Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
That's a matter of opinion and preference. I rather liked the Blessed Tools, it was a lengthy but fairly relaxed grind you could do over time while selling the items. Not many people got the tools while current so they had rarity and it gave some purpose to obscure recipes and having a decent stockpile of mats.

Obviously they're not everyone's cup of tea, so it's understandable if some found it "obnoxious". But the relic should have been the fix to that, involving up to date crafts and Experts for those who preferred that route over the Blessed Tools. Instead they scrapped that system and both tools involve Experts, which is sort of a shame.
Yep, I found having to craft one of everything a lot less obnoxious than the RNG in Expert Recipes. They had a decent idea there with the new conditions, but they make it far too dependent on RNG. When you go 33 steps without a single Pliant, there's something wrong with their metrics. Whereas crafting one of everything is a lot of time material gathering but it feels much more rewarding for me since I'm actively working the entire time, rather than just getting lucky with RNGesus.