Not Happy With The New Changes

[Maeka]

So they basically up the success rates of some of them.
Sounds like they made crafting easier which it did not need to be either.
I mean I crafted to 80 with level 70 gear which means it was already to easy.

I also noticed the specialist actions gone?
I always used initial preparations and reflect.
I did not see them..

Reflect is now Lv69, and it is definitely there. It's a "First Action Only" skill, so you essentially choose between it and Muscle Memory now as your first action.

[Nashred]

Thanks for the detailed reply Nicodemus_Mercy

I did play around just a little last night with crafting.
I kind of welcome some of the skills going away. Crafting was getting a little bloated with to many of them.
It certainly is harder right now till I get a new rotation. I just got so used to some of those skills.
They really give barely any reason to be a specialist anymore and feel they should have at least left reflect there.
I try to do rotations myself without calculators or others rotations. I also do not use macros for crafting either.
I hear you on skill based crafting and is disappointing because it is one of the reason I liked crafting in FFXIV.
I defiantly hear you on RNG and seems to be SE way of making things tougher. My problem is RNG seems to be off.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Thanks for the detailed reply Nicodemus_Mercy

I did play around just a little last night with crafting.
I kind of welcome some of the skills going away. Crafting was getting a little bloated with to many of them.
It certainly is harder right now till I get a new rotation. I just got so used to some of those skills.
They really give barely any reason to be a specialist anymore and feel they should have at least left reflect there.
I try to do rotations myself without calculators or others rotations. I also do not use macros for crafting either.
I hear you on skill based crafting and is disappointing because it is one of the reason I liked crafting in FFXIV.
I defiantly hear you on RNG and seems to be SE way of making things tougher. My problem is RNG seems to be off.

We'll have to see if there's more to the crafting changes than what we see right now. I'd wait till ishgard and 3star recipes are out to make a final judgement.

As for your rotation, a good start for most rotations seems to be:
Reflect>Manipulation>Ingenuity>Innovation>Delicate Synthesisx4

After that its really a matter of your stats. The higher they are the less likely you'll need to use HQ mats.