crafting is gone

[Maeka]

I like the update, really nice seeing the casual players have an easy time with the recipes! Only thing is, the endgame difficulty of recipes didn’t seem to change much, so I guess in the interview with Yoshida, those “difficult” recipes he was mentioning are probably Ishgard only recipes, and will probably have some sweet rewards which I assume will encourage hardcore players to do it.

I assume it’s high stat gear and tools as the rewards.

Either Ishgard, or maybe he was talking about the next expansion, because to be honest, I don't see how merely raising the numbers is going to change gameplay.

They'd have to add a few buttons that require one to monitor the condition of the item or something.

And I still think that Hasty Touch and a couple other buttons will eventually get conditionals to them or an upgrade or something, maybe in the next expansion.

It would be awesome if, say, Hasty Touch were to get something that says "If item is Poor, then Hasty Touch has 100% success chance and uses no durability" or something like that.

[Tomoebi]

Ok... read the entire post you're quoting. It's not that long.

wow, how will i ever recover from this. lmoa

comparing crafting to roullete and said "we have no control" whatsoever. which is frankly bs.
when good status proc does your hip finger moving on your own to press observe?? or you think "hmm, i need more cp to make sure its 100% hq"
this is probably surprising for this good community, but you control the button you press, and heck there is even a skill description that you can read

i mean, you should read your own post its not that long.

[Maeka]

wow, how will i ever recover from this. lmoa

comparing crafting to roullete and said "we have no control" whatsoever. which is frankly bs.
when good status proc does your hip finger moving on your own to press observe?? or you think "hmm, i need more cp to make sure its 100% hq"
this is probably surprising for this good community, but you control the button you press, and heck there is even a skill description that you can read

i mean, you should read your own post its not that long.

Uh.

We have some control over the actions we take, but yet we are still at the mercy of the RNG gods.

Even with this new crafting system, I noticed sometimes that I will do a recipe and I will get 0 Good procs that I can use.

Or, I will get two Excellents within 5 steps on the very next recipe.

Now you tell me that doesn't make a mountain of difference, and that the difference has nothing to do with the actions the player had taken during either of the two crafting attempts.

Because uh, when I make the exact same item twice, and one time I finished with 100CP because I got an excellent and 2 Goods during the Touch phase and didn't even need Byregot's, let alone Great Strides, and the second time, I threw everything I had at it and still finished with only 94% HQ and had 0 CP left and barely finished with 0 durability left, you're trying to tell me that this was all because of me and my actions and nothing at all to do with gambling, luck, or random chance?

[Tomoebi]

We have some control over the actions we take, but yet we are still at the mercy of the RNG gods.

yes you are right, and i agree.
what you say basically what im trying to say.

crafting is like a poker, not roullete. it still need luck, but you can minimize it by taking a precaution and making a proper decision. you proc a good/excellent at 10/40, will you use trick of trade or increase the quality at the cost of 5 durability(forget the skill name).
some people probably will use master mend.
there is rng element to it, but the button you press still matter.

now want to know what is pure rng/roulette that you have no control of like callinon said. quick synth

[RyuSaarva]

it's also funny how the legendary nodes were nerfed so bad that you now have 100% gathering chance without using any gathering increasing skills with old gear and not pentamelded and I still use stromblood bis accessories too.

[Maeka]

it's also funny how the legendary nodes were nerfed so bad that you now have 100% gathering chance without using any gathering increasing skills with old gear and not pentamelded and I still use stromblood bis accessories too.

Old legendary nodes, or new legendary nodes?

If it's the new ones, then that is probably unintended and will be fixed.

If it's the old ones, they probably don't see the point in making old content so hard to do. Kinda like how you can run old dungeons unsynch'd and easily steamroll them, or how even stuff like Shinryu now can be just mowed down even if you are synch'd compared to what he was at the end of Stormblood.

[Aviconus]

Kinda like how you can run old dungeons unsynch'd and easily steamroll them

You can run old dungeons unsynced?!

[Maeka]

You can run old dungeons unsynced?!

....?

I'm going to assume for a sec that's not sarcasm, but yes, you can go into duty finder, and go into options, and IIRC, it's something like "undersized party" you choose or something, but you can go in without level sync. You won't get XP, or drops off of normal mobs, but you will get treasure chests from bosses. I did this to quickly farm up the Brayflox set for my BLU. Took me like 2-3 minutes to run through Brayflox as a Lv70 RDM lol.

[Aviconus]

....?

I'm going to assume for a sec that's not sarcasm

Yes, sry, not sarcasm. Recently returned after several years away and this is the first i'd heard about it. Thanks!

[RyuSaarva]

Old legendary nodes, or new legendary nodes?

If it's the new ones, then that is probably unintended and will be fixed.

If it's the old ones, they probably don't see the point in making old content so hard to do. Kinda like how you can run old dungeons unsynch'd and easily steamroll them, or how even stuff like Shinryu now can be just mowed down even if you are synch'd compared to what he was at the end of Stormblood.

new ones, even the patch 5.1 items are 100% always.