Not so Specialization?

[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.