Sadly already finished with Cosmic Exploration

[Supersnow845]

I need to learn to craft? All my jobs are max and I craft the current end game gear, so that ship has sailed. Also, a much better use of my time! Yes, it did come across as rude. Give the content a try you say, I spent a couple of days doing this, but I spend my time mostly doing pvp. A much better use of my time in game. I stick to what I said, it is best served for people levelling jobs. What do I know anyway, I haven't learned to play the game yet based on your comment.

Getting a job to 100 is not equivalent to learning a job nor is playing the pentamelding roulette, you can consider the fact that you can level a job without understanding it as a bad design aspect on squares part and if agree with you but that isn’t the point

Did you level your jobs manually or via macros, if it’s via macros do you understand why your macros work? Do you know the best arrangement for altering your macros as needed? Do you know what every type of condition in expert is and what its priority order is?

There is a lot to crafting beyond “I got it to 100 and bought pentamelded gear” just as just because my combat jobs are all at 100 doesn’t mean I have any idea how to play the jobs in PVP

[hydralus]

Very few A rank missions are worth completing for research points. There's two that are the best, III-18 I-12 and IV-30 II-20.

Resetting missions is annoying af, so I end up spamming the III-6 II-6 I-6 mission instead.

They take 4-5 minutes for roughly double the points/rewards so it's more efficient, long as you aren't failing all the time for some reason.

[SkankyRoe]

I've got pretty cheap pentamelds and most of the A-1/A-2 ones are very macroable. About the only one that gives me trouble is the 9000/23000 collectable one and a macro still works for gold about ~90% of the time.

All the A-1 missions and all except one A-2 mission can be consistently macroed for Gold Rank if you have BiS pentamelds and HQ Steak+Tisane. The 9100/16300 A-2 mission can too if you add in Specialist actions. I'm unsure tho on the A-3 missions as I've not done them enough

[angelar_]

what if they had content between "macro dummy" and "crafter god" though. I think that's the crux of people's real complaint, that there's nothing between "slam through these as fast as possible using patterns I recognized from end game macros" and "I literally cannot complete this no matter what I try" and there's nothing in between. People hate massive difficulty spikes.

It's not like there's anything to teach you a better way, either. There's still no sort of guides or helpful input I can see anywhere online for how to not be nose-wrinklingly stupid at crafting, it's just the god crafters leering down their wrinkled noses and not sharing any information.

[Supersnow845]

what if they had content between "macro dummy" and "crafter god" though. I think that's the crux of people's real complaint, that there's nothing between "slam through these as fast as possible using patterns I recognized from end game macros" and "I literally cannot complete this no matter what I try" and there's nothing in between. People hate massive difficulty spikes.

It's not like there's anything to teach you a better way, either. There's still no sort of guides or helpful input I can see anywhere online for how to not be nose-wrinklingly stupid at crafting, it's just the god crafters leering down their wrinkled noses and not sharing any information.

These are easy experts though. The only requirement to complete these experts is basically “do you know the general priority of actions under each condition”

There is nothing like launch resplendent tools where even with absolute BIS and specialists you were barely lucky to get 2 out of 3 stars

[Innio]

Yesterday I was ready to just delete this game... The game just brought me to depression, besides the fact that I have absolutely no luck with the roll in any content for a year, absolutely in any. I spent a lot of time and effort to get currency to play this roulette, from 47 games I got only 1 green wall, 3 Crafter's Delineation and 7 different paints, oh and yes, 1 music... 350 Magicked Prism (Cosmic Exploration) ... when my friend just got a mount, 2 emotes, 3 minions, 2 music from 12 games...

[Volgia]

Yesterday I was ready to just delete this game... The game just brought me to depression, besides the fact that I have absolutely no luck with the roll in any content for a year, absolutely in any. I spent a lot of time and effort to get currency to play this roulette, from 47 games I got only 1 green wall, 3 Crafter's Delineation and 7 different paints, oh and yes, 1 music... 350 Magicked Prism (Cosmic Exploration) ... when my friend just got a mount, 2 emotes, 3 minions, 2 music from 12 games...

Yeah you probably should delete this game. Life's too short to get depressed over a game.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This taught me I just don't enjoy crafting all that much beyond maxing level and keeping my script gear up to date.

I don't really care for any of the rewards compared to the time spent trying to get them. Maybe if there was something I had to have, but since there isn't - I'm fine with the limited time I spent on the content. I don't really care much about outerspace/high-tech themed stuff.

It's fine the content isn't for me - hope the crafting community is enjoying it a lot more. As Supersnow mentioned, this is probably better for those players who really love crafting. Some posters here clearly like battle content more, like myself, and that's okay.

[Kuroka]

Yesterday I was ready to just delete this game... The game just brought me to depression, besides the fact that I have absolutely no luck with the roll in any content for a year, absolutely in any. I spent a lot of time and effort to get currency to play this roulette, from 47 games I got only 1 green wall, 3 Crafter's Delineation and 7 different paints, oh and yes, 1 music... 350 Magicked Prism (Cosmic Exploration) ... when my friend just got a mount, 2 emotes, 3 minions, 2 music from 12 games...

I can deeply relate, since years i barely get the minimum to not give up and delete... i had to buy most ex trial mounts, never lucky with maps... those tickets, be it here or ishgard never give me the good stuff. I still miss most normal raid songs... the ff10 raid gave me one whole song so far... they need some more failsave on their end so you dont end on total rng loosing streaks...