Check out the new UI & crafting/gathering systems - well for now, since we don't know much about what's changing other than a few excerpts from some interviews Yoshi's given.

I'm itching to see if it'll really be fun to go out gathering materials instead of the hot & cold nonsense. I really hope they do something drastic with fishing as I can't stand the current system - I thought it was more fun in XI actually...


Curious to see how they intend to change up or even ease crafting as well. The #1 complaint in the last poll was the difficulty/time sink it is so... yeah. It's not really fun crafting right now either. I like how much more in depth it is compared to XI, like actually having some level of control of HQ rates. But the music is annoying and the process just becomes a boring, autonomous process after 10 minutes or so.

At least grinding with a group is somewhat lively. And I *love* crafting & gathering, as I like feeling useful and making items etc. it's just the leveling aspect somehow just causes my interest to fade away rapidly. Not sure why, when it was so much blander (but quicker too) in XI.