Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
I was disappointed when we didn't get Specialist recipes to begin with, so I'm glad we're getting them, though I can understand why the really dedicated omnicrafters are disappointed.
How far they go with the recipes remains to be seen, though. If I had to wager a guess, we're mostly going to see cosmetic recipes as specialist recipes. I'd be really surprised if things like gearsets, potions, and food end up being on the specialist side of things, though we probably won't know much in that regard until 3.2, when we get a new crafting tier.
I don't really mind specialist recipes if they're limited to cosmetic recipes and other items that don't affect my ability to craft gear sets. However, I'm not convinced that this is going to please single class crafters/specialists in the long run.

It seems to me that it boils down to single class crafters wanting to have an advantage over a dedicated crafter, while putting in only a fraction of the effort. There are complaints over things as simple as acquiring the 3rd master recipe book or capping red scrips each week. The thing is, crafting isn't cheap for any player, so aside from working on your crafting classes, you have to raise the funds to finance progression. That's the second half of the crafting scene that's ignored by many crafters, who only seem interested in selling big ticket items.

This obviously isn't true of all crafters, but I've noticed that many do not run their own regular business to fund their crafting. When HW was first released, intermediate products were prohibitively expensive for new crafters so the argument was valid, but this has now been completely solved through map drops. Yet, these complaints still exist to this day.

Back in ARR, as a single class crafter initially, I bought all of my intermediate products and raw materials in order to craft and put items up to raise gil. If I didn't have enough startup gil, I could farm shards for a bit and sell those first. I then simply calculated the cost of the items and marked them up accordingly. In HW, the margins on final products have typically been much better than the items that I dealt with in 2.3, so raising the required gil for materials/intermediate products shouldn't be a problem.

I guess the bottom line is that I really don't understand the argument of how a single class crafter cannot effectively complete with an omni-crafter. Sure, their profits might be smaller, but margins are now larger than before. If I could still succeed in the market with a single class back when margins were smaller, there really shouldn't be a major problem now.