Quote Originally Posted by Gilthas View Post
Technically? Sure. In practice? No.

So much grind has been added to gathering and crafting that it is no longer feasible for the overwhelming majority of the playerbase to gather and craft their own stuff.



Your logic is actually one of the reasons why gathering and crafting is so bad now, and your suggestions would just make it worse.

Developers catering to greedy players and only caring about keeping prices on the MB high is what's behind all the grind that was added to the system. Yet you want them to make prices higher and force more of the playerbase to gear up via the MB.

I'm all for DoH being capable of crafting BiS items, but before that can happen, gathering and crafting have to be brought back to reasonable levels, so players crafting their own gear can become a real option.
You just threw out to me the word "greedy" when there was no needed. I'm not greedy, i just pointed out how crafting is useless. Whats to be greedy about? If you craft HQ items it should have more value than NQ one, now would you please explain me why in most of the server we are at a point where people undercut each other to the bone and the NQ price sometimes is even higher than the HQ price? Because there is an INSANE flood of those items in the market, since its so easy to HQ that its pointless. Thats all i'm saying, Greedy has no part in this, i'm pointing out a flaw to the system. So pls dont deviate the focus of the topic. Are you seriously complaining about the "grind" to the system? leveling crafts is the most easy thing you can do in game, its blazing fast. What grind you talkin about?

Im saying 2 simple things here which you totally twisted and didnt understand apparently.
1) there must be a reason to craft something
2) if there are HQ items, there must be a value added to that.

What you mean by "crafting and gathering have to be brought back to reasonable levels"? im not understanding if you are complaining about leveling up craft job, because as i said thats one of the most easy thing to do in game.