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

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Well, we're just a few weeks into Ishgard, it's almost empty besides a few levelers, the rewards aren't worth much, the theorycrafting and rotation chat is long since over, the mb's have crashed, DoH chat channels discuss other things, no one needs a crafter for anything and casual players who tried it have moved back to roulettes. Is this really what we wanted?

Ultimate was cleared in 4-5 days. I think a few weeks of Ishgarde (which probably had more players participating than Ultimate) is a good chunk of content.

Instead of being upset that Ishgarde didn't meet our individual expectations, we should be brainstorming ideas. Reading your post gave me an idea, weekly challenges.

Whether they are tied to Ishgarde or another part of content, it could give you guys a little treat to look forward to every week without requiring people needing to be on 24/7.

Or another idea: Needing "expert crafters" meeting certain accomplishments to advance the construction stages. ie, The big zerg of crafters/gatherers can do the easy stuff in the FATE to participate, but you Liam Harper are needed to craft a difficult item (and X gatherer needs to bring back a high quality collectible) to advance the event to a new phase. After the first crafter turns it in, other crafters have 5 mins to complete the achievement. Same for the gatherers.