Not so Specialization?

[Hanayumi]

Uhhh so.... why don't they just get rid of specialization altogether now that they're just going to pull this out of their ass?

[3.0] The following items can now be crafted without a specialization:

Sky Pirate's Helm of Fending / Sky Pirate's Coat of Fending... (lots of stuff...) Titanium Alloy Square / Dispelling Arrow / Blessed Fletchings / Kingcake / Moogle Miniature

At this point dont see a reason for specialization to be anything if those crafts end up being non specialization at some point anyway... >.<

[Eul]

I bet some of the new craft is an exchange like orchestrion sheet and new furniture.

But I really glad those past specialist craft not specialist anymore.

[Cedri]

Up until this point, only battle content rewards were gated. As we know this was done to slow the progress in obtaining of certain items. This change is no different.

[Shikiseki]

You can bet your ash that the Orchestrion and the Crystal bell will be Specialist only... it's the Unending Journey all over again.
They probably ease up the specialist requirement once content is "old"

[Airget]

By that logic why should we have a weekly tome system if those items are just going to be part of "unlimited" tomes after two version updates.

Think of it like this. Specialization recipes are just like weekly tomes, you can't gear everything with weekly tomes in the same way you can't craft everything because of specialization. But after two patches go by the "special" recipes get downgraded for new recipes to replace those in the same way the weekly tomes become the new unlimited being replaced by a new weekly tome.

[Cedri]

By that logic why should we have a weekly tome system if those items are just going to be part of "unlimited" tomes after two version updates.

Think of it like this. Specialization recipes are just like weekly tomes, you can't gear everything with weekly tomes in the same way you can't craft everything because of specialization. But after two patches go by the "special" recipes get downgraded for new recipes to replace those in the same way the weekly tomes become the new unlimited being replaced by a new weekly tome.

What I said reiterated. kinda obvious

[papichulo123]

so specialization was just another lockout ugh sick of those the weekly ones suck to everything should be monthly like our sub

[Nalien]

They make no mention of new recipes being Specialist ones, do they?

I hope they've done what I've been saying all along, considering they have given Specialists a bonus to Craftsmanship and Control. Rather than Specialist recipes, we have the same Craftsmanship/Control requirements lockout out people from making stuff, with Specialists obviously getting an advantage to make that stuff right away.

I'd find that much more organic that a straight up lockout... Omnicrafting would still be a thing, but it would technically be harder? Lets say you'd need a fully melded set of the AF2 in order to reach the new requirements without the Specialist bonus, that's a fairly big pain, not to mention Gil sink. Specialists get an obvious advantage, while Omnicrafting isn't removed from the game, it just takes more effort to achieve, and at the end of the day Specialists are still at an advantage.

[jomoru]

There are new books. Bets on them costing Red scrip?

[Jynx]

Now because of complainers I'm willing to bet the new books will be the "Specialist" recipes using timed tokens to obtain.