FFXIV Pre-5.1 Crafting Notes

Live Letter LV told us that there were going to be a lot of changes to abilities in patches 5.1 and 5.2. He mentioned that a lot of abilities would be consolidated and reworked.

Per the FFXIV Reddit Discord unofficial translation:

"there were too many skills with similar effects, we merged a lot or remade them"
"Byregot's Blessing successrate got bumped to 100% for example"
"We believe there are a lot of players that have leveld and geared their crafters/gatherers, but have no idea on what they are doing "Someone please give me a macro" and that is okay of course, but we simplified it so more people might be able to enjoy and understand crafting/gathering better"

Then we saw a view of his bars. There were a LOT of actions marked as removed from the game. Here's a list of what appears to impacted by these changes: Image: https://imgur.com/a/W3tncQk

Bar 4
Steady Hand
Standard Synthesis
Flawless Synthesis
Waste Not (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)

Bar 2
Advanced Touch
Innovation (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Careful Synthesis II (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Manipulation (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Careful Synthesis (One marked out, another on the bar for 7 CP instead of 0 CP)

Bar 1
Master's Mend II
(Master's Mend 1 now seems to use 88 CP instead of 92)
Manipulation (again?)
Rumination (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Byregot's Blessing - Appears to be the old version already changed from cross-class to non-cross-class
Byregot's Miracle
Name of Wind (All the Brand/Name of [Element] abilities were reworked already into Name/Brand of the Elements)

Bar 5
Hasty Touch (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Waste Not II (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Innovation II (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)
Comfort Zone (Possibly changed to non-cross class?)


It's telling that there's 10 abilities shown, marked as removed, some of which are normally very essential to a crafter's rotation. This tells me that cross-class for crafters is finally dead. Byregot's Blessing and Steady Hand II was the first step.

Byregot's Miracle being on there is also very interesting. It could be the fact that they felt its effect was too similar to Byregot's Blessing and removed just that one, or they are removing specialists (or at least their abilities) as a whole. One of the reasons for having them in the game was to try to help people who were only leveling 1 crafting class instead of going omnicrafting, but with cross-class gone, this may be unnecessary as well. (In general though, most high end crafters never touched specialist actions.)

The strangest two abilities on the chopping block is Steady Hand I (Possibly Steady Hand II is going to take its place?) and Careful Synthesis, though the "new" version seems to use 7 CP, which is very strange (as normally CS1 and CS2 use 0 CP). My only guess is that both CS1 and CS2 are being removed and the current CS3 is taking its place (as CS3 is 7 CP).

Just one more week until 5.1 comes when we find out how much we have to rework all those macros!

~ Sir VG