crafting is gone

[Barraind]

Prudent has 2 main problems now. Its inefficient and its the same power as Delicate, which means that it falls off quickly.


One of its biggest strengths was being the best IQ battery after MuMe and PbP, but MuMe and PbP are utter garbage now and arent worth having (which means the best opener is actually initial prep, which speaks to the sad state of openers). Its always been worse overall than ObsFoc at everything but IQ stacking if you dont care about macro length, and its worse than Prep because prep is a thing that is absurdly good.


to be fair, the combination of Delicate and Prep has taken a lot of the thinking out of a chunk of crafting.

What I find as funny is that people want crafting to be less macro'able, which means it will actually get EASIER (meaning that 1% chance of your macro ending at 99% hq will be gone), since you will be able to trick every irrelevant good, touch every excellent, and observe or rebuff every poor. You'll likely always have reuse available too, because tricks.

If someone levels their crafts to 80 right now, they can buy a full set of crafting gear for less than 1,000,000 gil. They can spend a few hours gathering then craft collectables for tier 8 materia in guaranteed slots and a handful of tier 4 overmelds, that is all you need now. Then copy a rotation from online. In a matter of like 5 hours, a new crafter at level 80 can be on par with the best crafters. The level 80 two star crafts are so easy that a crafting noob can do it just as easily as a veteran crafter. It completely trivializes crafting.

How would people like it if a brand new player reaches level 80 combat and within a matter of a few hours can raid just as well as the best experienced raiders? It would make raiding feel like it is not an accomplishment whatsoever. So why is it alright to make crafting that easy? They take pride in raiding, we want to be able to take pride in crafting again, like we used to.

yuuuup

Crafting in 5.0 is so nonsensically easy that if you arent 80'd, you arent putting in even the slightest amount of effort.

I leveled crafting on 2 characters from 70-80 in a week, and thats only because I didnt buy anything on the mb for it. Its doable in a day if you feel like spending a little bit (mats are cheap now, too, cause bots exist).