Hello! I apologize if this suggestion has been made before, but I don't normally use the official forums except to recruit for my raid static or my Free Company.

I played FFXI and I came to FFXIV during 1.0. I played on-and-off from ARR launch thru 2.4, and I've been playing non-stop since late 2014. I've always been a crafter/gatherer and my first level 50 (during ARR) was a crafter class. I've never pretended to be the greatest crafter around, but I've been doing it for years.

I've been growing increasingly unhappy with how overwrought crafting has grown in FFXIV over the years. Worse, there only seems to be a couple of workable rotations that crafters are required to learn and use for high-end recipes despite all the "options" available to them.

Every crafter has 23 Actions that are shared among all crafters. Shouldn't these be the shared actions? Take a look at how Stormblood introduced Role Actions to DoW/DoM jobs. Could crafting work that way?

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