Thread: 5.1 Crafting Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by JunseiKei

Hello, I wanted to give my take on crafting as someone who does not enjoy crafting, but is still wholly affected by the change.

I craft simply out of necessity - I'm a raider. Food and potions are basically required with early progression and I highly dislike spending as much gil that some crafters charge for their goods. The difference between having food and not is almost an accessory piece in difference. That's huge, not even taking into consideration the effectiveness of pots with raid buffs. That is why I reluctantly craft.



This statement makes me dread the future. I absolutely hated Heavensward crafting - it was time consuming and riddled with RNG. My objective is not to learn to craft; my objective is to obtain food and pots required to actually play the content of the game I enjoy. I can also sympathize with crafters that want harder crafts, but I implore Yoshida and the XIV team to not put that difficulty on items required to progress raiding.

I highly doubt they are going to make crafting raid food/pots/gear difficult to macro. The Ishgarde restoration is probably the only thing that will become "difficult".

Originally Posted by Cleanse

I highly doubt they are going to make crafting raid food/pots/gear difficult to macro. The Ishgarde restoration is probably the only thing that will become "difficult".

They aren't really difficult to macro, they're just different than they were a couple weeks ago. Mostly macros that people were using before patch 5.1 just need to be tweaked to be in line with the new system.

Originally Posted by JunseiKei

At this point, all we can do is speculate. It's still early in expansion and this change is newly released.

The ones that don’t like difficult recipes: They won’t make it hard to macro!

The ones that don’t like easy recipes: They won’t make it easy to macro!

You’re right, so right. There’s no way to know really, until it actually happens or until Yoshida gives us more information on the matter to confirm our suspicions on whether difficult crafting will be implemented for both Ishgard and Endgame, or just Ishgard.