Thread: Will crafting be useless in 3.5?

Realistically, there is absolutely no reason for them to add new crafted battle gear in 3.5+. Also, there is no reason for new DoH gear if glamours are all we have until 4.0. I am just hoping what they add will require the use of Control stats and rotation. Those are what separate the career crafters and the casual crafters. If not the future will be bleak.

I remember back in 2.5, a lot of crafted stuff were BIS for most jobs. Life was good back then for crafters despite the long wait for Heavensward.

We will not be getting more DoL/DoH gear, unless it is some form of upgrade to the Carbonweave set that only allows minimal melds.

Still though, crafting will still have just as much use as one wishes to make of it. The use could be housing stuff, potions, food, leveling gear, etc.

Scratch and Scrip tickets, nice.

Since the Khloe stuff was described as a scratch-off ticket, lol

I wonder what rewards the Crafter/Gatherer version of WT will be if new DoH/DoL gear (or better gear, to be specific) is unlikely. Unless I'm reading the picture wrong, rewards for turning in items include Gil, Blue and Red scrips, and a new Heart-shaped currency of sorts? Hard to tell from the image but I hope this content has good rewards besides just being a new outlet of obtaining scrips. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what that heart currency rewards us with.

The icon to the left of the gil one is likely related to the satisfaction level of one of those NPCs, kinda like reputation.

I think all Patch 3.5 will do is open up all those specialist recipes to everyone else. That's about it for crafting. And some odd furniture items or something. Patch 2.5 wasn't different either. There wasn't much to do. I think all they did then was lower the cost of synthing those materials (that ixal sealant became more abundant, allowing nearly any player that wanted crafter/gatherer equipment to obtain it).

I am sure in 2.5 they added the ilvl 110 crafted items some of which were better than the ilvl130 ones for a lot of jobs. However, ilvl 250 are already in the game. That's why I am worry.

The weapon will still sell well since you can dye them, which not many weapons can.