Crafting in 2022 to sum it up, is “boring.” You just copy a macro you get from the Balance discord and as long as your stats and melds are decent, you spam the macro over and over. This makes crafting so boring and too easy. And don’t even get me started on how cheap things are on the Marketboard.

Competition is good, but there needs to be incentive. If there’s no incentive because the marketboard is full off bots and people spamming a macro, then what’s the point? Gear pieces cost 90,000 Gil or less. I’m ARR or Heavensward, gear pieces easily costed at least 300,000 Gil minimum.

Expert crafting mechanics should be added into regular crafting. It’ll raise the price of gear and it’ll make Gil easier to earn for everyone who tries.