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

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you can't win in this situation. you reveal too early ppl are disappointed. you withhold information, ppl are disappointed.

Except hard difficulty recipes have been wanted from competitive and/or serious crafters since 4.0. That’s 2+ years of no actual endgame content. So, in this situation, it’s actually better to say what’s going on. And I’m glad Yoshida basically confirmed that we will basically start seeing these difficult recipes Patch 5.2 and onwards.

He also indirectly confirmed that “difficult recipes” only apply to Ishgard Restoration only, so it’s probably very unlikely that these recipes apply to actual endgame crafting..only Ishgard. I’m still happy regardless. I’m like, super happy. My only concern is this:

The high difficulty recipe’s REWARDS. Will they be worth it? Or no? Cause, if the rewards aren’t at the very least, some super lewd bikini glam....no hardcore or competitive crafter will do it. I mean, I’m not going to compete on the leaderboards for some lame Title or shiny golden glamour Carpenter tool. Just being honest...