These changes are horrible. I’ve been playing since beta and only maxed cooking because of the hungry cat collection. I don’t like the crafting system in game. I never have. It’s confusing at best when making things give variable exp and the additional confusion of using boosts, like you would level an actual character, etc. I don’t like being forced to participate in a part of the game that in any other is optional. What needs to be addressed is how some people just hate how crafting is done and maybe overhauling that system, if you really want everyone to do it.
I was looking forward to a change like when exotics became craftable and sellable, making it more accessible to people who didn’t have the time/patience to craft and/or grind karma, which years ago was a struggle to come by and per character, not account. Those changes made the game a lot more fun and the goals more reachable for me, as well as others, I am sure. Making the next tier of gear even harder to reach and demanding the entire player base craft or be left behind is ridiculous. Will I have to eventually abandon this game simply because I don’t want to do the very unfun and grindy time consuming thing I’ve avoided since the very beginning?
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