Reduce cost of Soul of the Crafter

[Waeksyn]

It seems that the widely detested "Specialist" restrictions are not going away soon. SE wants to limit access to crafting jobs (unlike battle jobs).

If SE are too arrogant to admit they made a mistake, perhaps they can at least reduce the cost to change specialist jobs. Right now it takes 480 red crafter's scrips to purchase a Soul of the Crafter. That should be reduced to 100.

Actually, make that 90. That would allow purchase of 5 souls, plus the three you have equipped at the start of the week, to be able to access all 8 "Specialist" jobs each week. You would need to plan your crafting appropriately but I suspect most crafters plan their important crafting sessions anyway.

[Nekotee]

Hahahahaha good troll
Love it !


Asking to remove the specialist restriction
I almost bought it !
Nop

Restriction is in place
Choose carefully
Help other people and they will most likely help you back !

As many Crafter i do plan my craft... And also what i would trade with other
I have some silk/ingot or camphor i can exchange for leather

[Waeksyn]

Hahahahaha good troll
Love it !

Not trolling at all. Your post, however.

Eventually, the value of red scrips will be very low as the mats you can get become moot with the introduction of other gear. Might as well make them useful by lowering the cost of Souls. And yes, 90 would be perfect. Specialization otherwise is complete bullshit.

[Dahlinea]

Hahahahaha good troll
Love it !


Asking to remove the specialist restriction
I almost bought it !
Nop

Restriction is in place
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Indeed! The next step now should clear out all Soul Stones from the fighting part of the game and make us choose only 3 jobs, those being the only ones allowed to queue in raids and trials in game as well as being the only ones allowed to wear the gear obtained there. Will be so much fun! -_-

[Kabooa]

Indeed! The next step now should clear out all Soul Stones from the fighting part of the game and make us choose only 3 jobs, those being the only ones allowed to queue in raids and trials in game as well as being the only ones allowed to wear the gear obtained there. Will be so much fun! -_-

Fun fact, Savage Mode, the content by which all other combat content is judged, doesn't let you bring whatever class you want to.

So yeah. For that small sliver of content (Much like the specialist recipes), you are effectively locked out except for one, maybe two, jobs.

Don't worry, much like crafters and specialist recipes, you can bypass that with enough gil.

[iambanana]

just reduce it to 450

so i can switch one specialization everyweek

reducing it to 90 is too much actually

[PirateCat]

Agreed on 450.
The fact that everything red scrip related revolves around multiples of 50 scrips, the weekly cap is a multiple of 50, and then the crafter souls cost 480 is dumb. You either have to not cap at some point to even it out, buy 5 crafter souls, or be forever left with some extra unusable scrips dangling out there.

[Waeksyn]

It's clearly a mistake designed by those who really know nothing about crafting.

Not sure how you say "as many people" like as dislike and then say in the same sentence say that those who dislike are in the minority.

To borrow a metaphor from John Oliver, Specialization is the back mole of FFXIV crafting. At first you ignored it but it is getting larger and starting to be a concern.

[Silverbane]

It's clearly a mistake designed by those who really know nothing about crafting.

And how many MMORPG crafting systems have you designed and implemented, Mr. Expert?

All the armchair game design experts in the forums are a joke.

[Waeksyn]

And how many MMORPG crafting systems have you designed and implemented, Mr. Expert?

All the armchair game design experts in the forums are a joke.

You're right. I'm completely wrong! Specialization is the best!!

In fact, I think it should be implemented for battle classes too! You should only be allowed to equip 3 soul crystals. Don't worry though, if you want to play another job than those 3, you can always buy a new soul for 480 of whatever the highest tome is (450 weekly cap).