Quote Originally Posted by Luvbunny View Post
This is another dumb idea, in 2.0, you can level all crafts and gathering jobs to 50, even if your DoW or DoM class is not yet 50. All areas are not locked behind MSQ to progress, you can freely access them. Some people are not meant for the "activities" part of this game, but they love the crafting, let them be.... Don't force these groups to crowd the duty finder causing major stress for everyone else because they are not well prepared for the mechanics.
MSQ progression gates affect every class/job in HW, so it's a different (if related) argument. But in 2.0, they still made the quests to unlock an area's leves a DoW/DoM leve. So even if it wasn't as strictly enforced as HW, SE has always, I would argue obviously, considered crafting second to activities in ARR. A subset of players might disagree that DoW/M is prioritized over DoL/H, but that's the stance SE is taking.