Thread: Regarding Crafting Changes in 2.0

They won't make crafting "as accessible as possible" because as they showed in XI and even still in XIV now, they prefer to pander to the minority who want to make crafting into a niche activity from which they can make huge amounts of cash. This is only possible if the crafting system is so player-hostile that only a small number can stomach it.

XIV at launch was the culmination of this idea, all that the 'new team' have done is eliminate some of the gross excesses Tanaka's regime put in place .. eg. level 10 synths needing level 20 parts .. but it remains a mind-numbingly tedious and drawn-out affair. almost completely devoid of player skill and input, and entirely driven by the RNG to determine the outcome.

RNG-based crafting is crass and soul-destroying when you know there's NOTHING you can do to affect the outcome .. I don't count the skills you can use, in the great course of things they seem to make precious little difference to the RNG .. but SE love it.

This thread deeply saddens me. I was really hoping that the current crafting system (along with parley) would be trashed, burned, nuked, and completely redone. I dont think at this point any amount of tweaking can fix the horror of these two mini games. Might as well just rename the system to Hasty Hand, make that the only option, and be done with it. At least then there would be no decieving the player into thinking theres actually some skill involved.

Maybe they will get rid of the redundancy of selecting an ability like Maker's Muse and then select Standard synthsis. Using that ability as an example, here is what I mean...

Currently, the way it works is: Maker's Muse lasts for (up to) 3 attempts. Use Maker's Muse, Use Standard Synthesis, receive Synthesis Progress.

Maybe the idea is (or should be): Maker's Muse can be used three times per synthesis. Use Maker's Muse, receive Synthesis Progress, Rinse-Repeat.

Basically just taking out a step by adding the progress action into the synthesis. This is like saying "I want to synthesize using Maker's Muse." instead of saying "I want to use Maker's Muse. Now I want to synthesize, using Maker's Muse."

If they allowed players to use Maker's Muse three times at any time during a synth, combining that with other abilities I think would create more of a fun mini game with more opportunity for strategy. Instead of: "Crap, I used Maker's Muse, better use the last two before doing something else."

By getting rid of the Standard/Rapid/Careful/Wait options, they can also make the results of the abilities themselves more pronounced, since most people don't bother with anything but Hasty Hand or spamming Standard anyway.

Im with Lucy- er Lucious<3333 Crafting isn't supposed to be easy I like some to be deterred from leveling then because that's who buys. if everyone's 50 DoH's then everyone makes their own stuff, and the market is obsolete. It isnt hard to hit enter a bunch of times if your lazy and its not hard to bold if your trying to HQ. I see nothing wrong with the crafting system as it is, I liked the changed they made to it last time they fixed it and im happy with that.

Honestly there's already too many crafters in this game, and most of them hate crafting. Please don't make this any easier..

I fully agree with the 2 posts above. If everyone can do everything, you eliminate the need for a community. Keeping people more diversified is how you bring more people together. Its really sad how many players have Rank 50 everything in this game, and it makes the game boring. You now have less people to help or need help from.

Please SE Re-Think this whole "SUPER EASY EXP" modes with all classes. This isn't just limited to DoH, but also DoL, DoW and DoM. If everyone is everything, everyone feels useless.