Quote Originally Posted by Nandrolone View Post
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