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[SendohJin]

but if everyone were to ask their crafter friend what would its purpose serve exactly?

the purpose is to make this one game, not 3 different ones. DoW and DoH and DoL are all part of the same game. don't ask your "crafter friend", ask your raid Healer to do it because your Healer also crafts.

Why not just have the ability to turn it into a NPC with the other item?

that's what the last step is.

but instead of improving how it's obtained, they introduce further RNG and needlessly shove crafters into it? That doesn't seem like a solution for either side to me.

there could be less RNG this way.

I'm sure the majority of crafters wouldn't appreciate it if they had to run Alexander Savage to obtain their AF2 gear.

they don't have to run Savage if they don't want to, they can buy the mat from someone who does. you keep saying how they hoard gil, this is how people who like to raid can get gil back from people who don't raid and spend more of their time crafting.

the point is for people like you to stop talking about it as if Crafters can't do Raids and Raiders can't craft. both of those things are obviously not true and obviously not how this game is designed.

and Raiders don't need to do FATEs, and Raiders don't do Treasure Maps, and Raiders don't do Hunts. the suggestion is to get more people to do more things, so that less people complain about no content.

It also doesn't lead to frustration over running content you don't want to do.

that's what gil should be for.