Quote Originally Posted by Mindy_Macready View Post
Sorry, 2.x was not as bad. Eight weeks to gear up one crafter for 3-stars in 3.x? Funny, in 2.x you'd have maxed EVERY crafting class easily by that time. Just re-read that last sentence.
You can just as "easily" max every 3.x class in far fewer than 8 weeks, you just can't do specialist recipes for them.

You're either misremembering what 2.x was, or you didn't do top level crafting back then.
  • Demimateria was a long grind between leveling desynth and making hundreds of tokens to turn in
  • Masterbook II required HQ of recipes harder than anything we have now
  • Lucis required difficult recipes locked behind a mountain GC seals

Sure you could have thrown tons of money at those to "easily" max each class, just like you can now in 3.x