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

[Kabooa]

This crafting revamp is very exciting. I’m so glad they are finally listening to hardcore and casual players and giving us all what we want. This is how it should be, rather than catering to just one audience. 5.1 will probably have me in love with FFXIV again.

I'm skeptical, but I'm mostly happy about cutting down action bloat and Ishgard housing basically being confirmed. Ishgard being another venue for crafter progression alleviates my concerns from the other side of the fence, as it'll likely be the source of Crafting progression and won't be tuned to difficult extremes.

However, moving on from there, if they then make the actual crafting recipes outside Ishgard more difficult, they have a progression road in place for all crafters through Ishgard. If newer recipes also additionally use materials provided through ishgard, it provides a meaningful route to catch up for all Crafters (Sell the end game material for gil, use gil to meld materia).

Plenty to be excited for, but I'm still in a wait-and-see boat.

[CookiesNCreams]

I'm skeptical, but I'm mostly happy about cutting down action bloat and Ishgard housing basically being confirmed. Ishgard being another venue for crafter progression alleviates my concerns from the other side of the fence, as it'll likely be the source of Crafting progression and won't be tuned to difficult extremes.

However, moving on from there, if they then make the actual crafting recipes outside Ishgard more difficult, they have a progression road in place for all crafters through Ishgard. If newer recipes also additionally use materials provided through ishgard, it provides a meaningful route to catch up for all Crafters (Sell the end game material for gil, use gil to meld materia).

Plenty to be excited for, but I'm still in a wait-and-see boat.

I believe Ishgard can be used for newer crafters to level up and gain exp, and it’ll probably be a new way to earn exp for levels 1-50 also. For endgame crafters, the benefits would be: hairstyles, glamour, mounts, (possibly tools), and just having fun I guess.

That’s great and all, but the endgame nerfs and difficult recipes they said they added is what is going to determine the future of crafting, because after 5.1 - 5.2, I doubt they are going to change it again.