Hello community
One thing that really bothers me in FFXIV is the lack of an auto-crafting system like it exists in almost all the other MMOs out there.
I understand the point of view of Devs about this : "No character can perform an action without the player activating a key". I may not summarize it well but this is the idea. While this is a noble idea, especially after years of failing in FFXI ( ... ) I think it is poorly implemented in FFXIV. One of the example for that were the hundreds of crafting bots back in the time when "standard work" was enough.
But this is not my point.
My point is : suppose you want to level goldsmith and you need danburite for this. So you take your pickaxe and go farm danburites. You can not bot this, and even if you are a programmer, it would reveal long and difficult to code a bot to do this.
So you are out there farming danburites and spend time for this. Time which you might not have a lot of. Then you need to craft those danburites to level up goldsmith, but then you need to spend time AGAIN doing nothing else than pressing the enter key, and sometimes the down arrow key to select the good action.
I think it is not normal that you have to spend time twice this way. It really makes farming for crafting a pain in the a** and a not fun at all activity.
Compare this to other games where you know that after 2hours of intense farming, you can rest your character in some place and it would craft all those gems / melt ingots / do whatever on its own, while you grab yourself a drink and congratulate yourself for such a good farming session.
In conclusion, I get a more intense sense of rewardship when my character is able to craft what i farmed, than having to craft each and every single item one after the other.
As an opening, I would like to have a button "craft this reciepe multiple times" when you know you will craft your 54 danburites in a row, instead of having to chose the same reciepe every time.
thanks for reading