Hi so I like raiding, I like extremes, and I like criterion dungeons. This content requires good food and potions that are usually master crafts. These master crafts require me to spend several million gil and be subjected to RNGesus for crafter pentamelds for the pleasure of spending hours each week just to craft them. While I can appreciate that crafting is a system that some people enjoy, I shouldn't be forced to engage with it just to participate in the content I do enjoy. And before anyone wants to say "You can just buy it!" the amount of these consumables that are required end up making it so costly that I'd be spending just as much time doing something else almost equally as miserable like RNG treasure dungeons.
I don't care if the gear is difficult to craft, most people only really need one set of it. They can keep that. But please for the love of Hydaelyn let me craft my own food and potions without excessive sacrifice every single week. If there's a significant enough amount of the playerbase that actually enjoys crafting so much then just give them another Firmament or something catered to that content but stop forcing me to engage with it to an excessive degree.
Edit adding onto this for those who don't get it: I know what end-game crafting is like. I have been playing this game since end of Heavensward. I have pentamelded crafting sets several times. I have been "the crafter" for my static through numerous tiers. I know what it's like and the effort required. And I still absolutely hate it. I don't want to do it anymore. I'm sick of it and will just be spending my gil at this point. But when that runs out I have to decide: Is it worth it to go back and enduring this content that I find soul-sucking, or just give it up and don't come back at all?
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I don't care if the gear is difficult to craft, most people only really need one set of it. They can keep that. But please for the love of Hydaelyn let me craft my own food and potions without excessive sacrifice every single week. If there's a significant enough amount of the playerbase that actually enjoys crafting so much then just give them another Firmament or something catered to that content but stop forcing me to engage with it to an excessive degree.
Edit adding onto this for those who don't get it: I know what end-game crafting is like. I have been playing this game since end of Heavensward. I have pentamelded crafting sets several times. I have been "the crafter" for my static through numerous tiers. I know what it's like and the effort required. And I still absolutely hate it. I don't want to do it anymore. I'm sick of it and will just be spending my gil at this point. But when that runs out I have to decide: Is it worth it to go back and enduring this content that I find soul-sucking, or just give it up and don't come back at all?
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