Just returned to the game. Crafting and gathering questions!

[LunaFaye]

While I agree with most of the replies, let me add something to that. In ARR crafting/gathering was a thing, in fact it was such huge trend that everybody tried leveling it, but only a handful probably made it all the way to even "endgame" gearing. Not sure what else to call that lol.

Then HW came around and to be quite honest, while still a lot of people tried to level these classes as quick as possible, myself included, after SE than added the specialization lots of people got turned off by it, or ended up leveling alts so you didn't have to rely on the extreme pricing via market boards. Then SE dropped the specialization again and made lots of recipes available to people that didn't have anything specialized.

Diadem was added, made things just worse, than that got dropped and now it's being redone, not to mention the blue/red scrips yada yada. I think my point is, HW's crafting system is so much of a hassle and not even necessary anymore, or at least not as it used to be in ARR.

However I would recommend, since SE added more exp to the Ixal beast dailies (1-50), as well as moogle dailies (50-60), as well as the leve quests and turn ins, that you should grab a couple of professions. I would go so far by saying if not even all, you can level gathering and crafting quite quickly compared to the old times.

And the reason I suggest that is, we do not know what the expansion brings. Maybe crafting/gathering becomes a thing again just like ARR was, maybe only the first 2 weeks will be great and a quick money maker (same as HW hit), maybe it's just a waste of time, nobody actually knows, but you would hate yourself if the new expansion would make crafting/gathering mandatory and you than would have to speed level that. But that's just my 2cent.