Quote Originally Posted by Yoko_Kurama View Post
As it stands now, crafters are not only not necessary, they aren't even ideal since it is actually easier to get your gears and weapons via a battle class rather than deal with a crafter unless you are already rich. Crafting in this game is more of a hobby rather than a necessary social enhancement to the system.
That's unfortunately how I feel as well. Its also a way to make gil which right now is its primary function. That and melding materia. In fact if it wasn't for materia melding (a, now, watered down system anyway) crafting would be completely useless. Its a really confusing direction to take the game and I must say the role of DoH/L in 2.0 surprised me. I wasn't anticipating Yoshi gutting them to the level he has. Really sad.