(Puts on flame retardant gear) Why not have like in WOW or RIFT... Craft All. Make the challenge in the crafting more about finding the recipes and the mats. Sure you got to the highest craft level in a couple of weeks but you cant make anything good yet since you dont have the mats or recipes? As it is the biggest challenge in crafting in FFXIV is staying awake. Thank God for Netflix....
Id much rather take a rare hide or ore that my linkshell farmed and turn it into something amazing instead of making 300+ cobalt cuirasses. FFXIV was going in the right direction for a little bit as far as crafting was concerned. The world NMs dropped rare materials for rare gear and it kinda made sense. Without the crafters, Dodore Wing is uselsss and without the DOW/DOM the crafters cant get the wings.
Then Darkhold comes out and screws it up hardcore...
Would have preferred to see mobs dropping materials to make some of the darkhold gear.
How cool would it have been to have Ifrit drop his horns that we can craft into any weapon we need/want?
BTW Luminary tools =![]()
Obtaining Luminary tools require no skill whatsoever...just perseverance. Could have made an EPIC quest which requires you to make an obscenely rare item or made from a Luminary Ore obtained at a 1% mining drop from a node, GOD anything besides grinding out another billion freaking walnut masks....
I tell ya people SE making awesome strides in the combat classes and gathering classes are fine since that makes sense. Crafting out 3000 41-50 synths using a crafting mini game which only requires you to hit enter in 2 seconds interval to succeed in? Its almost like they want people to bot... Sure botting is wrong blah blah blah everyone knows that but SE designed a crafting system that specifically caters to botters lol. I dont care how much you love crafting and enjoy that aspect of this game, crafting 3000 walnut masks isnt fun no matter how you slice it...
My 2 cents