Specialist Compromise

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Materials were all non-specialist and only the final synth was locked behind specialist.

Every single piece of Ironworks gear took Luminous Fiber. And that WAS Specialist-Only.

To be honest. I think the specialist system is a joke. Should be able to specialise in everything. Or at least make it easier to change specialisations. Rather than require a full weeks red scripts. Just make it a thousand blue or something.

The point of the game is you can be everything. The specialist system is kinda contrary to that

The Specialist System FAILED at its stated purpose : to let people leveling only one crafting class compete with people who leveled them all. To salvage something out of their FAILURE they came up with the idea of temporarily locking most new recipes behind the Specialist stone.

The entire thing needs to be scrapped. Or, failing that, they need to remove the recipe restrictions and give the Specailists every single cross class crafting skill not conferred them by their base class. That would permit a Specialist to compete effectively with their omnicraft competitors, though not all classes would benefit equally. Omnicrafters would still benefit from being able to craft every refined material, rather than having to seek a supply.

[Aniforani]

Even with the specialist system you don't need to rely on other characters. Just swap specialist using your soul of the crafter. Right now if you're geared for 4 star there isn't anything worth spending red scrips on anyways. When 3 star recipes hit I switched to alchemist till I had a few stacks of luminous fibers then rotated till I had large supplies of ingots/leather/cloths. This patch I did the same and still have enough souls to do another full cycle though my DoHs.
Having said that, I still hate the specialist system. I think there is nothing wrong with one person being able to craft everything themselves so long as there are measures in place limiting how much can be produced. Timed gathering nodes and the items bought with seals/tomes are doing a decent job of that. As someone who spends my time crafting rather than running dungeons for tomes I've given plenty of gil to fellow adventurers. Although I gather a lot it's still not enough to feed my needs so I spend my gil on DoL mats too. Once it comes time to craft, that's my joy and I rarely buy crafted goods unless I'm in a rush to get an item to market asap.