Synthesis/Crafting Is a Pain

[TirionCrey]

DoW/DoM are not AS reliant on DoH as DoH are on every other Discipline.

Are you kidding me? Every single piece of gear in this game(not counting the newly introduced NM gear) is made by crafters.
Some specific things can be bought from NPCs, at completely exaggerated prices. Same applies to DoH though, they can get materials from a lot of NPCs, which are overpriced as well.

It's a cycle that makes DoW/M as dependant on DoH, as they are dependant on DoW/M/L. DoH makes gear, which DoW/M needs to fight stuff, which in return brings shards to the DoH to craft further.

If DoW/M wouldn't rely on DoH...there would be naked people everywhere.

PS: One thing they really need to change though is Gil rewards for local leves. DoW/M can get up to 30k+ on Regional Leves sometimes, where Crafters get 10k~ on Local Leves max, even on R50 Local Leves...that is not fair at all. It should be Gil equal to the Local Leve Rank, so R50s should give you like 20-30k, just as the R30-40 Leves for DoW/M sometimes give.