How many of us can be bothered with the endgame crafting

[tomtensfarfar]

I didn't find any way to add a poll, my apologies.
Used to love crafting, it was so fun and rewarding but now it's turned to s**t. I did farm the favor mats the first week cause I didn't want to be behind anyone else in terms of progression, but last week I thought a change was incoming so I thought I'd save the scrips and wait for the update.

That update was so fucking meaningless it's like they're mocking us - are they for real? Do they really expect me to spend 15 hours each week gathering red scrips and favor mats? Hell no. I have nothing to do outside of raiding anymore, and I was hoping the latest patch would fix this. So for now I just farm the boring red scrips (yes, it's tedious and boring) and hopefully they will fix this mess soon. Does anyone still bother with it? One week was enough to drive me so bored I wish I was at work - where I get paid to do mundane stuff, not paying to do it!

[LongsunZhao]

I have quit the game due to the issues with crafting. With crafting ruined. My monthly paid game has turned into something that can be completed in a day. Not paying money for the privilege of not actually paying for it. Heavensward has done more damage to the game then anything. Destroyed it.

[Katlyna]

The new end crafting is complete and utter BS. Its 95% ultra rare gathering and 5% crafting. 10+ hours of gathering for 10 minutes of crafting. It is a complete and utter failure.

[scarebearz]

Agree with the above ^^

[Ranzan]

I agree I just tried doing favors (favor items on my server are astronomical atm). Let's just say my whole off day was spent and still have more favors to do just to craft a piece! I feel like I'm gathering more than crafting. This can't be right at all!

[Lialiin]

The new end crafting is complete and utter BS. Its 95% ultra rare gathering and 5% crafting. 10+ hours of gathering for 10 minutes of crafting. It is a complete and utter failure.

100% agree.
grind with no incentive atm = no subs for me

i don't like raiding so crafting it's my only job in FF XIV

[Yumi_umi]

I finally came around to actually craft these 2* heartbreakers and i HQd both bsm tools. But yep to become a master crafter in 3.0 u have to be a master gatherer and grinder.
U gather for a few hours for red scrip cap
THEN
You use it on favors of ur choice THEN
You gather for like 1-4hrs or so to get ur favor items
THEN
You craft for ur red scrip cap THEN
trade everything for 2* materials
THEN
You craft for like 10 mins with sweaty hands cuz crafting them can get nerve wracking
THEN
Voila u either got an hq item (yay!) or an nq item ( boo )

All that gathering just to craft lmao. Also the *2 crafts require other items soooooo yup more gathering.

[Culfinrandir]

Since I started over a year ago the end game for me has been gathering, especially mining and botany. However, 3.0 has sucked all the fun out of it. Even getting Lucis was more fun than this.

When I started with collectables it seemed a nice change to how things worked; then I realised that tooltips were incorrect & caps somewhat arbitrary. I came into 3.0 with the best gear 2.55 could offer and discovered that it was overpowered until lvl57 or so then instantly underpowered on perception. The only way to get better gear without levelling all crafts beforehand is to throw ridiculous amounts of money at it or gather blue scrips. Scrips are from collectables, based on perception (rather than gathering as in 2.x), but with 2.55 BiS the perc isn't really great.

It all seems twisted & somewhat boring to me.

[FJerome]

I'm still capping red crafting scrips and at some point before 3.1 I'll make maybe a couple of the two-star crafting accessories just to say I did but I'm not seriously interested in pursuing this mess further. Gathering's even worse, I haven't even gotten one Folklore book because spending hours cycling between nodes is a bad mix of frustrating and boring; even if I'm watching something else in another tab, the new collectible system and the constant travelling between nodes is juuuuuust distracting enough that I can't really pay attention to what I'm trying to watch.

[ServerCollaps]

I cant understand why everyone likes hard endgame raiding, which consumes endless amounts of time to clear, but fears "hard" crafting/gathering content

raiders dont complain about weekly esoteric caps, so why do you?


the 2 star crafts are meant to be something very exclusive and special, like alex savage weapons and I dont know anyone who tries to attempt a3 or a4s without crafted 180 gear

it would be meaningless if everyone could craft it with zero effort in endless amounts