Remove desynth cap

[-BlueGreen-]

I'm actually in favor of both specialists and the desynth caps, as they perform the same essential function that raid lockouts and tomestone caps perform for battle classes: It creates a maximum amount of "sunk time" that you can invest into crafting/desynthing. This is the same reason that SE has gone to a decent amount of effort to make it difficult to shuffle items between characters on an account.

The failure only comes in that the results of crafting and desynth are focused around a very small number of items in a small number of classes, creating an artificial utility restriction on going against the preferred specializations or desynth classes. Rather than remove the cap, I'd rather see equally accessible MC demi desynth items for all crafting classes, as that would fix the core issue without creating a meta-environment where you're expected to have every desynth capped.

So... would you also be in favor of some limit to how many battle jobs you can have in favor of limiting the "sunk time"? What if someone prefers to sink their time into crafting and only chooses to level up one, maybe two battle jobs? Games like these survive off of subs, which usually only keep going if there's stuff for people to sink their time into. Limiting that factor for crafting kind of shoots that in the foot since people who prefer crafting now hit a wall much earlier than necessary.

I totally agree that the desynth cap should be removed. Had it not been there in the first place, I would have certainly tried it out much earlier than I did (waited a long time, about a year, to find out more about it and figure out which 3 I would finally go with), and I would certainly desynth a lot more. Silly limits like this keep me away from content, rather than inviting me to it. I have all of my crafting classes beyond 50, but still haven't started the quest to get specializations. I don't like getting into things which make it feel like I'm limiting myself.