Request for better challenges and better rewards (Formal Letter/Megathread)

[Nandrolone]

Honestly, this whole expert recipes backlash just proves how spoiled the community is when it comes to accessibility and simplification. Most of the players are so used to Yoshida just handing them things on a silver platter with no rng, no difficulty, no locking, etc.

Then, when he does it once...on content that is optional, no less....people just want to cry “HW is back! omg! End of the world!” If HW was back, things on the market would cost at least 1.2 million gil a piece. Don’t see that? Then I believe you are NOT in heavensward anymore. Come on, guys...let’s not take one step forward and two steps back.

[NanaWiloh]

Honestly, this whole expert recipes backlash just proves how spoiled the community is when it comes to accessibility and simplification. Most of the players are so used to Yoshida just handing them things on a silver platter with no rng, no difficulty, no locking, etc.

Then, when he does it once...on content that is optional, no less....people just want to cry “HW is back! omg! End of the world!” If HW was back, things on the market would cost at least 1.2 million gil a piece. Don’t see that? Then I believe you are NOT in heavensward anymore. Come on, guys...let’s not take one step forward and two steps back.

I am not doing the expert recipes but I did have fun watching the hardcore crafters on my crafting discord go nuts. Patch notes dropped and they started slamming the teamcraft sim despite it not being updated with the new procs. Didnt take long for some results to come back showing how far experts can be pushed without proc's. Best 2 hours I have spent in a discord just watching people slam away at something

[Fate_Testarossa]

Here's a very easy way to create a mount for every crafter:

Make a carriage as a base mount. Now attach different items to it depending on the crafter.

BSM? Attach some existing weapon sprites to the carriage/cart.
ARM? Attach some Armors/Armor parts to the carriage/cart.
And so on and so on. They could basically make one base model, and then just add already existing objects to it. That way they can basically create 8 mounts with little effort and I'm sure people would still be excited over it.

I'd really love to have a little Carriage for my BSM with some weapons attached to it.