Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
Other than scrapping specialization entirely (which they should), I'd be ok with them forbidding the sale or trade of anything made outside of your specialization that required specialization. Huh? What?

Prior to this patch, let's say I'm not a GSM specialist. But I want to make a scintillant ingot. Let me make it. Let it be bound to my character (not sellable). And anything I make with it... bound to my character. So if I want to make a scintillant staff for my BLM but I'm not a GSM specialist, I can make it for myself. I can't trade it.

However, that's just an idea. Honestly, I keep multiple souls of the crafter handy and I just swap whenever I feel like it.
This would only encourage alts. In your scenario, I simply would have my alt Goldsmith specialist make those Scintillant Rings and sell them on her.

Honestly, you cannot combat omni-crafters because by its very definition: they are hardcore. Whatever obstacle or grind you put in their way, most will push through. This has been the devs' mistake throughout Heavensward. What you do instead is make it easier for people unwilling to level multiple jobs/characters or give them a straight advantage. You would think the RNG aspect would be for non-Specialists yet they have it reversed.