No Love for DOH/DOL ; ;

[Gracious]

When I started 14 I was really impressed that SE put crafting and land jobs in the same realm as DOM and DOW jobs. It soon became clear though that you can't just do crafting and get the main quests done in this game. DOH and DOL jobs are still 2nd rate citizens in the world, especially after nerfing sp gain for DOH. I really wish the developers would compensate some how for those of us who love crafting and give us our prestige back.

[Underwear]

You do remember that they raised the sp rate drastically before they dropped it minorly a month later, don't you?

[Gracious]

My point is I feel SE is not treating crafters on a fair basis if you consider we are in the same category as DOW or DOM as a main job.

[Nym]

i do feel as if se gave the short end of the stick to the DOL/DOH classes

[MariyaShidou]

SP rate is only nerfed for leve, unless you've been relying solely on leve you wouldn't be affected that much. However there need to have more activities for DoH/DoL, where's the ship building? I wish they would allow DoH to build Company Building and decorate it when they release it, while DoL will get tasks to venture into the wilderness to seek specific material only used in Building.

[Gracious]

SP rate is only nerfed for leve, unless you've been relying solely on leve you wouldn't be affected that much. However there need to have more activities for DoH/DoL, where's the ship building? I wish they would allow DoH to build Company Building and decorate it when they release it, while DoL will get tasks to venture into the wilderness to seek specific material only used in Building.

That would be so awesome to be able to do that. It's a really good idea.

[MariyaShidou]

What I was thinking is that instead of instanced Company Building in each city, why not allow Companies to build their buildings at Hamlets as well? Company Building with have Crafting Facility upgrade, Storage, Personal Room for each Member, Airship dock, Chocobo stable etc. and each of these components need to be built by Crafters with special material gathered by Gatherers. This would help even more with Hamlet defense mission because you will find it more convincing to participate in Hamlets where your Company has a presence. Further down the road the Building at Hamlets can serve at Trading Hub where you gain Company Mission that DoH/DoL prepare X amount of Y items, and DoW/DoM will escort Chocobo Caravan from the Hamlet Buildings back to cities to get Company Prestige etc. That would add even more life to Eorzea.

Oh and while we are at it, allow Companies to build decorative monuments in their Hamlets once they get to a certain Prestige threshold, like statues, fountains etc. that provide small buff to all players within the Hamlet vicinity. These as well as Buildings can be damaged by invading Beast Tribes/ Garlean Empire during Defense Hamlet mission and require DoH/DoL to repair them. At this point, scrap the Aetheryte/Camp closest to the Hamlets and move them inside Hamlets to let them serve as full-purpose player towns.

[Gracious]

I think this is a very good idea. I feel that this would indeed give crafters prestige and the ability to participate in company activities if they went this direction.

[SyntheticSyndicate]

Mariya, by any chance did you play Darkfall Online? That's what it sounds like you are describing and it's brilliant. I sent my feedback/suggestion back when companies were first announced. As well as ship building with sea monsters would be quite awesome as well to get other crafts involved, like blacksmiths to build cannons/cannonballs and alchemists used to make gunpowder/etc. There's alot they can do with companies, we'll probably have to wait till they are out to see how advanced they are. They are what I'm looking forward to the most at this point though.

[AlexiaKidd]

The original plan for DoH and DoW was to have them fight side by side with DoW and DoM, this was pulled at the last minute though, don't know why. After launch on the FFXIV Official site they still had thing's up about them like Miner having treasure hunter making it a THF type class and Blacksmith wielding a hammer as it's weapon of choice.

This would go a long way to explain the huge grind that there is for crafters and gatherers as they weren't designed to level up by synthing and gathering only, they were supposed to gain ranks in battle as well.