crafting is gone

[Ultimatecalibur]

Looking at what is not greyed out give a few hints on things.

Inner Quiet, Great Strides, Basic Synthesis, Basic Touch, Standard Touch, Careful Synthesis, Observe, Master's Mend, and Precise Touch are not greyed out. Careful Synthesis has a CP cost like Careful Synthesis 3.

Looks like Basic/Standard/Advanced Synthesis have been merged into one action and Careful Synthesis I, II and III have been merged into one low CP action.

[SamSmoot]

Looking at what is not greyed out give a few hints on things.

Inner Quiet, Great Strides, Basic Synthesis, Basic Touch, Standard Touch, Careful Synthesis, Observe, Master's Mend, and Precise Touch are not greyed out. Careful Synthesis has a CP cost like Careful Synthesis 3.

Looks like Basic/Standard/Advanced Synthesis have been merged into one action and Careful Synthesis I, II and III have been merged into one low CP action.

I'd like to see:
- Eliminate anything that does the same thing, but only to different degrees.
- Remove cross-class skills. and recipe requirements entirely. If I'm doing ARM stuff, I shouldn't need WVR products, unless I can buy only what I need from the MB, not a stack of 99, only to use 5, then resell the rest at a loss.
- Drop all crystal variants, or just reduce it to one.
- And, no demimateria. It's enough work just to level the crafts, and not have to do it for this again.

[Nemmar]

Good. There is so much bloat in crafting skills that they don't even fit in 3 full hotbars.

[RubyCirha]

lol its not gone there were so many ability's that were basically the same after a bit its time to consolidate them and streamline crafting

[DynnDiablos]

As someone who recently started crafting and just got all my crafters to 25 and CUL to 60, I welcome any streamlining of the process. My goal is to get all to 80, but may wait until after the update.

[Theodric]

I welcome the change. A lot of people were just resorting to macros and calculation websites to automate the process anyway so less bloat is a good thing. I do hope that it'll still be possible to make a profit but I'm not too worried since it's fairly easy to identify a market to break into on any given day. Some of the most profitable items are low level recipes too, especially when new player housing is added to the game...

[CookiesNCreams]

Interested to see how prudent touch and delicate synthesis got nerfed, those two moves absolutely ruined endgame crafting. Because they did mention it was too easy to HQ recipes in the digest. I’m actually excited.

[Jojoya]

Interested to see how prudent touch and delicate synthesis got nerfed, those two moves absolutely ruined endgame crafting. Because they did mention it was too easy to HQ recipes in the digest. I’m actually excited.

They probably aren't getting nerfed at all. From the sounds of things, SE is going create more difficult recipes that have higher craftsmanship/control requirements instead of nerfing the actions that are used in general crafting.

If there's going to be a change to actions, I would expect it to happen with the Specialist actions to give specialists an actual advantage in crafting the more difficult recipes. Right now, being a specialist is almost useless outside of the handful of crafts where specialist is a random requirement as a condition for crafting.

[SamSmoot]

Interested to see how prudent touch and delicate synthesis got nerfed, those two moves absolutely ruined endgame crafting. Because they did mention it was too easy to HQ recipes in the digest. I’m actually excited.

Hmm, I don't think I've ever used Prudent Touch. Just took a closer look. It costs a bit more Waste Not, and only gives you 100% efficiency. I guess the advantage is that with Waste Not, you lose steps when doing actions that don't increase quality, so it's actually less efficient. Perhaps the Waste Not's need to be dropped, and just keep Prudent Touch.

[Nedkel]

I may actually try out crafting once they get rid of the omni-crafting nonsense. nice