new items are counter productive?

[Orophen]

For people confused about the addition of weapon parts and nuggets:

Addition of End Recipes after Patch 1.20

Setting Patch 1.19 as the “foundation” with simple recipes for basic crafters, we plan on adding on to the foundation with higher level End Recipes. (This will be adjusted based on the implementation of materia craft) Battle content will be further expanded, so dropped items will become stronger as well. As a result, if crafted items do not become stronger, crafted items will effectively die out. Therefore, we will add crafted items with very strong parameters in exchange for higher requirements such as multiple skills, rare ingredients, and multiple crafted ingredients. Gathering ingredients for these items will require help from another player and/or leveling up multiple classes. Essentially, crafting will be sharpened. To be successful, crafters will have to consistently pursue the newest recipes from patches, review where to obtain ingredients, observe market trends, and create items.

It was always his plan to bring back more complicated recipes, but only for higher levels. "Endgame recipes" I guess you could call it.

EDIT: Well he already calls them End Recipes.

Link to the post is here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...704#post307704