Square Enix, please think about both Casual AND Hardcore crafters..

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Is there even such thing as a casual crafter?

I'd like to be a casual crafter but the fact that I have to get all classes to 50 to even start has been what's stopped me doing it for the past 2 years...

Seems to me they should rethink the cross-role skills a little better, and make them skills that are only essential for higher difficulty crafts.
These 'higher difficulty crafts' could prohibit the use of common skills like Prudent Touch, if that's what would be most effective at making them so difficult...

With the new skills from 60+ on crafters and the fact that Byregot's and Steady Hand II are now on all crafter jobs, I'd say you can probably get away with just level 15 in each craft for certain basic utility skills.

Ingenuity I is nearly as good as Ingenuity II. With recent caps added to Piece By Piece and Muscle Memory, coupled with the addition of new skills, you can get by without either of those now. I'll admit Comfort Zone has no real equivalent and is a very significant ability for CP management, but for "casual" crafting, you can probably get by without it. Careful Synthesis II is nice because its free but Careful Synthesis III is fine for casual crafting only costs 7cp. If we're talking "casual" crafting, I'm not sure Flawless Synthesis and Maker's Mark should even be part of the conversation, and the new skills provide alternatives. Innovation can be supplemented with the Specialist action Innovative Touch (and if you're only leveling one crafter why wouldnt you specialize in it?)

Basically the only significant losses by not going to 50+ on each crafter is Ingenuity II and Comfort Zone, and maaaybe Reclaim in my opinion. Sure there's something to be said for the other skills like Piece By Piece, etc but for the "casual" crafter, you really can get by with just going to 15 in all the crafting classes these days and 15 is super easy to reach.