Quote Originally Posted by Nova_Dresden View Post
It's their mechanism to make specialist crafting work after all the complaints about it. It's also a way to more or less force players to diversify their crafting instead of everyone specializing in the same 3 crafts the same way that the zeta quest items required different desynth mats forcing a diversification of desynthing skills.
All I've ever seen on the crafter forums are people complaining that specialist skills are useless, not that they want more specialist crafts. All this is really doing is encouraging high prices by reducing the number of people that can undercut to bring prices down to reasonable levels.