Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[TechnoTechie]

the only part I hate about the Lucis grind was
all.
of.
those.
moonstones.

I was one of the people who turned in militia chokers for grand company seals to get my moonstones because I didn't feel like playing the map gamble game or waiting for ixali dailies. I did, however, get all of my Lucis tools about 3 weeks after it was released
Those were good times ...

[Katlyna]

Those moonstones.... zomg so many leather hats made and handed in!!!

[Mature]

Yep moonstones were my issue too. The amount of seals I had to get on a daily basis was mental.

Other thing I had in mind to help craft 2 star lvl60 more accessible is to , instead of weekly red scrip reset make it daily a bit like ixali tribes for ehcanti (artisan gear) and make the mb more active.

Just a thought.

[Pentt]

I dont mind red scrips honestly, the gating doesnt bother me since theres alot of people selling their tokens for gil. What kills me is favors, they are really really just not fun. I shouldnt have to hit nodes for 2 hours to craft 1 chest piece and youre not even doing anything special, just hitting nodes that have worthless materials in them ad nauseua.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I dont mind red scrips honestly, the gating doesnt bother me since theres alot of people selling their tokens for gil. What kills me is favors, they are really really just not fun. I shouldnt have to hit nodes for 2 hours to craft 1 chest piece and youre not even doing anything special, just hitting nodes that have worthless materials in them ad nauseua.

This favor thing is far worse than when we were grinding desyn for Mastercraft for Supra... Back then, we were already unhappy about relying RNG for it. Right now, not only it's RNG, but it's actually GATHERING as well... My wrist hurts from constantly clicking the nodes for hours, really...

Some of us have given up on favors, and just plain waiting until the price of favor mat drops on MB, then massively buy. What this means is, many crafters are gonna be taking "breaks" from the game, and just maxing out red scrips per week to keep up. And what that means is, many crafters are not actually playing the crafting game - maxing red scrips has very little to do with crafting... it's just macro crafting and gathering.

The game is kind of entering a recession at the moment until something is changed...

[Alahra]

And what that means is, many crafters are not actually playing the crafting game - maxing red scrips has very little to do with crafting... it's just macro crafting and gathering.

I craft less now than I ever have. I cap scrips every week (which takes maybe 30 minutes since I don't gather the mats personally), and then I occasionally put some items up on the MB (all of which are ARR things, as the margins are so much better for them on my server, even if they sell more slowly).

It's really sad. I miss crafting progression and feeling like the end result of the progression mattered. I'm not actually gaining anything by progressing now. Just gear that I can't really use to make anything I couldn't before (at least, not anything that will actually serve a real purpose).

[Mature]

I would like to share something really tiny about my situation about crafting with red scrips.

Today I'm gonna finish work in about 3 hours. I'm gonna get home turn the game on check my sales and I'm gonna carry on gathering the likes of aurum ore sun mica etc. saved them until Thursday so I can craft 2 star stuff.

I find this really depressing that I have to wait to craft. We shouldn't be waiting to craft something we should be on a roll crafting all day long.I cannot go and buy the mats from MB because the price is astronomically high or there's hardly any for sale.

THIS needs fixing. When Artisan gear came in, ehcanti stuff was a bit more flexible to get.You get some per day then off to MB to buy them.The price for them was reasonable as there was a flow on quantities to sell everyday. In red scrip case there's none. You craft, spend your tokens and basically you stuck for a week. this should not be the case.

Gathering for a week to craft for a day don't seem right

[Katlyna]

Nope it does not. Its absolute utter garbage if you ask me =-/