Quote Originally Posted by Katlyna View Post
No I think bad development decisions are what got them here. The first of which was specialist.
While I don't like specialist only recipes and think the specialist skills were a botched concept, the problems you described earlier had more to do with how ridiculous the materials were. Don't forget that unobtainable materials predated specialist only recipes, and there was zero market for 180 crafted battle gear long before any specialist only recipes. Last I checked, there was a much healthier market for the specialist only sky pirate gear than the 180 stuff (to be fair, I haven't played in a couple months, so things could be very different now).

I was kinda hoping they were going to not do specialist recipes and just have the stat buffs be the main attraction, which would allow people to be less hardcore on overmelding gear and still be able to make stuff on a few classes. Guess not.