Based on their live letter, what i get from it is that, specialization in 3.0 will give you new skills to use for that specialization, no recipe lockout and you can get all to 60.
i think their purpose is to ease up crafting as yoshi said it takes too much to do to make any worthwhile crafting as it is.

and my tips on anyone wanted to get all 4star craft cheapest way that i found is to max meld accessory and go for control build for the apron. And forgo the melding for the artisan offhand, or if you want to, just slap in CP 3 in all of the offhand. I personally put in control IV and CP 3 in all of my offhand.

accessory>artisan left side> artisan mainhand > artisan offhand > while crafting for turn in supra always aim to get 3 hq, reclaim if u have to! so u can use it for the masterbook II i did this for most of my class >supra mainhand > lucis tool> masterbook II (if somehow u fail to hq it in previous attempts).

And level up desynth on LTW for FC3 or BSM(best) / GSM for MCD

happen to me two times at 96% most often it was the artisan stuff.
and i have hqed masterbook II turn in at 4%, after gotten my hand on 3 hq and was just doing progress synthesis for supra turn in.

This post has been edited by signum: Apr 30 2015, 12:07 PM

hoarding mats and levelling desynth, planning to do all that but kinda busy playing witcher 3, this game is so long.

kinda disappointing with 3.0 crafting. Ridiculously easy to level with leve and daily company turns in. and masterbook 3 has nothing worthwhile to craft except gear for dol/doh. hoping they will add more stuff after alexander comes out.

Problem with the new redscript is the amount of time spent on gathering favors for the new 2 star crafting. Up to 11hr + per week of gathering just to be able to do 11 craft per week is, meh.

New 2 star craft for dow/dom is only ilvl 180. And since the materials required to craft them is gated behind the red script. its gonna cost an absurd amount of gil to make 20mil+. why would anyone bother making it since u can just easily get tome gear.

Im just hanging in till they released ilvl 180 accessory - this would probably be BiS in some dow/dom.

3.0 crafting just felt like the devs is kicking crafters to the balls. so much content gated. crafters are left with nothing to craft except food and pots nowadays.

It just feels like yoshi is butthurt because raiders clear t13 in a week with crafted gear. So this time around to halt progression and prolonging content they are gating crafters.

Even the new 2* doh/dol craft is not necessary to craft the new 2 star recipe or to gather from the legendary node.

New 2 star difficulties is easier than doing 2nd mastercraft book and lucis. About the same as 4 star difficulty items. Problems is the absurd cost of the materials that makes ur palm sweat when u craft those.

tldr- the best time to join in for the crafting fun is at the end of a patch lifecycle where the content is fully fleshed out and all the grind has been 'fine tuned' . If u a wanna be a pioneer than better grit ur teeth through the grind.

yep the nq is quite cheap but if u can get hq they can sell for decent 10k-20k each. quite a bit waste of time, i actually got all the folklore nodes and i dont even gather from it. u will need around 650 gathering to oneshot the node and 660 perception to hq and gather red script from it. best case scenario would get u 60 extra redscript per hour.

if u are planning to sell the favor mats, better do it fast. ooids are dropping to 50k ea. it used to sell for up to 200kea.
The rarer mats is quite hard to get roughly i got 1red gemstone for 10 ooids. u can change with red script for the mats for bigger profit.