Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
"hey, I beat RNG!!" Which is the essential problem with crafting grinds like this.
This has been the crux of the issue since the beginning. Almost every single elitist crafter post I've seen has wanted to go back to the ignorant ARR RNG crafting method. Where they claim it was pure skill and know-how that got them to the elitist crafter position they came to love. No, it was purely lucky dice rolls. There was no "skill" or "know-how" to rolling a natural 20. It was simply a longer grind, having to redo the ones you failed to get good rolls on.

This is what "expert" crafting is now. You can still macro craft the crap, and battering ram your way through it. Just be prepared to redo a lot of them. It's not "special." The tools are worthless. Their glow isn't even as nice as the Ishgard ones. They're simply a waste of time. I can't believe the devs had to waste their time on making this a system, because a small vocal minority wanted to show how 1337 they were. We could've had more Fêtes!