Quote Originally Posted by Nandrolone View Post

The whole “Expert Recipe” Ranking thing just seems like a “Hey! Like hard crafts? Well guess what! You can do those endlessly.....without any meaningful rewards! No gil! No exclusive rewards! Nothing worth of value! All you get are mounts, and minions....and titles! Isn’t that great!”
I will admit to worrying that expert recipes would just be gated behind stupid stuff like either gear or low hq rates regardless of rotations. I can't see how they could push people into getting original with rotations for these recipes without at least reworking the specialty skills.
I used to get original with rotations and really pull some consistent specialty rotations out of nowhere that meant I could 100% HQ stuff with bad gear and I loved it. When the initial rework hit I lost the ability to do that and had to upgrade my gear to even get me back to where I was. I'm afraid we'll never see that aspect of crafting again.