have to level 4 jobs to be good with 1.

Take for example I want to be a weaver, to make anything worth while, I would need to level up cul, crp, and lwr for their cross class abilities. Is this still going to be required?

[MN_14]

I may have not made myself clear, my apoligies.

What I was questioning was, with these six new skills that specialization gives you, you no longer have to level 4 jobs to be good with 1.

Take for example I want to be a weaver, to make anything worth while, I would need to level up cul, crp, and lwr for their cross class abilities. Is this still going to be required?

Presumably, the six new specialist shared abilities (ie. Byregot's Miracle, Innovative Touch, etc) will allow you to HQ high level recipes without the use of the old cross class abilities.

[Lemuria]

The specialist abilities, I keep hearing that these will all but eliminate the need to level every job to certain levels to be an effective crafter, and I see Heart of the X gives you six new skills for just that job.

Is it safe for me to believe this is now accurate?

Eh, probably not. I say this because in order to actually get to that point you need to reach level 60. The scrip system, which helps you get better gear, is only available from level 56 which means you're going to need all level 50 crafts just to progress to the point where you can kiss cross-class goodbye.

Seems to me like the entire concept has a few flaws in its design.